Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-26

10 New York. The mountain would
not come to the Mahomet, so Nahomet
went To the mountain.
New England will take more kindly
L, General Grant now that he signified
hi intention to go to the Congregations
81 church. The spinster is not 80 old
tAa, she l. inscnsible to fiattery.
Congress having adjourned, the Pres
ornt being in New York, divers menu
lyr- of the Cabinet absent for the holi-
day, can it truly be said that the Gov
crumyut still lives at Washington?
ODonovan, the correspondent Of the
Iondon Duj,y N,7rs who was arrested
N Cou>tantinople on II charge of speak
iug IN abusive terms Of the Sultan, has
n,ru sentenced To six months impris-
uumcut.
Dr. Patterson, u well known physi-
elan of 1t. Paul, Mimi, shot and killed
himself early saturday morning. His
body was found between the graves Of
| ll, Son and daughter. Whisky ami
opium wrr, the principal causes.
An additional forgery Of Sl,Ooo was
| discovered at Columbus Saturday in the
accounts of F. w. Newburgh, Assistant
Secretary of the State Board Of Public
Works. The amount of forgcrics reach
nearly $4,000 ~ far as investigated.
The Booths Theatre property, in New
York, which has proved Il steadily un-
profitable investment from the start, has
been sold for S55O,OO0 to parties who
will convert it into a fancy goods bazar,
srd doubtless find millions in it,
The Montreal bankers object to fur
ni>hug the Finance Minister with the
namrS of the endorserS on the paper
they hold. 1t looks to them almost as
hsd A. prying into family affairs, but the
Minister still insists they have no busi-
n,-,, ;n hold paper they are ashamed or
The newspaper having the largest cir
cuiation of any in the wOrld-Over GOO,-
n1-is Ho,Jds, London. Mr.. Lloyd, the
principal editor, does his work in the
rnm where Richardson wrote "Pame-
"a" ami Oliver Goldsmith read the
usol
With . cartoon depicting Irish land
iupi> - beggarS and tenants as prosper
Gus. T-,Hcd H,Icu,dappeared in London
ou l;,s; Friday. William Hunt, clerk,
va, arrested for secretly conducting the
payrr Five hundred copies was seized
10y The police.
The suspect. Moore, has been released
trom Kilmainham prison on condition
that he would migrate To America from
the country. He was arrested in the
early part of this year in connection
with the murder of Wheeler, land
agent but discharged for lack OF evi'
den,r. Subsequently hc was rr-arreStcc
uUirr the coercion act. He has beer
sent to Queenstown, where he will em
Lark.
The ;ollowing is the press report o
the sradc in this city ~ sen, out laS
week:
WHEELING, W. VA, December -. -
The manufacturers here continue To r.
Port p gpcI demand for all their Wares
srd prizes arr fully maintained. Tin
mai! mills arr well supplied with Orders
sHtare not inclined to book speculative
purchases. They do not look with fayo
"n the advance inpig-irOn in PittSburgi
- Fer ton, believing that it will. il
The emf, tend 10 encourage importation
and demOraliZe the market. They ii
well satisfied with the present conditio
Of the market.
The western trunk-line roads recent
'e'eived information that ten steam
snip lines are Systematically dlrcttin
al Immigrant business over fOU
eastern trunk roads, and thence I
TIE Rock Island. Representative
the Burlington, st. Paul, Alton, uliuo
'entral, Wabash, Missouri Pacif
N' rthwc>tern, Hannibal, and Pennsy
ANA roads held meeting in Chica:
''"a; and passed resolutions that Tn,
VIII no longer give the offending
snip companies any form of ry<l,lc,
'a'' or have any business reIatiu
"''" 'htm in connection with paS1e
ger traffic, but that every effor. shall
made to divert business 10 four 9th
sncs named.