The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-29
GENERAL NOTES.

SUSAN ANTHONY is going to take the
stump for female sutragoin Iowa.
Mr.. THOMAS \. ScoTr of Pennsylya-
MIA, is spoken Of rs probable successor
to Mr.. Delano in the Cabinet.
THERE'S physician" in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, who sports this sign: "Dr.
II. o. Greene, MedIco Electricio.' "The
adparel oft proclaims the man"
THE effort to keep up a daily religious
paper in New York has failed, and the
Witness Is dead. Hence the necessity for
/ closing the contract with Moody and
I Sanky on the spot.
THE Prince Imperial is about to make
tour of the world, and will, no doubt,
come over to America. All right, sweet
Prince. We Americans love royalty, es-
pecially If connected with the house OF
Bonaparte.
A WESTERN Press Convention is soon
to decide whether the thing they love 50
much is whiskey or whisky. After eX-
perimenting while they won't care u
dime how you spell it, just so you under
stand what is wanted when they call
Tor it.
TAE majority in New Jersey for the
constitutional amendment prohibiting
any division of the public school fund,
for the support of sectarian schools, or
thcyleyving of any taxes for that purpose,
amounted to 43,3l4 Hudson was the
only county which gave an adverse vote.
MG. WEBSTER lbe it distinctly under
stood that it was Noah, not Daniel took
twenty.oue years TO prepare his tiction-
ary. Now it is asserted that this one
book has done more towards American
iZing the English language than all other
books combined. However that's moth
ing TO brag about.
PARsoN BRowNLow says Governor
Ames of Mississippi, "knows about as
/ little of the temper and wants OF his con-
,tilurnts rs "A mule does of mathematics.
\ MissI sippian, who, 1t is to be feared
is not entirely friendly to Governor
Ames. SAYS that the only possible inac
| curacv in that comment Is that 1t may be
unjust to the mule.
Ir is rumored that Prince Gortschakoh
will soon resign the Russian portfolio OF
Foreign Affairs, and be succeeded by
Count Schouvalof, the Russian Embas.
ssdor to England. Gortschakot Is now
- wears old, and has been in public life
for over half century. He Is probably
desirous of shovelng off all care, so as to
prepare to shuttle of " this mortal coil.
r,A writer in the Richmond, Va. Hhlgpro-
poses to initiate movement during the
State fair toward raising fund for the
erection nm equestrian statue ofGener-
al Robert +. Lee He says: "khgIish.
men have given us statue OF Jackson
let Viryinians themselves provide one
for Lee" The proposition has already
received the endorsement Of number OF
the newspapers OF the State.
The following answers were recently
given in nm English school: "Don Quix-
ote" WAS written by Mark Twain, and
"Robinson Cruso" (sic) by Milton. "Po-
lonius was n wizard who lived on an un-
inhabited island, till his daughter, MI
randa, married II young man named oai
iban." Edward H. was a King OF Eng
land. They dragged him about, shaving
him with cold water till he died "The
feudal system was the Cur!cw bell.
AN exchange tells US that when Gov
ernor Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, went
to n Welsh national festival, in Pennsyl-
vania, the other day, he was received by
the audience all uniting in sweet song OF
welcome commencing thus: "Cymraeg
a SEISMIC, i'w canu gan Y Corau nedlS
felcv'archiad i'r Cad. Hartranit LIywydd
or Eisteddtod GenedlaethoI. Dymunir
If coJau barotol i'w canu ar y don Clan
Middwdod Nwn.
Fifty years ago, this month, the hrSt
train of vehicles was drawn by locomo'
tive over a road open to the public ms
was at Darlington, in England, and Geo.
Stephenson was the engineer, both OF the
road and the locomotive. 1t WAS tn" be-
ginning Of railroading, and seml-cen-
tcnnial celebration was had at Oar
! llncton on the 9th. The little line then
opened has been absorbed into the North
eastern Railway OF England, an immense
corporation whose capital Is tjO,OOOOOO,
or equal To that OF our whole Pacific
Railway. and even that is surpassed by
three other British railways. The rail
WAYS of the world have all been created
within f.tv years. The United States
have laid the most length in that time,
and about as much as all the rest of the
world put together The cost and man
mar of building has been the most masni-
fcent in England, where the per centage
of net returns and gross earnings to cost
! is less than with Us.