The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-09
GENERAL NOTES.
SIX colored novices recently took the
white veil in Savannah, Ga.

SIX colored novices recently took the
white veil in Savannah, GA.
baltimore will dedicate her monu
ment to Edgar A. Poe, early in Septem-
Der.
THE attractions of u recent Sunday at
Virginia City, Nevada, were Il horse trot,
a wrestling match, and fight between
bull dog and wild cat.
JAMES NJ. SWEENEY, brother of Peter
B. Sweeney, according to u cable dispatch
died in Paris on Sunday. The deceased
was recently indicted jointly with his
brother in the suits growing out Of the
affidavit made by lngersoll, the pardoned
New Yord Ring convict.
GRANT has never voted the Radical
ticket. In fact they say he never cast
but one Presidential ballot, and that was
for Bucanan, in 1856. Doubtless he would
be willing to vote the Democratic ticket
in 1876, if he were the nominee of the
party.
The striking Pennsylvania miners have
lost in the matter of wages about $1,000
600 since the strike began. 1t is estimat'
cd that even il they ever finally do sue.
ceed in securing their demands, it would
take four Years of unrcmittmg labor to
make up this deficiency.
AN observing man at Niagria Falls
said, half musingly, and partly to the
blackman who was swindling him, 81
think that couple yonder are on bridal
tour, are they not?' "No, sir, said the
blackmcn, whose hour was nearly up,
they are on Tarrapin Tower
ONE of Moody and Sankey's most de-
voted followers has come to grief His
name is Robert Hamilton, and he had
habit of holding to his hymnal with one
hand. while, with the other he deity alb
stracted pocketbooks from the ladies near
him. The way he sang "Hold the fort,
for am coming showed depth of
feeling which his clever fingers fully re-
allied.
The Cincinnati Enquirer records an
act ofingrutitude unparalleled. 1t says:
Grant his snubbed Sheridan. He tel
egraphed him that owing to press of
national business, he could not be present,
and while little Phil was facing the music
Grant sat on veranda Mt Long Branch,
putting a cigar, with his feet up on the
railing And this, too, after Phil had
manufactured these banditti for his sake.
Too bad.
The question of an Independent re-
sumption of specie payments whether
the Government resumes or not, Is being
agtated in New York. There seems to
be no doubt that, even should the law
of the Legislature TO that effect be un-
constitutional, the merchants can force
resumption so far rs their own business l.
concerned, and it is calculated that the
rest of the country could not hold out
against the united capital of that city
and State.
As gentleman, fishing near Penzance
England, satIedh large fish, be was seized
with numbness in his arms, accompa-
MED with an indescribable and painful
sensation, which was really an electric
-heck. His servant man, who accompa-
| MED him, suffered in the same manner,
I he having assisted in securing the torpedo.
| The electrical apparatus IN this fish was
| found, on examination. 10 consist OF small
mrmbranous tubes, which occupy the
space between the head, the pectoral fins
and the branchuc. They are disposed
like Il honeycomb and divided by hori-
| zontal partitions into small cells, which
are filled with mucous substance the
whole arranged like galvanic pile.
The indignation against Sherman has
ut last, reached the eliminating point,
and an effort is to be made to prove him
traitor. General Boynton, it is said,
has recently obtained access TO the Con-
federate archives, and is going to prove
terrible things through them. One of
the forthcoming disclosures is said to be
the proof that the convention between
Gen. sherman and Gen. Joseph f. john
stou which Secretary Stanton di>apprOv-
ed and which was at the time the Occa-
sion of SO much alarm and distrust of
Sherman ut the North, was written bv
Mr.. Regau, the Confederate Postmaster
General, who subsequently declared lis
belief that the real effect would be to re-
establish slavery