Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-13

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VOL. 1S.
THE NEWS.
The New York canals have just been
closed officially. !
Florida expects to market 5o,OOO,OOO
oranges next season.
1t costs s. per hour to enjoy sleighing
in Virginia City, New.
There is one preacher in the Ohio Leg
islature. How lonesome he will be, poor
fellow.
It is estimated that the population of
Montana has increased 10000 during
the present year. -
The San Francisco Mint during No
vember coined SS,260,OOO in gold and
SS5O,OOO in silver.
They are going to have rapid transit
in Yonkers, n. Y. The execution will
take place next Friday.
Three bills have already been intro
duced in Congress, calculated to knock
out the pOlygamous underpinning of
MormOnism.
Lieut.. Flipper says he is innocent, and
never in all his life stole cent from the
government. That's just what Brady
and Howgate said; but, where's the
money?
A Michigan boy of ten years has shed
three sets of teeth and is growing a
fourth. If his growth Of cheek keeps
pace with his molars and incisors, he
may get into Congress yet.
The International money order sys-
tenn has been extended to the province
of Victoria, New South Wales, by a
convention between the Governments
of the United States and that province.
Nast's last cartoon is something in his
old vein. Guiteau, arrayed as clown,
is sitting upon Garfield's grave cracking
his jokes, and the spectators are con-
vuLSed with laughter. We welcome
Mr. Mast back to life.
The finest railroad station in the Uni
ted States is said to be the new one Of
the Pennsylvania company in Philadel-
phia. 1t stands in the heart of the city,
and is described as a magnificent spec
linen of gothic architecture"
Philadelphia is to have a relapse of
the centennial fever, and has already
prepared programme for the celebra-
ton, next year, of the Goth anniversary
of the arrival of William Penn. There
are to be three days of PROFESSIONS, his
tOrical tableaux, fireworks, speeches, etc.
With the close of the Paris Electric
Exhibition it is announced that suffi-
cient capital has been found to support
a permanent electric railway in the
French capital. Plans have also been
drawn up for an elevated electric rail-
way around the city, and Mr.. SiemenS
is considering them.
The Pittsburgh disaster has no moral
but the simple one that a box of pine
boards will burn as quickly with human
beings asleep in it as under any other
circumstances. The fact ought to make
it impossible forany contractor to house
his men in such lodgings. Unfortunate
" it will not, and is not likely to.
Upon q Sunday evening, when the
soul is lifted on the wings Of faith,
and holy calm broOds over
all nature, what tender regret comes
with the thought that the tubs must be
got up from the cellar, so that washing
may begin at ) O'Clock Monday morn
ing.
II is evident that Guiteau and his
counsel are much discouraged by the
Roadway of the prosecution in demo-
ishing the theory of insanity. ScOville,
Guitcau's counsel, has exhausted his
finances, and proposes to lecture this
week to raise funds necessary for the
Expenses Of the defense.
TIE New Hoven Register says that
the roller skater pounds the floor with
the back of his head. Unless the Reg
lister is deliberately attempting to de-
ccivc the public, this is very curious
fact. Down here the roller skater SIM
ply wears out the roof of his pantalOons.
Is this the result Of climatic differences?
Conspicuous among the members o
the new Kentucky Legislature, is David
Meriwcather, who was Senator in
Congress in 1852, and Governor of New
Mexico during PierCe'S administration.
lie also served many years in the State
Legislature, and was twice Speaker of
the House. He is past eighty years old.
In ISL there We're 1867, ,59S families
IN Ireland. To-day there are but 994,-
5'S, decrease of 73,Ol9. The average
number Of persons to a family in 1871
was 5.O7. Now the average is SIG, so
That the decrease can be put down, in
round numbers, at 25),0S7. During the !