Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-20
THE NEWS
OF the Day In Pithy Paragraphs

THENEws
OF the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.
Serious floods have occurred in Ari.
zona-
General TOombs is in exceedingly
poor health.
The New York apple crop is said to
be extremely light. .
General Sheridan will visit various
points in Massachusetts, next month.
The Petersburg Globe has reappeared
under q new title as the Nstr Gdzstts.
General Noyes, ex-Minister to France,
arrived at New York yesterday morning.
Mrs. Gladstone, wife of England's q
Prime Minister, is suffering from slight
attack OF erysipelas.
Almost the entire town of Gall, B.. G.,
was burned yesterday. Loss very heavy
and insurance very light. .'. !,
The Emperor Francis Joseph has Civ
en- 10000 tlOrlns toward rebuilding the
Czetch theatre, burned recently.
The New Hampshire Legislature yes.
t,rday, killed the Marston excise bill
and the bill for purity Of elections.
Ine steamer City OF Richmond,
which arrived at New York frops hon
don, yesterday, brought s60, 900 In god.
An aeronaut ascended from Montpe-
lier, France, on Sunday last, and has not
since been heard of. IL is suppo osed he
was lost at sea.
In spite of the advance in the bank
rate, it is understood that some further
sums will be taken from London for New
York, this week.
Sudden changes in the weather at
Quebec have been severe upon horse
flesh during the past ten days, and dis
temper is prevalent.
State militia to the number OF ten
thousand have already given notice of
their intention to participate in the
Yorktown Centennial.
Miss Anna Harkness, the daughter OF
q newspaper carrier in Boston, has taken
the first prize as a violinist in the Paris
Conservatory of Music.
Grants regiment, the Twenty first Ill
inois, will hold reunion at Etingham,
September 10 to p and the General has
promised To be present.
The result OF interviews by the San
Diego Sun with leading apisrists upon
the subject OF the honey crop OF Calilor-
mia this year is no. encouraging.
Advices from st. Petersburg state that
Prince GortschakOf seems perfectly
disinclined to surrender his diplomatic
activity sn1 influential position.
Ii is estimated that the Secretary of
State, Treasurer and Comptroller OF Ten
nessee, will get each about $4,000 as
fees for reiunding the State debt.
IL now appears that the disaster at
tending the Nnll fight at Marseilles on
Sunday last, resulted in the death OF q
persons and the wounding of 300.
James Z. Keene, the millionaire, is
negotiating for the Meem farm in Shen-
andoah county, Va. 1t contains five
thousand acres, and is valued at 500, 900.
Thousands of hands will find employ
ment in securing within season the I'M
mense hop crop of the Puyallup, w. T,
this year. The Indians are already an
ticipating the work.
Ex-CongresSman Martin +. Conway,
of Kansas, who once shot Senator Pome-
roy, and has long been confined In the
Insane ASYLUM at Washington, WAS re-
leased yesterday.
Surgeon Edward =. Matthew's. ot tho
United States navy, who has been sus-
pended for intoXlcation, attempted SUI
eide at Providence, l.. l., last night. Ills
recovery is doubtful.
Great preparations are making SOr the
lind Leage Convention at Newcastle on
the 29th inst. Justin Mccarthy will
preside. Delegates from each 0ranch oil
the League OF Great Britain will be pres
ent.
George Smith, of New Brighton, Staten
Island, who yesterday returned from
fonr-yeas's whaling voyage, states that
his boat captured ninety-fve whales,
which maize $500 barrels OF oil, worth
about $40 900.
The descendants of Henry ToRte. OF
BOSTON. have a set of chess men present
,d 10 him by Louis Philippe, whJr ~
future King of France Was te'c,'."E
French for a livelihood in the capita! L
New England.
Fifty thousand dollars OF MHines
State debt iell dus Tuesday, but owing
t,the Governors refusal To meet with
Tho Council no warrant could be drawn.
To prevent the bonds going TO protest
IN. Treasurer personally advanced the
money 10 save the credit OF the State.
The returns of the five emigration
agencies of Ontario show that for the
first six months OF the current year lO.-
OH immigrants have settled in the prov
ipce, as compared with 9,l42 for the
corresponding period of last yecr., For
n seven months ending with July the
total number was 1905, as compared
with IL .OS2 for the corresponding period
Of last year.
For the past week or ten days mum
her of Cinnamon have been engaged at
the Jacksonville, Oregon, cemetery ex-
huming the bodies of dead Chinamen,
preparatory TO shipping them to the
Celestial empire. About fifty bodies
thu; have been buried five or six years
are being taken up, and the bones or
each placed in a separate sack and Ia
beled with the name of the deceased.
These sacks are aiterwsrd placed in
boxes-sO many sacks to each box-and
then they are ready to be shlppeu 10
China 1t is a ghsstly process.
SPORTING.