The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-29
GENERAL NOTES.
NEW YORK exported l,l49,Ol2 bushel:
of wheat last week.


want rifle teams, Shooting matches will
soon take the former place Of spelling
ditto.
GRANT, Fred and wife, visited West
Point the other day. OF course His
Excellency was received with salute OF
thirty guns. Wonder now If Grant don't
travel around to get saluted.
HENRY CLAY DEAN has taken the
stump in Iowa. His power on the stump
is recognized. and, as he is filled with Il
conscientious hatred of the Republican
party, no doubt he will do effective work.
The Herald says that the real issue be.
tween Charles O'Conor, ESQ and the
Supreme Court of the State of New
I York Is that the laws have been proven
utterly worthless to properly punish 4
criminal of such immense proportions NJ
/ William NJ. Tweed.
4 GENUINE American crocodile has
been found and killed in Florida. 1t
measured fourteen feet in length, and is
in the possession of Prof. Ward OF the
Syracuse University. The existence IN
America of any approach to the croco-
+ dile nearer than the alligator has hereto
fore been disputed.
AN economical New York hotel Is
about to begin the experiment OF irrita-
ting its guests with a band Of music
while they are at dinner. The male eat
crs NAV be hurried of in this way, but
/ close observers who have lived ut hotels n
GOOD deal, assert that the other sex is not
likely to be affected by any such means.
( Courier JonrHal.
a CERTAIN publisher in New York
gets his wife to read the manuscript, Of
juvenile books offered to him TO his lt-
daughter, and if the child enjoys the
story he accepts it. He argues that his
little girl has about the average child in
telligence, and if y book failed 20 please
her it would not please other children.
The idea is not q bad one.
QUITE flutter was occa.ioncd among
the lady clerks in the Treasury Depart
men. 4 few DAYS ago by the announce.
mrnt that 81 900 was missing from the
redemption division of the Treasury. No
clue was found as TO the loss, anI the re-
port WAS based on the ground that GER
tain package had 1000 less in It when
turned over to the division in which 1t
was found missing, than II was supposed
to have contained.
( LAST week, the Washington and Lee
University, AZ Lexington, Virginia, con-
f.rrrd upon Charles O'Connr, Esq tn"
degree Of l.. L. d. In accepting the
honor Mr.. O'Conor said: lndcpen-
IDENTIFY of other features rendering Il NC
ccptuble. it i rendered extremely so by
the connection, even in this remote man
ncr. Of my name with those of the Illus
,riou, departed, to whose honor your
shrine of learning Is dedicated.
MAN in Medina, Ohio while riding
in procession behind his wifc> remains
,.l ,I,,,,J ,,.i.l, .,riaF
-, 10Th 60 s,o, ,bo ,ro-
-, ;,,,,. r ~. r.rrio|o ,o
/ nick up knife he detected in the road.
! lie had been trught in early youth the
value of acquiring property and saving
| it. and the lesson was iRstilled in him so
/ Thoroughly that even his great grief could
not nrrycnt his putting it in practice.
-, c.....- -,,.
SIMEON botffANn' '''' '"''''"' ~
! pickcrs' banker of Paris, Is dead. lie
...-,..-o,,,ht,. ord for moro than f,rtv
""'
years hau PurSuc" HIS '"i''"S u ''''o'' :
money 10 ray .imo r'oNv,I whatever Il Of % rags thew
micbt nossr.s rs security. In this way
he had amsssed fortune OF several iI
thousand pounuI'' -, n,anl.ny J..y o"3 when
f,rrl t.,d the cat was PLAYING with his
head and the monkey had on his cap and
,pcctuclcs. Havingno relatives, Simeon :
fortune gOrs to the State.
,,. o...,, ..Ii,,.,s ,,,ot
lhh 'h'c"S" i'''', ", 60" ., ,''' ~ '''''
the act of Congress Piedging the govern
/ meut TO resume specie payments in 1879
cannot h. r.dn Good II SAYS. "Thcre
-: 49,. ... - r.,lio,,
= no prov '''o" III '"' "'' 'o' '"''''''-
| sreeno"cks beyond 50 per cent OF the
amount ct new national bank Issues, and
that tops ut $S2ooo,Ooo, leaving $500,
100000 't'I."noat' lnat the government
suiI'irnt 10 warrant tue P.eHS" o. aon re-
%nn ' Pmnh,dy P',J, hrIi.yrs. thnt II viii h. obIe
to accumulate any gold beyond suhi.
cheney to retire S'2roooooV' under the ~
per cent 'ro''''o'' ''0O''! 0'''''','
WHILE We are PuiiInS ana blowing