The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-14
GENERAL NOTES.


A CURIOSITY at late Reading Pa
falr, was u cake feet in diameter and
weighing $50 pounds,
The prospects of the VIRGINIA fruit
crop are considered so dubious that the
Norfolk Pathological Society has decided
not to attempt q show of Virginia fruit
at the Chicago exhibition in September.
The Marquis of Lorne and the Prin-
cess Louise expect to come to Canada
with Lord Dutterin on his return from
Eng land, and make tour of the Do
minion and the United States.
THERE are hundreds of thousands of
tons of clear, solid ice, three feet thick
lying at Port Jervis, New York yet.
The supply promises to last almost dur
ing the entire summer.
The policy OF paying S. per bushel
foT grasshoppers in Minnesota, has de-
veloped much of the latent energy of the
people of that State. At Mankato $50
bushels were captured and burned in one
day recently. .
THAT was model jury out West. The
Judge told them to 90 and get verdict,
and said "lf you cant lind one Of your
own get the one the last jury used
They brought in verdics of Suicide in
the ninth degree
THE New England papers are puz-
zling over sentence from Mr.. Evarts
Beecher Grafton, three hundred and sixty
eight words long, which out Choatcs
CRoate in its confusing conjunctlons.
Most OF them give il up.
A SALE of the private library Of Dan
iel Webster was commenced in Boston
on the Sth instant. One set of Audubon's
"Birds of America" three volumes,
brought 1925 per volume. Sounds tishy,
but the Boston Journal says SO.
TuE King of Spain has, by royal de-
cree, created junta Of ladies, whose mis-.
sion will consist in aiding the authorities
in the hospital service. The Princess of
the Asturias ia appointed president of
the new body.
The first sod on the main line Of the
Canada Pacific Railway was turned at
Red River, Manitoba, Saturday. An
estimated expenditure of 81, $4,000 will
be incurred during the fiscal year ending
June, 1876, in the construction OF this
road.
THE police of Wilmington, Delaware,
have given sad proof Of their ignorance
of the use of firearms. One of them. in
firing two shots at prisoner attempting
to escape, missed the prisoner, but struck
II Young lady in the head, causing her
almost instant death.
The astounding fact has been made
public that there are two Henry Ward
Becchers IN the world, one in the Brook
lvn Court Room, and the other on the
Cincinnati police force. We didn't think
the whole earth could stand more than
one of that name.
ACCORDING 10 the Philadelphia Times
Zach Chandler says, just as if the coun-
try wasn't scourged enough with potato
bugs, grasshoppers, buffalo gnsts and
conhagr&tions, that old Brlstow Is making
a tool Of himself by trying to get up q
whisky famine.
The Commissioner of Indian affairs
has been informed that expedition Of
three thousand gold hunters will leave
Philia .elphia for the Black Hills, orders
from Phil Sheridan to the contrary not
wthstanding. They must be anxious for
gold up there.
Mr.. TRoTr is still looking around for
the Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
with shot gun for insulting his wife.
He steps out like n man who means busi-
ness His wife demonstrates with him
constantly, but ne saws: "'Tain't no use
talking to me, Mrs. Trott; ain one Of
your Sir Masmaduke musers, amt
\ LITTER from Dallas to the Galveston
Netos says: The wheat crop is said to
be more abundant than ever before, and
| heard many inquiries as TO what dispo
,ition could be made of it, as there are no
large warehouses where it can be stored
in bulk. The impression seems To be
general that the mills cannot possibly
Isc all the wheat
CoNNKcrICUT has decided in favor of
biennial sessions of the Legislature.
Virginia will soon take the subject under
The Richmond Dispatch
ays on the subject: We are compelled
o confess from our observation that the
one and character of the Legislation of
hese times make it very dcbatablc
uestion whether the people would not be
'etter off with less of it.
IT paws Kitchen organ" to run the
residential machine in Washington.
he Republican has just gotten out 4 asup-
liment Of sixty pages, a list OF property
dvertised ior delinquent taxes, for which
received 100000. This patronage is
aid to be given out by written order
rom His Excellency, and without any
Had il been awarded to the
owest bidder, II could have been done
or half that sum.
THE WEATHER.