The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-17

PCSINiO'A N'- ~
IT is estimated that New York city
will, this year, consume G,0O0,000 baskets
of peaches.
OSE hundred and fifty picked Welsh
singers are organizing for the purpose OF
discoursing vocal music at the centennial.
Mrs. LINCOLN has not improved since
| being removed to Batavia, and but little
hopes of an ultimate recovery are en-
| tertaincd.
IT is being reported that Mrs. Stone
wall jackson has declined HI offer OF
marriage. We did not think that even
| in the L nited States, n man could be found
with conccit sufficient TO propose to her
RICHARD b. CoSNELLY, another of
the celebrated Tammany Ring Robbers,
won't come home to be tried, even if his
bail Is reduced. He prefers Paris with
his i'll gotten gains, to New York with
out them.
p. VI. GENERAL JEWELL will not use
the influence of his Department to force
PoStmasters to contribute of their means
for political purposes; but while he s.ys
| this he gives them dStiCtly to understand
that such contributions will by no means
be refused. "A nod is rs good rs wink.
THE st. Paul Pioneer Press got things
u little mixed when speaking Of General
Blairs death. 1t said that riptssct.on
1 could not save him. Nivisection is not
| generally looked upon rs means to save
! life; to the contrary, it nearly always
kills. But perhaps the Press meant
/ transmission, and WAS mlSled by contu-
sion of terms.
TIE settlers in the valley of the Ar
/ kansas manage to make a comfortable
living, notwithstanding the destruction
of their crops, by gathering up buffalo
bones on the prairies and hauling them
to the towns Heads and ribs are worth
50 ton, and are ground up into fertil-
izers; shins and shoulder blades which
are used i'll the sugar rctntrlcs, being $40
ton, and horns $50.
\ CERTAIN Radical paper says that
| Professor MarShS letter to the Presi-
den. will be of no use to him or any one
else, unless he furnishes the promised
statement definitely specifying the charges
/ against Secretary Dclano The Professor
| doubtless fully understands that without
| being so informed through this super
! huouS ebullition of wisdom, and lie pro-
poses to furnish the wished for statement
too.
GRACIOUS Heavens! Are we bound to
run this Centennial business IN the
ground? 1t looks very much as if, like
spelling matches and such, the whole
country will b. tired out with ii before
the big one comes OF. Tom Moore, the
poet, happened to stop in Norfolk Nir-
gimia about hundred years ago, and aS
the house is still standing, they are talk
Ing about celebrating this Centennial.
"Gor the phoby, have ye? Cant
swallow any liquid, ch?' observed Mrs.
MillisS to her husband, who had refused
water for two day.. "Well, we'll see;'
and the good woman drew the cork from
the whisky bottle and placed the muzzle
to her licge'. mouth. Milliss' face cmerg-
ed from it, gloom like full moon from
behind cloud and glahcing at his wife
with quizzical expression, he said:
"Cumc to think of it, Jane, | don't be t
lieve that dog had any teeth
a CURIOUS episode in the railroad STA
;ion at Lincoln, Nebraska, the other day,
was Mennonite divorce. The man was
anxious to go to Dakota, and his wife
equally anxious to remain, 50, after long
argument in Russian and German, they
sat down upon the floor, and, opening II
bag containing $1,000 in gold counted
1t out, piece by piece, the man taking
one-half and the woman the other. They
then shook hands and separated, the man
jumping upon the train for Dakota.
HERE is the story of q lightning rod
mans having come to grief ut last "a
lightning rod peddlcr in New Jersey put
up rod on farmers barn and took the
farmers note. The barn was struck by
lightning in spite ot--or because of-thc
peddlrrs rod. The farmer refused TO pay
the note. The lightning rod man sued
the farmer. The farmer shot the lightning
rod man. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that the ball could not penetrate so deep
AS to prove fatal" Now give us another
of II book agent and an insurance SOlici-
tor, and the measure will be filled.
Col. JoHN $. MoSHY, of Virginia, has
declined the invitation to deliver an ad-
dress in Trcmout Temple, Boston. He
says: "Although circumstances cOmpel
me to decline it, | assure you that do
so from no want of sympathy with the
noble object You profess a desire to pro-
motc-the restoration of fraternal rela-
tions between the people of the long cs
trangcd sections Of our country. For the
soldiers of the Union | cherish no feel.
ing> of bitterness, but on the contrary,
sentiments OF the highest respect, and l
trust the day is Lot far distant when the
soldiers OF both armies will receive from
the whole country the credit due to their
valOr and patriotic devotions in "the biz
wars that made ambition virtue
/ SENATOR CHRISTIANCY, of Michigan
is good thinker, and when he speaks he
does So sohery and dispassionately. In
recent address at Kalamazoo, he said
~ have full faith that the time will yet
come when we shall ali be influenced by
like national motives, seeking the like
national ends, aS one common brother