Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-01-20
THE NEWS
or the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.

4 sixteenth interest in Goat Island, at
Niagara has been sold for $4,000.
The mills at Newport, Il. l., have shut
down, the weavers refusing to work at
reduced wages.
4 bill has been introduced in the Ar.
kansas Senate levyinga tax OF $500 on
commercial travellers.
Since the convention OF window glass
men was held at Chicago, there has
been a slight decline in glass.
A bill introduced in the New York
Legislature provides that twsnty lashes
be laid on the bare back OF wife beater.
During the past week l0s cases Of
diphtheria were reported to the Board
OF Health, 81, OF which proved fatal in
Brooklyn.
About sixty OF the Ohio editors arriv-
OIL at GAINESVILLE, yesterday, TO be in
readiness for the meeting OF the State
Association.
Small pox is prevalent in New York,
there have been twenty deaths 40 far
this month aud the disease is gaining
ground rapidly.
John Amos, a convicted Tennessee
murderer, who had been taken from
Upton 70 Memphis fer safe keeping,
dropped dead in the jail.
All Shoa, a Chinese woman OF San
Francisco, has applied for Il divore in
one OF the courts OF that city from All
Shang, on the grounds ol descrtion.
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Alaska and Ticonderoga are said to be
in a very rebellious spirit on account Of
recent changes and promotions among
the officers OF both vesselP.
james IIogg shot his daughter at Car
thagc, Mo-, and committed suicide. The
girl recoverod, but aiterward concluded
that, as her father had desired il, she
ought to die. She drowned herself IN a
well.
Diphtheria is ranging in the vicinity
OF Valparaiso, Indiana, with yiruIence
that almost equals that Of the yellow
fever. ChaunCy Gaylord, residing near
Chrisman Station, buried five children
in one grave.
Several members OF the family Of ex'
Councilman Joseph Clifton, OF Fall
River, Mass were badly poisoned 10y
eating rabbits supposed To have been
killed by the use OF arsenic. They are
now recovering.
The Rev. Marcus Ormonl, Of Rush.
vile, Ind, recovered from brain fever
with his memory entirely gone. lie
! racoIlects nothing that he knew before
his illness, hut learns readily, and
seems to possess his other mental facul.
ties.unimpaired.
Foreign.
The formation of Dutch rifle corps has
been resolved upon 10 assist the Beers
in Transvaal.
County Clare, Ireland, and several
Baronies OF Sligo has been declared in a
state OF disturbance.
1t is announced that $40, 600, 900 have
| been subscribed in London for the Ca.
madam Pacific railroad.
The SUN OF so, 600 marks has been sub.
sCribed towards the founding OF an anti
Jcwish newspaper in Prussia.
The IIussars have moved into the dis
trct OF Lancashire, England. where the
strike prevails among the colliers.
Victor Hugo has agreed to bc Honor
arv president OF the committee Tor the
erection at Nice OF monument 10 Gar
ibaldi.
Diphtheria is still raging at Grand
Manan. John Meggs recently lost e;gh,
children by the terrible scourgc within
a few days.
The Hanlan Laycock race has been ar
ranged 20 come of at 4o'clock in the af
ternoon Oh Saturday next. BY this ar
rangemcnt the umpire will postpone
the race from day to day.
The London correspondent OF the
Leeds Mercury is informed that Lori
Beaconsfeld has been at work on an
other political work, which may shortly
be exnected TO see the light
The autopsy OF the body Of the lat,
President OF Switzerland, Herr Ander
vert, who committed suicide, showed
that he was suffering from hypertrophy
ofthe heart aud incipient softening o
the brain.
The Government now intends 10 in
troiuce the measure TO arrest Obstruc
ton in the House OF Commons within |
few days, and are considering the polio,
OF introducing an act for the general dis
armament OF the Irish.
George Eliot was never photographed
in her life, and there are only two por
traits of her extant-One at the house
in Cheyne walk, painted by Mr.'F. Bur
ton. the diectOr Of the National Gallery
and given TO her; and the other by Mr
:. Lawrence, which is in the pJsse' SLOT
of Mr.. Black wood, her friend and pub
Usher. in the drawing room OF his hous
iu Edinburgh.
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