The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-15
GENERAL NOTES.


the end of the third term?
TnE Dayton CO., Journal now thinks
that "silver will jingle in the pockets ol
the people in less than six weeks Inc
journal is premature. Six years would
be- somewhat nearer the mark.
THE area of California has heretofore
been put down at lSS,9Sl square miles.
According to the Alta California, though,
recent SURVEYS make it only lj6,7 ,72O.
This is pronounced to be correct.
Col. FRED. GRANT will not resign
awhile yet; he has years leave of alb
sence by way of compliment tor distin-
guished services rendered. Oh! shame,
where is thy blush?-Psi'sbrgh Ttlc-
graph. (RePublico".l
The Boston Post thinks there can be
no danger Of initiation from the national
Democratic party; but there will be i'm
meuse danger to the country if the Ma
tional Republican organization Is con-
tinued in power.
Hon. SCHUYLER CoLFAX, quondam
Vice President Of the United States, has
been temporarily cxhumed from the
crave of oblivion TO which he has been
consigned, by appearing As one OF the
Judges at baby show IN Niles, MirhI-
gan. Hurrah for Smiler.
A MAGNETIC spring has been discov-
cred near ColiaA, Jasper county, Iowa.
Workmen boring for coal at Il depth OF
two hundred feet passed through flint
rock. underneath which they struck the
spring, the water of which Is strongly
mpregnated with silica, niagnesia and
phosphorus.
The family carriage OF Henry Clay,
which was made and presented to hlm
BY the manufacturers Of Newark, New
Jersey, on the occasion OF his visit there
about thirty-fve years ago, is in the pos
session Of \. Clark, Of Lexington, Ken
tucky, vino proposes TO exhibit 1t ut the
Centennial.
THERE are some curious instances Of
the inclination OF murder always to come
out. Here is one: y man named Alex
ander, sIXty-tivc wears OF age, blind ana
lnfirm. mas Just been convicted ot mur-
der in the first degree, for killing man
in Red River country, twenty-five years
ago.
Is hrs address at the Christian county,
kentucky, f,,ir las: week, Jefferson Da-
Wis incidentally said: Il am steering
a. clear as can Of all political questions.
have shaken hands with politics. Ii
politics have gone to the dogs, | give
them to the dogs He dwelt for 81 long
time ON the currency question, his views
harmonizing fully with those Of the
Democrats as set forth in Ohio
MAlsuALL IMAGINATION resembles
Grant in two things. He is Il President
ard makes short speeches. Otherwise he
is entirely different He recently made
one consisting of one sentence: AS for
myself saiu the Marshal, 81 know only
one policy that of love for my country.
Grant would probably have said, had he
said the truth, | know of only one
policy. that of cnriching myselfand rea-
tive, as speedily rs possible.
HERE is an item tor mothers. Let
them read aud ponder: "A child's bed
should slope a little from the head to the
foot, so that the head may be little
higher than the feet; but never bend the
neck 10 get the head on the pillow. This
makes the child round. shouldcrcd, cramps
the veins and arteries and lntcricrcs with
the free circulation of the blood. Even
when Il child is several years old the pill
low should bc thin, and made OF hair,
not feathers
\ CANE, said to be nine hundred years
old. has been brought to the office Of the
Bnghamton Republican by Mr.. Howell.
1t is made of reed, has an ivory top, and
also brass fCrulc. |, is claimed tor this
interesting staff that it WAS first owned
hy Prince Howell the Good, of Wales,
in the ninth century, and Mr.. Howell
claims that he is descended from the
Prince, and the legitimate lnheritor of
the cane. This relic OF "high-bOrn lloel'
IS to be exhibited at the Centennial Fes-
tival.
SNAKE stories are getting played out,
so something else must be pro.
yidcd. Here it is: OF course, some inge.
NOUS Yankc has been found equal to
IN. occasion: \ policeman at ROge;
Williams Park, Providence, having seen
a turtle dig . hole and deposit her eggs,
dug them up by night, and, making
hole IN his yard, again buried them.
After one hundred and twelve days they
began to hatch out, and in short time
thlrtv-four turtles, no larger than old
fashioned copper cents, came to the sur
face; only one of the eggs failing to
hatch.
The New y orIi Herald wakes eloquent
over the performances of its cor:espon-
dent Stanley, in Africa. Speaking OF
his fight with the African chief Watura,
il saws: Skcrman's march To the sea, or
Sheridan ride down the valley Of NIr-
cinia. was not more destructive than
Stanley's torch among the villages of
Ituru. And again: 1T is an episode as
remarkable in its way As the battles of
AruiniuS with the lcgions Of Narus, and
Will bc repeated rs long as the story ot
African exploration continues to be re-