The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-12
GENERAL NOTES.

wear, in order to prepare more iuily lor
/ ;,s celebrations. That would take all the
poetry out ofthe affair.
THERE is illavery urgent demand
for harvest hands in all sections OF the
country. Farmers complain that they
cannot begin to handle their ..crops prop
rrly without mucn greater force than
they have as yet been able to collect.
IT isn't often thata man is married by
his own son, but such an occurrence took
place in New York the other day. The
bridegroom was Captain James Little, a
ship master, and his bride Mrs. Mary
Atwood. The clergyman was Rev. james
a. Little, of Pennsylvania.
a New ORLEANS gentleman claims
that he has discovered an invention for
turning cotton into silk. He has gone
to France to Introduce it to silk manu-
tscturers there, and it is said that on ac-
count OF it, the consumption Of cotton
will be largely increased.
WITH the departure of the graSshop-
pers from Kansas. the State Relief Soci-
ETY. has been dissolved. The Society ex-
pended about $l35,OO0. From other
sources about 100000 more was contri-
butcd for the 10000 graSShopper suffer
err, or about $50 head.
AN ingenious ginseng digger in
Orange county, Indiana, recently hit
upon II novel plan for increasing the
weight of his commodity. He put u
bucl;Shot in each piece of the root while
it was still green, aud a it readily sells
for dollar pound, he was making II
good thing until he was apprehended.
The searching into the causes Of crime
in New York, is causing some very
peculiar Developments. Among Others,
il has been asccrtaincd that the police
have been largely in the habit of levying
II toll of fifty dollars each upon panel
houses, besides receiving half the amount
stolen therein.
THE L. :. Government loaned the city
of Boston 1000 flags to be used on the
18th of June ut the Bunker Hill celeDra-
tion. They were valued ut 100000, and
were distributed among responsible par
ties for decoration purposes. When re-
turned, the damage from their use
amounted to only $lO4.
TIE Supreme Court of the United
States has rendered an important deci-
sion on the question, "What constitutes
Public Waters in the United States 1t
was held that navigability was the true
test, hence all navigable streams become
subject to regulation by the General gov
,,...'-,,t.
The Cincinnati E"guirer says that the
Democrats to-day, have the same fight
with the money power that they had in
the DAYS of Jackson and Jefferson. Them
they had one National bank with a capl-
tai of SO, 600 900 to fight; non they have
two thousand National banks with II
combined capita! Of $iOOOOo,UO0, to make
war against.
The Oldest convict in the Ohio peni-
tentiarv is dead. He had been an in
mate of that institution for thirty-eight
wears, under a life sentence which was
literally carried out He went there
comparatively young. Nearly all his
adult lite, reaching through two genera
tions, was spent in rigorous confinement
His otlcnse was murder in the paroxysm
ofpassion.
A NEW source OF danger to railroad
travel has been discovered in the eXpan-
sivc force of heat upon the rails. a
Chinaman in Nevada recently caused the
stoppagc Of Il freight train, and on exam
ining the track, it was asccrtained that
the heat had expanded several of the
rails to such an extent as to force them
from their position, and even cause the
spikes to be drawn from the ties.
TEXAs can boast of darkey who com
bines, in his own nature, n thorough
sense of the practical with the useful.
He doesn't believe in wasting anything.
For instance, says the Galveston Neics
"a lady tainted in West Broadway car
Yesterday. and while in II hurry for water Il
benevolent old darkry broke watermelon
which had been on ice all day and applied
n portion to the lady's head. The re-
mainder he set about eating and had
enough left to satisfy one appetite.
The law of negligence was recently
made to apply with costly force by the
Supreme Court of Illinois upon parties
obstructing streets, the court holding
that they are responsible for accidents to
life, limb or property indirectly growing
out of such distractions. a collision be-
tween teams, (which boy received
injuries ending in death, WAS traced back
to the fact that it was caused by the un-
lawful occupancy OF the street with Il
sand heap, the owner of which has been
mulctcd in damages to the amount OF
$1,000, the Supreme Court affirming tue
Judgment in the Court below.
JouN II. Bowen, river editor of the st.
Louis Giobc, is now, or soon will be Il
millionaire. The Supreme Court of the
United States has decided that he Is part
owner Of one hundred and twenty acres
of land, comprising the best portion OF
the ground upon which Evansville, In
diana, is built. Before the Supreme
Courts decision he was offered 100000
AS Il compromise, but refused it. We
congratulate hun upon his good luck, as
we understand that it is his intention TO
rive each of the river reporters on the
Ohio and Mississippi corner lot with q
brick house on it.-ErchdHge.
The following is one of the most re
markable stories ever published. 1t con-
vevs warning to all persons that II they
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