Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17

The silver wedding Of the King and
orsen of Sweden will be celebrated with
GREAT pomp at Stockholm on June b.
The Treasury Department has Pur-
chased 5OO,OO ounces Of silver for distrt-
bution among the mintS.
Again has the Cars coronation been
,ostponad. Ifit is not hurried up he !
viii have no head left to crown.
Numerous spectators in cotton can !
be seen picking themselves up and look |
mo around 10 see what struck them.
VennOr, the Canadian weather proph- !
at-says there will be n storm and block
ade all over the West about the end OF |
this week.
The Pacific Railway Company is |
fitting UP ear shops at Omaha which |
will be the largest under one roof upon |
he continent.
The values of exports of domestic
breadstufiS for the seven months ended
January Slst, lSS2, is Sl2l,072, 9OT; same
period in 1851, Sl6S, ,5O9,5OO.
The colored Jubilee Singers were de-
MED admission to every hotel in
Washington, and until after midnight
did not find place to sleep.
las, wear the United States sold to
countries under the British flag, goods to
the value Of fS547,23l ,9S4; and took from
them in return S249,l4l, ,S23 worth.
Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm has been
proposed aS a member Of the Chicago
Board of Health. Ifthe smallpox hears
ofthis it will at once flee bowling away
in terror.
After an interruption of twenty-six
days communication by land between
Louisville and Nashville has been re-
stored. The break was caused by the
high water.
The price of Il seat in the New York
stock Exchange is now about S3O,OOO.
One thousand members is the limit. 1t
knows neither State nor United States
law, and an appeal from it to the State
law is punishable by expulsion.
China is said To haveacquired mari |
time equipment in the past five years, |
which could make splinters of the
American navy, and it only cost about |
Sl2,OOO,OOO, while our has in the same |
time cost SlOO, 1000, 900.
Anna Dickinson has encountered adj |
verse criticism wherever she has acted
during her Western tour, but she draws
large audiences, and is making hand
some profit. She will go to London in
May to appear for six weeks in the
Crystal Palace, and expects nextlseasOn
n this country to add Macbeth and
Richard III. 10 her characters.
BY carefully reading the full text or
what is called the Monroe Doctrine"
it will be found that the distinguished
American statesman made no reference
10 guano or Saltpetre. In this regard
the Monroe doctrine differs from the
Blaine doctrine, and it is an immense
Inference.
Minister LangStOn at Hayti reports |
the prevalence of smallpox as an epi- |
demic at Port au Prince. Hundreds Of
people have died of the disease, and |
hundreds are now sick. \ quarantine |
has been establishedat Kingston against !
Port au Priuee, Port de Paix, Gonaives,
st. Mare, Petit GOave aud Cape Hay
ticu.
Texas has just given tract of land
l97 miles in length and twenty-seven
miles in width as an equivalent for the
building Of a new State House. Present |
poverty may be some excuse, but we are
much mistaken if future generations do
not eXecrate the miserable financiers |
who could find no other way to raise
State funds than the alienation Of 50
immense a section of the public do
main. lfthey do not do so their opin-
!onS on any subject will not he worth
much.
About a week ago Senator Benjamin
II. Hill underwent third operation at
the Jefferson Medical College, Philadel-
phia, for the eXtirpation of a cancerous
growth in his mouth, and rumors have |
been circulating that his condition was
quite alarming. His physicians reported |
last evening that he was getting along
well, and that the operation was highly |
satisfactory.
A bill to punish corporations for cir
culating deceptive advertisements was
introduced recently in the Wisconsin
Senate. 1t is made unlawful for any |
company transacting the business of
lire insurance in the State to permit to
be published by any Of its agents, or
with their knowledge or consent, any !
statement, card orsign which represents |
the company as writing risks different !
in nature from those actually written,
or representing the company as con-
inning its company to a particular class
OF risks when it is inreality writing risks
otanother class.
The Baltimore Gazette. which has
been posing as a journalistic elephant
Nr some time past, is about to go under
aSeeond time. Mr.. Cotton will, it is
understood, withhold further pap and
the paper will go into permanent re-
'Eement, to be succeeded BY a more
youthful publication, whose name has
not yet been determined. 1t will be
under the control of W. T. Croasdale,
tOr long time editOr-in-chief of the
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