The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-20
GENERAL NOTES.
THE Prohibition meetings are exceed
Ingly spiritless affairs.

IuS!y sP4i!I4ess aHa4iS'
AND now the crooked tobacco manu-
facturers frd that the law has got twist
on them.
CHARLESTON, 5. C., INDUCES in antIci-
pations of larger trade this yoar thar
any other since the war.
The corn crcp this fall is estimated at
900. 600 900 bushels, and exceeds that Of
1872, or any other year in the history Of
the country.
a SILLY pair have made the eyes Of
Lancaster, Ohio, hang out by having
wedding ceremony performed in dry
goods store.
POSTAL cards are German invention,
and were first introduced by the Ger
man Government du,ing the Franco
Prussian wal.
THE remarkable feat of making l,OlO
steel rails in twenty hours was last week
accomplished in the steel rail mill OF the
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company.
1t has been demonstrated that for all
telegraphic purposes the English Ian.
guago is from twenty five to thirty-three
per cent cheaper than the French, Ger
man or any other language.
SHE tramped upon n handful Of grape
"A Il h.r
didn't have a lump Of coal tied to it. Our
boy picked up 2O4 hair-pns where she
fell.
POTATOES bring only twenty-five cents
bushel throughout the country. AT
Girard and Springfield agents are buy
ing them for cash Ut that price and ship.
ping them to the Eastern markets where
they bring fair profit. At Girard yes
terdav, five car loads were shipped and
the farmers in that vicinity are bringing
in big wagon loads daily.-Erie Dispatch.
Mr.. GEORGE GILL, who departed this
life at Hanover Pa, few days ago, had
not tasted meat for twenty-siX years.
Whenu man cant distinguish himself by
living to be one hundred years old and
leaving twenty nine children, forty
eight grandchildren, and ninety six great
grandchildren it may BE- well enough
for him to try some simple plan like Mr.
ellis.
President GRANTS Grafton at Dem
ver has reached US. 1t is not quite such
mastery effort as was his Des
Moines speech Here 1t is in full:
My FEIENDs:-I have got a bad cold
and sore throat. don't think this cool
air will do me any good. | am going in,
anyhow; | will be here again in a few
DAYS and YOU can see me then.
THEODORE TLroN lectured to the
Cleveland people last Thursday evening
on The human instinct; how to develop
it," The lecture was timely one, as the
Clevelsndcrs have been denscly Stupeiicd
bv two Radical newspapers which fill
their columns with details of imaginary
Polish plots, to the exclusion of news and
polite literature.
The ConncllSvile Monitor says that
gold has been discovered in the Spring.
field coal mines at Stcwarton station, on
the Pitts hurgh and ConnellsyIe Rail
road. Specimens of white quartz rich
with gold have been found, and one
miner picked up nugget containing
several dollars worth OF the precious
metal
lr is charged that "out of thirty-hve
Vassar College girls who had studied
Latin, Greek, French, music, drawing,
botany, and mincralogy for FIVE or six
wears, twcnty-seven married poor men
and have to do their own work The
charge is probably true. The irresstl-
ble cnarms of the male sex have always
been II barrier 10 female progress. Even
Mrs. Livcrmore has her weakness, and
there Is such person rs Mr.. Livermore.
THE Rccord says that more people are
going into sheep feeding this year in
Chester county than we ever knew be-
fore, stimulated by the prospect Of Cen
tcnnal year, when 1t Is expected the
demand tor mutton in Philadelphia to
feed the numerous guests at the Expo
sltion will be unusually large. Expert
cnce has shown that there is a large profit
in raising sheep if the flock does not fall
Il prey to dogs.
THE tone Of all our leading western
exchanges is 10 the effect that business
has revived there and that the worst of
the hard times are over in that section.
Neither Chicago or st. Louis has ever
hAd q LARGER trade. it Is said, than in the
past wear, while the good crops OF the
farmers give promise OF as much trade
next wear. In the Eastern States too,
there i visible improvement. Failures
are by no means rs frequent or as serious
AS they were q year ago,
TEE Governmet prosecution Of the
Milwaukee crooked whisky cases has be-
gun. Nearly every distiIler and recti-
fer Of and wholesale dealer in whisky.
and nearly every local internal revenue
ex-oficial, from the collector downwards,
i on trial on charges for which the pen
atty, on conviction, Is imprisonment in
the pcnitentiary and fines ofmonev from
$500 to $1,000 in each case. The Inst OF
defendants embraces some of the most
wealthy residents OF the place.
ms New York Times infcrs from its
Pennsylvania correspondence that the
canvass in that State will be very tame
1t saws: Both parties have been wait
inc for the result in Ohio, but neither
bas found it decisive enough TO materially
alter the position which it held before
that important contest. The fact that
no thorough canvass can now be made
on either side in Pennsylvania may make
the result in that State a more accurate
lest of the sober judgment of the people
on the great question vt issue than 1t