Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-03
THE NEWS
of the Day in Pithy Paragraphs.


Rouher, the Bonapartist, announces
his retirement from political life.
II is expected that the Transysal
Convention will be signed to-day.
lady in Providence, Rhode Island,
ssed 81, has Just married man OF %.
The Car and family arrived at Mini
Novgorod, Central Russia, yesterday
.aorning.
Advices from Tunis say that plunder-
Iug has been renewed tew miles from
llat place.
The Norwich Pistol Company has
made an assignment for the benefit of
its creditors.
The recent statement OF the Imperial
Bank OF Germany shows a decrease in
specie Of 2,G66. 600 marks.
The Il. i o. K. L. has been awarded
the contract for bringing the Indian del
rga'iOu, consisting OF twenty-five per-
sons, to Washington.
New crop cotton begins to come in so
freely that il is no longer q novelty.
savannah has already received from
southwest Georgia twenty-four bales.
The report that General John Newell
has resigned his position as General
Manager OF the Lake Shore railroad Is
ia.Se and wholly without foundation.
The citizens of Meadville, Pa, have
Completed railroad connecting that
city with the Pittsburgh and Erie road,
whrra will be operated by the Pennsyl-
wanna Central.
The track Ga the Erie road between
Rochester and Corning was reduced to
the standard gauge in three hours on
saturday morning, $50 men being en-
p0yri IN the work.
At Portsmouth, y. H., the Rel u6l-
cans reelected Mayor Sise day
for the fourth consecutive term by q
m,.nrtv of - Plurality So over John
rorLt, Democrat.
The French government assures pro-
rrt'Ion to foreigners participating in the
rNl.hiuOn Of electricity of all patent
.his and titles, provided the speci
u-rs are reported within three me nthss
William Hartley, a Chicago thief nov
confined in the penitentiaTy in Brook
.,n. has ior a week abstained from food
ani threatens To starve himself to death,
hnr the prison officials will aiminist r
uu;rimcnt 10y force.
sitting Bull. and the Indians who sur
r-r.l.rrd with hIm, will be divided up
At sanding Rock and sent to different
s.rurieS. The Indian Department will
treat Sitting Bull precisely as other lu-
dams At 80, nCieS are treated.
UorSes for the past week in Long
Rranrh, Orean Grove, and other places
have suffered severely from a peculiar
r,l,. Fourteen fatal cases have been
rrpnrtri The animals in almost every
Csc surcumbed TO the disease.
At Portsmouth, y. II yesterday, the
House passed the bill redistricting the
state ior the election OF representatives
10 Congress, on the passage OF the Ma
t,onal Appropriation Act sllottiny New
Hampshire two representatives.
Triuquet, the member of the COM
uune who assume The boldest front
b lore the court martial, and who was
r,."trl a municipal councillor while
>.i.I in New Caledonia aud ineligible,
has b en- appointed by the Project OF
the Seine an inspector at $40 year.
The William bandits, who are being
tracked through the Wisconsin woods,
tied a stolen horse to tree and lett 1t to
starve. When found it had been several
days without foo or water, in which
condition il Was turned over to Sheriff
Anderson OF Henderson county, Illinois.
There was recently sold in Manches-
Ter, for IS l5S., rOpp of "Three Ways
ui Spending SUNDAY, by Timothy
SPARKS" which is one ofthe earliest and
rarest Of Dickens writings. twas pur-
chased hy the bookseller, who sold it for
threrpence, Ii has been resold Tor
u. ~.
Atthe recent sale in London OF some
oi RgaconStield's effects, mustard-pot
sold for 81 shillings per ounce; muffin
rrr at 43 per ounce; a pair OF asparagus
t0ngs, worth shillings an ounce, sold
for Il shillings. and some teaspoons
went ior 33 shillings. A pair OF high
sat.cellars. old Dutch work, dated 1882,
sold ior 80 pounds, being 4 pounds per
ounce