The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-13
GENERAL NOTES

last census there were iZt peIsOuS i0-
turned as over 100 years OF age.
DR.. F. +. PERPESTE, convicted last
April, of having been accessory to an
abortion in Philadelphia, has been SEN
fenced to one years imprisonment.
II you feel very much like taking a
drink, and don't desire to indulge, they
say that an orange eaten before break
fast will destroy the appetite. A pleas
ant healthful, remedy, within rc"c" VI
all.
THE increase in the sale ofpostal cards
during the past fiscal year has been over
1s per cent. and the increase IN the total
80 IN IN. public has been over lO per
cant The average percentage lor SIX
wears past has been 8 per cent
ROBERT DALE OWEN has been placed
in An insane asylum in indianapolis, by
one of his sons. His insanity Is OF u
very mild type, its chief characteristic
being doubt rs to his identity. 1t Is
hoped that proper treatment may speedily
restore him.
MouLToS thinks there is pretty
square issue between Beecher and him
self He SAYS that one or the other of
them isa perjurer, and ought to go to
States prison for life. He says moreover
its question he's going to have settled
before he dies.
The New York Times says that the
Plymouth brethren talk so wildly and
with so little apparent regard for truth
that at is enough to make even brother
Shearman weep" This Is a likely rcck.
less though. Shearman never weepS; he
don't know how nor could mt if he would.
BEWARE of five dollar notes. There
are SO many counterfeits of that denom-
ination that it Is thought they will all be
called in by the Comptroller Of the Cur
rencv. The backs and faces of all these
notes are so much alike, that counter
faiters who possess the plates, can easily
use them to counterfeit the notes OF any
bank.
The fees Of the lawyers engaged in the
big scandal suit have been published in
Northern paper as follows: Mr.. Evarts
received $4,000; Mr.. Tracy, $4,000;
Mr.. Hill, $1,000; Mr. Beach, $4,000 Mr..
Fullerton, $500; Mr.. Morris, $500;
and Mr.. Pryor, 81, 800. Mr.. Shearman
refused to accept money for his services.
THE Commercial AdcsrttSer is too in
quisitive and its conundrums are danger
ous lest they should put bad ideas in peo-
pies heads 1t wants an answer TO the
following hard question. But won't this
sudden rise in the tariff of scandal Salar
les be apt to discourage the quiet country
parsons who are toiling along on 5000 u
letter in their lives?"
The Cincinnati Gazette gives the fol-
lowing US an exact copy of ccroner's
Jury verdict, which was filed in the
county clerks office ut Cincinnati Tues
day: ave, the jury, find that the said
Louis Fillman come 10 his death by
shot accidentally went off By himself by
killing cat by shooting the same and
when She was not dead instantly by
striking the cut with the brcech Of the
gun and the load discharged itself
WoMAN's rights are still in the front
rank. Prot Janncy's geological cxpcdi-
tien found board nailed upon tree
near Harney's Peak, in the Black Hills,
on which was inscribed "Sarah Cambell,
Woman rights, August i, 1874. Sarah
Cambell has never been seen, and the
| Courier Journal painfully suggests that
she may have been scalped. But 1t Is
generally suspected that she Was the ad-
vance guard of Susan b.. Anthony's
party, sent ahead to take time by the
| iorelock, and claim the territory as the
special property of the strong-ninded
before the invader, Man, could lay his
ruthless hand upon it, Poor Sarah!
Why didn't she let Susan go herself?
THE celebration of the 9TH OF July in
New York and Brooklyn, cost some
thing handsome. 1t may be summarized
thus: Twenty -four fires which destroy
ed property to the value of SIS, 400; fors
! lives lost by explosion or gunpowder
wounds, and fifth by an accident At II
| fire; I persons were shot daugcrous y,
and 9 seriously; + lost hands, S fingers,
and ) eyes. There were lj men, women
and children wounded or burned by ex-
! piosions; woman poisoned herself; there
were 3 -tabb!ng atfraJ :, and u grave cases
of assault. In addition to these the num-
brr q. minor casualties, &c, is too large
t. be calculated.
ADVICE to the ladies from the Boston
Yrarc9cr. "Womcn should not wear
striped stockings, ns they value their
precious legs, for the aniline dyes used in
producing certain color~ are poisonous,
and cause the worst kind of malignant
sores-and of all nuisances sore legs
must Lc the worst and most destructive
of beauty. Strength, grace, and good
looks are walked away on such legs. \
great American genius, the late MI
Hawthorne, has said that white stock
ing is infinitely more effective than u
black one; and, certainly, white stock
iugs and little low black shoes form 4
chaussure that has no equal for feminine
feet and legs, and that is far superior to
one that has all the colors OF the rain
bow. Striped stockings on women are as
much out Of place a> striped shoes would
be on men.
THE Scientific .Ao.eriean will not be-
lieve either in Kecly or his motor. In
late issue it says; "The Keely perior-
nance il as follows: Keely blows from
his lungs, for a period of thirty seconds
into II nozzle upon the generator. He