Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-19
THE NEWS
or the Day in Pithy Paragraphs.

Smallpox is still prevalent in Pitts.
bargh.
Rugby colony is suffering from an
epidemic OF typhoid fever.
For the st. Leger Stakes the betting is
So to 40 against Iroquois.
The Minnesota Republican State Con.
vention will be held September %.
The Monmouth Park races were post
poned yesterday on account of rain.
An arrest under the coercion act was
made at Tralee, Ireland, yesterday.
At San Francisco, yesterday, Arch
bishop Seghrs was invested with the pal
lium.
"Tiresome" Bliss is still able to get
his opinions before the public at least
twice per diem.
1t is proposed to erect a 5000 monu.
ment at Bucyrus, Ohio, to dead Craw-
ford county soldiers.
General Hancock declines all invita-.
titpsto public entertainments since the
attack on the President.
The cigar manufacturers OF Detroit
have ended the strike by offering 10 pay
the Union bill OF prices.
Ex-senator Bruce proposes to pass q
month in Ohio making speeches to help
re.elect Governor Foster.
Ralph Waldo Emerson expects to re.
main at Concord for the remainder OF
his days. He is too feeble to travel.
Gen. Ward B. Burnett, OF New York,
is the only surviving graduate OF West
Point VINO was General in the Mexican
war.
Seven hundred men paraded the
streets OF Stettin, Germany, yesterday,
uttering cries against the Jews. Forty
Of them were arrested.
The announcement is made that the
steamer Plymouth Rock has had her
damages repaired and will resume her
regular trips on Sunday.
Another band OF the brigands who
captured Suter, in Roumalia, last spring,
was arrested at Athens, Greece, yester.
day. Among the number was the chief.
The tanners of Allegheny, yesterday,
notified their employers that their hours
VI ldUO WCiS wv iOhkb budt u tbCy
were not reduced next week they would
strike.
Edward Fitzgerald, an employe OF the
Anchor line OF steamers at Erie, was
found yesterday afternoon lying near
the dock on the railraod track, crushed
10 death.
A rumor is current that on Monday
next the Grand Trunk road proposes to
make the passenger war interesting to
Mr.. Vanderbilt by cutting the rates to
Buffalo to 81.
The Rome correspondent OF the Lon.
don Times gives the assurance that the
Pope may soon remove his residence
from that city to Malta, the British pos
session in the Mediterranean.
Senator Ben. Hill, OF Georgia, was
able to respond to a serenade in Virginia
last night, and mildly said that the Goa
ltion party OF that State was composed
OF corrupt politicians and ignorant ne.
groes.
A mountain about twenty miles east
OF Mount Idaho is sending forth col.
umns OF fire and smoke to height OF
several hundred feet, and the shock is
distinctly felt for radius of seventy.
five miles.
A team OF English professional crick-
eters, under Capt. Aincy Shaw, which
is TO visit America and Australia, has
been definitely formed. The team will
embark from Liverpool on the Goth OF
September.
S. NJ. Lewis, a colored "straightout"
Virginia Republican, openly declares
for Daniels, the Democratic candidate
for Governor, and in a letter to the
Washington Post urges his friends to
follow his example.
Colored Bishops Dickerson, OF South
Carolina and Georgia; Shorer, OF the
Ohio Episcopal district, and Panye, OF
Baltimore, Virginia and North Carolina,
have arrived in London to attend the
Methodist Ecumenical Conference.
Nothing is more genuine than the
concern expressed by the Southern peo.
pie about the President. Everywhere
throughout the land the latest bulletin
ia watched for and discussed. and the
universal hope is that he will recover.
The New York Hour recommends that
General Grant be run for Alderman,
now that he has become a resident oil
New York, and promises him second
term should he conduct himself proper
ly during his first
Since the appointment Of colored men
upon the Philadelphia police force, the
colored men of Albany are determined
that they will Immediately ask for the
appointment OF one colored man as a
policeman and another as letter.car.
| rier.
Major Daniel, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor of Virginia, has pale
and besrdless face and boyish express
sion. reminding one OF Byron. He is
said TO be very chiyalric person, and it
ia relate that he left school with room
mate, who was expelled for some viola.
ton OF rule, because, though not guilty
of the same offense, he was present and
in full sympathy with the offender.
The possibility Of General Arthur be-
coming President OF the United States
leads TO considerable speculation as to
his probable plan Of action. A gentle
man who witnessed his first interview
with the members of the Cabinet asserts
that the Vice President produced very
favorable impression upon all by his
sincere grief over the act OF the assassin
Secretary Blaine treated him almost as
a brother, and the prejudice engender'
ed by the New York Senatorial contest
was speedily wiped away. Arthur
friends intimate that he would accept
the P.esidt ncy only until a successor to
6 ,neral Garfield could be elected by the
p 'ople.
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