The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-27
GENERAL NOTES

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over $4,000.
VICE-PREsIDENT WILSON has ordered
accommodations for himself and several
friends at the Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs.
THE General Ryan, who was always so
ANXIOUS to be killed by the Spanish au-
thorited in Cuba, and who was finally
gratifed, left property which he valued
ut Sl50,0OO.
THE New York Commercial is very
hard on the Prince of Wales when 1t
saws of him that the reason he wanted so
much money for his Indian trip, was be-
cause he was going to fight the tiger.
\ PHILADELPHIA husband on Sunday
invented Il method OF curing an intoxlca-
ted wife, which was found to work very
etlectually. He whipped her with
Shingle till she died.
By a decree of the khedive, dated
July s, the calendar in use among Chris
tian nations will henceforth be used in
Egypt instead OF the Mohammcdan
calendar, dating from the Hegira.
GEORGE WASHINGTON has been at work
with his hatchet again. This time it was
in Washington City. He tried TO kill
james Johnston by cutting his head open
with it.
SENATOR SARGEANT has allowed his
zeal for the Administration TO outrun his
discretion. lie attempted defence Of
Boss Shepherd the other day, and now
the San Francisco papers are down on
him.
HERE is the way San Francisco hus-
band reyenged himself on his muscular
wife: "Nctice-I will not be rcsponsl-
bic for any debts contracted by my wife,
Maria A. Charnay, she having put me
out of the hOuse-Antoine Charnay.'
ONE of the oldest inhabitants Of Dam
bury, Connecticut, has just returned
home, after an absence of forty years,
The interval had been spent in the peni-
tentiary, where he had been sent for
h@rse-stcalng.
The stories Of Lands devotion to his
wife. which caused him to shoot Carruth,
are all false. She has sued for divorce
and made application for the custody Of
the children. Carruth was probably
right in his attack after all.
Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS has declined
the Presidency of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas. His rea-
sons are that his advanced wears and
shattered constitution force him to feel
that ne could not satisfactorily perform
the duties of the office.
I OUR new Treasurcr's first act was to
make hit at Spinner. He says that
since he came into office, he has devised
new system of checks and balances,
which will prevent stealing by any OF
the "old methods No more SlrOOO
bpnanZas for thieves will be found in the
/ L. 5 Treasury in future.
. IMMENSE fortunes dwindle away de-
! plorablv sometimes when mans estate
comes to be settled up. The case of Will
liam II. Aspinwall Is an instance OF this.
He was supposed to be worth millions,
Vet after his dcaIh it was ascertained that
his property was not sufficient to pay the
first legacy in his Will.
SAN FRANCISCO bay promises shortly
to be the scene Of a somewhat novel con-
test-a contest Of power, not of speed.
The owners of the tugs Neptune and
Lookout propose to lash them fast to each
other. stern to stern, and then, headed in
opposite directions, with full steam. on,
decide which shall get away with the
other. The match is for 500 side.
| The 81. Louis Times believes that IN
the Ohio "contest the Democracy repre-
sent. rs nearly as they can be represent
ell. the truths and doctrines tnat lie at the
foundation OF political liberty. They
enter the campaign as the advocates of
( tolerance, of justice, of honesty as against
corruption, Of popular government US
against the tyranny of centrallsm, and 1t
is hardly too much to say that the welfare
of the commonwealth rests largely IN
their keeping
THERE is prescription in use in Eng
land for the cure of drunkenness, by
which thousands are said to have been as
sisted in recovering themselves 1t is rs
follows: SulphUtc of iron, three grains;
peppermint water, eleven d"achms; spirit
of nutmeg, one drachm, twice IL day.
This preparation acts "A stimu!ant and
tonic, and partly supplies the place of
the accustomed liquor, and prevents that
absolute physical and moral prostration
tAat follows sudden breaking from the
Use of stimulating drink>.-NcieHtdc
irsrrHH.
PRor JomN II. TlcE, the st. Louis
"wcuthcr seer who foretold, some
months ago, the present unprecedented
wet season. and who has thereby be-
come famous, is described ~ II venerable
old man. bent with age. He told n re-
porter of 81. Louis journal, few days
ago that his book-a part of which Is
now in prc,s-will give the results of his
most important meteorological researches
but that the other part OF it, which he
was forced to omit at present, on account
of the expense of the engravings, will be
written ut his leisure One thing Is Ger.
tain, h. can knock the hind sights oil old
Prohs.
PERE IlYACINTHE closes an article on
the Church Questions in Geneva in
the Independent, in this way. The
Episcopacy of the present day Is divided
into three great tragmcnts-that Of the
Roman Catholic Church. the Greek
Catholic, and the Auglo-American kpiS-
capal Church. The Council of the Nati-
can widencd the breach that separated
these fragments into II gulf; but the de-
,rccs of the Council will not stand, and