The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-03
GENERAL NOTES


( York place the death Of children in that
city at 100 per day.
b Tux Bible is about TO be circulated in
Turkey under Government sanction.
What, then, will become Of the Koran?
T They haye new object of special in
terest now at Niagara. 1t is Il steep hill
and cliff bearing the name Of "The Rag
ged Edge
Tue New York Sun thinks that an ex-
rebel who hates stealing is infinitely bet
ter for present use in the country than
any loyal thief that exists.
OREGON must be n good place for bugs.
An Oregon man has astonished the
Agricultural Department at Washington
by sending in single shipment of l36
kinds of insects.
The authorities of Pottsville, Pa, are
reused to desperation. The eotler 800 re-
ward for the apprehension of every to-
bacco chewer who spits tobacco juice upon
the dresses of ladies as they pass by.
IT is estimatedt that there are at least
5000 persons now in Europe who are left
without a dollar to pay their current ca
/ penses in consequence Of the Duncan,
Sherman " Co., failure.
The Scientific Americam is getting to
be very incrcdulous journal, here Of
/ bate. 1t will insist upon it that the
knelcv Motor i fraud, and now il de-
clares that it does not believe Donaldson
is dead, but that his disappearance is
simply MI advertising dodge OF Barnum :.
An old negro woman in Frederick,
Maryland, was carried away with re-
ligrous fervor the other day, and COM
meuccd shouting and praying most
yocitcrously. y short time afterwards
she was discovered dead, and the verdict
was that she died of heart disease, super
induced by religious excitement.
AT recent examination of one ofthe
schools in Washington, the question was
put to class of small boys: "Why is the
Connecticut river 81 called'' when
bright little fellow put up his hand. 'Do
YOU know, James Yes, ma'am. Be
cause it connects Vermont and New
Hampshire aud cuts through MaSSachu-
>etts was the triumphant reply.
IT is strange, but they tell an ugly
story on Benjamin +. Butler. He appIi.
cI for and received from Congres, $4,000
for the purpose Of cleaning out Mitchelrs
Falls, IN the Merrimac at Lowell, for
navigation. Now journal of that place
,ays the money might as we'll have been
thrown away, for not u boat has passed
the Falls vet, and there seems to be no
prospect that one will. Butler Is good
collector Of spoons, buta very poor eEgi.
ucer. His Dutch Gap Canal was ~
great II !tilvrc as this cleaning out of
the above Falls appears to be.
We exceedingly regret to report the
fact that Just now when the bloody shirt
and Northern hatred lodges are anguish
ing Virginia should do anything TO
revive them; Dut so II is. We read that
Mr.. Edgar Allen, Commonwealth At
turncv, and known all over Virginia aS
Yankee Allen has been indicted by
the grand jury Of Prince Edward county
for cOmpncity in numerous frauds COM
mitled ut the county election in May last.
H.. II IA ~ -
trict. and has served as State Senator.
This thing of prosecuting a Northern
patriot who has settled in the State simp-
ly because he Is rogue ought to be dis
continued. Let Us have harmony.
II the Democratic party, after fifteen
years of political servitude, can find no
more potent r"llying cry than "hard
times. no nobler standard than u paper
dollar then It's hostility to the Republl- |
can party rests upon an exceedingly film |
y toundation.-St. L,a.S Repu5licam,
(IaiJ.
Most truel Though these cries
are very potent in themselves, still, If
there were no otner grounds for hostility .
the foundations for it would be compare.
lively speaking, Aimsy indeed. But there
are many others. Added to fourteen
years otpolitical servitude arc fourteen
year, Of fraud, corruption and oppression.
Senator Thurman, for instance, makes Il
very strong ctse for the prosecution ont /
site of hard times, and the paper dollar. /
Colonel FRANK REYNOLDS, an officer
of the Army Of the Khcdtv" Of Egypt .
Wa found dead in his bed at Ilion, New
\ ok. wccI, ortwo since. Colonel Rey- .
nolds was a native Of Lewisburg. Green
brirr county, West Virginia. IL" was
when the war broke ont u cadet AT West |
Point. and WAS Il gallant officer in the .
Confederate army. After tho war, both .
his father General Alexander REYNOLDS, .
of Lcwl>burg and himself accepted
service in the EgyptiaE Army. He had .
acquired special Distinction IN Egypt.
and life Of prornis' was cut short By his
untimcly tuhii = oil.
An Iowa mother lately met with a
chapter Of. horrors She sent two CHI
dren to the barn for eggs. They went To
,r pot where they knew there was nest
and It being concealed by straw, one OF
them put his hand in, but suddenly drew
it back saying the hen had pecked him.
4 second one then tried it, and with the
,ame result Search disclosed a rattle.
snake in the nest, and amid the excite