The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-11
GENERAL NOTES.

Mr.. MATTHEWS, the bFother-in law to
Downes who was murdered in Williams
burg. Pa, in June, 1869, has visited Dan
Iel Mayhew in Jail at Fairvlew, W. Va,
and Identifies hun us the murderer.
The Presidents Kitchen Organ is
down on x-President johnson because as
it saws he was the product of ignoble
loins." The Organ evidently dees not
agree with Tennyson that
True hearts are more than coronets
And simple tai II than Norman blood,
Ex-TREAsURER SPINNER has never
been so happy in his life. In fact, the
old man is reiuvcnated since the capture
of that Treasury thief, and the major por-
ton OF his swag. Mr.. New will like
wise learn lesson of csrefulress IRON
the robbery.
Ir is remarkable fact that, while one
ex President Is living, the wives OF five
o. them survive--Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Fnl-
more, Mrs. Tyler, the second, Mrs. Lih-
coin, and Mrs. johnson. OF these ladies,
one i insane, and another ut the point OF
! death.
Ex-President johnson expressed the
hope, short time after his trial, that
when he died he might be quietly buried,
and he hoped, that the same wretched set
of scribblcrs who have just been writing
me down on Impeachment won F! be al
lowed to write up the funeral
BoYrox, the great swimmer, has an
eve on something besides saving the
lives of his fellow men. He is giving
exhibitions of himself in London and
Paris, and is making much money there
| by. claiming from $1,000 to $1,000 per
week.
The only living daughter of Daniel
O'Connell, Mrs. Fitzsimon, the widow of
Christopher Fitzsimon, OF GlenculIen,
aged 81 wears WAS present in the CALLER
les during the late OConnell dinner, in
Dublin. She received the most iiatter-
ing marks of attention from the brilliant
audience present on that occasion.
They know how to utilize matters in
Iowa. A man there recently obtained q
divorce from his wife, and Immediately
hired her for his cook. Both parties are
bappy. He lives much more reasonably,
and she SAYS she can now have an occa-
sionsl new dress, and little money in
her pocEetbook.
/ THEY are getting desperate about the
tramp nuisance in Hudson, New Jersey.
! Recently one of these creatures assaulted
IL lady who had given him bread, and
! demanded in addition thereto money.
: She deliberately picked up revolver,
evidently prepared tor the occasion, and
NHOl HIiIi.
Ir is very peculiarly astonishing how
tremendously domestic the Republicans
are whenever they are defeated in II State
election. The Democratic majority in
Kentucky, having reached figures higher
than even the most Sangulne friends OF
the ticket expected, was caused, 1t Is now
said, by the Republicans having largely
/ nbstancd from voting.
II there is anything in the world cal
| culatrd to strengthen the efforts now be-
| ing made to revive the Know-Nothing
party. il is Ben Buffers claiming to be Il
mot very remote son of Ireland at the
late O.Conncll banquet in Boston.
/ Friends of this glorious Contribution,
and all foreign born citizens, should
combine to squech any such IN outburst
on his part in future.
THE Khedive of Egypt is n man OF
great foresight and energy With the aid OF
the English and American officers whom
he has invited into his service, he is build
ing railroad three hundred miles long
into the Soudan, which will bring all tae
traffic of the upper Nile, which now goes
through Zanzibar and into English hands,
into Egypt. The English are endcayor.
ing bv the aid of the Sultan of Zanzibar,
to retain this valuable trade, but the
Khediye will probably prove himself too
sharp Tor them.
\ CHICAGO paper says. Mrs. Abra
ham Lincoln is given up as hopelessly
insane. she sits down silent and alone
in her solitary room, to keep imaginary
company with Senators and ambassadors
in the light of that gracious kindly smile
long since hidden beneath the coffin lid.
1t is one of the mercies vouchsated her
TO live her life over again with her loved
ones-dear little Willie, and rollicklng,
bovish Tad to sit at the head OF the
table and hold familiar converse with
them all.
GovERSoR elect Ct Kentucky, Colonel
McCreary, recently made speech at
Covington, Kentucky. Having been an
ardent "rcbel" his utterances may be
! read with interest: ~ am here tonight
/ to say that am IN favor of peace and
reconciliation from one end of Kentucky
/ TO the other; that am in favor of peace
! and reconciliation from one border of
our Republic to the other. Peace and
reconciliation will be beneficial to the
North the South, the East and the West.
/ If YOU want to build up your prosperity
again, il you want to restore the
condition that existed before the war,
then you mnst no longer fan the preju-
dices and passions engendered during the
I l.o ,;,,J :, ritn NOu must not seek TO
! tear open the scars of old wounds. to re-
kindle the embers of old fires but yeu
must let bygoues be bygoncs, and let the
dead past lake care ofitself. Let us all
endcavor together to build up this count
~, and restore the prosperity, the peace
/ III L,,,,,r,ss +hut existed here before