Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-10


The New York Assembly adjournei'
,.ssierisy, after two unsuccessful Oaho'S
for clerk.
osSOI conviets i'm the Arkansas state
rrison. more than one h"hore" "e
murierers.
Tho cotton crop of ofArkanSasis claimed
have = greater money value than the
yb,a, crop of Minnesota.
-r,,sntv-seven lives were lost by the
,.rnder;ng Of the steamer Casino, near
DIssss. ON the BLACK Sea, yesterday
SovorsI Chicago firms are cutting ice
=, Montreal, and transportation for eight
hundred car loads has been secured oy
Cne party.
ofsScea0o0 sallous Of wine eonsum-
- !, the United States last year,
~ 1000 gallons were of domestic pro-
ductiOn. .u,
Citizens of Salt Lake City worked oil
counterfeit silver dollars to the amount
ISIS at the box office Of the Alice oates
troupe.
Italy must yet have so, 100000 ofgoId
!, complete her resumption operations,
orI the coin must be delivered before
October next.
rrr weekly statement Ofthe Bank OF
Lance shows an increase of T6,S5OOOO
francs, gold, and decrease oflS,lI''oOo
francs, silver.
Portland, Me, claims to have more
tl,pbou,, in proportion to population
,ran any other city in the world. There
!, one to every sixty persons.
Nm Miller, the oldest Mason, in the
United States, died at Caldwell, Ohio,
I,s, night, aged ninety-eight. He had
n.ru Mason c,ghty-one years.
Citizens Of Alabama pay taxes on
.su5.ucu worth of farming tools and me-
4 rrsu;cal implements, and on guns, pls-
tol, and dirks valued at S854,OOO.
Tn, amount Of malt liquors consumed
sn the United states during the year
ISL wa~ Al, $4,000 gallons, of which
i only i.IS4. 600 gallons were imported.
In Cincinnati a lot of capitalists pro-
rose to buy the water works, and make
money in furnishing the city, at present
rr;cc,, with better water than it now
GET.
The faculty Of the State University OF
Oregon have decided not to permit
Students to carry more than three
studies at one time without specia
u permit.
II a virginia farmer, while plowing IL
. newly cleared field last week, turne'
L upS1 $50 in gold and silver coin, sup
pG,ed to have been buried there durinj
the war
Il This seasons ice crop on the Kenne
bec river is est mated at 100000 tons
not an insufficient addition to the Pre-
digious harvest ofthe fields and orchard
ofMaine.
Gladstone has written To Henr
1 Broachurst, a member of Parliamen,
| that he hopes to deal with the eountr
Il franchise and land system of Gres
Ill Britain the present session.
Rradlaugh was not permitted to swea
i in Parliament yesterday. The sPeake
requested him to withdraw, and he IT
4 tired to the ante-roOm, where he probS
Lly swore to his hearts content.
III Often children born in Norway, III
u tie over seven reach their twentiet
H. year, in England and the United State
h somewhat less than seven reach thI
age, in France five, in Irelandl less tina
I've.
II Il i given out as fact that the insu
ance companies made no money la
III year; the New York companies, espI
n Cially, suffering a reduction OF their SUI
a. p,US wealth. The foreign companie'
~ However, made gains.
= One Of the beauties of our civil servil
81 system was Illustrated in the rctiremeI
4 of Quartermaster General Meigs, on a
~ count Of age, and the appointment
q Colonel Rucker, Sheridan's father-i
q law, to succeed him. Rucker Is L
,.aars OIdpr than NIpigS
The japanese letter postage is ty
\. cents a quarter ounce, which, owing
the thinness of their paper, is equivalel
rs far as the amount of writing is co
Cerned, to our half-Ounce. On newsp
perS, the postage is one cent. The ia
An are ahead of us in cheap letter pOstas
w A bill introduced in the New GO
N Legislature, and leveled at Antho
HComStOck's system of prosecutions,
= entitled "An act in relation to spies W
/ 81 assist, induce or inveigle Others TO col
NIT crimes for the purpose of infOrmir
against them" 1t make such part
pa1iceps criminis.
- Delegate Post, OF Wyoming, prOpoS
W. y law to prevent the destruction of {
wild cattle of the Territories, making
unlawful to kill elk, deer, antelope, bl
u, ialO, mountain sheep, or bison, save
food, and then only for the homemarkD
10 We hope that the Wyoming Delega
will he supported. The shooting
butialoeS for sport is mere butchery.
In San Francisco men of science al
IA fhe gaping throng have been alike i
j ereSted Of late in examining an an.
iiSh caught by Italian fishermen TWEEN
miles outside the Faralone Islands.
IL p the first of the species ever seen
SAN Francisco and n hanlSOu,a Sna