Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-18
THE NEWS
OF the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.

sOf the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.
Bismarck has left Berlin for his estate
ut Schoenhausen.
Francis Van Buren;a son of President
Van Buren, is at Long Branch.
It is not thought likely that Peregrine
will start for the St. Ledger stakes.
A double track is being laid along the
Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western
railroad.
A contract was signed yesterday for
fhe establishment OF National bank in
the City of Mexico.
81 The directors of the Northern Indiana
State prison yesterday relet the labor OF
l25 convicts at 63 cents per day.
The will of the late Dean Stanley has
been sworn to. His estimated wealth
at the time of his death was $4,000
The bark Western Sea, over which
there has been 30 much trouble OF late,
will leave Machias, Me-, to-day for Bos-
ton.
t-sSseretsry Blaine says he found things
more encouraging at the Executive
Mansion upon his arrival than he had
expected.
The steamer Devon, which arrived at
New York yesterday, reports having
passed the dory "Llttle Western" from
London. All well.
A Berlin dispatch says il is feared that
Breslon will shortly be declared in
state OF siege because Of the prevalence
of a social agitation there.
Maj. Seth Pierce, Of Cornwall, Ct,
the sole remaining representative OF the
class of 1906 at Yale, died yesterday.
He was nearly 100 years OF age.
Lawson, jaintor OF the United States
Court at Little Rock, was yesterday
arrested for passing counterfeit money,
which he stole from the prisoners.
Up to yesterday Gladstone had re-
ceived over one hundred messages from
Liberal clubs and other organizations,
urging firm course on the Land Bill.
Counsel for Kate Chase Sprague yes
tsrday made motion in the Supreme
Court Of Washington county, Rhode Is.
land, for the assignment OF day for the
trial of the divorce suit
A. D. Wheelock, the absconding clerk
OF ]. G. Walcott & Co., New York, who
was arrested on board the steamer Neck
ar at Southampton, was yesterday re-
manded to answer for his crime.
One OF the brigands who captured the
Englishman Suter, near Salonlca, in
April last has been arrested near
Athens, Greece, with 1000 francs IN
his possession.
A Paris dispatch says the yellow fever
still continues to rage in the French
colony OF Senegal, in the west OF Africa.
Up to the 9Th inst. there have been
thirty.eight deaths.
The members of the Cornell Univer-
sity crew have returned to London, hav-
ing abandoned the idea OF rowing in the
race at Frankfort, and will embark for
New York on the steamer Spain on the
Oath inst.
Director General Kimball, OF the At
lanta cotton exposition, has organized q
department to take personal supervis.
ion OF exhibits forwarded, the expense
to be apportioned among those who re-
ceive its benefits.
IOe interior Ol LII, JOuuSOu nouoo
Cough Square, Fleet street, London,
was Yesterday opened to the public.
1t was in this house that he lived from
l74S to 1855 He there wrote his die
tionary, his VANITY of Human Wishes"
and portions OF "rhe Rambler" and
"The Idler."
Canadian capitalists have obtained
charter for a railway from some point
on the Atlantic coast to Lake Superior,
and have organized company with
capital of $0,0O0,000. Ground has
been broken for road from Montreal
trSorrel, along the south shore OF the St.
L lwrence.
Roscoe Conkling is an expert swim.
mer, and is frequently seen in the surf
at Manhattan Beach. and picturesque
object he is too. The water wrinRs
Maccassar from his famous curl, his
dauntless breast swells out like big
life-preserver, and his legs-thin as a
White House bulletin-stab the wound
less waves with desperate thrusts.