The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

WHEN you hear q country church
choir singing There will be no more
sorrow there" you conclude at once that
either the aforesaid choir will not be
there, or they will not be permitted to
sing.
PosTMASTER-GENERAL KEY has made
man postmaster at Chattanooga, who
commanded the Federal troops that fired
the first cannon shot at Lookout Noun
tain, which shot went through Mr.. Keys
house.
THE Enquirer of Cincinnati thinks
that, if Mr.. TIlden can secure the serV-
ices of David Davis and Ben Butler, he
will have the World. the Flesh and the
Middlesex statesman on his side, and be
sure to WIN.
In Kentucky the Democrats are or
gsnizing for the August election, while.
according to q Republican psper, 1.-The
Republicans stand around like q bucket
with the bottom knocked out, wholly
useless, except to take up room"
Mr.. JOHN T. RAYMOND will terminate
his present season on the 18th of May at
Hannibal, Mo. In the meantime he will
act IN the rural theatres in Pennsylvania,
Indiana and Illinois. Toward the end
OF May Mr. Raymond sails for England.
SAYS the Graphic: In the American
department of the Paris Exposition
President MacMahon was dazzled by
being shown some magnificent lard from
Cincinnati, also Sevres porcelain from
Peoria and Gobelin tapestries from
Oshkosh.
B. f. Derrick, miner, in the employ
of the Raymond Coal Company IN Put
nam county, was instantly killed on
Tuesday afternoon last, by the roof OF
the mines csving in. The man leaves q
large family in indigent circumstances to
mourn his loss.
WRITING from Charleston, 5. o., Gil
bert Haven rejo;ces over "Lhe breaking
away of the great leaders OF liberty from
him whom they have chosen to defend It,,
but who has betrayed it, and who will suf-
fer for the betrayal from the American
people a worse contempt and detestation
than has stamped the names Of even Ar
mold and Jefferson Davis" These are
hard words to employ concerning the
President.
PROBABLY the most valuable dog in
the country il the English setter paris"
owned by Mr.. l.. Ii. Smith, of Strsthroy,
Canada, and valued by HIM at 500, 600.
He has won the following trophies; A
first prize at Detroit; first prize and
silver cup for the best setter dog q! the
New York show, and the champion prize
st the Centennisl; cup at Memphis;
four prizes in the great American field
trial at Memphis in 1915 and 1876, and
the best English setter dog prize in the
recent bench show IN Boston.
THE Herald has happy knsck Of
turning misiortunes to account. No one
would imagine that its alleged map of
Russia in Asia was made by the acct
dental fall of a porous plaster on one Of
its presses.-N. ]. Express.
THE advent of the Pittsburgh, Wheel
ing and Kentucky railroad has reduced
business at Bridgeport, on the Cleveland
and Pittsburgh road, about one-halt
Above Mingo and SteubenvIlle, business
at Cleveland and Pittsburgh stations has
been helped by the new line.
MEssRs. DAVIS AND HEREFORD, ut the
slight cost of $40 Senatorial head, were
made lite members of the Parent Mission
airy Society, at MorgantOwn, on the 9th
INST. The heather will now cease TO rage
and the wicked politician to imsgine vain
things Charleston Courier.
The public service is no longer sur
rendered in bulk to the legislative de-
partment of the government, its spoils to
be distributed at their leisure Spring.
field Republican.
Certainly not; the executive couldn't
afford such surrender. He needed so
many fat things to pay the leading con-
spirators in the grea: fraud that there
isn't much for "the legislative depart
ment. - Washington Post.