The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-17
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

inst.
A SON of Chief Justice Marshall is a
clerk in the Pension office at Washing
ton.
Mr. D. K. ATHoSY, the Kansas editor
who was SO badly shot about week ago
bv u desperate named Embry, is reported
diving. He was brother of Susan B.
THE Princeton and Rutgers Colleges
have agreed to submit their respective
claims to the old revolutionary relic, in
the shape of canon captured by the
latter from the former, to settlement by
arbitration.
THERE is to be baby show in Mem
phis, Tennessee, at which prize Of $50
is to b given to the ugliest baby, with
the understanding that the award will
not be made without the mothers approx
al. The prize will probably never be
called for.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks the
course of the Republican press gives cor
roboratory evidence that the old Know
Nothing lodges are to be reorganized,
and saws that the idea of their revival
I prevailed in Washington before Congress
/ closed its session.
Col FRED GRANT, the eldest son Of
the President, has left to join the Yellow
stone expedition, which'lcaves Bismarck
on the 10Th inst. Fred Is going into the
banking business, and probably goes out
10 locate the best gold claims, before re-
tiring from the army.
THESE things are getting mOnotonous.
c. II. Davis, late Postmaster ut Union
Springs, Alabama, has plead guilty to
cmbezziing meney from the mails. Sen
tence. six months imprisonment and
fine TO the amount OF money stolen. he
was member Of the State Legislator" in
1872, and voted for United States Senator
Spencer. Next.
Tx President manifests decided OPP
position to paying visit to Bunker Hill
on the occasion of tn. coming Ceutenni-
al celebration. His experience ut Con-
concord and Lexington was 80 unpleasant
and he was ST. much importuned t" make
q speech on the third term, that he don't
like to risk another such boring.
II Lands did not succeed in killing Carl
ruth, he appears TO have accomplished his
object of surpressing Carruth's paper. In
the Vineand hdeDe,pionr of this week
the editor al interim steps down and out.
and f.. A. Teal announces that he has
"psrcha,ed and taken entire control OF
the paper, and that it will appear next
week entirely remodled in appearance
and character
Ir is asserted that should the President
and Secretary BriStow attempt the whole
sale removal of government officials,
there will be storm Of Indignation
which will engulf the administration.
Well if the delinquent officials ARE not
removed there will be similar storm, 50
the administration is in o bad way. Its
the old story of Schylia aud Charybdis
over again.
TUE Lake Erie, Alliance and Wheel
ing railroad is gaining ground. \ spocia
70 the Cincinnati Commercial Of the l4th
inst. says. Another enthusiastic citizens
mass meeting was held tonight in Con-
cert Hall. Addresses were delivered by
ID. Fisher and DR.. j. Y. Lewis. in refer
dncc to the bulding of the LAX" Erie,
Alliance and Wheeling railroad. The
road is sure to be success.
The City Council of New Orleans
have officially declared that there is great
distress in that city, occasioncd by the
want of the ordinary necessities of life.
The municipal government is so much /
embarrassed that it cannot itself relieve F.
these sutferings, and hence appeals for /
outside aid. New Orleans has been ever |
since the war under radical rule. The |
people can deice, from this story, their !
own moral.
MAJOR II. KYD DOUGLAS, Of Ilagers /
town, Maryland, has written q letter to .
the Baltimore Sso. on Walt Whitmans
creation of the Barbara Fritchlc story.
He pronounces it sheer fabrication; says
that General Stonewall Jackson and Mrs
FritChic never saw each other, and that .
in reading of the tear which he W hit /
tier) would drop on 'Stonewalls bier .
for the sake of Mrs. FritChic one is re- .
minded of Mark Twain weeping at the /
tomb of Adam
Is Rome the rogues have grown Sac
riligious-a thing unheard of until this .
late day of these most sorry times /.
They now walk into richly drrked
churches and help themSrve, to the dia-
monds and pearls on the madonnas. .
They take everything they can without .
any fears, and the like of this Rome
never saw before rs old ~ she Is. Pre-
viouslv sacred awe had served rs
check in the citv-iirst Jupiter awcd,
and then the Pope awed, and now the .
uwing is over, and that's what's the mat .
ter with madonnss in diamonds and 7.
pearls. -Erchangc.
JoHN. Secretary Deano's son, is hav. .
ing brought against him damaging .
charges, and the rumor is dcing revived .
that his Pa is implicated. one Is the
case Of the Najalaygus claim, in Cali
fornls. This WAS n claim upon certain
mining property in the Santa Bar5ar"
Mountains, owhed by Eugene Sullivan
the father in-law of Senator .Ionc.. -.
Nevada. An adverse claim W., meac
To- the property, and Senator Jour, D.,
said TO- have charged, in III" presence a..
bnrb the President and Secretary Dr.a-
No tnst john Delano had d~maud"a of
sullivan hre thousand dollars IS the
price of "A decision favorable to sullivan,
and that Drlano senior was party with
Drlano Junior in making the demand.
lHr attacks OF the Buffalo snot ba-
been found to be fatal even 10 Ii" donkey