The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-06
GENERAL NOTES.

single Southern outrage since he as
sumed control of the Attorney General
office.
/ Os Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
this week, the National Educational As.
sociation meet ut Minneapolis, Mime
sofa, and then they'll take jaunt to the
( falls Of Minnehaha.
Colonel James b. McCreary, just
elected Governor of Kentucky, is not yet
forty wears Of age. He served with dis
! tinction in the Confederate army, where
he attained Colonelcy. He is spoken oi
AS u gentleman of rare ability.
NOTWITHSTANDING that 100000 has
been appropriated by Louisiana for the
repair of her levees, the present rise OF
the Mississippi river, shows that they are
! in horrible condition. and likely to burst
at any moment. Where's the money? In
some carpet baggers pocket.
THE Chicago Tribune says that gold
does not huctuote in value; that 1t is
greenbacks only that change. Let that
sapient editor sell short on few thou
sands of gold, and he will soon see
whether il fuctuates or not.--PeoTtd
/ Transcript.
a NEW YORK paper says Walter
Shanly, 'late OF the Hoosac Tunnel, has
accepted the position of consulting engi-
neer on the Georgian Bay Branch of the
Canada Pacific Railway, and of the
| Canada Central Railway extension. Mr..
| Shanly is also contractor for tn" W heel
ing and Lake Erie railroad.
From 1864 to 1869, inclusive, six years
under Lincoln and Johnson, the cost of
the Indian service to the Government
was s26,77l ,2O3l5; from 1870 to 1875,
inclusive estimating part OF the last
vearl, the cost under Gran. will foot up
/ S4O54O.S3I.3 However, Mr.. Delano' 5
relations with the President remain un-
changed
WHAT sort of Il country is California,
any way? They now claim that they
have struck honey we'll out there, which
Yields several barrels of the sweet fluid
daily. 1t is even asserted that this mel
lfuous bonanza, if properly utilized, Will
wipe out the National debt. And then
what paradise in which to live. Who
could be happier than to dwell in land
where gold and silver, peach and honey
are inexhaustiblc.
ENGLAND maintains her position as be-
ing the justest country in the world.
Col. Valentine Baker, who has been con-
victed of committing an indecent assault
upon young English lady, belongs to
the Hussars, and is Il friend of the Prince
of Wales, and ranks us II swell of the
first water. He WAS senteHced to twelve
months imprisonment, 900 fine, and to
/ pay the costs of prosecution. just sup
/ pose he had been in this country occupy
/ ing the same position relatively. Would
he have been punished?
Ex .JUDGE CARDozo, connected by
marriage with Solomon Nathan, the
mystery OF whose murder has never been
| been unravc!ed. denies emphatically the
story told lately in New York, by the
policeman Conklin. He says that he has
made earnest efforts to discover the mu'-
dcrer, ard that the police, he is satisfied,
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already sufficiently stricken, might ut
/ least have been spared the additional woe
which the scandalous aSpersons which
Conklin has attempted to cast upon Mr..
Washington Nathan, creates.
PEOPLE in Paris are as fond of getting
ahead Of the government in the way Of
paving customs duties, as some OF us
Americans are. Here is the way the
HeraH describes one instance: With
most cadaverOus countenance and Grape
on mis- hat he waited at Paris station for
the coffin 10 be tilted out ofthe train; but
it was heavy, for it was lined with lead.
And while the people looked on with
sympathy and wondered if it was his
wife, his mother, or his father, the well
informed police invited him into pri-
vate room, where they opened the coffin
and emptied it of its load of Brussels lace.
The C0uricr-JourHGi thinks that if the
Chinese would send for some second rate
American general and n battery of
Gatling guns they could soon quell the
Formosans. If that is all that's required
we wonder they don't do it. There are
lots Of second rate American generals
lying around loose who would be glad of
the position. In fact the Chinese might
organize regiment of second and IN rd
rate brigadiers combined, and if only one
,oIld whip the FOrmosa savagcs In II
short time the speed with which a regi-
ment would wipe them out would be in
credible.
ABOUT dozen National colored journ.
alists have recently assembled in Clncin-
natl and amused themselves propound-
ing to each other the following conun-
drums: Can we, by separate action as a
people, aid the Republican party to re-
gam its ascendency in the councils OF the
nation, and to place in the Presidential
chair man upon whom the friends of
Union and liberty can rely? lfso, how?
fnot, why? Can We, by separate ac-
tion as a people, materially advance the
religious, educational, industrial, social.
and political condition of our people? If
so, how? II not, why? Can we, in any
manner, place the newspapers published
by colored men upon paying basis? If
so, how? II not, why?" So far as heard
from they have been generally given up.
More's the pity. Weknow ofa good many
white journalists who would like the last
one 10 he practically solved.
Railroad Accident.
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