Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-23
THE NEWS
OF the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.

last euneSuay forenoon.
The total subscriptions to the Garfield
fund to date amount to Sl56, ,7S265.
The work OF fdemolishing the reservoir
on Beacon Hill, Boston, has begun.
Captain Howgate, the Signal Service
0 nbszz!er, has been released on bail.
Within the last ten years 500, COO
Italians have emigrated to foreign port.
The first specimens of this years crop
of oranges IN Florida are unusually fine.
Senator David Davis has within the
past month lost sixty pounds in flesh.
A dispatch from London SAYS that
rnval assent has been given the Land
Bill.
Archbishop Purcell is gradually grow
ing weaker, and now has to be fed Ikea
child.
A single grape vine at Cajon, Cslitor-
MIA, is said to bear five tons OF fruit.
Next
The Chicago House OF Correction has
earned $4,000 this year by the labor
system. It goes into the eity trsasnry.
The name Of Prince leopold is being
prominently mentioned as the successor
70 Governor General Lorne, Of Canada.
Wallsck's Theater, New York, na'-
rowly escaped destruction by lire yes
tsriav. A kettle of boiling tar caught
IRE.
Adyices from Alexandra, Egypt, say
the fall of the ministry of Riaz Pasha is
considered certain before the end OF the
present month.
Frank Walworth, who murdered his
ia,her. will, It is said, soon marry an
heiress who has passed several sum
mers a. Saratoga.
The exports OF breadstuffs for July
v.re Slg,9S2 900; the July previous,
SSl 81, coo. seven months, SlSl ,96S 900;
last year, Sl52, ,5s6,0OO.
Worden f. Paine, stenographer OF the
New York Assembly, died of consump-
ton Yesterday at his home at Battle
Island, near Fulton, \. y.
The elections Yesterday at Havana
for members of the Spanish Cortes re-
suited in the return Of majority OF the
constitutional candidates.
Don Carles has rented a villa in Scot
land for the rest OF the season. He was
compelled to pay the rent in advance, as
the owner refused 10 trust him.
Krupp, the great German gunmaker,
is so much pressed with orders that he
has engaged S 900 more workmen, max
lng the total force OF %orkmen $4,000.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the volunteer review at Edinburgh,
scotland, on Thursday next. 1t is ex-
pr,ted that $4,000 spectators will be
present.
Ex.Mluister Moves, who has arrived
from France, saws there is but little talk
about the De Lesseps canal scheme, and
that the stock was not placed among the
large bankers.
The King and Queen of Denmark ar
rived at Cronstadt yesterday. They
we're met by the Car and Czarlna and
The Grand Dukes, and proceeded to Pc
terhotf with them.
Some of the German newspapers are
growing old. There is one IN Frankfort
which has scored Pol years. Of papers
whose ages average from eighty to fifty
wears there are 200.
J.B. Simonson, President OF the First
National Bank of Holly, Mich, was
Yesterday stricken with paralysis ana
nov lies in au extremely critical conui-
ton. He is the father-in-law OF Con-
gresham Brewer, OF that State.
II ia stated that the cause OF the quick
1ssnatch of a British man-ot-war to
Honolulu on Monday was owing to
rumor of the intention OF the Unltet
States to take posse Sslon oil the SAND
yich Islands at an early date.
II il stated by an official that the rea-
son why the Chinese students were re-
called wSs that the Chinese government
intends 10 start State esta0llshH ent Al
T-irn Tsien, similar to West Fo'ht, ara
the recalled students are To ne tie hrst
admitted.
The Prince Of Wales was suddenly
prostrated on Saturday by acoid oi s@rH
yrsyiry as o cause general on pu"'ic
AIM. His condition at the present.
finn. "a such that the attending phNs''
ciaUs leel compelled 10 keep the pu"AS
informed hy regular bulleuls.
4 dispatch from Tunis says: The ds-
parture of the Beg > troops wAS hX'u 'Hr
YESTERDAY. They number two taonsEni'
mostly irregulars. The heir appar"ni rs
in command of the force which Hhl
march on Eair.wan. Ne VII be sup
ported by a column OF Frclca troops
Tbs Rochester and Pittshurst rail,
rnad is being pushed with u great "eal
%. energy. The contractors have no"
800 men at work, and have already or
,lprad III 900 tons OF steel rails rom irCy
ana the Cambria mills. The road is eN e
p,g.ted 10 be completed in the anInnln
of so. with a branch to Buhil".
Wm. Dunbar. of Watertown, CT, "as
arrested at Buffalo on Friday, charSt
with using the mails to carry OUT
fraudulent scheme. He has beet nool-
ing the country with letters solI,"'i :
dollar advertisements for pleasure
guide and stock breeders directory
neither OF which have existence.
The death at White Sulphur SPtrSS
on Tuesday OF Mr. AOram b. "SIf'son'
awell known and much respected cIi-
zpn Of ST Louis, was the result OF
brave act done by him last winter. he
had inst stepped from a railroad trair'
when he saw a little child iall from Inc
platform under the wheels de sPrats
iorward and saved the child, out IN 50
doing broke his own arm and sn1ereo
severe internal injuries he nsd oeeu
n for more than a yea, and his system
icould not bear this additional STRAIN.
In spjte OF all that love and skill eouiG
10 Tor him he gradually Jailed uniu
daakh a,Ia1 his autfprilQs.