Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-18

he has voted for thirty-seven President
and never took drink or uttered an oatl
in his life, went to the work house to-day
for three months for yagrancy.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was quite
brief and unimportant The contents o
several annual reports of executive officer:
were discussed, each officer giving an idea
of what his report shows. The feasibility
OF including certain recommendations in
the Presidents message was also referred
to. One member said, I'VE discussed
neither politics nor removals to-day"
Secretary Teller has limited the exPen.
diture for surveying the Crow agency to
$1,5o0.
An eveding paper says the Democrats, it
is understood, will make bitter fight in
the Senate against the confirmation of
Gen. Pope to be Major General. The
friends of Fitzjohn Porter accused Pope Of
instigating the overthrow of Porter, and
this, together with Pope's we'll known anti
Democratic feeling, will, it is thought
combine the Democrats against him. He
has, too, few enemies in the Republican
party, and il is said three Republican SEN
ators will vote against him.
1t is understood that Folger will lay be-
fore Congress the matter of buying in open
market the United States four and four and
a half per cents of 1907 and ask for direc-
tions
Value of BreadsfuH Exports.
The Bureau of Statistics report the value
Of exports of domestic breadstuffs during
October, 1882, at $l5, POS. .l03. In the same
month of 1881 the value was $f4, ,S39, ,9l4.
Total for the ten months ended October 80,
1881, s192, 292. $50, against $40 7S7, $50 for
the same period in 1882.
Arrival or the Corwin.
The Marine Bureau today received q
telegram announcing the arrival of the
Corwin at San Francisco on "Wednesday
night.
Alleged Murderers Arrested.
WASHINGTON, November l7.-Robert
Lewis and Charlotte Beverly, both colored
were arrested here this morning, on
suspicion of numbering Washington Jack
son, colored, about two weeks ago. Since
that time his friends instituted a search
fol his body, which was last night found
floating in the Potomac river. Lewis and
Beverly were last seen with him on the
night of his disappearance, and from the
fact tnat they had both uttered threats
against him they are believed to be the
mnrderers. The body has the appearance
of Just being thrown into the water, and is
thought to have been concealed since the
night of the murder.
Decrease I'm Arrests OF fCOunterEeiters.
During the past year there has been a
gradual decrease in the number of arrests
on account OF counterfeiting. The Secret
Service officers assign as the principal rea'
son that the handlers of the money, by the
thorough descriptions of counterfeitS given
by the press cf the country, are kept con-
stantly on tteir guard In his annual re-
port, Chief Brooks will show that in cOnse.
quence of the difficulties encountered in
passing spurious money the professional
Counterfeiters now at large are compara-
lively few.
Army Education.
WASHINGTON, November 1.-THE annual
report of Chaplain Mullen's charge of edu-
cation in the army has reached the Secre-
tary of War. 1t shows that 105 military
posts and camps have been supplied with
teachers. The schools were attended dur
ing the year by 1900 enlisted men and LOO
children. At thirty-two posts there were
no teachers; lat camps and posts have
Libraries, with total of $4,000 volumes,
being two and one half volumes TO each
enlisted man in the garrison. The number
of books circulated per month is -, ,S36, be-
ing an average of one and one-half volumes
q man per month. A large number of pa
pers and periodicals were also
received ana placed IN the reau-
ing rooms, to which the average
daily attendance numbers 4,375. The re-
port recommends the passage by Congress
of the pending bill authorizing the employ
ment Of 80 teachers with the rate and pay
of CommisSary Sergeant, S34 per month,
with allowances OF rations, etc. Mullen
IONS in the recommendation OF several
officers that system of compulsory edu-
cation be enforced among certain classes
of men. In appealing for larger appIo-
priation for lights TO be used at night
schools, the chaplain says to furnish light
for the colored schools requires at least one
third more burners than for the others.
POstofiiee supplies.
WASHINGTON, November 1.-THE blank
agency division of the postotfice depart
ment has so far furnished to five hundred
postoffices of the fOurth-class, which are
entitled to them, letter balances, marking
and rating stamps, and ink and pads,
leaving to be supplied about nine thousand
five hundred offices. Of this humber, two
thousand five hundred cannot be furnished
this year, the appropriation for this object
not being sufficient. The cost OF each out
fit is $439. The delay q the contractor in
furnishing the articles has prevented the
department from supplying this OUTFIT as
rapidly as it hoped. Postmaster General
Howe, in his report, will recommend that
uniform cancelling ink be supplied to all
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