Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-28
PERSONS AND THINGS.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT will return 10
Europe at the close Of the Newport sea
son.
SrANLEY's present visit to Africa Is
Tor the purpose OF opening ~ the Congo
river from the west coast.
The general verdict is that ConkIlng
must vindicate the lady, even II he has
ito perjure himself like a gentleman. -
Washington Post.
THE Cincinnati Commercial expresses
the opinion that "Wendell Phillips has
furnished the proof that he is the most
able and eloquent fool OF the century.
Az Advent preacher down in Massa-
Chusetts undertook 10 marry "hlsSelt,
but the courts of that State tell him he
can't 10 it, The case is going up to the
Supreme Court.
Mr.. GEORGE W. JONES, at one time
United States Senator from Iowa, has
been forced by poverty to seek the
nomination for sheriff OF Dubuque coun-
~. He is eighty years old.
Ex-Gov. SEYMOUR was 4 private OF
Engine Company No. 1, OF Utica, so
lonT that his appointment dates from
June s, 1881. He will attend the pic
pic OF the exempt tiremen.
THE good people OF Baltimore are so
earnestly opposed to Sunday excursions
OF all kinds that they recently stopped a
train that was loaded with passengers
going to camp-meetlng.
TuE swimming match at Newport,
4 4 1. - 4 81 f.,r fatt
past, was failure. BoytOn, the man
who has flOated down countless rivers
in his RUBBER suit, was TO paddle twenty
Eve miles while Webb, the Englishman,
was 10 swim twenty miles. After few
hours in the water Webb was seized
with cramps and the rubber man had 1t
his own way.
Henry J. ROGERS, the telegraph OPP
orator who received the first dispatch
sent over the wire, died in Baltimore on
Wednesday He worked with Prof.
Morse i'm establishing the original line
from Washington To- Baltimore, and
when the line had been completed in
1914. sat down M his instrument in the
Washington office. Prof. Morse, being
I'M Baltimore. sent 10 President Polk the
message: What tod hath wrought. y
KossUrH is said to have declared, re-
yar,ling Prince Jerome Napoleon, that
ne never met with any man who had so
rapid "A perception of the bearing OF
things political, or who came To a sensi-
BILE decision So quickly, as the Prince.
koSsuth believes that the Prince would
very gladly be Emperor il only he could
b. elected To the Imperial Throne by
universal suffrage; but he IL not the
man To begin an agitation; he Is wanting
in the necessary courage.
''Wup BILL" the frontiersman, who
in his dav was as notorious rs Kit Car
SON. aud who was killed three years ago,
has turned % stone from scalp 10 toe.
His remains, which We're buried at
DeadwoOi. were taken from the grave
the other day for re-interment at another
place, when they were found to have be-
come petrifed. The features are as
natural as life save that a wilderness
uver-Spreading all gives to the face the
appearance of ChlSeled marble.
liz turns out upon investigation that
Mrs Adelaide Kemble SartOris, who
was mistaken for Nellie Grant Sartoris,
instead Of diving on the 10Th OF August,
rs was reported, died on the 9th, the
notice Of her demise appearing in the
London papers on the Sth. So it was a
iull week after the erroneous news OF
the death Of Nellie Grant was cabled to
MS. a time long enough, it would seem,
10 have the facts in the ease authentica-
ted.
The widely circulated GarteaiaubS, OF
Leipsic, Germany, describes what it
calls American surprising parties :
After having had their till OF enjoy
ment, the company take their departure
~ suddenly and quickly rs they arrived,
after having turned the whole house
topsy turvy. TOleaye eyerythingn the
direct confusion is considered indiSpen
sable" A family that has large ac-
quaiutance, says the Gdrt7lGIbt, may
be- visited in one evening by two or three
of these remarkable surprising parties.