Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-15
THE NEWS
q, the Day in Pithy Paragraphs.

Of the DaN ih ASHS - 40 -.
Baltimore imports about 4OVVV 'ons
of iron ore per month.
Ohio grape growers do not e1Pec' "'''e
than one.third OF q crop.
L,ndon, according to recent COUNT
bss 80 $50 persons to the square mI'e'
The National theatres at Prague, Bohe-
hemis. was burned on Saturuay hi2h''
Charles Hing q Chinese murderer
w;>Ihs bsnpe at Winnemucca, New on
September D.
Tbs Jspanese residents in Paris pro-
ross m erect temple in which 10 ee!e-
brste their religious rites.
Tbars are three thousand applicants
q, the 5000 prizs offered by Prof. Swift
10 the first discoverer OF the comet
The story telegraphed from Montreal
of ON outrage committed in Altoona
county, New York, proves to be untrue.
The Boston public library contains
col. SSS volumes, the largest number OF
hooks under one administration in the
world.
The grand jury, on Saturday, at Dead
xood, prosecuted thecounty commission
.rs for making extrsvagant expendi-
lures.
Mormon missionaries are proselyting
among the Welsh miners at Hyde Park,
Pa, and have q church with twenty
members.
Al the chain OF lakes near Waupaca,
Wisconsin, some scientists have ex-
humed from an Indian mound skull
of nearly twice the usual size.
The French Republican papers inter-
pret Gambettas recent speech at Bell.
vile as hls decision TO accept the Pre-
mierShip Of the next Cabinet.
The department OF agriculture of the
State of Illinois asserts that in quality
and quantity the wheat crop OF the State
is the poorest ior twenty wears.
The Beers have taken advantage OF
their freedom by declaring that Dutch
shall be the official language of the
Trausvaal, none other being allowed in
the courts.
The drouth has become so intense in
the region tributary to Nashville that
Il e screens have been placed on the To-
cJmOtive smoke stacks to prevent a
cDntagratiOn.
A telegram from Athens saws the In
terual Canal Commissioner has acceded
y the Porte's request TO delay for forty
laws the surrendering of the second zone
ceded By Greece.
Farmers in many sections OF North
Carolina who have heretofore hoped for
at least third OF a crop OF corn and to-
baccO nov despair OF even that, as the
drouth continues unTelieved.
Daring the last fifteen years Of slav-
cry the ,uth raised Il, ,675 ,59l bales of
cotton. During the first fifteen years of
freedom, that is from 1865 to 1850. the
number OF bales produced was SO, 43S,-
80.
A San Antonio dispatch says that
Loren C. Pomeroy, alias Charles l.. Royal,
was arrested at tnat place on Satu rday,
charged with appropriating valuable let
ters while he was postmaster at Hebron,
Indiana.
A correspondent at Alexandra, Egypt,
says the Ministerial crisis has been tenn
porarily allayed by the dismissal OF the
Minister OF War at the demand OF the |
officers OF the army. Daoud Pasha sue |
ceeds him.
William Buchanan, OF Glasgow, Scot |
land, a quartermaster OF the steamer
Furnessia, undertook TO sell in New
York on Saturday 500 worth OF SNUG
gled silk hosiery, but was caught and
compelled to give bail Tor trial.
The examination of the Russian
Nihilist arrested at Belgrade, has elirited
nothing to prove his alleged design
against the Car. 1t has been asserted,
however, that he wrote threatening
letter to the Emperor OF Germany.
II has been definitely arranged to
open the Buenos Ayres Exhibition on
February 10, 1882 A decree has been
issued by the Argentine government
granting the use OF the Plaza Once de
Septiembre in which to hold the ma
chinery section OF the show.
In the Court OF Common Pleas at
Erie, Pa, on Saturday, Senator Butter
field obtained a rule on Mayor McCar
Ter TO show cause for continuing IN
office, it being alleged that he took an
oath different from the one prescribed
by the constitution OF the State.
A band Of cowboys recensy attacked
a caravan from Sonora on the way to
Arizona, killed four of the party, and
CARR i OFT -, 900 and the pack animsls.
The civil authorities in Arizona seem
Oowerless. and the MexicanS hold The
lne ricans responsible tor the outragrs.
isomand and Perry, who were COM
united by the examining magistrate Tor
10 murder OF Matthews, editor OF the
T,uchY Sallrv IIWfS, were brought he
re the county Judge IA, L'ttle Rock. On
. snrdav. on writ Of hHbUs corpus
nnd released on 5000 and 5000 bal,
respectively.
\ large srhCol Of fnhack whal's has
l41n in B ,stnn Bay Gming the P'st
nonth in tn" yiciniIy Of Halfway Ro. K,
H,arNIhanr. anu the other morning the
:, AMIR Admiral, while making her
mon niny tip from B,ston to Gloucester
sy.s obliged a. make stop near Hallway
iipck in rider tO avoid a collision with
a Ynusrcr whale WHICH had just come TO
Tie Guriace.