Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-06
THE NEWS
OF the Day i'm Pithy Paragraphs.

The Louisiana orange crop this year
is a complete failure.
Sing Sing prison reports a net profit
OF 81, ,029 6S for the month OF July.
The New York and Brighton Beach
railroad was sold at Sheritf's sale yester
day.
A wien of lubricating oil was struck
Tuesday at Magnolia, near Wayesburg,
Ohio.
Samuel Fosdick, very aged and a
prominent business man OF Cincinnati,
died Yesterday.
A great granddaughter OF the immor-
tai Patrick Henry is attending school at
Huntsville, Tex.
The cargo Of the ship Calcutta, OF Bos-
ton, wrecked off the coast OF Africa, Is
valued at 100000.
The remains Of ex Governor Bagley
arrived at Detroit yesterday. The iun-
eral takes place on Sunday.
Baroness Burdett. Coutts Bartlett and
her husband are coming to this country
in October to spend several months.
Mahogany and rosewood are found to
he the cheapest, as we'll as the best, ma
terisl for ties on the Tehauntepec rail-
road.
A. r. CLAYTON and Richari Smith, Jr.,
were Yesterday appointed Internal Rev.
enue 5: S:orekeepers for the First District
of Ohio.
The Internal Revenue officials find
that sweetened whiskey is largely ship
ped to temperance localities as patent
medicine.
The death is announced in London OF
Theodore BergK, German linguist and
professor, critic anu historian OF Greek
literature.
The six Arabs brought over by lyce-
um bureau are stranded in Boston. The
only charge made against them Is that OF
quarreling.
Stefid ( Ncy, wholesale dealers in liq-
nor and tobacco at Kansas City, Mo,
Yesterday made an assignment. llabi-
tiles SlSO,0O0.
Mrs. Z. q. Hartshorne has rendered
the free US OF her Newport villa for Sep
tember and October to the President
and Mrs. Garfield.
A strange disease among the cattle OF
Logan county, His, has Just developed
itself. About half OF them are partially
blind, but from what source Is not
known.
In the county court at Erie, Pa, yes
terday, William l.. Scott, president OF
the Erie Canal Company ,confessei judg-
ment for s., ,074,6 81 in favor OF j. NJ.
Mccullough.
Mrs. Dr. w. II. Bird of Lonoke county,
Arkansas, gave birth to twelve-pound!
girl babe with its brain on the outside OF
its Uranium, which is covered only by
membrane. II is doing well.
Cork trees are being successfully rails.
ed in Georgia. The cork on some OF
them is already thick enough for use.
Ir is supposed thesetre can be success
fully raised i'll most OF the Southern
: ates.
At Neilsville, Wis, yesterday, Ed
ward Lemon went into the office oil the
Rep bFcun, and, taking the contents OF n
bottle OF laudanum, he asked the editor
to see him die. In a moment Lemon
dropped back helpless, and shortly after
expired. The Rtpublic0n had published
something that offended Lemon anu lie
poisoned himself for spite.
mabel Wilberforce," who has just
figured so unpleasantly in sensational
libel suit at London, Eng, forMerly
pIaye ed the part OF boarding house
dead-bpat at Troy, \. Y, to perfection.
She called herself Mrs. Triniiie then,
and pretended to be the wife OF n British
con sui aud the friend OF Canon Kings.
lav. At the Philadelphia centennial and
in other cities she ran the same swind.
liuy career.
A Washington correspondent says:
Gov. Charlie Foster, OF Ohio, does not
SEEN to he able in making his campaign
speeches ior reelection 10 cone with the
financial question unaided. He has
within the last two weeks written q
number of letters to the Treasury De-
partment, asking for information upon
various subjects connected with the
financial administration OF the Treasury
Department. He states in these letters
that he wants the information for use in
his campaign, and would like to have
answers 10 them just as early as possible.
Ii is unnecessary to say that the Treas
urv Department is affordine him all the
facilities for preparing his stump
speeches that he could desire.