Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05
MINOR MENTION.

WEST VIRGINIA has town called
"Sodom," but it is not SodOm wicked as
the Biblical one.
CHICAGO wants an elevated railroad,
and will probably get it before she gets
what she needs worse-elevated morals.
JAMES LIAR and HENRY ISLANDER are
said TO be two of the "best citizens of
Dubuque" and we can believe 1t OF
Dubuque.
SOME of the inhabitants OF Sistersville
spend their Sabbath afternoons in tar
get shooting. 1t is pleasant and health
full recreation.
The West Virginia Conference OF the
NJ Church, South, will convene at
ClarAsburg on September Sd. Bishop
Dogget will preside.
THE Greenbrier Independent is author
itv for the statemen: that certain West
Virginia editor has personal pulchrl-
tude." And it names the man!
We have received a copy of the
Weekly Journal, published at Princeton,
Mercer county, this State. 1t is tiny
sheet, but then it is young yet.
JIM BLAINE is going to Ohio to take
the stump against his cousin, Tom Ew-
ing; but then Jim, like Artemus Ward,
would not only sacrifice all his wife's
relations, but his own sisters, cousins,
and aunts, into the bargain.
AN instance of practical Christianity:
The Rev. DIR. Marks, of st. Louis, put
an ice tank in front of his house for the
benefit of the street-car DRYERS and con-
ductors. The grateful men have made
him present OF a gold-headed cane.
JOIN F.. PATTY has discovered in
Aurelius, n. Y, stone containing sew
eral petrifcations, one OF which is said
to be peculiarly shaped screw, used
only by the Japanese. The great ques-
ton is how it came where 1t was found.
THE unanimity with which the press
OF the country suggests the name OF
Private DALzELL as candidate for APP
pointment as Minister to England is
something remarkable. The DALzELL
boom Blooms with a greater boom than
any other boom.
The authorities Of a Montreal Catholic
church receive SO many bad coppers In
their contribution boxes that they find
it necessary to melt them once month.
In this way they hope to put them out
of circulation, and thus prevent their
coming back to them.
THE House of Representatives OF the
Legislature of Georgia has refused to
make appropriations for agricultural col
leges in that State. The Columbus En-
o,tirer saws that the FIVE male colleges in
Georgia have but about 500 students IN
the regular courses, and adds; 1--WE
desire public schools all over the State,
but no more colleges until those we
now have are supported by decent at
tendance as regards numbers
A VIRGINIA gentleman writes that SUI
perstition is about as strong as ever
among the negroes OF that State, par
ticularly in rural parts. They believe
in the power of certain persons to
throw deadly spells over enemies, and
he tells of sick negro in his employ,
whose mother is firmly convinced that
he is dying in consequence OF some
body's witchery. AS to the practice of
wearing charms, he gives the following
illustration: "My brother-in-law found
a negro thief in his house at midnight
and locked him up in corn crib. On
searching him the next morning he
found in bag at his neck what proved
TO be a human heart, dried and shriv-
eled. The negro confessed that it was
the heart OF his young master, who had
recently deceased, and that he wore 1t