The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-11
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

the great scandal gives the impression
that they will certainly disagree.
As reason for the unusual cold spell
which has afflicted u.s. it is stated that the
Atlantic ocean Is filled with floating ice
a thing never before known.
HoS.J. 5. BLACK will deliver the ora
ton at the unvelling Of the bust Of the
late Bishop Campbell, at Bethany Col
lcge, West Virginia in June.
lr is stated that Ex-Governor Henry
ID. Cooke Is still wealthy enough to take
trip to Europe. Meanwhile the lreii-
tors of the firm only receive per cent.
dividend.
THIS is the shape the paragraph has
got into now: A wealthy New Yorker,
Mr.. David Linton, proposes to give sjGs-
600 to adorn a market place, relying, ap-
par"ntly, upon the vegetable dealers L"
keep his memory green.
SOME persons were mislcd into suppos-
ing that Mr.. Sheridan, whose death WA,
reported the other day, was the verita-
ole Phil, of baudtti fame They cali
not conceal their disappointment upon
a.crrtaining that it was only hls father.
BILL MAY, II well known thief and
trainer of thieves was captured on Satur-
day, while trying to rob bank in thi-
ragn. Abiding TO MS arrest the Cmcin
natl Eng,Hrr heads it ~ prominent
Chicagoan come to griet.
The causes now assigned FOR Douglas
removal as Internal Revenue Commis
sioncr are incapacity and laxity in carry
ING out the duties of his office. Yet, IN
.ri;n of all. he will soon he provided
with another pl, c., which rumor hath II s
III" Sixth Authorship.
THEY have hod spelling match down
on the banks Of the tranquil MiipitaN.
There were twcnty-seyen contestants,
and twcHtv-six went down on the first
word, "cat," and the last man would have
gone down too, only he suffered, and
couldn't get in the second "t quick
enough. .-Stocktoa Lsadcr.
FoRSEY, Chronicle says 'One Of the
Harrington safe burglary jurors, who
voted not guilty, has received an ap-
pointment as lamp-lighter for the grounds
/ adjoining the Executive Mansion. lie
receives S75 per month, and farms the
/ work out Tor $2j, thus making Sjoin the
/ clear. Who says ii does not pay TO be Il
juror,
Nix. TaoMAs ScorT is taking hold of
the Centennial business with II vim, and
propose, TO do all he can towards making
| New York q huge boarding place Tor the
| visitors to the exhibition. lie
proposes to run great mum
bar of special trains between
the two cities, and will make the run Of
ninety miles in one hour and half. y
milo a minute. \ broken rail would do
some damage.
\ so-cALLED "Anti-Dea;h Conyrm-
ton" will held in be Cotton Hall, Boston,
Nav 30 and 81. three sessions each day.
The following Glasses will be welcome to
/ rive reason for the hope or lack OF
I none that Is ia them; Christians
and Atheists who think they have souls
/ Atheist, and Infdels who deny the cx-
i,tence Of souls; SpirtuaiIsts and Mater.
/ ialists mediums and their eIposcTs.
/ The dinner and merry making given
to Hon. Carl Schurz, in New York, was
the probable saving of his life. He
/ sailed in the Pomerania only one day
/ after the III fated Schiller. Had hc not
been detained by the dinner, he might
/ have embarked on her. and !he great
American Independent might have gone
down forever. We shudder to think
I how near We were to such loss.
/ .SrNTEEN thousand eight hundred and
eightv-nine persons were banished from
Russia to Siberia between May and Oc-
/ ',brr last: l,OSO women and children
over fifteen years Of age, with l,2tS young
children, voluntarily accompanied the
Siberia will rapidly become the more
populous and powerful district, and begin
baui,hing it, criminal to ST. Peter burg.
An Irish lecturer thus endcayored to
prove that the late John Stuart Mill was
not human man: "An unnatural
and lsborious child, he took no dclightin
the proper amusemcnts Of youth, spend
ing the hours that ought to have becss
devoted to fairy tales in the study of
Greek grammar and Euclid; growing up
without the hope Of relaxation in this
world or of enjoyment hereafter; work
ing out the knowledge Of many sciences,
and vet ignorant of men, and spending
what love his shrivelcd heart might hav"
had for woman on the love Of abstract
ideas.