The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-29
GENERAL NOTES.

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Tux polonaise skirt and waist Of
several years back, will, it is said, be re-
vivcd this year.
Tue Jersey City Hrrold says: "No
man but a morse car conductor has the
right OF patting u lady On the back with
out an introduction
MoycuRE d. CONWAY Is proving u
formidable rival to Theodore Tilton in
the lecture field. His audiences in Gin
cinnau have been immense.
REV. Mr.. GLENDENNING, ofNew Jer-
sev, 50 unfavorubly known in connection
with the case OF poor Mary Pomeroy, has
ut last accepted the situation, and stepped
down and out.
The three wonders of the world nj
present are: How huti accumulates in
vest pockets, where the pins go TO, and
why, when 81 man comes out ot saloon
hr looks one way and goes the other.
a TEXAs Judge, in sentencing pris-
oner, tod him that the jail WAS an old
ricketv affair, and very cold Therefore,
out OF respect to hi- comfort, and to keep
him from freezing, be would order the
sheriff to hang him at four o'clock that
afternoon. The Judge evidently thought
that would ensure warmth rEough. Con-
>id,rate. Very,
Tux Philadelphia Press, commenting
On the Vineland tragedy and Carruths
ca.e, i, -cvere on the murdered man, and
wind, up by saving "that 1t news
papcr cannot be successful upon black.
stIarGIsm unguided 10y brains. Black
guardsm rih brains, however It may
be inferred j., in the opinion OF the Press,
all that il necessary.
SINGER, the sewing machine man, left
five wives and twenty-five children liy-
ing. He bequcathcd to the last married
of his wives life interest in his estate in
England valued ut 5i,OOOOOO, 80 300
UOO to her ,ix children, and s3OOJOOO to
the rest OF the children. Ii all these
singers get to quarrelhng over his will
there will be music.
The original "Star Spangled Banner
which houtcd over Fort Mcllenry during
its celebrated bombardment is on the t..
4 :. steamer Tallapoosa, lying st Ports
mouth, \. II. 1t is the property of Mrs.
Georgiana a. Appleton, daughter OF
| Col. Armstead, who commanded the
fort, and OF course will be shown ut the
/ Centennial.
NoTuIxG Ike work for preserving
health, strength and yigor. We read
that an old lady in Cumberland county
MARYLAND, filled her one hundredth year
last August, but didn't stopa minute IN
her household ccupatIOns-sewlng, SPIN.
ming and making up of trousers. What
lesson to young people vesetatlnS IN
dleneSs.
The San Franciscoans are in ecstaces
over their new hotel, the largest IN the
world. So slated are they that they are
beginning to talk Of inviting Queen NIc-
toria. the Sultan Of Turkey, the khcdIve
of Egypt, to say nothing Of Emperor
William and "Unser Fritz, over to
spend short time in the greatest note
si the greatest State, of the greatest
I country in the world.
SOME idea Of the vast benefit of the
postal card ,yStrm of cheap postage may
be- gathered from the fact that from May
' -. lS,@. t. September %, 1870, th"
Springfield factory issued 255,47S,00O
postal cards Tn postal card costs one
cent; the LITTER costs, say one cent for
paper, one cent for envelope and either
twuor three Tor stamp. Here then, are
quarter IF billion cases within three
wears in which the price of letters is re-
dureI heavily. 1t l. true the postal cards
are largely used for printed business CIR
cular>. but in any case the saving TO the
people has amounted to millions already.
Kls>lxG l. rather novel and perhaps
questionable method Of raising cash for
church purposes; but it seems to have
been adopted in New York. At Meth
odist ministerial conference, on Monday,
the Rev. DIR. Terry said the churches of
ip,t city are oyrrhurdcncd with debt, and
that they cannot g0t money except by
clap-trup cNturtlous, such ~ fairs and
festivals one church, he added, has IN
troduccd kissing festivals, and another
oilers new chrome 10 every convert.
The Rev. DIR. VIM Z Corblt said that the
Methodist Episcopal Church in New
lorh city had 40, been in so dcplorable
condition !or twenty five years. He at
tributcd the success of Moody and Sankey
to their powrr in uniting good men and
good women in common.
REV. Nix. NEWMAN. chaplain TO His
Exccllcncy, and ate inspector Of con-
sulate- thanked God publicly on Sunday
last for the result OF the Ohio election.
\ Sunday paper gives MN fits for so do
ing and SAYS of him that he is political
parsou, atruckier 10 power, a ume.server,
/ one of the eNcreSceuCtS ot the Church,
aud hypocrite, and says Ibis prayer was
intended to reach not the Supreme
Source to which 1t was addressed by
hame, but the favor of his employer IN
the forward pew" 1t gives Kim good
deal more of the same dose and concludes
with the statement that sit is universally
believed that his aim is not to preach the
Gospel Of the everything God, but to ad-
vance the interests OF the family of
Grant aud secure the perpetuation Of his
own position aud emaluments rs Court
Chaplain