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

Of the LAY In Filthy Paragraphs.
This years cotton crop is estimated at
100000 bales.
1t is believed that importations of gold
will begin very soon.
The Thousand Islands" number
l,S54 by actual count.
Lawrence Barrett and John McCul.
lough will sail for home September 8.
The Russian Imperial family on Sat-
urdsy returned to the palace at Peter.
hof.
Sshourotf, Russian Ambassador at
Berlin, Is 10 succeed Labouroff as Am
hassador to London.
Twelve skilled wOrkmen propose 10
hullda rolling mill at Niles, . provid-
lng the citizens will subscribe.
The Spanish government has con-
tracted {" huy IL 500 hOgsheads of Ken
IucSy and Virginia tobaccos.
The Lord Mayor of London on Satur-
day rendered banquet to the delegates
10 the International Medical Congress.
Henry Willard, OF Oregon. has given
the State UniVefsiIy at Portland, that
= ate, s. 900 10 relieve IT'S indebtedness.
Rev. Stephen Townsend, father OF
George Alfred TOAnsend, died last
Friday IN the seventy sixth year of his
aye.
Commissioner Fink has called meet
ing of the Joint Executive Committee
20 be held next Wednesday, for the
purpose named ia the recent circular.
George Walker. who some time ago
stole a young girl in New York from the
front OF her home, WAS on Saturday
sent to the Ststs's prison for ten years.
The Viceroy OF India telegraphs that
q native messenger, who has just re-
turned from Candahsr, reports that
Ayoob Khan is making preparations to
advance upon Cabul.
Over thirty thousand persons were
present yesterday at the opening of the
National Swiss Festival at Newark, n.
j. Delegates from nearly every city in
the country were present.
Robert Fryer, OF New York, has made
a model for an ocean steamer which will
be a marine velocipede on three wheels,
with which he expects to gain two days
in crossing the Atlantic.
ne uTlNST DONS VI
the Susquehanna Coal Company, at
NantichOke, are on strike. Two thou
sand miners and laborers are thus
thrown out OF employment.
Some California militia had a sham
battle at Grass Valley on Saturday and
LOST control OF themselves in bayOnet
charge, several officers and no less than
twenty men being wounded by bayonets
AMI the butts of the guns.
Ont OF $4,000 tenements occupied by
the Partisan poor, there are but 1000
whose tenants are able to pay an an
nual rent of more than $40. On the
other hand nearly 1000 chambers are
let for less than SO year.
An aged and intirm cOlored man called
Pap" stewart, at Harrisburg, Pa, who
is heavily insured in the mutual prOtec-
tive companies, is furnished with liberal
quantities of bad whisky by the specu-
la'ors who hold the policies on his life.
The slave trade is still flourishing in
Soudan. Ii is stated that no fewer than
from $1,000 to $4,000 negroes are annu-
a.ly conveyed to the Turkish and Egyp-
tar ports OF the Red Sea, where they
are disposed Of to dealers from all parts
of the Sultan's dOmlnions-
A strike OF the printers employed In
the New York job offices has been ar
ranged for September j, and the mon
ia gathering in the cOmpositors AT the
rair of thirty per week. The neTspa-
pers in that city are nearly ali paying
more than the scale.
A remarkable structure is just about
completed in New York, to be called the
Home for Homeless Boys. 1t cost
$500 600, and was erected by means oi
subscription, no one person giving more
than TWENTY-FIVE cents, ami therefore
represents the contributions OF ,2CO,OOO
people.
John C. Chamberlain, manager OF the
Saratoga Lake cOmpany's three hoteiS
AT Saratoga Lake, says a boat race Will
take place on Saratoga Lake before the
rIose of the month. The companys new
steel steamer will be compieled IN \
couple of weeks, and probably the rAce
will occur in a few days later.
The anniversary OF the battle OF ln-
dian Hill will be celebrated at North
Pawlet, VT, August 10, the PrOceedings
including mock battles,a banquet ard
An interesting order OF exercises. Hon. }.
B. Bromley, Of Castleton, IS to preside,
and the Grafton will bs delveTei oy
Hon. r. G. Belts, OF Granville, \.
Gen. o. o. Howard is changing the
standard of discipline at West Point.
He believes that the boys should De
schooled in the rough life OF a soldier,
keebs them at work, and makes them
live in tents like their superlors on the
Western plains. Some Of the poor
fellows won't even know how to waltz
when they settle down in Washington
There are forty five thousand persons
engaged in the manufacture OF pottery
in England and Wales. The death-rate
among the males is 3S per cent. higher
than among the male element at large.
In the lungs of a potter who recently
died OF consumption were found IS per
cent of silica, Is OF alumina, and oil
oxide of iron-articles OF constant Use
in his business.
A syndicate OF American, French and
German bankers has resolved to con
struct a canal from Baltimore to the
Atlantic, across the peninsula OF Mary
land and Delaware, at an estimated cost
Of 3. 600 O9O. The Sassafras route -
the one selected, and the cut will be III
feet wide, 20 feet deep, and require Is
months to complete. Baltimore eom'
merce will thus gain 225 miles of SAILING
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