The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-06
ERAL NOTES.
TwENrY-sIx thousand persons live on
charity nlnne il PMlndelphia.

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now amounts to $4,000.
AGEoRGIA editor offers to dress his
paper in mourning for anybody who will
pay him so the privilege.
Hox. ALEXANDER II. SrEruESs is an
nounced to deliver series of lectures in
/ Chicago for which he is to receive 81, 900.
THE people of England are terribly
/ frightened about coal famine which Is
predicted IN that country century or
/ two hence.
The Rev. Charles +. Cheney, who Is
Assistant Bishop Of the Reformed EPisco'
pal Church, has been elected Bishop OF
/ the diocese Of Chicago and vicinity.
1 A CERTAIN English parson is said to
have made bid for the next vacant
bishopric by preaching before Mr.. Dis
racli u sermon only seven minutes IN
duration.
WESTON walked five miles in iifty-nne
minutes at Fair at Ripley, Ohio, last
Thursday. Pretty tair time, but nothing
to compare with the speed with which
Governor Allen will rush into the Gov
eanors chair next Tuesday.
The very name "Freedman's Bank is
50 suggestive swindling that the dcpos-
itors are afraid to send their pass books
to Washington to have their dividends
entered, for fear they Will never see them
again-PiUsJu,yh Post.
AT Picrmont, y. Ii September .,
man named Cotting was awakened by a
tramp who, with cooked pistol, demand
ed money. Cottng directed him to Il
bureau containing 500 The tramp laid
down his pistol to search, when CottinS
seized the pistol and shot the tramp dead.
HERE is an item which a great many
people will not believe: \ man OF Black
willie. 5. C., recently lost his house by fire,
and thirty of his old slaves came voun-
tarily to his plantation, scattered as they
had been, to cut timber for him without
pay, for the purpose of erecting new
dwelling.
IT is said that q Missouri clergyman
has left the pulpit and become a clown
in a circus. He gives as a reason that
"thrce square meals day and $50 4
week are better than $iOO per annum,
payable in dried apples hay, and old
clothes Perhaps there is n lesson fol
some churches i'll this little paragraph..
TuE Juliet Iron and Steel Works l!sr
"Wednesday turned out in q days turn
4O4 rails, and the night turn Of II hours
and - minutes made iOj rails, making
total nf 500 steel rails, weighing 90
pounds per yard, and agcreSatimg 10
tons, and making l-5 miles Of track.
The work WAS done on an order from the
81. Louis, Kansas City and Northern
, Railroad.
THE Govcrnor of Colorado Territory
has designated October 25th, as the day
for holding an election for delegates to Il
Constitutional Convention, To frame
State constitution looking to the admis-
sion of the territory into the union ns II
State under IN act of the last Congress.
The Convention will assemble on the 2Oth
of December.
The law requiring the police Of New
York to arrest truant children, and send
them to school, has been promulgated.
and will be vigorously enforced. There
is u truant officer in each school district,
who receives 81 $50 year, and a truant
superintendent who receives $500
wear. 1t is estimated that the number of
children who do not go to school, l.
$1,000. II is to be hoped, therefore, that
the money spent i'll their behalf will prove
Il good investment.
The FIJI Islanders have for some time
past been suffering with aterrlblc scourse
in the form Of plague, produced by the
prevalence of measles. 80 great has
been the mortality among them that they
have in the past four months, died at the
rate of 10000 month, In addition to
deaths from this cause many have died
from starvation, as business Is almost
entirely suspended. They were induced
to abandon the Christian religion, be-
lieving that to be one of the reasons of
their severe visitation, and a wholesale
killing of their teachers was at one time
advocated. At the present death rate 1t !
is thought that the Islands will soon be .
but one vast cemetery.
The old Stoncwall brigade and other |
brigades and regiments of the army of .
Northern Virginia, are expected to be
present at the inauguration of the statue !
o. General Stonewall jackson, in Capitol |
square, Richmond, Va. on the 26th of !
October. Already several halls and hotels |
have been offered for use rs barracks by !
the military visitors, and the citizens =
Richmond will supply them with neces-
sarv blankets. rations, &c. General jubal ,
A. Early publishes All appeal to the mem
hers of the Association OF the Army of |
Northern Virginia, of which he is presi- /
dent, to send strong delegations to the /
unveiling from every Southern State.
The following inscription has been sug- !
gcstcd for the statue. On the cap OF the /
pedestal, Is in large letters, "Stonewa!l |
jackson" and on the front face OF the /
pedestal "Look! there is Jackson, stand /
ing like n stone walll'-G,H. Bee, at tirSt |