Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-07-09
THE NEWS
or the Day i'm Pithy Paragraphs.

President Garfield is glorious fellow.
He has ioiled the whole army OF obitua-
ry poets.
Rifles TO the number OF $1,000 have
been shipped from Odessa Tor the Bull
garian army.
A rocket set fire to the opera house at
Fort Wayne, Ind, totally destroying It.
The loss is about $4,000
The late NJ. Littre translated Dante's
Inferno" into French verse oi the
thirteenth century by way OF mere pas
time.
Milwaukee uses water only for extin-
gushing tires, but the supply for that
purpose has 80 greatly decreased that
citizens are robbed OF their sleep.
Hessy Heliman, one OF the assassins
of the Gar, who is imprisoned in a. fort
ress, reports herself we'll treated, and
has been allowed to consult an attorney
on the subject OF petitionlng for COM
mutation of sentence.
Gentlemen who have been shot
through the liver are now in as great
request as are reformed sinners at a
camp meeting. Anybody with bullet
in his liver is brought to the front and
asked to unload his experience.
The International Monetary Confer
ence will demand bimetallism or moth
ing. The proposition OF the Bank OF
England will be rejected, although some
British spectators undertook to advance
the price OF silver on account OF the
document.
Two runners from the camp Of Sitting
Bull have reached Poplar River agency,
and are negotiating for the surrender oi
| twenty lodges of hOstiles who are Ell
camped lust north of the border line,
| This would leave Sitting Bull with only
| thirteen lodges TO cope with the Crees,
who are in the field after his scalp
Giuseppi Esposito, remarkably hand
some Italian, the sole survivor of a
famous band OF brigands, for whose
| arrest a reward OF p 900 lire was offered,
WAS caught in New Orleans, where he
had Eeen quietly running lrult
schooner. lie is irons on board a
steamer bound for New York, where an
Italian war-vessel is waiting to take him
home.
Sir Josiah Mason, who Was in early
youth a shoemaker and altcrwar'
A carpenter, and who became im'
meusely wealthy, has Just died III Eng
land tie made most OF his money is Il
manufactured of split rings and steel
pens. He built and endowed many
| charitable and educational institutions,
and in recognition OF his muniicent
gifts and public services he was created
a knight in 1872.
Mrs. Garfield has exhibited III this
sore trial all the attributes OF a noble
| woman. She is calm, patient, hopeful
and helpful. when pain and anguish
wiring the brow" she proves minister.
| ing angel, and at no time has been
uncertain, coy and hard 10 please u
Her trial is as great as that OF her suffer
ing husband, her danger quite as inmi
nent, perhaps, and her pluck and lortl'
tude quite rs conspicuous.
Countess dNuecourt has brought, in
behalf OF her daughter, a suit for nullity
OF marriage against Musurus Bey, son
| of the Turkish ambassador in England
| Mile. dNuecourt two wears ago ran away
and was married to the young Turk, but
was shortly taken possession ol by her
mother, who has kept her in a French
convent ever since. Cardinal Manning
under instructions OF the Pope, has been
making investigations OF the matter
which is not yet concluded.