Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-02
TIMELY TOPICS.
PITTSBURGH merchants next reap the
profits of a visit from Grant

vi q NAolN AAOAh
TIE significant fact should not escape
attention that President Hayes spells
"Nation" with big an" in the mes
sage.
"PNAFoRE" was played last night in
New York city by the English troupe
brought over by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Some curiosity was felt to see how the
Britishers' rendition would differ from
the conception of the Americans.
THE Sunday Nelcs, Nichols new paper
at Steubenville, came out for the first
time on Sunday last. Several Sunday
papers have failed in that ambitious
city, but Nichols well known enter
prise and activity will no doubt secure
success for his venture.
ENCOURAGED by the success OF the
Eads' jetties in deepening the mouth OF
the Mississippi, the French government
is about to undertake plan for deepen
ing the Seine, by which vessels drawing
nine feet OF water will reach the eastern
extremity OF Paris.
THE Adams Express Company's spec
ial car, which left Cincinnati last Mon
day night at o'clock, made the run to
Boston, via Philadelphia, in thirty-siX
hours and forty-fve minutes, which Is
considered extraordinarily quick time,
and is exciting considerable comment
among express messengers.
THE project OF the international
park at Niagara Falls is to buy Goat
and fourteen other small islands, and a
strip of land along the bank from 100 to
GOO feet wide, extending some two miles
up the river from the new suspension
bridge. This strip is to be be planted
with trees to screen the buildings back
of it from view, and to restore its orig
inal wooded beauty. 1t has been esti-
mated that 100000 ought to buy the
property. That the project may be put
into execution is "consummatiOn de-
voutly to be wished"
REV. DIR. X. DAsHIELL, corresponding
secretary of the Missionary Society OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, well
known in this locality, is now lying
dangerously i'll at his home in Roseville,
near Newark, n. J. On Saturday he
submitted to the operation OF cOlOnOto-
my, performed by two skiliul surgeons
from New York City, one of the most
perilous and one of the rarest operations
known to surgical science, requiring the
entire removal of aportiOn OF the inter
nal organs and their replacement by
artificial organs. DR.. Dashiell is report
ed rs doing as well as could be expected
However, the surgeons look upon Their
work as, at the best, only prolonging
the Doctors life, and they hold out nc
hope OF an ultimate recovery.
The lite saving stations on the Ameri
can coast are doing a good work. There
are l72 OF them, of which So are on the
Atlantic, 20 on the lakes and six on the
Pacific. During tho last year they sue
cored at the different stations 81 ship.
wrecked persons. The number OF per
sons brought ashore from wrecked
vessels was 4l2. In addition, the life
saving crews assisted off when stranded
and got out of dangerous positions s!
vessels Travellers who have noticed those
modest little boat houses at various
places on the lakes, with their crews 81
handsome young men in nobby uni
forms who seem to live only to enjoy
themselves, will be surprised to receive
this information. But perhaps the rea
service is rendered at the ocean stations
TIE Steubenville gazette is leading 8
crusade against Lombardy poplar trees
At Canton, O., the City Council has by
ordinance forbidden the planting OF this
popular variety OF shade trees. The
low price Of these trees and their rapid
growth had the effect of dazzling the eye
of the ignorant tree planter, and Inc
would plant large numbers Of them. II
is a well known fact TO the older citizens
here that such in the course OF ten year,
from planting become very unsightly
and give very little shade, They grow
rapidly and as rapidly decay. In a few
years the branches begin TO die, anC
finally there are more dead limbs thar
live ones. If the tree is pruned back
the trunk will become immense anC
very ugly. The limbs are brittle, and in
few years they begin to break off with
every wind, and the fragments litter NJ
the pavements. In short, they are {
perfect nuisance.
A COMPANY has been formed at Bel
laire for the purpose of building rail
road from that city to Marietta. II We
| can't have a road on this side of the
river we would like TO see one on that
side; but we certainly believe that the
one on this side will be built. Let 6
road he built there, and not here, and
in five years the difference in the pros
perity Of the two sections will be so APP
parent that those who oppose the build
inc of the Wheeling & Parkersburg road
will readily exClaim, "What consummate
fools we were - Wet,el Messenger
| There is Health Ahead,
For cherries dyspeptics who will use Hos tet
| tors stomach BitterS. which Will enable them