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


for the coming year as follows: Wool (,
5000O,0O0; wine; 100000 gallons;
wheat, 45,0O0,000.
GENERAL Tom THUMB, Of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, has taken thirty-two degrees
in Masonry, and he rode in the grand
procession in New York, as one of the
escorts TO the few who have taken the
thirty-third degree.
a REPORT having been circulated that
:he widow of General Stonewall Jackson
was in straitened circumstances, twenty
residents of Atlanta, Ga, have agreed to
present her with one share of stock each
IN the Atlanta cotton factory.
IT is estimated by close calculator
that every Indian killed by Phil Sheri-
dan has cost $4,000. He must have
cost the Government, at that rate, enough
TO pay of the National debt, and leave
handsome surplus.
The Indians have proven tough custo-
mers, and have gone home without
yielding their coveted possessions. Yet
miners are making every preparation to
form expeditions and march TO the inte-
rior of their country for gold. The In
diuns are mad Look out for trouble.
The robbery of $4,000 from the L.
:. Treasury has not yet been discovered.
Mr.. Spinner is inconsolabIe, and fears
that the loss will reflect on his manage
ment. However, he has hopes, and has
offered II reward of $4,000 for its recov-
crv.
4 TOAST to Boss shepherd, at the
Washington banquet recently, was re-
cciyed with loud and prolonged kissing
Its Il great step onward when Washing
ton even Kisses her Boss. Tweed :
downfall proceeded from Us slight be-
ginning.
TuE Co,rier-Jouuai commenting on
the fact that the words 'In God we
Trust," have been omitted from the new
twenty cent piece, thinks it appropriate,
NIi4T IultIS iiliiNdlt LllAb bA' nav wan
terred their trust from God, and put II i'll
rings.
The Bunker Hill procession is to be
gotten up on tremendous scale. Ten
thousand soldiers are already engaged, as
are an equal number belonging TO
various civil organizations, and Boston
III ,f u h4tsEpr 81
ture, or from whatever State, to particI-
pate. A big thing.
\ pURLIc-sPIRITED citizen OF Pitts !
burgh, with an eye to the main chance,
has offered to furnish all excellent band |
of music to perform every afternoon and |.
evening in some of the prominent parks |
of that city, if he be granted the exclusive |
monopoly ofthe ice cream business on |
the premises.
A CoRREsPoNDENr of the Philadelphia !
. Times gives history of the rise and !
progress of the custom Of Hari-Kari
among the japanese. 1t was started, II
seems, to rid the country of the pest OF
corrupt officials and rings. Just suppose
we had that custom in the United States.
What fearful mortality would ensue.
/ SHEEP KrLLED.-Mr. q. w. Reaburn
in this county, lost on last Friday night,
his fine Cotswold ram and eve. They
were killed by untaxed dogs. The two
sheep cost him eighty dollars exclusive
/ of .hc freight from Clarke county Nir-
ginia, where they were purchased
( Union WutchmGn.
a CURIOUS incident occurred at VIII
/ lard's Hotel, Washington, on Sunday,
Two young men entered the hotel at the
same time, and, as soon as their eyes met,
one commenced to retreat followed By
the other. Finally the retreater was
overtaken, and the pursuer put Il pistol
10 his head, and demanded that he marry
his sister He wilted, and got married
within an hour.
COMMENTING on five Massachusetts
murders committed in very short space
Of time, the Philadelphia Times says:
/ The Puritan element is being fast elm
mated from the blood of the Bay State"
We differ for two reasons. FrSt-Thc
hangings are not sufficiently rapid to
Justify the idea that the elimination is
fast, and second, the crimes charged are
but the legitimate outgrowth OF the
teachings OF the same element.
SAVE him from his friends. 1t is re-
ported that the President is in receipt Of
numerous letters cougratuating him upon
the appearance OF his third term letter.
That's exactly what hurts his feelings.
He wanted his friends to besecch him not
To withdraw, but to lend them the use of
his name, and then the circumstances
making it his duty to accept would have
been imperative. Poor fellow! Hes
wounded unto death.
4 CoRREsPoNDENT of the Cincinnati |
Commcreiai, writing from Columbia,
South Carolina, says:
The capital city of South Carolina
improves but slowly. Real estate does
not advance as rapidly rs taxation. Busi- |
ness Is dull, trade slack and money
scarce. The old citizens have the most
profound contempt and disgust for the
negro government under which they
live. Withdraw Federal support from
the concern, and they would sweep it
into the ocean.
The Cumberland Tunes saws: "a
strike occurred among the employees of
the rolling mill on Friday. Itis gener-
allv understood that the difficulty orig-
mated about the employment Of puddlcr
not a member of the society. Forty
eight puddlers quit work, whcrcupon the
Objectionable party was discharged. \
committee Of puddlcrs called ON Mr.
VcnnclS, late Friday evening, but that
gentleman had gone to Baltimore. The
pudd,rrs did not resume work, and We
. learn 81 ditfirulty with reference 10 wages