Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-04-15

An unusually large crop of tobacco
will he planted in Noble county, OHIO,
this year.
JrpGE JERE BLACK has but one prefer
enco Tor Presidential candidate, and
that is Gen. Hancock.
TuE pedcstrienne, Bertha Won iii.
leru, has become somewhat OF an artist
in Cultured Boston" Who would
have thought as much oi Boston?
ACCORDING to Western exchanges, II
is believed that there will to u larg,
crop oi winter wheat. In eleven States
the weld WI probably he sixty per cent
greater than last year.
TuE civilized world would like to have
I.ord Beacousiield retained in power a
little bit longer, at least until he could
bring his aggressive policy To caromc on
the monarch Of Burmah.
TuE unfortunate Robert Foreman, OF
ParkcrsburS, this State, who was one Of
the victims in the recent ) trcStlc acci-
dent ON the d. X 5. W. road, is ut his
home and is reported rs being very i'll.
Grave doubts are entertained concern
iug his recovery.
TuE Greene county, Pa, Democrats
have elected Furmau South u delegate
to the state Convention. Tie is not in
structed. 4 resolution iayoring the
nomination oi Hon. Morgan L. Wise
ior Congress was adopted at the same
meeting.
For the third time it is reported that
L, ). Grant, jr,, is engaged to Miss
Flood, the California heiress. No doubt
the young man has read that There is
u tide in the affairs OF mcn'-ayc, wo-
men too-"Which, taken at the .fo1i,
leads on to fortune"
Tux famous Colored minister, Rev.
John Jasper, Of Richmond, Va, who
quite suddenly sprung into uotoriety by
his lecture, The sun DO Move" enter.
tanned party OF Northern excursion
lists IN that city recently, by delivering
the lecture for their benefit. The pleas.
ure experienced by the party was very
demonstratlve.
Tux Rev. II. II. Hayden is travelling
in the North delivering his lecture on
"Circumstantial Evidence" based upon
his recent narrow escape from the
hangman's moose. The lecture was
gwen at Saratoga last Friday in orier to
impress public opinion in behalf OF
Jesse Billings, charged with murder,
whose trial begun Yesterday.
REv. FATHER .HERMAN, who resides
alone near Pennington, Fayette county,
Pa, retired at a late hour last Monday
night, shortly siterward he heard two
gunshots hrei near his residepce. lie
arose and started to the front door, when
a thiri shot was fred, the leaden mes
Senger taking effect in the door. The
belief is that the 6rst shots were fired to
attract him to the door and the third to
Kill him, which it came near doing.
A DEPUTY L. 5. marshal, from Pitts
burSh, swooped down upon n number
Of the citizens of Waynesburg, Pa, las;
week, and took them to the Smoky City
Tor trial, simply because Mr.. Johnson
had applied for pension by reason OF
a rupture sustained while in the army.
The other gentlemen, four in number,
had certified 10 the correctness and Jus.
tlce Of the claim, which the authorities,
irom some cause, conceived to be fraud
ulent
Iris said that Chauncy Filley, late
postmaster at 81 Louis, has complained
To Mr.. Hayes that two curtain superyis.
ors OF census in Missouri, have been
violating the civil service reform rules,
in order TO further their political inter.
estS Copies Of civil service order No.
l were mailed by Private Secretary
Rogers to the offenders. The report
that Mr.. Filley has been setting up a