Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-06
THE NEWS
or the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.

Longfellow, the poet, has, in his time,
declined three embassies.
Mrs. Margaret Kane, of Brooklyn,
died yesterday, aged l0S years.
The Nihilist organ, WI Ofthe People,
has reappeared in st. Petersburg.
The defalcation of the Brooklyn Board
OF Education's funds amounts to $780,
900.
The eminent English physician and
medical writer. Archibald Billing, Is
dead.
Courtney is in Toronto training for
the single scull race to take place there
next week.
The census of India has been com.
pleted. 1t shows a population OF
252. 100000.
The steamer City of Berlin, which ar
rived at New York, yesterday, brought
$274, 900 In gold.
The car to be used in conveying Presi.
dent Garfield to Long Branch has ar
rived at Washington.
President Gar6eld's letter to his
mother has been printed in fac simile,
and has large sale in Ohio.
The trial OF James Malley, Jr., and
Walter Malley, for the murder OF Jennie
Cramer, began at New Haven yesterday.
Rowell, the English champion, de-
lines the challenge of Hart to q pedes-
trian match. He already has eleven
challenges on hand.
General Merritt, late Collector of Gus
toms at the port of New York, sailed
yesterday, to enter upon his duties
as Consul General at London.
Governor Ludlow, of New Jersey,
has issued q proclamation recommend
ing Thursday next as day OF prayer for
the recovery of the President.
Mrs. Jessie Fremont Ferris, niece OF
Gen. John c. Fremont, has made her
debut as an actress at Rochester, with the
intention OF remaining on the stage.
The expression of the North German
Gazette, that those who support the
Emper sr support the government, has
provoked unanimous protest from the
L beral press.
Noah S. Leeds, the wsll.known Quaker
florist, of Richmond, Ind, who had the
largest collection of roses in America,
was found dead in his bed at his home
yesterday morning.
Bishop Nulty, OF Meath, in letter 10
Parnell, points out that the government
only passed the land bill when it could
not with any regard to its safety and
dignity Withhold it moment Longer.
The rejection OF the Whig candidate
in Tyrone county, says Bishop Nulty,
OF Meath, Ireland, will teach Gladstone
the Lesson that he cannot with impunity
trifle with the wishes OF the people.
The managers of the Iowa State Fair,
to be held at Dss Moines this week,
offer a prize of $40 to an Iowa couple
who will be married beneath the mon
ster floral bell suspended in floral hall.
James W. Heaslett, life prisoner in
the Detroit House OF Correction, from
Fort Smith, Ark died yesterday morn.
ing OF consumption. He was sentenced
a year ago for killing his father-in-law,
The decree OF the Saxon Minister OF
Justice has attracted much attention at
Hsrliu, 1t declares that in the future
the public offices will be closed on the
anniversary of the capitulation OF Sc
dan.
Maud s., the phenomenal trotter, will
be turned into pasture to rest. She has
travelled over 1000 miles and won $50
600. and her season was only half finish
ed when she was retired on account OF
sprained leg.
A clergyman, who has been taking a
census OF the Indian tribes, reports hav.
ing met at South Pass, Wyoming, sur
veying party of the Central Pacific, who
have found q feasible route for road
from Ogden TO Yankton.
liCaptain William Hanscom, the we'll
known pavaI constructor, who was on
the retired Is, died in Boston, yester-
day. Among other triumphs he built
the Monitor Monadnock. He IVES one
of the pioneers OF California.
France will be forced to conquer
Tunis inch by inch. She already has In
that country 50 battalions of 500 men
each. The Bey has lost all authority
nyrr the r brs and his soldiers, and
French control is now at its lowest
point.
Eph. Morris is OF the opinion that il
Boil, who defeated Clator, the West
Virgins oarsman, recently on Pitts
burvh water, is properly coached so that
be can steer well, there are few scullers,
II any, who can beat him three miles
Cinciandti Enq'nrer.