The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-20
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

Bunker Hill Centennial is concluded, the
monument and grounds are TO be present
ed to the city of Boston.
ENGLAND expects to draw recruits for
the army from graduates for her public
schools Military training IS 10 be intro
duced into these Institutions with view
to making soldiers.
TIE Evangelical Minister'S Associa.
tion of Cincinnati, have decided to in
vlte Moody and Saukey to visit that city
as early in the coming autumn Us their
convenience will permit
a WASHINGTON paper suggests that
Americans cease importing raisins, and
60 to work to make their own. Then if
they must have plum pudding they can
prepare the same from American materi-
ais. This it calls patriotic plum pudding.
TIE new compulsory educational law
of Maine requires that children between
the ages of nine and fifteen year, shall
be sent TO school for Il period Of at least
twelve weeks each year, unless excused
BY sickness or for like cause upon the
certificate of II physician.
A SPECIAL to the Philadelphia Times
intimates that Secretary Fish does not
wish to leave the Cabinet, but that the
President would like to be rid Of hinl.
Moreover that his EXcellencv will man
ipulatc It 50 AS to carry out his IDEAS, but
but will let Fish down as gently as pos
sible.
The arbitration between Rutgers and
Princeton colleges, concerning the gun
taken by the former from the latter, has
.ailed. DR.. McCosh, of Princeton, says
he is convinced the gun belongs 10 his
, institution, and he will resort to legal or
OtLcJ measures TO recover II. AT any rate
the cannon must be restored
The flag which waved over Fort Nc.
Henry, near Baltimore, during the cele-
brated BON bardment and which gave
rise to the poem, The Star SpsngIed
Banner, is now in the possession OF Mrs.
Appleton. of New York. She Is tn"
daughter of General Armistead, who de-
Tended the fort.
4 FRENCH Doctor, upon an cxaniins-
! ton Of matrimonial statistics, ascertalned
that out of one hundred blondes, thirty.
seven remained single through life while
in the same number of bruneltes, only
eighteen remained out in the cold. When
/ this becomes generally known, the pas
sion for being made blondes will be ma
terally lesSened.
GRASS hoppcrs in Kansas have had
added to them as allies, the buffalo gpat.
The first named insect has already com
menced its work Of destruction upon the
vegetation, and it Is feared that the last
vii prove equally fatal 10 the cattle.
/ However, ifthe one destroys all the food, ,
the cattle might as well die bv
means of the other as by starvation.
/ TaE marriage formula devised and
used by Montana Justice Of the Peace
has the merit of conciscncss and proci-
sion. 1t is as follows: "Ari,e.-9rasp
handsl-hitched-s dollars Now II
he will invent some way of untylng th"
/ knot lust rs quickly, he needn't lack busi-
ness, though he should raise his fee from
six to twelve dollars for undoing what he
did before,
The Cy,lr7cr-Joumai is enthusiastic in
its very appropriate eulogy upon Gen
oral John G. Breckinrdge. 1t says
. When some future MAcaulay shall mar
rate the events OF our bloody drama ard
| reproduce the portraits Of those who
were its most conspicuous actors, he Will
find indeliby stamped upon the charac-
ter of Breckenridge both the image and
the superscription of God"
EVERYTHING is far from lovely in the
Cabinet. Secretary Bristow, by his move
in an honest direction, has excited the
! ire af all the members. A Washington
dispatch has asserted that one of them
openly stated on MOI day that Brstow
was trying to sell out the President and
The Republican party. True or false, by
exposing tho counivance at stupendous
frauds, he is taking the best means for SO
doing.
Hos. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS and
some others were recently turned out of
"a car in Georgia because they were
white men II was first class eur.
pronided for "cullud pussons' who had
paid full fare, and the conductor said
that, under the circumstance, the white
men had no more right to lntrude upon
negro than negro on Il white man.
Mr.. Stevens ucQuiesced, saying that this
construction OF the Civil Rights Bill
was correct.