Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-10

bile Bay, off Point Clear, lately
A citizen of Anderson, S. c., has just
sold a 500 confederate note for $50.
A farmer informs the Chicago Times
that Illinois will not raise half corn
crop this year.
The average cost per person in Eng
land of LIQUOR has fallen from ~ IN
1875 to Sl6 in lSS2.
During the past five months eight
deaths have resulted from cable cars on
State street, Chicago.
1t is significant of the state Of morals
IN New England that the Maley boys
are once more shining in New Haven
society.
Graduates Of Harvard and Yale have
q habit Of living long; SO out of l4O who
died last year were over 20, and two
were 96.
Major Burke, editor of the New Or
leans Times-DemOcrat, has recovered
from his duel wound and resumed edi-
torial work.
The Fargo Argus-"Fatty Edwards
eaitor-calls Senator Saunders ian In
significant block-head," and "a Sena-
tOrial pirate"
Hands enough cannot be obtained in
California this season to harvest the
crops. We might spare few Of our
strikers for that purpose.
The Athenian bar numbers over one
thousand practicing attorneys; yet
Athens has only $4,000 population. The
Greeks are ardent politicians.
A bill has passed the lower house of
the Louisiana Legislature imposing 500
80 II ,OOO fine, or six months to one year
Imprisonment, on participants in duel
ing.
An impOStor has lately been figuring
in Cork, Ireland, as MARK Twain"
Through ''Twain's" extensive populari-
ty in the British Isles he has cut quite a
successful figure in society.
The Prince of Wales won three first
prizes at Norfolk show, June 23, one for
short-horned bull and two for South
down sheep. He also won a special
prize for thebest Southdown ram in the
yard.
The wife of Emerson Knittle, living
in Williamsport, Pa, attemptedto COM
nit suicide Thursday night by swallow
ing half an ounce of laudanum and blue
vitro!. The prompt application Of re-
storatives by a physician rescued her
from death. The reason of her rash act
was the reftlsual of her husband TO allow
her TO attend n civic demonstration in
Lock Haven. This is not the first time
she has attempted her life, as she is in
the habit of threatening to commit sui
eide whenever she is not humOred in
whatever she may desire.
At Dover, y. H., on Thursday, two
young lads were target-shOoting with
pistolin the barn of the Rev. John b.
Richmond, in the rear of his house.
The target was nailed to the barn door.
- Miss Annie r., daughter of the clergy
man, came out Of the house into the
yard near the barn during ull in the
firing. A few minutes later she started
for the barn, and when at the door
shot was fired by one Of the boys, Ed
ward Frost The ball struck the girl in
the neck, seyering the jugular vein,
from which she bled to death in less
than ten minutes.
George Washington is to have another
monument on Georges Hill, FairmOunt
Park, Philadelphia, where the great
iron tower stood during the Centennial
Exposition. 1t is to take the front of
an equestrian statue, Of Haest bronze,
upon a granite pedestal, the whole to
be about sixty feet high. 1t will be
erected by the Society Of the Cinein-
natl, which has raised fund of S22O,-
100 for the purpose, and made with
Professor Seimering, a Berlin sculptor,
contract, by the terms of which he is
to have the entire work completed by
the fail of 1891.
Joe Bollins Tug WILSON,, the Eng
lish prize-fighter, was weighed and
measured at Arthur Chambers Cham
PiOn Rest, in Philadelphia, recently.
Standing in his shoes his height was
feet )! inches, while in his stocking feet
he measured > feet = inches. He
weighed is pounds. Wilson is well
knit and muscular, and altogether finely
put together. When trained and in
condition he will weigh about lGspounds.
Iu meeting Sullivan he gives him the
advantage of twenty pounds in weight
and two inches in height. Wilson is
now training at Cape May for his box
ing match with Sullivan on July II. At
Madison Square Garden.
ENa-N.