The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-03
GENERAL NOTES.

A PARIS constable recently seized the
wooden legs of an old soldier ior debt.
He was evidently n hard money man.
GOVERNOR TILDEN by his canal policy
has saved 2O0O,OO to the State of New
York. He's good Democrat, and
therefore, model governor.
THE reorganization Of the Treasury
Department under the law of last session
neces.itates the discharge of nearly Il
hundred and fifty persons.
GOVERNOR ALLEN has accepted an in
vltation to deliver an address before the
Lynchburg (Va) Agricultural fair next
autumn.
/ CONNECTICUT reports that this season
will undoubtedly turn out far from APP
pily for the apple crop, but it pears as if
pearls is don' quite peart.-Erchon9e.
AT is estimated by n female crusader
that there are 100000 drunkards III the
United States, and that the proportion of
women married to such man is one to
| seventeen.
Ir's strange thing, but Shearman
actually wcpt, when it became evident
that the jury could not agree. The old
man was never before known to weep in
the whole course of his life.
THE Treasurer of the United States
has charge of sixty million of dollars and
gives bond for one million and half.
That's certainly risky ualer Radical
! administration.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio has sub
stantially decided that where city Off
cials have work done, and incur indebt-
edness beyond the authority of the law,
they are individually liable.
The New York ladies must be stage
struck. Fifty-three have made applica-
tion to one theatre alone (Daly's Fifth
Avenuc) for places in the company next
season, and of these, eighteen offer to pay
for the privilege.
/ ASA l. Alhhh VI IiduSh Shuhh
is said to be worth s2o,OO0OO0. There
are few larger fortunes in the country.
He was poor boy, and has accumulated
this large estate by good management,
and industry, assisted, probably, by good
luck.
Ex-Governor HAYES, of Ohio who
leads the forlorn hope in that State
against Governor Allen, is anticipating
defeat. He remarked in recent speech
that the best time to compute election
! returns, were after the returns came in.
Next fall the Governor will probably
find that to bet he worst time Tor him,
THE Duke of Edinburgh is so much
infatuated with the Yankee Bovton Of
life saving apparatus fame, that it is as
serted that if the New Jersey imitation
/ ist will only agree TO il, handsome po-
sition will be offered him in the British
navy.
a MIsERLY old lady in New York
professcd such affection for certain
cushion, which she had been in the habit
of sitting on in church, that she desired
it buried with her. When the request
came to be complied with, there was
some difficulty in getting it into her
coffin, whereupon it was cut in two, and
several thousand dollars in greenbacks
were found inside. She was in favor of
withdrawing paper money from cirrula-
ton as rapidly as possible.
DoEsN' 1t seem probable that within
the next ten years half dozen men Will
own the greater part Of the United States
! Here is Senator Sharon with S7O0O,OOO
worth of real estate in San Francisco,
and Senator Jones. who, besides buying
out eight or nine cities in the South to
start ice factories, has just stopped in
Chicago long enough 10 buy four entire
blocks Of valuable ground. The railroad
interests are surely undergoing the pro-
cess of Capitalization, and party oi men
whom YOU can count on your fingers,
now control every line Of Importance III
the country. If n few more big Bonanza'
are discovered, there will be no means OF
estimating the amount OF gosslpy notes
that will crowd the personal columns oI
the press.-Frchangs