Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-03

-4hr Northwest, published at AIinueap-
oils and ~ Paul, i, Sprightly, we'll
edited, eight iag, paper, and worthy
the patronage u'thc friends cf Irish in-
dependence.
The savings banks of Massachusetts,
have on deposit S2&p,lliI 40, an increase
during the pas. year Of Sl&,$25,5j6. The
depositors number -, ,95l, or consider
ably more than oue-third Of the popuia-
ti0n Of q state.
The current number of the RI2roTd
GC.C Z, records the construction of -
miles ofro; Il tho past week, making n
Tot; Of $50 miles for the year. This,
how, yer, viii he largely increased 10y
reports yet to be received, and the total
will exceed 5000 miles.
To-dayan election takes place in New
Jersty, for member Of the State Senate,
the result of which will determine the
political complc Sion of the Legislature
If that state, the TWO parties now being
= tie. Both have nominated good men,
md will poll their flIll strength.
DR.. Loring, the Commissioner OF
Agriculture, viii hold four conventions
ut Washington, this winter, to be devot-
CT l. the following subjects: Agricul-
t,lral educational institutions; the cereal
crops; the live stock industry; and the
culture of the vine. The conventions
will be largely attended by practical
'armerS- ---
Edison denies the report that his conf
pany has suspended operations forlight-
ing the first District of New York, but
says the difficulty is getting mains in
which to lay the wires. He claims that
the Company has now wired LOO
houses i'm the down town district, and
placed 1900 lamps in position, and that
all will be in operation by the first of
March.
GOV. Crittenden, of MiSso3ri, who has
announced his intention to advertise for
sale the Hannibal and st. Joseph road,
in case it made default in the payment
Ofinterest on the State bonds issued to
aid in its construction, has been served
with an injunction from the United
States Court to prevent his carrying out
his intention. The mattcr will now be
decided by theeOurts.
It is said that the visit Of Mr.. Bennett,
Of the Herald, to st. Petersburg, is to
secure the cooperation of the Russian
government in o new Polar expedition,
the expense of which will bepaid 1y the
former. While the details of the Sheme
have not been made public. 1t Il sur
missed, however, that the plan coltem-
plates the organization of an expedition
having its base of operation at the mouth
Otthc Lena, and consisting Of number
OGships equipped for Arctic service.
On the night of September y, BSl,
the fast train on the Pittsburgh, Sort
Wayne and Chicago read near Alliance,
ran into some freight cars which lad
evidently been run out from the ,ide
track, and the engineer and fireman
were scaldcd to death. The matter was
placed in the hands Of detectives, md
ou, Saturday, on Of the men, J'hn
Lewis, was arrested and confessed nat
re and three Others had run the freight
carr on the track. All the parties were
aHrtted aud ar" now in Jail
The fact that some Of the leading
'tocks have declined from IS to g. Tsr
GER, curing the past four months, N
a." face Of the general prosperity N
every department, industrial aui
mechanical is something spec,
Niato1' are unable to &c.
count Cor \ considerable portion
"i the decline is probably due to the
war IN rates; but with the present out
lcok' aud the fact that January diSi-
"dendS vii! place fully So, ,OOO,O 900 ON the
market, ought to have the effect to
strengthen all legitimate dividend pay
ing stCck>.
Ihe serious ravages of the smallpox
this season, in some localities i'm this
immediate vicinity, and i'm some of
the rural districts in the far West, em-
phasizes the mystery which surrounds
this epidemic. Medical science seems
to be completely baffled in undertaking
TO assign any reason for the occasional
outbreak OF this loathsomc disease. after
long periods oralmost entire exemption
nom It's raNaScS. Whether the under
lying cause Is IN atmospheric conditions,
or something else, is a matter about
which it would b. very scrvieeable 70
kncwn something. One of the singular
fhings about the epidemic, this wear, is
that while heretofore severely COLL win
q tens have seemed favorable to it, devel-
ment and spread, it has flouri,heI this
season, in connection with very mild
weather.
j Mr. daughters Paralysis at,xis dis,D-
,4s,eared from the use OF PxRrNl, b, q IiicEs
trittshiirg. Pa
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