The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-07
GENERAL NOTES.

His revenue from his hernviiIe mlne
alone last month, was $4,000.
ACCORDING to Baysrd Taylor, eighty
pounds of bread contains as much alco-
bol rs a bottle of brandy. Bread eaters
will increase consi derably after this,
Hon. WILLIAM IRWIN, who has lately
been elected Governor oE California, Is
native of Ohio, but has been 4 resident
of his adopted State since 1892.
CLARA NORRIS, the celebrated ae,s'vs'
is said to hope Lssly afflicted with dis
ease of the spine, which will most seri-
ously affect ali future efforts in her pro
fesSlun.
MOVEMENT is on foot Among prom-
nent ship owners, shippers and builders
TO raise a monument TO PIims0u for his
services on behalf OF the abused sailors OF
England 1t is proposed to erct statue
of him on some spCt pe&T ths docks, III the
east end OF London.
A RADICAL paper speaking oftne Ala
bama Constitutional Conveation, which
assembled yesterday, characterizes it as
Bourbon" That's the truth. They
propose 10 come back u the old Bourbon
principles of honesty sud reform, aud
css: aside the modern progressive ideas
OF fraud thievery and general corruptIon'
THJs il the situation: Seven hundred
millions of currency to float debt cap!'
tai of twenty-five hundred millions OF
dollars i'll bonds aud pay taxes, FEDERAL,
State and local, OF ut least eight hunGreu
, millions of dollars II year. Is there ANY
reason why money shoul0 not be scarce
and interest high.
MASSACHUSETTS, ingenuity has turned
it.elf towards an invention for receving Z
mail on the cars without stopping tn"
train. 1T II simply box in the top 0i
the mail car placed in such u position as
10 catch the bag trom the crane while the
train is going ut HlI speed and to allow
/; 10 slide down tHtJ the car.
The Washington Gapitai Is disposed
to BE- complimentary. Reading that the
Georgia negroes intended 70 Kill all the
uglv white women and save The pretty
ones, il remarks: "Undcr thear 2rrangc-
ments Washington girls could go south
without endangerlng their Pre,iu- *.
Is teHces.
COLUMBIA, :. G., Was AT one time oi.e
O: the wealthiest and most beautiful
cities in the South. Now it has been
brought 20 S'Irh straits By the maItcas-
anrc of it, carpet-bag officials that the
treasurer WAS recently compelled 10 GIVE
"A city certificate Of debt for forty cents
The police are but half paid, and they
arrest persons on the slightest "iicnse' '
in order to make money for the city hy
fines, and thus 10 obtain their salaries.
President WILSON j. just now "
prominent target for the siings and ar
rows of the outrageous Kitchen Organ
at Washington, g-I,gH tn" National
R<Dujl,caH. 1t Is very abu-iv" Oh the
oG man, and naturally enough. Slmp!T
because he is honest He ha- carefully
examined the situation, and iorest ta dows
4 complete Democratic success next year
IN th-S. words, 81 don't take sarguilne
view OF the political situation Hen &c
this abuse,
Nix. Bass, the great English ale manu-
fsc.urcr. pays the Midland Railway
el7l,OO0 Il year for freight, owns one
successful weekly newspaper, called the
Ra,i,cay Serricc Gazette, and has just
started another. the CoD,nerr.Gt TrdreI'r.
Its rather rough on the newspapers to
imagine that their vitality depends t"
ANY treat extent on ale; but when We
See 81 many journals whose nasn prInci-
plies are never To take drink except al
nome fail We can't wonder that siiGht
editorial nip j. occasionally INDUCED IA
Sucu rapid preparation is sHid to have
been made for putting into effect the law
in relation to the Substitution Of silver
coin for fractional currency as to cause
the Secretary of the Treasury some con
cern about places to store tn" silver
which has accumulated. P!tSbHrgh cam
H,,rclni.
Alter it is put in circulation the brokers
and speculators will show the country 10
its cost, most probably that they can find
u hiding place to put it in without much
trouble, and store II away too, very eiiec-
tually.