Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-24

SALLIE WARD, a former Kentucky
belle, is now living in log cabin in
Butler county, Kansas.
DIR. NEWMAN SMYTH was installed
pastor of the Centre Church in New
Haven, on Wednesday.
w. w. CORcoRAN has returned in
improved health from the Greenbrier
Springs to Washington.
JOHN GILBERT, the actor, is so much
better that he will join the forces at
walIack's Theatre shortly.
NINE. JANAUsCHER owns an ounce
Of lace valued at fifty dollars. 1t was
given to her by Baron Rothsehild.
A BOSTON girl attracted multitude
by having her shoes blackened, just like
a man, in front of the Revere House.
Hon. w. S. WALKER and wife have
returned to Charleston from the South,
where they will remain during the win
ter.
Mrs. JOHN JACOB AsToR is said to
give away more money for charitable
purposes than any other woman in the
United States.
D.. SENATOR HENRY G. DAVIS has been
spending several weeks on the "Blaine-
Davis" railroad in the Eastern part of
West Virginia.
Miss CARRIE G.. ROBERTS has been
appointed professor of Latin in the New
York normal college. She is now Miss
Professor Roberts.
STANLEY, the African explorer has
penetrated 800 miles beyond Vivi and
established fifteen trading stations be-
tween Viva and Rokae.
WALSH, the treasurer of the Irish
National Land League fund, has cabled
$4,000 from WATERFOWL, Conn, to
Treasurer Egan at Paris.
KING OSCAR of Sweden recently
started on tour Of inspection through
Norway. He took the precautiOn to in
sure his life for 6OO, 900 crowns.
JOHN b. DAVIS, President of the
bank at Richmond, Va, which recently
failed, gave up his entire personal estate
of $780, 600 to pay offthe debts.
Hon. w. L. WILSON, Democratic
nominee for Congress in the Second
West Virginia District, will leave Nor
gantown in few days to inaugurate
his campaign.
w. w. STORY, the eminent sculptor,
who lives in Rome, is now visiting
Newport, where he was taken from
New York in ]. Pierpont MOrgan's
steam yacht Corsair.
HERBERT SPENCER has emerged from
his American privacy long enough to
inform somebody that Oscar Wilde sis
an outlandish person who attempted
to reconcile idiocy with art.
Mrs. HULDA SARGENT ROBERTSON,
the oldest person in Vermont, died few
days ago at Bethel. She was born in
Chester, n. H., April 80, 1779, and was
the last survivor of family of eleven
children.
THE Queen of Madagascar has ordered
that a prohibitory law shall be framed
prohibiting the manufacture of brandy
or its importation into her territories.
The penalty is the forfeiture of ten
oxen and fine of ten dollars.
Mr.. BLAINE was given a reception on
Monday evening by the Union League
club of Chicago. The centre Ofthe table
was adorned with huge kettle of white
roses, with red tongues Of carnation
underneath, representing a camp fire.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER, in
an address before the New York Bar
Association, said that it was the cOnvic-
ton of those who have the best means
of knowing, that the government has
been robbed of S4,OOO,OOO by the Star
Route thieves.
ALEXANDER I'LL, the uncrowned En-
peror eff Russia, is the possessor Of an
unrivalled collection of royal diadems.
The most ancient is probably the crown
of CONSTANTINE MoNOMACHUs, which
was sent from Constantinople to the
Lord of Kew" in 1ll6.
AMONG the prominent men in Lon
den who have just Joined the Longfel-
low memorial committee are the Earl
of Derby, Hugh Childers, William Z.
Forster, Sir Henry James, Canon
Duckworth, Thomas Faed, r. A., JUS
tin Mccarthy and Karl Blind.
NINE. PoBEDONsTZEFF is young,
beautiful and ambitious. She is the
leading spirit Of the Russian govern
ment. Her husband is very old, and
he is in love with her. He is the chief
procureur of the Holy Synod and the
confidential counsellor of the Car.
ROBERT TAwNEY, a colOred boy, al
legged to he born deafand dumb, recent
" attended campmeeting at Colds
boro, \. c. He stepped forward among
the mourners and in a distinct voice
announced his conversion, saying that
his voice and hearing had came TO him
with spiritual grace.
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