The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-06
GENERAL NOTES,

ADELBERT AMEs had "good cry
last night, and probably thinks of visit
ing his father-in law this wirter,-C0ur-
YER Journal, Sd.
GUIBoRD's coffin weighs twenty-four
thousand pounds. 1t will be rather
tough Job to move it from his grave
when it is once there.
"BLEss you" said John Henry, with
tears in his eyes, "she takes her own hair
of SO easy that perhaps she doesn't know
how it hurts TO have mine pulled out"
KANSAS is hopelessly Republican and
needs thorough purging out. There
fore we rejoice to see that a new castor
oil factory has gone into operation at
Fort Scott.
Ir is mighty nice thing to be rich
Senator Sharon, of Nevada, wanted to
raise little pocket change the other day,
SO he quietly mortgaged small portion
OF his property in San Francisco Tor
500 900.
THE birth of daughter to the Duchess
of Edinburgh increases the number Of
the grandchildren OF Queen Victoria to
twenty three, and that of her total living
progeny to thir:y-three.
WILL it not be well for Prest. Grant
: "a inf taH
by him and his policy upon = section of
his own country, before he talks about
pouring balm into the wounds OF perse-
cuted Cuba?
ASIAN instance OF the amount Of money
annually sent through the mails, II is
stated that there was taken out OF dead
letters during the last fiscal year the as
tonlshiHgly large sum of S3,5OO,OOO All
of this WAS returned to It's owners with
the exception of 100000.
SOME extraordinarily fine specimen OF
an enterprising Yankee has proposed to
dig up the bones of Washington and eI-
hbit them at the Centennial, AS q sido
show The money so received /. proposed
to be applied to the completion OF the far
famed Washington monument. Was such
a brutal project ever before planned,
LADY of great accomplishments, and
one who has had considerable experience
in life-none other than the wife Of Cap
tain Burton, the renowned African trav-
e!er-has just published n book, in which
she foretells much peril to England, and
especially to Queen Victoria, If that
sovereign persists in retaining in her pos
session the celebrated koh-l.noOr dla-
mond That stone always had bad
reputation.
IN the San Francisco jail is girl only
sixteen years old. She is excessively
shy and demure, bushes when looked
at by visitors, and taints when drunk
ards are brought bleeding and yelling
into the prison Her face is delicate and
expressive of retiring modesty and gem
tlcncss. Her name is Annette Gillard,
and she is awaiting trial Tor stabbing
man four times with a big butcher knife,
and then smashing his skull with
brick,
THE question of the Imprisonment of
Brigham Young. because he will not pay
his Ann Eliza $4,000 as alimony, is get
ting embarrassing to the Government.
If poligamy is unconstitutional and not
TO be recognized in tho land, then all
Brigham Youngs wives but the first one
are not wives but concubInes. OF this
latter WAS Ann Eliza. Therefore if the
Government forces the old patriarch to
she'll out for her, it virtually recognizes
the legality Of polygamy. Awkward.
TEE following conversation is reported
Parties Interested will please read: "Pa,
be YOU Universaiist?' "No, my son;
the Universalists indulge the erroneous
belief that there is no hell; l couldn't be
. Universalst." PA if there isn't any
bad place like that, will the water COM
psnies and gas companies go to hearenY'
Nv ell. | don't know, my son; they may.
There's no telling what might be done II
there should be plenty of room on tie ef'
IRENE back seats
HERE is what the New York Sun has
to say about the Pennsylvania election;
But in Pennsylvania, on the other
hand. there is reason for regret. The
Treasury Ring, the method 0. addition,
division and silence, the pestilence that
walk,th IN darkness, the system of kem-
Die and Mackey seems to be fastened up
on that hnplcss State more firmly than
ever. Under the pickPocket and high
wayman, DO trinc, which now seems TO
be confirmed IN it, hold on power, Penn
sylvauia has long been the most corrupt
State in the Union. and one of the most
shameful; but if her people are willing to
have it So it wilt require long period
of missionary labor to convert them to
healthier sentiments and more republl-
can institutions.