Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-06-14

.-LsnSaS is still Sufterlng rom an
r,,suppg of water. The demand is
ri great in that State.
r;s believed that Don Cameron con-
ISs contemptuous Lear one of the
-, disagreesble things in the world.
Atlanta papers have already been
.n.5 mon to return thanks for water
sops laid upon the editorial table.
The aggregate ages of couple mar
4 - AZ Winchester, KY, last week,
n,pp,ed to III years. The groom is
I;-aad the bride 10.
~ Talmage was the greatest attrac-
,;,r at the Trinity college, North
fT.,,Iina. commencement. Six thou
md people went to hear him talk.
! ,Yonkers man says his wife works
n, lightning. By this, We presume,
= wishes to convey the idea that she
4 ,.rsr strikes twice in the same spot.
Governor Rusk, of Wisconsin, has
,,,ybt the expensive residence which
- late Ole Bull built in Madison, and
1ir make that city his home in the tl-
tEe.
The Democrats of Oregon attribute
.,sir defeat to the influence of the man.
.,srs Of the Northern Pacific Bailway,a
monopoly that has axes togrind in that
~ Western State.
fine of the BrOekfield bank robbers is
is.,ribed as being refined" and "edu-
,,,ed" Since the Jesse James episode,
i soweyer, we have begun to question the
. ,-bodoxy of Missouri canons of taste.
pni Proctor thinks that in $1,000, 900
yssrs water will have disappeared from
,Ss earth. No wonder the people Of
Kansas are taking alarm at the pros
,e,,s under the prohibition policy Of
s. John.
Private Dalzeu carried the primaries
in his county, Saturday, as candidate
ar Congress. Every county in the
seventeenth District viii go into the
convention with a candidate and apro-
,,rg,d and bitter contest is antici-
yaied.
4 very small boy and a still smaller
dog DISPATCHED q large and feroeious
Wild cat near Sarina, Mich, last week.
The youngster did not seem to be in the
AT frightened, though he thought 1t
vas a rather close thing, and the dog
VS. evidently delighted.
The Commissioner of Pensions asks
fe appropriation of 81 ,l67, 900 for clerk
hire, with which amount he proposes to
finish every claim within three years.
Tue government has already paid over
S5oOOO,OOO for pensions to soldiers OF
the late war, and the amounts required
---=al.e years to come will be greater
than the interest on the public debt.
Since the fall of Napoleon III. Emile
Olivier has lived in the country in
great style, his second wife having
brought him a large fortune. He has
now returned to Paris, less the famous
blue spectaeles and sinister expression
,fcountenance, and with much more
flesh than he carried duringthe Empire.
The remainder of his life, he says, he
will devote to literature.
\ dusky demi-monde beauty, passing
by the name of the "Blaek Countess, ?"
tried to commit suicide last week in
Paris BY swallowing dose oflaudanum.
Love and disappointment are said to
have been the cause of the desperate
act. Fortunately the poison did not
take effect. The "Blaek Countess" Is a
genuine countess, educated at the Con-
vent des Oiseaux and the wife of an eX-
minister from Hayti.
The Chinese are said to be pouring
into British North America at q great
rate. Large numbers have arrived at
Victoria, b. c., and the cry is still they
come. They are quite safe in taking up
their residence in the American Domin-
ions other Majesty. The country Is so
thinly populated that there is room
enough even for the Chinese, while no
bill excluding them, in the probable
event Of such legislation being at
tempted, would receive the sanction OF
the home government.
1t seems like a sort of grave public
iOke for the municipal authorities oil
Chicago to go through the ceremony OF
vainly attempting to prosecute property
owners in that city for renting their
houses to professional gamblers, while
at tie same time the most gigantic
species Of gambling ever known is car
ried on publicly every week day at the
Commercial Exchange, where millions
otmoney are lost and won in specula-
tive transactions in domestic produce,
whereby the cost of food is enhanced to
the whole body of the people.
The first act of the great European
drama has been played at Alexandria,
anu the long-expected signal Of war has
Deem given in anunmistakable manner.
Ihe wounding of the British Consul
and the killing Of a British seaman are
matters which will certainly not be al
.O"ed to remain unavenged. Coming
immediately upon the heels Of the dec
laraton by the Ulemas that the foreign
Meets must be withdrawn, it is not diff
cut to connect Arab Bey and his party
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