The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-28
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


lated.
THE Joliet CIll.J Iron and Steel COM
pany have resumed operations in the iron
mill This portion of the company's
works has been idle for some twenty
months. 1t will place at labor $50 men.
Mr.. EvARTs has made most formid-
able threat and one which, if it comes
to the jury, will most assuredly induce
them to find for his client. He says II
the verdict goes against him, he will
move for new trial.
OSCAR f. WAINWRIGHT, OF West Viz
ginia, who was convicted OF perjury on
February !, 1874, and sentenced to four
wears imprisonment and to pay fine OF
500, has been pardoned by President
Grant.
GENERAL SHERIDAN was few days
ago banditted out of $1,000 diamond
bv man who obtained entrance to his
house on the plea that he was an artist
Of the Graphic, and wanted to sketch the
rooms
CARRUTH, the Vineland editor, who
was shot by Lands, is going about, but
has published card announcing his
withdrawal from journalism. He says;
"Our impaired eyesight. shattered
nerves and pulsating brain admoniSh
Us that, for the coming year, We must not
stray too far from the hospital.
II. d. BECKLEY, a colored Radical Of
Virginia, says that in politics the negroes
are tired of being led as sheep to the
slaughter and cannot be longer con-
troled. He suggests the chimerlcal idea
of the old time Whigs, to reorganiHing
and inviting the darl,ies to join them.
The Pennsylvania branch of the anti
third term faction of the Radical party
have passed resolution denouncing tn"
occupation of the Presidential chair, by
anv one, for more than two terms in sue
ceSsion. The resolution was adopted
amid loud cheers, and the party now con-
graduates Itself that the only obstacle TO
success is removed.
JUDGE KELLEY, of Pennsylvania, in n
recent address before the Currency Re
former, Association in Philadelphia
drew sad picture of poverty in his Con-
gre-,iunal district, and says that this
state of affairs exist not alone there, but
all over the country. HIS pet idea of an
imitation of the currency, he thinks, must
be adopted as the only true remedy Tor
setting matters right.
\ BRooKLYN jury has decided that a
wife cannot in her own name draw upon
the bank deposits of her husband. The
case presented was that OF Il wife who
took her husbands bank book, and drew
from the bank where he had $4,000 on
deposit. -, 95O-when this came to the
knowlrdg" of the husband he demanded
this sum from the bank. II refused TO
pay. and Il suit enSucd in which the plain
tiff recovered in full.
PRIVATE dispatches received in New
York from Chicago announce serious
difficulties among the spectators there,
who. for some weeks past, have been
carving enormous quantities of grain
in the expectation Of higher markets,
which expectation has not been realized.
~ vet there are no failures, but tho sit
uation is such that the more prudent
dealers are disposed to stand from un-
der
STOREY, of the Chicago Times, is so
accustomed to libel suits that he don't
mind them, but goes right on saying all
kinds of things about people. His latest
is as follows:
ut is Il great thing to be a bold Indian
chief, and go to Washington and tell
everybody there that he is liar OF
course we know that they all lie in
Washington, but We dsren't tell them SO
10 their faces
He probably thinks that if sued for
that remark. he would have no difficulty
in proving the truth.
THE Boston Adrcrtiser describes a
contrivancc for the punishment of the
bad boys who steal rides on street cars;
The driver works it by a sort Of treadle.
When he sees boy catching on the step
he will go through the usual forms. He
will look indignant and threaten the boy
and appear to be awfully riled; and Of
course the boy will grin and stand on one
leg and waggle his fingers against his
nose in derision And Just at this inter
esring crisis the driver will stamp his foot
with yigor, and thing Ike q graphing
hook will suddenly fly down and wrench
out the seat of that boys trowsers and
snatch him several feet to the rear Of the
car where the inevitable milk cart will
run over him.
An interesting case involving the
rights Of strikers was recently decided in
England. The employees of firm Of
cpbinet makers and upholsterers struck,
and their places were promptly filled
with others. The strikers wavlaid the
new men, and endeavored to Iissuadc
them from working. After some time.
five % the strikers were arrested. tried
and found guilty. No violence was
charged against them, but the court held
that whil,.cvery man had q right "a .rt
his own price on his labor, he hrd no
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