Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-07-15
THE NEWS
of the Day in Pithy Paragraphs.


The yellow fever still continues at
IuCatan.
SIX more new cases OF smallpox ap.
peared in Pittsburgh yesterday.
Ex-senator Conkling arrived in
Washington yesterday morning.
At MassilIon, Ohio, a Mr.. Sibila's cow
diSemboweled him, and he will die.
The Sunday afternoon concerts on
Boston Commons are still in vogue.
The Yankee saw mill at Lindsay, DAT,
was burned Yesterday. Loss 100000.
I.onis Haas aud his bother were ar.
ested in New York, Yesterday, Tor forg.
cry.
The first Southern grapes, which wele
OF 6ue quality, were on sale IN Chicago
yesterday.
Judge Dillon has been appointed re-
ceiver at the Manhattan Elevated raIl-
way IN New York.
IL is stated that the French interior
postage will be uniform after July lst
next, the rate to be ten cent.mes.
The steamer Brittanic has been safely
tnrEed st Liverpool. lie injuries are
believed 10 be only OF IA local nature.
Robert TrrolI, OF Cambridge, Mass, q
,1lored student of Harvard College, is
head waiter az an eastern summer hotel.
Ajyires irum Spitzhergeu say the
Arctic winter Was excessively severe,
AMI that the ice Is not Yet breaking up.
4, ,r.s, seven bows have died in Bal
,.,aore ut lock ]aw caused by injuries re-
rr,vri lr,m ~ pistols on the Fourth of
July.
The French societies OF New York and
y.an..v Yesterday celebrated the storm.
ir. a. the BaStIie in an appropriate
mauarr.
.,., currently reported at Burlington,
Iowa. tuat the Burlington aud South.
Wrs.rru Railroad will he extended To
Kansas City.
The Treasury Department yesterday
purchased les, 600 ounces OF fine silver,
Tor delivery AT the San Francisco and
Orleans mints.
Four persons were poisoned in Allie
ghpuv Yesterday from eating sardInes
rucaStd in tin box, and are now lying
IN a critical condition.
Bismarck has made demaLd upon
the Porte Ia refund the ransom money
recently paid 10 ROumelian brigands Tor
the release ol two captive Germans.
The schooner Helena collidrl with
the propeller Asia oh Marquette, Mich,
Yesterday. The steamer nad her bows
stove in and sunk Immediately. No
lives lost.
The largest mortgage ever hled IN
Hardin county, Ohio, has Just been
placed on record. Ii is Tor 20. .5OO,OO
and was given bv the new Chicago and
Atlantic Railroad.
Prince Alexander, Of Bulgaria, has
lust issued a manifesto announcing q
liberal policy and declaring confidence
in the popular support OF the new adj
miuIstratbOn.
\ boy named Willie Cain was drown
rL bv TWO other boys named Ralph
Richards aud Edward I. Gross, at Rock,
uou. Maine, Yesterday, because he re-
fused Z, give up twenty-five cents 10
them
The executive committee OF the Chr
rago SapnyprfcSt paid Madame PeSChka'
Irutner -. 900, Miss Aauie Louise Cary
SI.2OG, Madame D0ualli 500. and
Nessrs. Whitney and CandidIus 81, lOi
and Il 600 respectively.
Miss AIamalz Iamakowa, Il youn!
japanese lady, Tor several years mem
her of the Rev. Leonard Bacon hluuN
At New Haven, was baptized and al
mIttet 10 the Ientre church, New
Haven, on last SUNDAY.
Mrs. MARY Scott, OF New Orleans, :
singular character, known AS "Hehe
Mary" among the Federal soldiers dur
inc the war. because oi her rabld South
prn prntIivilic~. whose picture appear
ed In Harpyrs G-.tig At that time, haS
lust died.
4 fuud is being raised IN Boston t.
give poor and intrm persons street car
rides OH pleasant days. With Boston :
efficient open car service, aud the pleas
ant suburbs To which many ol the Itue'
run, this is a charity not to hS dertde,
by any means.
Mr.. McCowan, oi Fall River, has seen
Paine. the fugitive Fall River embezzler
IN Montreal. Tie says Paine Is getting
rich and Is putting up Il large clotu mlIi
b,ckel by S4OO,OOO raised 10y Montrea
citizens lie has a tine house aud Is
happv as a cricket. MIR Pare "w"usdn
90 back 10 the States Tor anything.
Prince Bismarck's son, Count VII
liam Bismarck, u member OF the German
narIiament, is said To be young MAJ
II very considerable energy, with pros
ms OF much political influence oye
his rountrymen il he studies 10 achieve
complete independence IN his Opinions
and also due moderation IN eNpreSsIu!
them.
4 Young fellow in Rouen, Ia, Dor
r,Ued an Old trunk from his aunt some
time ago, and when he got ready 70 re
tnrn il the other day he found that
had A false bottom and $4,000 IN th'
hidden recess. Now he, his aunt, and
;nnk dealer from whom the wOma'
boucht the trunk have gone 10 law ove
the possession Oi the money.
Inst now something extraordinary II
tho way of fleece Ot wool Is att actin!
rnosiBerable attention at the Sieuhen
viIIs Wool House. The fleece Is Ken
tucky combing from 4 sheep rrcrntN
exbiIited az the Turner tAir IN StvuOru
Vile, and is ten feet long by slX leet ter
inches wid., about the size OF i common
cows hide, the wool being about i've
inches in length.
DR. J. Il. Holland has been propose,
a. orator or poet of the reunion OF th'
Oh berkshire Medical college, at PtitS
field. Mass, which will probably come
oil next fall. DR.. Holland was gradual
ed in lS4S, aud was orator ot the Alumni
association, which he took great part N
organizing. His theme Al graduation
like that OF other students, Is now IN the
Boston AtheuUum.
Gen. Garfield once wrote the follow
ing eloquent sentence: when tive
hundred and fifty thousand brave spirits
passed iIom the field OF honor through
that thin veil 10 the presence OF Cod
and when at his; its parting folds admit
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