Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-03

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the Inter Ocean, it win, this year, dress
about 5000 900 hogs in the latest and
most approved style.
THE following shrewd dodge of
Western None-legged man has called
forth curses both loud and deep from
the honest miners of Leadville. Hop
ping along q prominent street Of that
mountain city, he suddenly caught one
of his clutches in a hole. He fell, he
rose, sued the city, and recovered $1,000
damages. He did likewise in Kansas
City, and recovered $500; in Terre
Haute $500, and in st. Louis $500.
CHARLESTON, this State, Is moving
in the direction Of a new city building.
At the last meeting of the City Councn
the building committee was instructed
to select suitable sit aud report on the
10Th inst. 30 ..... &. ,.g.s
THROUGH q funny mistake in the
setting up of an article on "0ld John
Brown" in last Sundays Williamsport
Breakfast Table, the written proof cor
reetiens for the printer were set up with
the rest of the article, which made it
start Of with: Change this Head to Four
Lines.n A like mistake in the tele-
graph news in Mondays New York
Tribune made the last line Of a prize
fight description say: add Congress
sional Review" while a Pittsburgh
daily made its appearance one day last
week with the legend at the top Of the
first page: 'SIenday- Tuesday August
29.n sesHs;1' 'isi'1 49, - !
THAT horrible piagae KNOWN as blzck J
des.s.Is spreading CONSERVATION over
a wide district Of Russia. II Is OF the
nature of a malignant erysipelas, and is
both epidemic and contagious.
ANEW YORK benedict lately adopt
novel plan of getting rid Ofhis wife, he
having formed an attachment for an
other lady. He arranged scheme by
which, as he was out riding with his
Objectionable attachment, his adopted
brother should suddenly appear before
them in the guise Of highwayman,
and demand their money. Being re-
fused, he was to step, behind the buggy
and shoot the woman. The plan was
exactly carried out, but as the shot pro-
dueed only flesh wound and the wife
recognized the voice of the pretended
highwayman, things did not turn out as
beautifully tragic as had been expected.
The result of the mischance was the
incarceration of the two men, and
the husband is likely to get separation
he had not counted on.
THE receipts of the general govern
ment for the month Of August averag-
ed the enormous amount Of one thou
sand dollars per minute for the entire
thirty-one days. At this rate the surplus
for the year will be over 500, 900.
No civilized country in the world ever
had such financial experience.
A MASSACHUSETTS editor insists that
the present habit of parents learning
every girl to thump piano and every
boy to be a book-keeper will, if per-
sisted in, make potatoes s. per bushel
in twenty years. This man should
compose himself. The danger is not so
imminent as to be startling.
Two children died in Westmoreland
county, Virginia, last week from eat
ing poisoned watermelons taken from
a field owned by Mr.. King. 1t APP
pears that Mr.. King had put strych-
nine on his melons TO prevent them
from being carried offby the negroes
in attendance upon a eamp-meeting in
the neighborhOOd. II we remember
rightly, similar freak on the
part of a Virginia farmer, two
summers ago, resulted in the pOis-
Oning of a score or more of cOlOred at
PENDANTS at bush-meeting who had
not the fear of the Lord before their eyes,
though, we believe, no deaths resulted.
Hhis sort of fOolishneSs should be stop
ped. A farmer has a perfect right to
protect his property, of course, but let
him employ a guard or keep reliable
dog. The practice of putting arsenic
and strychnine in so tempting a fruit
as well-developed melon should be
discountenanced.
A SMALL colored boy in Oglethrope,
Georgia, recently put large rock on
the railroad track, that he might "see
how high the engine would jump"
and narrow escape from a serious
wreck was the result. This young
searcher after scientific data should
be suppressed.