The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-26
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

give no indications Of injury from the
| frosts.
JUDGE TAFT. of Cincinnati, is coming
/ to the front as the Republican candidate
for Governor of Ohio. If nominated,
| after the election he will 90 back TO the
rear.
The Cumberland Times has advices
from Washington county, Maryland,
and Berkeley county, West Virginia,
which state that the farmers are almost
in despair over the crop prospects, and II
their sections are not speedily visited
with seasOnablc rain, the wheat will not
pay for gathering.
/ AMONG the sppointees of the |. S.
/ Military Academy, at West Point, are
the following from West Virginia. o.
| l.. OBrien. FIRST District; John
/ Woods, Second District and Charles +.
/ Pearls, Third District. The appontees
/ are required to report for duty by June
2Oth to stand their preliminary examIn-
alton.
A LAWYER of st. Louis recently felt
himself aggricvcd by an article in the
RpuJ',cam of that city, which passed
some merited structures upon HIM under
the heading, "A Sample Shystcr.' lie
instituted II libel suit laying damages to
reputation, &c, at ten thousand dollars.
Verdict, one cent.
The Philadelphia Ledger has made
some notoriety for itself by its talent for
obituary poetry. This is the last speci-
men:
Farewell, dear little Hczckiah,
Gone TO meet his dear, departed pa
In Wonder lovely world up higher,
Where by the golden throne of blazing hre,
He waits for his little brothers and SIS
trrS and his ma.
GEN. W. r. SHERMAN is not making
so much popularity as he anticipated out
of his book. He claims credit for every
thing, even giving Grant to understand
that he only played second fiddle in the
great war of subiugation. While this
may be true vet nevertheless Grant don't
like it to be known, and he and all the
rest of the Generals snubbed by Sherman
are inclined 20 raise row.
A COMMITTEE of the Reformed Epls-
copal Church, was appointed to call on
Rev. Mr.. Latane, of that denomination,
to inform him of his election As Bishop.
They did 50. but he declined the position
on the ground that he could do more good
as n presbyter, than q Bishop. The COM
mttee, however, declined to report his
refusal until after having another inter-
view with him.
OxE ofthe most original of the gifts
which the lst of April brought to Prince
Bismarck was costly and highly decor
ated clothes brush. With it came the
quaint conceit: "AS this brush shall
cleanse the garment of his Highness
from dust or stain, so may he long con-
tinue to keep the German Imperial man
tie free from moths, and to shake out of
it all antiquatcd dust
MoSr if not all the revenue officials in
the West, recently discharged for com
plicitv in the whisky frauds, are known
H. active political wire.pullers. Mr..
Mann. late Supervisor tor Illinois, Wis
consin and Minnesota, was regarded MS
the main-stay of Senator Logan, and the
latter feels his removal screly. Further,
it is confidently asserted that when Mr..
Logan comes up for reelection he will
sadly miss this champion OF his cause.
SAYsth Pittsburgh Post Radical Con-
gressmen are getting very cheap, The
price has fallen to $40. A Pension Bu
reau clerk who had been discharged
wanted to get reinstated and gave Ra-
dical Congressman $40 TO get the PrcSi-
dents signature 10 an endorsement. The
CONGRESSMAN took the money and forged
the Presidents name W the document.
And vet there are men who think these
Radical leaders ought to he still kept IN
power.
HERE is specimen Of California edi-
torial courtesy. Old Brownlow, himself,
would grow pale from envious grief,
could he read it. 1t is from the Amador
county Call independent:
"Now We will inform the sweet
scented evader of truth and honesty who
runs the little nigger nose rag across the
srteet. that he cannot ram any oi his
Internal lies down four throat, for we
know him too well to believe anything he
SAYS, even under oath.
THE streets of Virginia City, Nevada,
are mscadamized with refuse ore, and
the frequent trains from the mines over
them have slowly sifted down precious
dpst till thev have become, to express 1t
scientifically, argentiferous. Some mud
taken from an omnibus wheel i'll the city
was given to an assaycr, and it yielded
at the rate of S754 silver, and 1872 gold
per ton A local paper boasts that, while
they sometimes have muddy streets, 1t Is
not the cheap. common mud of the ''cow
country towns.
\ MAN attempted suicide on the 2Oth
instant by placing himself across the
track of the Erie Railroad, near Paterson,
y. J.. and then he quietly awaited
train to come along and smash him.
/ Presently, however, the train came; but
/ u. SEED on and left him unharmed. 1t
! turned out that the road WAS of double
track, and he had selected the wrong one
/ He was arrested and made to swear that
if he would kill himself anyhow that he
should do so in New York, and save
Pasaic county, New Jersey, all the ex-