Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-06-19
THE NEWS.

THE NE WS.
n, nriN Register triR be mailed to
Is,r, o,f Of torn for sirty:fre cents
mo,th. address changed as often
4, dadrod. -
| sO,shody seems to have shipped
.,.ber,i to parts unknown. Anybody
| rsl,ome to the consignment.
rbs coIored voters Of Kansas have
,.,insted Alfred Fairfax, q former
.rs and now a farmer, as their Con-
...ional candidate.
r,s reelection of Senator Saunders,
.y,braska, will be vigorously contest
f,,r ex-senator Thayer, who wants to
b,rk TO Washington.
nat the cost of living Is 25 per cent.
! T than in 1878, while wages have
=, but . per cent, explains a good
E.oiwhat is going on.
When the Stalwart organ at Wash
4op declares that nobody is being
[,.yssed," this time, like enough it
[,sDs that very few are paying up.
roDgresman Calkins, Of Indiana,
n driver an address at the commence
[,rt of the Virginia Agricultural and
,,banical College in Blaeksbury, Va,
-ElG
The French Assembly eontemplates a
.,c radical and grave departure from
ting methods when it proposes to
[l.uIuIe All elective for an appointed
Ecary.
new work by Father Ryan, the
,.,.vrsest, is to make its appearance
E,tIy. His secretary, Miss Louise
ivsr, Of Biloxi, Miss, is now in Balti-
an revising the proef sheets.
r 5 deemed mpoitie to convict
L,nbIers in Chicago because there is no
f,,edent, no case recorded of a city
GENERATING its business population
III destroying its leading industry.
,.. ..,..,..... ,,,,,,,ar,ar, in Nav-
.rk onght to make special rates for
7f,sioual dueliSts and sheep-grazers,
their respective vocatiOns are more
,Ddueive to longevity than any others.
T. would seem to be in order to vim
,s,e the American COW in England as
lectually as the American hog in
ance. We believe the cry of "adul-
.,sted cheese" is an unadulterated lie.
In those States whose legislatures
ave supplied them with sweeping and
rfngent sunday laws, further legisla-
Ign will be required in order to render
bid any marriage engagement entered
BIO on Sunday.
lis stated with some show Ofauthor-
", that Senator Malone and other
onspicuOus ReadjusterS have persuaded
Governor Cameron to convene the Nir-
ginia legislature in special session on
lhe 18th OF July to apportiOn the State
INTO Congressional districts.
z commissioner Bentley, excellent au-
horlty, puts the probable stealing in the
ayment of pensions at 10 per cent. Is
.ongress going to do anything about it,
rdoe, Republican majority propose
% see something like $4,000 an hour
,oen in driblets during the next year
nd do nothing.
Card playing is practiced in no coun-
M to - great an extent as in Russia.
All ages and both sexes are passiOnately
5nd oft. The manufacture of playing
.arls i a government monopoly, and
there is only one factory, from which
1000 packs are turned out daily, or
.yer 7,O0O, zoo a year.
GOssiping about unclaimed estates,
sc., in England, a correspondent says:
People are so apt to look upon the
south Sea Company, which exploded
gith such fearful crash in 1725, as q
mere sham, that il may be q surprise to
lrsrn that, according to the list Of un-
cGm,d dividends of the South Sea
sock, published about forty years ago,
there were then 10000 shareholders en-
TILED to receive about e5,6OO,OOO. Some
C'thiS money had been invested as long
,gO as l723, and it is probable that T5
.er cent. of il is yet awaiting an owner.
According to the last report of the con-
tOuer in bankruptcy, about E5,OOO,OOO
Of unclaimed dividends and undis-
HbutCd assets were lying in the COM
nNSioners' hands, large proportion of
which would find owners were the lists
advertised.
New York and Brooklyn are engaged
% SPENDING something like Sl6,0OO,0OO
% the Brooklyn bridge, Of which
E@@OOOO have been spent. This is
liie tidy little sum in its way, third
3 much as the Mexican War cost us,
"'m>tance, and enough to have fought
"o or three years Of our revolutionary
,IugSIe; but neither New York nor
oOoklyn can find out how, why, or for
What this enormous outlay is being ex-
.thded. \ New York trustee, Robert
D. Roosevelt, has resigned because he
a!S that the employees are "united" and
'ouoIy bound to secrecy" and no one
'no"N what weight the bridge can bear
'hen u will De done, or what il will