The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-23
GENERAL NOTES.

virtual prohibition.
a MAN in Iowa has just applied for a
patent on plow, to be worked by wind
power.
The Postmaster-General has com
menced suit against the bondsmen Of over
forty detaulting mail contractors.
The immense treasure expected TO
have been found on the sunken frigate
Cumberland, has dwinded down to
$4,000. THIS is verified by the accounts
of the Navy Department.
The new Independent party Of Cali
fornia have gotten themselves in box
Senator Booth is their leader and prom
ineut whisky dealer. Yet the other day
they very tEoughtlcSsly nominated Il
man for Governor who abuse, whisky
dealers most numerically.
PoMERoY, the Boy Murderer, has seal
ed his fate. He has written defense of
himself which is u masterly production,
and proves that he Is not only sane, but
unusually so. Ambition to be writer
will cause his death, as 1t has that of
many others.
"A MAN who owns country seat
nearly lost his wife, who fell into river
that flows directly through his estate.
He announced the narrow escape to his
friends expecting their conSratulation.
One of them-an old bachelOr-wrote as
follows: II always told you that river
was too shallow.
THE fable of the fox and the crow
slightly varied; "a gambler in Iowa, to
escape arrest, attempted to cross u river
with 81 pocket book between his teeth.
HIS strength or skill not proving ade-
lu4,r. he was obliged to open his mouth
IN order to call for help, and his pocket
book, containing $1,000, went to the bot
tom.
\ Missouri Judge has decided that
"uo mouther has right to thrash her
daughter after the girl has passed her
eighteenth birthday The Cy,rir-Jo,u,-
@. agrees with the Judge BECAUSE accord
inc To- Blackstone, when the girl reaches
that agr, the right to thrash her lies dor
maut until her marriage, when 1t rJviycs
and becomes vested IN her husband.
\ LIBEL. 4 libel! Here is what
one Ohio editor says of another: "Long-
ley j, t,'d Il great many things. He is
miserable, low-lived, scurrillous liar His
ingenious brain coucocts hes and his
ib-lou- sheet utters them. That's the
kind of parasite hc j.. Gracious
Heavens, Pistols for two, coffee Tor
oNE.
LoNGsrEEEr has been furnished with
the "rcbol archiyc, he wanted in
Washington Now he is going to work to
cxonorato himself if he can, from the
charges Of blame for the loss of the bat.
tie Of Gettysburg. He had much bet
ter try AMI exonoratc himself from the
charges of having aided and abettcd the
Kellogg usurpation in Louisiana.
\ SOMEWHAT singular discovery has
lust been made at Buckingham Palace.
During some alterations, and while the
workmen were engaged in pulling down
IA wall, a large quantity Of valuable gold
and silver plate, Of about the time OF
George Ill, and supposed to be worth
several thousand pounds was discovered
i'm d place OF cOLCealment.
Boss SuErrARDs mode of expressing
himself is most elegant. His English Is
uuapproachable In fact he is eminent
IN worthy Of the high place he holds in
tur good graces of the administration.
Abiding to Judge Fishers case, he AS
serted that the opposition to hlm did not
come from the President. "ltaIl came,
said he "from that little boD-tailed clam
Yankee over IN the pOstOtlicc.' The
Postmaster General, it is thought, Will
not resign, even though the Boss dlSIlkes
him.
TuE Roman Catholic Archbishop Pur-
cell, Of Cincinnati, recently said in a
public speech, 81 am sorry that the com
mon schools have been arraigned to-
night as the public enemies of education.
In the puolic schools children do not ar-
gurr Gudicss education. Nothing Is
taught there that Is against God. | find
that some of the best scholars. the best
men and the best women receive their
mcipjcnt education in the common
schools. They cant be- called Goddess
That don't look II uch like the opposition
We hear 80 much about.
OUR great boast is that We have risen
: 81, tar above the c1ctr Spanish American
Republics. Yet we might learn Il lesson
IN wisdom from them in spite Of our
toa>,iug: "a possible bloudy conflict
between the Federal authorities of the
United States of Colombia and the State
of Panama, has been prevented 10y the
GOOD sense OF President Perez, who, IN
stead of marching the Federal troops to
3. conquest of the disaiiectcd State, APP
pointed commissioners of arbitration, who
were net 10y Il like committee from the
State authorities, and the difficulty was
settled uuicahly. The trouble orIS mated
in the arrest by the State authorities OF
General Cnmargo commander Of Federal
troops in Panama.
NOTHING cxcels in wonder the bridge
system Of the West, all built up
since the war. The Missouri is
tridscd at s.. Charles, l6,5&5 feet
long Bonneville, Kansas City, Leavcn-
worth. Atchison, St. Joseph. Sl,000O0O,l
and rOmnha. The cost of these bridges
was about $ll,OOOO0O or 100000 less
than the single bridge and approaches at
II. Louis. The Ohio Is bridged eight
times below Pittsburg at a cost of Sl6,-
100000. The Mississippi is bridged at