Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-15
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
~ Lawson, The I,Ondole murderer,
,s. been found guilty and sentenced to
death.
The immigrants arrived during the
{ months ended February 2Sth, number
S7&Oal.
More dead mems testimony Is being
.xbumed to add 10 the ROsecranS-Oiar-
field literature.
i i. estimated that the number Of
..,,sl sufferers by the Southern flood
i, 5000 persons.
The military are still keeping the
maze at Omaha, where the strike OF
ialorers is in progress.
There are InO per cent. more divorces
IN Philadelphia yearly than in any
,rher city Of the Union.
uaShcrwoman Of Franklin, Pa,
has twcnty-cight living children. She
i, sl,ou, fifty years of age.
The Ways and Means Committee will
nat. a, this Congress, take any action
L.,Linu To change in the tariff on wool.
senator Ben Hill does not have much
b,p, for recovery, as cancer, which is
rnrblng him, i hereditary in his ia
mi!y.
LANES Il. Nance, of Nashville, Ten
pe,.-e. is noted as the man whOsounded
the last Confederate bugle charge of the
wa-.
N',N Ndrlrr has sold hjS interest in
,hr Philadelphia B,Iic'ip, and will place
hi. future ahricationS in the Textile
Ra.~d.
p-. Struther, a Kentucky lecturer,
hold> that the Garden OF Eden was the
Mississippi Valley, that Nnah's ark
,.,-t,d from Manhattan Island.
The British Government collects
s'>.OO. .OOO year income from licenses,
he most productive of which are the
,.h,ir house and brewers licenses.
7, /, believed that this years cotton
rop will be diminished half million
ta!r, by the Mississippi river munda-
uon,. This is equivalent {" money
,. Of 81, OD0.WO.
The Washington Pos notes lack Of
mnmplne>~ on the part of young men
in taking ladies to the opera this winter,
sud argues that it indicates Stringency
20 the money market.
Mr.. Swi>shelm, having finished up
i ar fellows who are living, ispiling gsOme
,t shot into Old Father Abraham for
81 ading OIL Sarah. MrS. =. acCidently
\ ,ard ot thi~ nefariOu~ business last
svrk.
/ There l. a marked difference between
the Chicago and the Philadelphia lover.
4 When the Philadelphia man il discard
III he undertakes to shoot his girl, while
|a Chicago man marrieS another woman
inside Of an hour.
Jacob W. Schuckers, who was private
secretary To Gov. Chase when the Car
field letter from Nashville was written
20 tha~y, says that he gave it to the
s Nrw York sim for publication, but re-
lu-,- To say why he dit -.
When Vermont was first admitted
into the Union it was given two Repre-
SentativeS in Congress. This number
FWa, afterwards increased to six. Now,
f,Ner 4 period Of ninety years, the STATE
brturns to it, original number.
The spring meeting of the Queen City
p key Club, at Chester Park, Cincin-
plati, begins May 80, and continues five
4lay,. The New Louisville system or
Delights has been adopted. Entries to
fhc stakes will close on the evening Ol
lasch l.. The new merchants stake
;or thrce-ycars old; 50 entrance with
4 rHaddei.
Sergeant Mason undoubtedly laii him
<!fopen to punishment by shooting at
! prisoner he was ordered to protect
put the quality Of the prisoner and the
4md Of service the soldier was called to
crtorm should enter largely into the
rnalty. lfit were put to vote of the
kOplc Ofthe United States, Mason would
p free by a majority of over 50OOO,OOO
fNtcS.
In the Senate, yesterday, Mr.. Harri-
en, from the Military Committee, in
SpOnse to instructions to inquire rs to
be propriety of increasing the apprO-
HiatiOn for the relief of the sufferers
~ the Mississippi overflow, reported
Rat the committee was unable to state,
j lth even approximate exactness, the
lmber Of such persons, the difficult
IPmmunication in the flooded regions
lNVcnting an enumeration of the sui,
So. The Secretary of War is Of the
II nion that fifty thousand people have