Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-24

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q foreign mission.
The will of the late Rev. Father SAKE,
cfOttawa. Canada, leaves $4,000 to the
Ouebcc Seminary.
RepcrtS are current at st. Petersburg
That the relations between Russia and
Cbiha are somewhat strained.
The Cincinnati Merchants Exchange
devot,~ three days to ChriStmas-One TO
get rr..,y forit, and another to get over
iJ
THE headline fiend of the Chicago
Times i, open to engagement, that paper
having c>chewed halfcOlumn display
heads.
Business failures have become re-
markably frequent of late. AS the year
draw, to Il close, the chickens of the
s.cculators are coming home To roost.
The aggregate of large subscriptions
Gv the citizens Of Cleveland for the Gar
field monument fund now amounts 70
s5I.alO, and small contributions 10
~-D,W1.
The Elct that the new British Minis
Ter. Hon. Lionel ::Stakville-West, has a
barge family and no marriage certificate,
g., creating sensation in Washington
social circles.
The rumor that President l.. T.
smith and Others ofthe Kansas Central
Railway have disposed of their control!-
inc interest to the Gould faction, is de-
MED Mr.. Smith states that he knows
nothing whatever about it.
\ dispatch from Alexandra, Egypt,
>ay>: There arc reports of thirty-two
deaths from cholera at Elmedj, for the
week ended on the 18th inst. Some of
the caravans broke the quarantine by
avoiding the ordinary route.
\ bill has been introduced into the
Kentucky Legislature providing that 4
CoI StitutioRal Convention shall be
called ifa the next State election in
August, amajOrity of the votes cast upon
the proposition to call convention are
in the affirmative.
Two hundred and sixty years ago,
about this time, the Pilgrim Fathers
landed on Plymouth Rock, and their
names will be famous in all history. If
they hadn't landed we never should
have heard Of them. Moral Young
man, land some place.
That Cau>tic and versatile knight Of
the nuilI tho o.Iitnr Of tho Albany
Arg,,S, announces that "A pretty
woman is an actress all the time" This
rr1amciamcnto, the evident result of
calm Sunday dcliberation, We should
never venture to question.
Lori Iornc has an idcato prevent the
,Irrimation of Canada by the emigration
other Young men, and Louise has con-
rortrd Il "Wuman'S Emigration Spcie-
IT," whereby Canada shall he flooded
with attractive English girls. The Lon
duu Times bids them good spced
The bill to make the term Of Internal
Rcvcnur Collectors four years only, and
thecommissionS OfthOse who have held
office four years TO expire June @Oth,
l>>2, will, should il become a law, dis
place nearly 100 of the l25 collectors in
;hr country, unless they are reappointed.
Calico Charley otherwise Gov. Eos
trr %: Ohio-is too altogether soon in
announcing that Blaine will not be a
candidate in 1854. Mr.. Blaine has dem
onS;ratcd his ability 10 speak English,
on occasion, and will probably be able
90 ,at:sfy the public rs to his intentions
l due time.
Major j. Frank Watson, of Little
Rock, who was on jeff Davis personal
stat, was interviewed, yesterday, and
says that he saw the money referredto in
the newspaper controversy now going
on, paid out to Davis body guard,
At Washington, Ga, was present and
shared in the division whcnit was made.
Statistics show that there are more
doctors in the United States than in any
other country on the face of the earth.
They also show that people are multi
plying in this country ~ fast - in any
other, without counting the Immigra-
ton. These are facts, although taken
together some people may consider
them naradoXicaL
Austrian railway companies have
Kind oi civil service that the newspa-
per, of that country delight to boast of.
The railway companies there employ
upwards of 5000 women, at salaries Of
'rom - t" sop month, and these wo-
mcn.arc invariably the near relatives OF
dead OF active male employees of the
different roads.
fair example of the different views
held in regard To the same class of sub
Joets in different parts Of our country Is
eHcmPiiiicd by the fact that while the
IeoP,c ~ Hartford are loading one of
Their pastors with hOnOrs aud Overwhcl-
ming him with presents Of pistols of all
S@,S and descriptions, because he cap
'ur, d burglar few days ago, eongre-
s"''on IN Minnesota is trying their pas
'oF'or Knocking down ruffian who a.
Saultcd him.
With o-'can lreightS from New Or
ledIfS to Liverpool at &c To a. Der busheI.