The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-20
GENERAL NOTES.
Now, they talk about company to
insure against floods.


insure against floods.
ETHAN ALIENS little granddaughter
is Just lOl years old. She remembers her
grandpop.
THE recent floods have caused all kinds
of horrible predictions for the future. 1t
is even now asserted that We will have
have frost next winter.
THE politicians at the White Sulphur
Springs, in Virginia, are said to be unan
imous Tor Thomas +, Bayard, of Della
ware, for President.
The Washington Star says editorially;
"The week opens, as last week closed,
with the President and every member of
his Cabinet absent from the OF govern
ment.
"TuAYK heavcn!" remarks young
lady, flinging her pull,bacl to the other
side Of the room, "this is free country,
and fellow can have a square SIT down
Occasionully.'-R Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, is sometimes
spoken of as "poor old mar, but judg
inc from the feeling toward him expressed
so generally in Illinois, lately, he must
he s,il regarded rs u man powerful
enough 10 be feared.
} Mr.. EDWIN BooTH is informed for his
consolation, that umcrous newspapers
have his obituary written, and ready to
/ be nut I'm type. He has fooled them this
time. but tho article can be put aside
ready for rcp-oduc. ion at any moment b"
SEQ, iil to shuttle oil this mortal coil.
The Cincinnati Price Current estima-
les from the latest data, that there have
,rnr IO0OO0OOO bushels of wheat ex-
posed to damage in the recent rains, and
thinks that Of this amount 2o,uOO,OOO Is
+ rendered unfit for for -four, leaving o.
600 600 in mcrchantablc condition.
SouE of our Radical papers are very
/ cxultant because McCreery received only
aGI&o majority in Kentucky. Consider
ip., that the Hot Sc in that State stands
90 Democrats to 10 Republicans, we are
willing to let them take what comfort
they can from the vote.
The Lowell, Mass. machine shop now
employs 700 hands, and expects to run
on .ull time during the winter, having
en- ,.,.,b;,,r,- f,r On - npp
-rIuIl" mill at Rome, Ga. b 900 one al
,r-r.avi.lc ). c., and one for 1000 West.
r-q Mississippi The South Is evidently
pr.pu.a. lor home manufactures.
THE ancient German hero, to whose
memory statue has been erected with
-oluuch enthusiasm lately, was origin
,Ily known as Arminus. His name ha,
benz rn zed h wever, into Hermann.
lie WA, the mun who in the year . Is
. g.. liberated the German Empire from
the dcsP"tism OF Rome,
A KENTUCKY io.rnal mentions Il COM
stalk bearing an immense amount o!
,ils and fifty ears OF corn. The middle
eur is fuIf-,ized. the other forty nine
-,row m ranks al around It. and are
small though they would have grown
much larger had they been permitted to
remain Oh the stalk to maturity.
SENATOR MoRToS waves the bloody
,lrrtnud d.scour,es Of Southern outrages,
but at hi- own home, the press is talking
about the frequent and bloody outrases
. committed by members of the brickiay-
ers Union, whosei last. performance was
,irking m old man nearly 10 death be-
gau,e nc wanted 10 work at MS own price
and make living for himself and family.
CRoQnEr is getting to be a bad game,
qt .ra., for clcrsymen. One ofthem at
the Mar;ha's Vineyard camp meeting
was requested to lead in prayer, and re.
u..rd. Let them 20 ahead; l will come
-, soon Il, the game is done and two
other, got 50 excited over II game as to
...d one TO say to the other, Il do not
,,.r want to speak 10 You again, II
tnls poor little innocent game has snch
had effect upon weak humanity, we
v,r.l have to baulsh it altogether, Just th"
-r,.a a., We do draw poker ard such. We
,.,i. ,,ard idly 10y and see our Puritan
cXamg.ar. become demorallzed