The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

PRINCE RUDULI, heir apparent to the
Austrian crown, Is in London waiting 10
play Benedick to Eugiand's Beatrice.
THE New York SIM now refers to Mr..
hayes IS "the gentleman from Ohio who
is temporarily occupying eWhite House
at Washington in the absence OF the
legal tenant" This is neat but not gsudy.
A YOUNG woman in Massachusetts has
sued her brother for 1876, for forty days
time and expenses incurred while she
was trying to procure his pardon, ne
being in Jail for some otiense. Moral
Never 60 to Jail, or else never have a
Massachusetts, woman for q sister.
MRS. b. F. WADE is described as but
a single lustrum younger than the Sen
stor, but carries her seventy-tWo years
wonderfully well. The golden color for
which her hair was so long noted has not
altogether faded into the snowy white,
and The delicate lscs cap, with just a
touch of lavender ribbon, sets of iovAy
countenance in which the look OF min
gled hope and resignation was very
touching.
THE daughter of kleber, the Alsatisn
General, is living, old, blind and in
poverty. That was the story which re-
Gently went the rounds of the papers,
with comments on the ingratitude OF re-
publics. But investigation showed that
she was only the widow of Klebers son.
Further investigation proved that kleber
had never been married, and final y that
there is no evidence 10 show that he ever
had son or daughter, legitimate or
illegltimate.
The Ohio penitentiary is said to sur
PASS the one in New Jersey as far as the
horrible treatment of prisoners is con-
cerned. One prisoner was taken from 8
sick bed snd put in an iced bath and
then carried back to die. Another WIS
taken out of a dungeon dead. The pun
ishments averaged from two hundred TO
four hundred week. Sometimes sixty
three men were subjected TO the ice bath
in one day. The details are sickening,
and form very sad commentary on the
present system of prison management.
The Banning army bill cuts down the
pay OF chaplain from 81 500 to $1,000
per snnum. This is less than the wages
of colored coal HEAVIER at the Capitol
Sunday Herald.
The Banning bill is based on the new
schedule. Since the abolition OF hell by
Beecher and IL gersoll the army chaplain
is not expected to do rs much work as
formerly Washington Post.
THE ashes OF Mrs. Benn Pittman have
been removed from the cremstory re-
tort, placed in glass urn, and sent by
express to the beresved husband Day.
ton Journal.
Why speak of man who has had so
much pleasant, free advertising as 3
"beresved husband?' Many gentlemen
who lose their wives sink into obscurity
the day following the funeral, while Mr..
Pittman has achieved almost as much
notorIety rs the father OF triplets -
Washington FoSt.
SOME of the Legislatures out West are
still adopting resolutions urging the
passage of the silver bill. Perhaps some
body will kindly notify them that the
measure has got safely through both
Houses, and give the legislators chance
TO adjourn in time to do their spring
plowIng.-PhtLadeiphia Times.
AFTER voting for tho amended silver
bill in the House on Thursday Ben. But
Ter had the cheek to telegraph TO the
Toledo Convention thst the bill was q
delusion and q sham, and that the Con-
vention ought to condemn it. For con.
spicuous and monumental impudence
this towers above ell of Buffers previous
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
THE Governor of West Virginia is ap.
parently indisposed TO bear repitlon OF
last summers experience about the troops.
Hereafter he will have his own army
that is, if volunteers will do the work re-
quired. Wheeling hiss now fair bat.
talon of infantry, and there is talk of
raising cavalry company IN addition
Cumberland Nelos.
j. MADISON WELLS is reminded that
people who live in glass houses must be
careful about shying stones. There has
occurred no more atrocious murder than
that of Mat Despsler by j. Madison
Wells At the time Wells was man of
wealth and high social standing. Des-
pslier was poor man without friends.
A disagreement had occurred between
the parties. When they met Wells WAS
armed with shotgun. Despalier WAS
unarmed and threw up his arms to show
that he was defenseless, when Wells
fred upon him and killed him,-NeD
Orleans Democrat.
A COMMERCIAL traveller recovered
$1,000 from an English railway compa-
ny for damages TO his nervous system,
caused by an accident on the road,
whereby the head of q woman sitting op.
posite TO him on the train was torn of
by iron rails which projected from a
goods train" on the other track. The
head rolled oil on the side of the vehicle,
but the brains were deposited in the
travellers Jap. His wife testified that
her husbands hair turned from dark
brown to white in fortnight alter the
occurrence, and the physicians testified
that he could do no work for two years.