The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-21
GENERAL NOTES.


five miles.
THR postal card factory at Springfield,
Mass, is now making postal cards Of the
new pattern, ut the rate OF tOo,oOO day.
The income of the General Govern
ment from the sale Of waste paper from
the dead letter office is placed at $4 600.
a RADICAL paper says: "Won't there
be some hard swearing in Ohio?" Very
likely, when Aliens majority comes roll
inG in.
Mrs. j. f. B. Stuart, the widow Of the
noted Confederate general Of cavalry, has
become an Instructor in the Southern
Female College, Richmond, Virginia.
ATLANTA, GA, has developed a new
source OF wealth. A sweet potato plan
tation of 700 acres there is expected to
yield 10000 bushels of the invorlte
edible.
The Molhc Maguires are showing
their murderous heads again in Penn
sylvania. If the State government cunt
subduc them, why don't the President
interfere? Oh! for All Amcs.
CARL ScuURz will tell the people OF
Ohio, next Monday, what he knows about
hard money. He want, those grccnback
he has received for lectures lately, con-
verted into gold.
THE universal Yankee again. a New
York firm has just received Il contract
from the Austrian Government for the
improvement of the Danube river,
amounting TO S5,OOOOOO.
IT is grayely asserted that the Ohio
Legislature refused to change n mans
name to John Smith, on the grounds
that already they had one John Smith in
that State.
The Mrs. Cleveland who took u con-
spicuous part in the Eddy naturalization
performances in Spirit Vale, Vermont.
has seeded from the party in conse-
qurncr of quarrel. She declares that
the exhibition was trickrry, and the prof
its enormous.
If our American journalists can't keep
their senses, thoy ought 10 stay Mt home,
and not 90 abroad. Here's little James
Gordon Bennett putting on English airs
lie drives through the streets of New
port IN an English drag, with man
seated upon the outside with trumpet,
which he occasionally SOUNDS.
Is 1919 the Bank Of England sus-
pended specie payments and remain
ed in suspension until 1923.
During this period the country possessed
no other circulating medium besides Nus.
pended bank currency. NotwIthStand-
ing the drains OF great war, the people
pro-pcrcd and the country more than
doubled ITS wealth.
SPOTTED TAIL placed his price for the
Black Hills Il: six millions OF dollars, a
suit Of clothes for each Indian, and guar
auteed annuity for eighty years. He
chose this period because, he says he
thinks eighty years will see the Indian
race all passed away. He thinks the In
dian agents will certainly wipe them out
IN that time.
\ BoSToN family has II remarkably in
telligcnt parrot, which repeats nearly ey-
ervthng it hears, and which some bad
bows have taught TO swear awtuIly. 1t
finally did little talking, except of pro-
fame character, and to cure its propensity,
WAS repeatedly souscd in cold water, and
placed near the stove to dry. During a
recent storm, some chickens which had
been wet and chilled were brought into
the house and placed near the stove to
revive them. 1t 50 happened that the
parrot had Just been ducFcd himself, and,
after surveying the chickens Tor some
time, he cried ont in oracuIar tones: "Llt.
tie ID fools, been swearing.
If the New York 1rijme knows
whereof it speaks, the police Of Gotham
must lluctil Dt u cNN'S S''hb'N 'NN' -
SAYS: Precisely one month after Char
lev Ross WAS stolen. Captain Helms and
our own police haG reason to believe that
Mosher and Douglass were the abductorS.
These men were known to a dozen men
on the New York force their haunts,
companions, habits were known they
were continually passing and repass-
inc from New York to Philadel.
phja, mailing letters ut Elizabeth, Trcn-
ion and Newark to MIR. Ross, de-
handing ransom, and threatening that
the child should bc utterly annihlated il
it were not paid. There was not day,
probably, when Captain Helms could not
have arrested these men. He was in
daily communication with the heart.
broken father; knew that the family Of
the child were spending their money like
water in efforts which he knew to be ut
tcrly futile; that they were going from
one end of the country to the other, to
Maine, to California, to England again
and again. to look at children, when
Charley Ross was in Mosher's keeping.