The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-07-03
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Ever notice how sheepish people look
when they are tru1ging home from an
excursion, with their arms fell OF baskets
and babies?
In Yo.k, Pa, while child OF about
two years OF age was sitting on the door.
step of its fathers house, a dog ran past,
frightening the child so badly that it
commenced crying, and never stopped
until it died.
How would you like to be one OF the
wine Judges at the Centennial E1hibi-
ton? All day long attendants are bring
ing in baskets of wine and corks are be-
ing drawn. Around the table sit the half
dozen Judges, not under the table, and
solemnly perform their difficult task.
Owners of grape vineyards in this re.
gion complain of the depredations OF
small, brig ht colored moths, which lnfest
the vines both above and below ground.
It is suggested that poisoned molasses
placed in various parts of the vineyard
will attract and destroy the insects, while
the Larvae depcs ited on the vines may De
DESTROYED by borough syringing.-N. \.
Tribune.
ACheyenne woman started drunk to
drive to a village six miles distant, did
not recognize the place when she got
there, and kept right on until journey
of ninety miles killed the horse, full
supply of whisky having kept her brain
fuddled.
A bridal party was gathered in
Oneida, n. Y, and everything was
ready for the ceremony. Then the young
woman quit the room, and soon Alter
ward the following note was handed In:
"Arthur-You will wait for me IN vain,
for the longer you wait the further
away III be. I shan't marry you to-
night. You went back on me q year
ago, and I will get even with you
now"
The students at Cornell University
take Young Jesse Grant along on all
their excursions, and introduce him 10
the farmers wives. The best food Is
therefore set before the Presidents son
and the rest Of the party, and no pay Is
asked. Jesse promises. to grow up Is
choice deadhesd as his father.
To kill hog in Samoa, they place
HIM on his back, put a stick across his
throat and sit on each end OF 1t until ne
is defuncc. Animals possessed OF SUI
ticien. tails are suspended by them, In.
sit &pisl thsh 5EaRaity unit!
to be greatly improved by this process.
The Michigan Spiritualsts in con-
ventlon protest against chaplalns in the
army and navy, the legal sanction OF re.
ligious holidays the religious form OF
oaths, the opening OF political conVen,
tons with prayers, the exemption OF
church property from taxation, and the
assumption in official documents that
this is a Christian Government.
A resolution was offered in the Senate
thursday by Mitchell, of Oregon, TO pay
Pinchback, the colored pretender from
Louisiana, and Senator Morton thought
i. ought to be passed right away. The
amount involved is about twenty thous-
and dollars, and if it is paid to Pinch
back It will be clean steal from the
treasury. We believe it was Pinchback
that seconded the nomination of Morton
at Cincinnati.
Our very worthy tellow'townsmsn,
Brother X. ID. Walker, present Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge
of West Virginia, having been
found worthy and well qualified"
has taken the SD degree, being the next
highest Mason in the State to Brother
Long.-Pairmont Vest V,rginian.
Phoebe Cozzens struck terror to the
Democratic heart at st. Louis by her
Ieap-year speech. They feared she would
marry them in bulk.
The New York Tines the great money
organ of New York. and the representa-
tive Republican journal of the East, looks
upon the St. Louis platform as decided
triumph for the soft-money wing of the
Democratic party. That's consoling.