The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-05
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

for damages against an unfortunate
lover for breaking her nose while trying
to kiss her against her will
Col. ROBERT TYLER, of Montgomery,
Alabama, eldest son OF eX-President Ty-
Ter. has been appointed Centennial Com
missioner, for the Southern States.
THE Philadelphia Press says that Ohio
is now the key to the position, and if
captured by the Democracy this fall, the
chances of Republican success in 1876
will be very slight. Correct.
APRoPos to the Pope's eighty-fourth
birthday, the Voee detta Yerita says;
His classic step, serene brow, bright hteye,
ready wnrd, robust voice and unfalling
memory show that in him the laws Of ma
ture have been set aside.
SUSAN b. says that this has been the
worst spring she can remember, except
one in her early youth when She was
wont to mount the gentle Mammoth and
wander over the beautiful earth just pre-
vious to the glacial period.-N. o. Times.
NorwITHsTANpING the grace mercy
and peace in the Presidents last para
graph, it is shrewdly suspected at Phila-
delphia that he will not be inconsoable If
Hartranft meets with an accident
>DrjHgtieH Republican.
GroRGE FRANCIS TRAIN still lives,
moves and has his being, and clings to
hopes of squelching, practically, the third
term. A paper out west called "The Peo-
piles Paper" has brought hun out for
President in 1876.
SINCE Vice President Wilson has been
travelling in the South, and expressing
/ himself so freely ofthe kindness he has
received, and the general good incIina-
tions of the people, we expect to see some
Radical people clubbing mm "pripatetlc
u.s..
AT the decoration ceremonies at Brat
tlcboro, Vermont, arrangements were
made to pay special tribute to the mem.
orv of James Fisk, Jr. This doubtless
was done out of regard for the Admiral.
. Colonels brilliant campaigns on wall
street. However, in many circles, 1t was
looked upon as q direct insult to the gal
liant dead that Fisk's name should be
connected with theirs.
Dox PI,Trs caDital of the 23d ult
contains long and biting criticism on
General Sherman's book In the conclu-
sion ofthe article it is stated that Sher-
man lost as many men a johnson had
opposed to him, while Grant lost one
third more than General Lee ever had
in his army. Ii that is so it is hard to un-
der.tand how either of them could lay
claim to being any great shakes oi II
general.
The London Times publishes the re-
port Of the Cambridge Local Examiners
in which the relative merits of boy and
oirl students are contrqsted In some
things the girls exce.led, and IN Others
the BOYS. The girls took precedence III
all the pathological or literary subjects,
such rs grammar, French, Latin, Ger
man. and in the writing of essays on
literary subjects; but the boys had the
advantage in narithmctic and mathematics,
in algebra, twenty-four boys did very
well, but only one girls performance l.
SO described.
WESTERN residents have lately sent to
their friends at Washington, in most
cases by way of a joke, packages or boxes
I filled with grasshoppers. 1t is related
/ that quite recently on one of Tn" trains
running between that city and Balti-
/ more. n box containing several thousand
/ of these insects was broken, when almost
/ instantly the car became dark with the
| hopping pests. The ladies screamed in
verv lively manner while the gentle
men hastened to open the car windows
and let the insects escape to multiply on
Maryland soil.
The Western people are oDjecting to
being made receptacles for the bad boys
of the Eastern cities. At recent
Social Science meeting in Detroit, the
chairman of the Wisconsin Board of
State Charities said: "New York city
has sent to the West its street boys, who
have not proved little angels. | hear of
/ one village where five OF these boys were
/ put out AS it WAS termed) and III two
weeks they had all left, and some of them
brought up in our reform schools While
We cannot resist bringing among Us these
street waits, we can and do most earnest
I IL protest against it,
THE country seat Of Jay Cooke, near
Philadelphia, Ogontz, was recently put
up at auction and withdrawn for the
present, none of the bids reeching the
sum at which it is held We understand
tfut. providing the place can be pur-
chased for reasonable amount, it will
be bought BY the Presbyterian Church,
or certain leading members Of it, for the
establishment of National School for
Women, equal in extent and scope TO
Vassar College, and giving not only Il
theoretical, hut technical education, fit
ting its pupils to gain their own living
bv practical professions or haHdicraits.-
Nt3r FORK IiTbUne.
CorOncr's Verdict I'm the HOiyOke
Disaster.
SpvINGFIFID lime 4-Tha rOrOner'S