The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-16
GENERAL NOTES.

daughter lead mine for wedding pres
ent.
AT the suggestion Of Professor hay
den. the Interior Department has decid-
ed to send two entomologlsts TO the west
to investigate the cause OF the grasshop-
per plague.
A WHOLE Roman Catholic congrega-
ton. consisting OF eleven hundred per-
sons. at Carleton, n. b., took the temper
ance pledge on recent Sunday, in re-
sponse to an appeal from their pastor.
A SHAFT has been sunk l5 feet deep at
the gold mine at Saco, Me. Pieces OF
very rich gold quartz are being taken
out, one piece, the size OF walnut, be-
ing almost solid gold.
A RATTLEsYAKE with thirty-one rat
ties was killed fortnight ago on the
Keween river, in Tulare county, Cal.
II measured thirteen feet in length, and
is said to have been the largest rattle
snake ever killed on the California coast.
The first new silver twenty cent piece
which was struck off, on the first of June
in the Carson City New mint, is to be
presented to Senator Jones as ajouvenlr
he having drafted the law providing for
the coinage.
AsTHE time approaches for the Bun
ker Hill Centennial celebration, Il new
bone of contention has arisen, which Is
being extensively argued. The connun-
drsm sought to be solved is who COM
manded at Bunker Hill?
The Kitchen Organ at Washington
gets $9O,OOOfor publishing the delinquent
tax PAYERS of the District, and Of this
amount $4,000 is SAID to be clear proht.
No hard times where the administration
sheds his tavOrs.
HERE is the way they overhaul care
less sea-captains in France: On account
of a collision between two steamers, the
Rochelais and the Normand, the govern
ment mas suspended the two captains
from command one for two years and
the other for one wear, and the latter has
been further condemned to months ;
Imprisonment because he was not the last
20 leave his vessel.
IT is said that Bristow is working SO
hard for the punishment of dealers In
"crooked" commodities, because he has
an eve on the Presidency. Well, it is
gratifying that at last there isto be found
one member of his party who relies upon
virtuous acts rs means of securing re-
ward. Heretofore, rascalty has seemed
to be the only qualification for distin-
guished position.
We shall see, on Thursday next,
whether the authorities of Pennsylvania
have power to prevent brutal rutlianlsm
in that State The Allen-Rooke prize
ii hit is appointed for that day, within
hundred miles of the city of Pittsburgh.
Perhaps they will 90 into West Virginia,
but even there the law should be strong
enough to thwart them.-S. LOuis GtO6c-
Democrat. -.
"But crcn there" That sounds as If
st. Louis didn't take much stock in West
Viryinias strength OF law. It's Il direct
slur on the State.
IT is stated in Washington that Super
yisinp Architect Potter and the commits
sion who have been examining the new
Chicago custom house will agree that
the building is unsafe as it stands; that
/ the material used in its construction will
rot stand Chicago climate, and VIII
recommend the use Of an entirely differ
ent foundation for rebuilding. The cost
Of dcmolishing the structure will be $500,
600, not including the amount expended
in its erection. lE the present state OF
the finances, Secretary Bristow Is 10th
to order such proceeding.
Two murderers about to be hanged
in Atlanta, have petitioned the hangman
af follows: Captain Anderson sheriff:
1t is our Request that you would be so
Kind as to let the following ministers
accompany us to the place of execution,
that il will be the las chanse fur US 10
hear the word of God sound in our wears
Seaborn Lee, Frank Qusries, Tary Jones,
Finch and Bager, and Mister Wiley
. Grant This is great request that We
ask of the kind officers of this prison. as
/ it is our time to depart this life, and hop
ing to meet YOU all in heayin, and may
sweet gardin angils glide you safely home
to heavin is the fond Request of yeur
humble Servants"
A CORONER who hasn't had good job
in good while, and feels that he has
been wronged, complains TO Max Adeler;
"Why, there's Belcher come home from
Peru with six mummieS that he dug out
Of some sepulchre in that country. They
look exactly like dried beef. Now, my
view is that ought TO sit on them
things. They're human beings; nobody
round here knows what they died OF.
The law has a right to know. Belcher
amt got no doctors certificates about
rm, and I'm sworn TO look after all dead
. people that cant account for bern' dead,
or that Is suspicioned of dyin' OF foul
/ play. | could have made fifty dollars
out of them dead PeruvianS, and | ought
to We done it,
American Institute tenfHomOeOpathy
PUT-IS-BAY, June l5-The National
Association of homeopathic Physicians