The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-01
PEOPLE PRESEN Ted PARA
GRAPHICALLY.

Sela Nutter, a colored woman living
at Msrticock, Somerset county, Mary
and, is reliably known to be l13 years
cid.
The cost to the State of suppressing
the riots in New York was S206,000, OF
which l25, 49l was tor the pay Of the
militia.
A CAVE has been discovered near
WytheviIle, Va, which is said, in ex-
tent and beauty, to rival the Mammoth
cave of Kentucky.
MRS. Mcclure, wife of Alex. K. Nc
Lure, editor of the Philadelphia Times
died at that city on Saturday, from an
attack OF neuralgia of the heart.
THE nineteen-year. old daughter who
presides over Senator Cameron's house
hold is of commanding stature a perfect
Juno in face and form. She superln-
tends the education of her five brothers
and sisters, attends state dinners, and
sits with dignity at the head of her faith
ers table.-PhiLadsiDhia Press.
Much of the corruption among the
Russian women arises from licentiOns
books which are struggled by bookse.l-
ers. 1t IS just rs easy 70 buy wicked
book surreptitiously rs it is TO buy q
John Stewart Mill or q Charles Dickens.
The principal seller OF literature OF this
kind in Russia is Trikntetf, q Pole.
ROBERT g. OULD, son of Judge Rob
ert Ould. of Richmond, Va, who shot q
young man named Saunders, In Buck
ingham county, several months ago, was
tried and convicted in the county court
OF that county last week. L c verdict
of the Jury was twelve months confpe-
ment in the county Jail and fine OF
$500
THE meetings oF the joint conference
Of the Lutheran churches located between
Cum berland and Grafton, h cid at Oak
land last week, were attended by large
and interested audiences. Rev. w.
Y. Cline, of Aurora, was elected presl-
dent; Rev. j. w. Lake OF Grafton, Sec
rotary, and Rev. .. Z. Miller, OF Oakland
treasurer.
RAN STALNAKER, private Secretary to
Governor Mathews went to banking
room in Wheeling on 4uesday and as
s4ulted a Young man named Will a,
Lust, beating MIN up badly. lmmed-
lately after the trscas Stalnaker LETT hur-
riediv for Martinsburgh. The row grew
out Lists statement that Stalnaker WAS
"no Centlen an" What ever may have
been his standing in the community his
conduct proves the truth OF LISTS state
ment.- ParkerSjwTg Sentinel.
APPRoPos of ex-senator TrumbulPs re-
cent marriage, Mary Clemmer gives IN
the Cincinnati Commercial some remln
iscences of his first wic. She was 8
Mary jayne, Of Springfield, Ill the
schoolgirl whose malicious paragraph IN
a paper was taken by Shields to be the
work of Lincoln, and so nearly brought
stou. due between the gallant SOLDIER
and the great President that were to be
Miss JAYNE was one of Mr.. LlncoInt
bridesmaids; then became Mrs. Trum-
bull. Mrs. Clemmer says that she "wa'
one of the few women OF marked intel
lectualiiv numbered among the wives o
public men. No one who ever saw i
can fail to recall that delicate, clear-cu
face, LIT with pair of large, limpid, won
derlui blue eyes. To the word she wa
known as devoted wife and mother
and rs woms n of more than ordinsr!
intelligence and force of character. Bu'
few dreamed of the wealth OF persona
power and even personal ambition tha
as a woman, she had laid down to stand
pale and neutral, in the reflected lustr
of her husbands fame"