Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-09
THE NEWS.

ri,.. value of taxable property in Ohio
Il 81, 50, ,sO7, ,579.
The insurgents in Yemen, Arabia,pro-
,.,,im.,d a descendant Of the Prophet as
CaliPh.
R,u and Wilson, cloth merchants
Of London, have failed. lhaoilltieS'
Els4.ooo.
The cost Of Iondon's fire department
i, about 5000 per year.
Nj. r. O'NcaI was confirmed aS post
r,a.Ier at Steubcnville, d., yesterday.
President Arthur'S first state dinner
will take place next Saturday evening
The members ofthe Cabinet will be the
guests
Spain has made a long stride towards
. higher civilization by legislation for
the extension ofcommOn school educa-
ton among the masses.
With Robesou as the Republican
leader ia the House, and Dorsey to do
the campaign skirmishing, the great
party ofrcform seems to be pretty we'll
beeied.
The Democratic State Committee of
Massachusetts propose the celebration
Of WaSlington'> birthday and the more
comrieir organization of the party Ill
the ?oia,c.
Iii. estimated that there are lO,OOO,OOO
men under arms in Europe at the pres
on, time, and that the annual cost, Iii
rrrt ,nd indirect, Of these enormous
G,rr,.,. :. not less than =, $40, 900, 900.
When Congress gets the Indians all
nicely settled on their farms, each buck
having all the land he needs and some
10 spare, what then" Are they still to
be fed and pctted by the Government:
Tue new five cent Garfield postage
stamps viii he ready for issue March lSt.
the stamp j. pronounced the truest
Likeness of General Garfield, and the
haud-omr,t stamp yet issued by the
ro,t. i!jrc Department.
Il - estimated that the coal fields of
the lutrd States could supply the whole
civilized world with coal for Il hundred
Yeats; and yet Our annual production
little more than half the annual yield of
iar british coal mines.
rr,cr Cooper will be 9l Years old on
lh,. 18th inst. When he was born the
city Of New York contained FOOD and
his mother was born on the spot where
y. pau!> Church now stands. Mr..
Cunpcr has lived under the admiuiStra-
i.au of al the Presidents.
Ia the English House of Commons,
yesterday morning, Justice Mccarthy,
nu b,halCof the Irish members, gave
noliCr OF a long amendment to the adj
dress. ca.egorically condemning every
point in the Governments Irish policy,
and urging an immediate return to con-
s,tutipual methods.
Narrow, very narrow, Is the basis for
hope that the gallant Lieutenant De
Long and his companions will ever
come, out of the Siberian SHOWS with
out aid: AMI the probability that they
can b. rescued by any human effort is
exceeding remote. An uaspeakable
sad fate il Is to be wrecked on q frozen
sea and then To suffer the horrors of
starvation in Il wilderness.
Senator Logan has had more than his
share Of troubles lately. His recon-
mcudA,ionS for Federal offices in Illi-
nois got him in hot water; then General
Grants stand i'm the Fitz John Porter
ease hut him; worse still, ne lost his
little grandchild of whom he was ex-
creiing!y fond, and now he i~ in bed
with rheumatism.
New York City, the tax assessors
lind. has a realty valuation Of about
+, ,ODo. .GOnOOO. of which less than half,
S9lG,OOO,O ,OOO, is covered by the assess
ment for taxation. The personal prop
erty of the city taxed foots S2j6,3j6,O 900,
probably not onc-tenth of the real value
OF such property open to taxation, let
alone the 81, ,OO0, ,OOO, 900 or 30 of personal
property in the city exempt from taxa
tiOa.
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