The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-27
GENERAL NOTES.

economy means, having imported since
January 100000, ,0O0 worth Of dry goods.
THE Pittsburgh Exposition is pro-
nounced success, greater than its most
sanguine friends anticipated.
BosroN has religious organization
called the '"Gate of Heaven Price of
admission three dollars.
Ir is said that nearly ons-half Of the
surplu. hard woods of the country are TO
be found in West Virginia.
IT was Voitalre who said: at is more
easy to write about money than to have
it; and those who have it laugh at those
who can only write about it."
A GERMAN prophet of the Professor
Tice order predicts q warm winter, and
advises the laying up Of ice at the earliest
opportunity,
ATs recent sale of real estate in New
York, the prices received indicated a
falling oil in values of from one third TO
one halt.
TIE population of Massachusetts, sc-
cordipr to the late census, is 1862, 652
against 1857. .3O2 in 1870. The female
majority is G3,O34, and yet there is law
against bigamy.
Miss IDA DEMoREST, the young lady
considered by the Grand Duke Alexis,
on his visit to the United States, to be
the handsomest woman in the country,
has Just married Nebraska doctor.
ALAzY mans churn has been invented
in Vermont. Ii is adjusted to wagon,
and all man has to doiis to drive down
for the mail, and when he gets back the
butter ha, Gomez
The story that Gran. used up two
lead pencils when be whote his Des
Moines speech, is true Faher-rication.
There is hardly so much as one point in
it, and the idea of two is absurd ST.
Louis Times.
The negro preacher, II. NJ. Turner, IN
a letter to the Savannah Nelcs concern
ing his proposed African colonization
scheme SAYS that he "has already written
TO three miilionnaIres, asking them TO aid
him with means to start the work, butup
to this time they have not responded.
THE Mormons have determined to
take active steps for propagating their
faith, and will soon send out Missionarie,
to other lands. OF these, fourteen are to
60 to Great Britain, one to Switzerland,
four to Scandinavia and eleven to Aus
tralia and New Zealand.
Ir is a source of so much surprise that
it i, scarcely believed. Yet it is actually
true that q Brooklyn policeman has been
sentenced to Jail twenty-nine days for
merely shooting a person dead. No
wonder the New York police are SO IN
effective when their rights ana liberties
are thus intertercd with.
THE tramps, 1t i, said. have way of
conveying intelligence to each other by
marking gate-posts a gentleman in
New Haven, Conn, annoyed by the ire
qucnt calls Of these vagabonds observed
that they inspected the gatc-post before
entering, and upon examination, found
there q mark, which he rubbed out. lie
has not since been troubled.
EDWIN BooTH appeared on Monday
night at the Fifth Avenue Theatre as
Hamlet. His reception was grand, i'm
mense and enthusiastic, Thongh his
shattered left arm hung helplessly by his
side, no awkwardness Of gesture was Wis
ible, and in its encomiums upon him, the
Herald say. that now it believes MIR.
Booth could even successfully perform
tho character Of Romeo, though on
crutches.
You may talk about Carruth and his
bullet in the brain; but he is nowhere.
Tho Grant county (Ky) Sentinel thus
tells ITS story: "William Turner got
INTO difficulty with negro Al Gouge's,
Sunday evening last, and shot the aiore-
said negro through The head, for which
recreation said William was brought to
Williamstown on Monday morning, and
held over to the Criminal Court in the
sum of $500 which he gave. Tie negro
gas not seriously injured.