The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-09
GENERAL NOTES.

THE inmates of the New jersey pen
itentiary, struck work the other day, be-
cause they could not get three meals day.
SIX libel suits have been added to the
Indianapolis .SentineEs wardrobe, and
indianapolis claims to have four.
a GRAND meeting of spiritualists is
soon to be held at Vineland, New Jersey.
Katie King is expected TO materlailze
again.
CARL ScHURz is coming back in Oc-
tober. He will probably remain away
sufficiently long to see how the land lies
politically, before making up his mind
definitely as TO his future course.
a CORREsPoNDENT Of the A lbany ar
aus aserts that West Point Cadet, re-
Gently appointed from Herkimer county,
that State, paid $4,000 Tor the appoint
ment.
AN editor having asked an Illinois
man for crop news, received this answer:
"And now the reaper reapeth. the mower
moweth, and the little bundle bee gettcth
up the busy granger's trouserS-leg and
bumbleth.'
THIS is the commencement of the water
melon season, and the ST. Louis papers
have lately published an account of the
death of prominent citizen of that city,
from genuine asiatic cholera. Comment
is unnecessary.
The advantage OF the government of
Great Britain over that of the United
States. is exhibited in new and startling
manner. Queen Victoria has twenty
grand children while our government
has but one and he is half Britlsher.
MR. JEFFERSON DAVIS is in much de-
mand as n College President. He has
declined one in Texas, and now two
Others, one the University of Georgia
and the other the University of North
Carolina, want him.
\ BROOKLYN sick girl cleared space
around thirteen ears OF green corn at one
meal the other day, and picking the
fragments from between her teeth with
hair-pin, Observed "lf ever | get we'll
enough again to cat much, | think |
could live on corn, -1rqUS.
AND now the last report is that the
foundation the Chicago Custom House is
sound. This house is truly mixed
question, and the subject Of as many con
tradictions rs that of Delano's resigna-
ton. 1t is to be hoped that ere long it
will be settled.
FouR of the editors of the Nicksburg
Herad have been killed within as many
months; but the Herald says this is moth.
ing compared with the mortality on the
Nicksburg Sentinel, which lost FIVE editors
and then died itself. journalism ut the
South Is a rather eXhilerating profession.
SAYS the Pittsburgh Dispatch: Tramps
are about as common as floods in these
days and their streams through the coun.
try are constantly increasing. Our ex-
changes from all parts OF the land com
plain of the depredations they are COM
mitting and the annoyance they are caus-
ing TO farmer, and Others.
UNITED STATES MINISTER SCHENcK
has taken his family, and Is making II
tour of Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
1t is not stated whether, having broken
the las. of the British nobility
he sie.ha for other worlds to conquer, and
has gone to introduce the great game of
draw poker in these benighted countries
or not.
\ NEW religious sect called the Naz-
arenes, threatens trouble IN Hungary.
They refuse to bear arms, or do military
duty, though the laws require it of every
man owe: twenty years of age. Here
tofore they have been exempt on account
of religious scruples; but now having at
tanned TO the number Of 10000 souls,
they form no inconSiderable proportion
of the population, and there Is talk of
enforcing their obedience to law. 1t
is predicted that the quarrel will result
in their following the example of the
Russian Memnonites, and emigrating to
the United States.
The Greenville Tenn Times pro-
nounces to by a forgery that very ro-
mantle letter ascribcd, since his death,
to Ex-Prcsidcnt johnson, IN which he is !
made to say that he is waiting in humble |
resignation for that peace beyond tho |
grave of which he feels so sure. The |
T.mcs SAYS: The deduction to be drawn
from this paper, that Mr.. Johnson was !
in some degree religious man, is abso-
Iutely absurd, and would be resented by |
Mr.. johnson were he living. He was |
notoriously an unbeliever in the Christian /
doctrine and methods, and quite the re- /
verse of what was thus attempted to be /
established He never went to church, !
and when after his death, the services of
the village clergyman, a Protestant Epls-
copal minister, were rendered TO the /
they were declined, | am well |
because it was understood such /
services would not be desired by Mr.. |
could he have power to choose I
in the matter
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. |
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