Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-07


I46, material reduction from the last
week Of 1881.
indianapolis ought to be happy. She
has chicken show anu q candidate for
the Russian Mission.
A thief recentlystole an overeoat from
a Cincinnati doctor, and along with 1t,
got q first-ciass ease Of smallpox.
y bill 20 prevent the establishment of
grave yard insurance companies has
been introduced into the Ohio LcgiSla-
ture.
The Star Route contracts for the en-
suing four years will be awarded in
March, the current term expiring June
SOth, lSS2.
Salt lake City imposes an annual
license ofSSOO on each saloon, and the
result is there are but few, and no "cor-
ner groceries"
AT last Texas recognizes that murder
is crime, and two Mexicans havebeen
sentenced to be hanged for that hereto
fore trivial offence.
There is 10 confirmation of the repOr,
that tire city of Warsaw has been burn
ID, and !; is now believed the rumor
was without foundation.
john W. Garrett, President ofthe Bal
timorc and Ohio railroad, did kindly
thing in bcstowing S2,OO0 on the News
Boys Home, Of Baltimore
One OF the inmates of the Home for
tie FricndlCss in Detroit, Mich, a child
of four YEAR, Is said to he a great-great-
grandson of General Winfield Scott.
Three ci the leading shoe manufac-
turegs Of Cincinnati have conceded the
advance asked by the lasters, and the
latter have returned towork. The others
stillkold ont.
The Madras N,tire O,iiDio., states
that an American lady, Mrs. Adams,
mas just received the Orderof the Crown
Of India. 2 title created by the Queen
Gttr yeor,ago.
The Descendants Of Cornplanter, the
noted IaE.an chief, are now claimiug
three hundred acres of land on which
Oil C..y is now situated. They claim
lLat the land was held by Cornplanter
u trust. and could not legally pass the
A,lC I, strangers.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad company was troubled with
squatters OIL their lands, and adopted an
ingenious but cruel method to drive
them away, which was nothing less
than dammiug a mill ditch and flood
iug acres upon acres Of land. Rightful
owners of property were driven out
along with the squatters in many
places, and they will make row
about il.
The Chicago elevators, according to
official returns, contain S,S24,6l2 bush.
els Of wheat, 5,256,5O bushels Of corn,
S52,lTl bushels of oats, 4OS, ,93S bushels
Ofryc and 392,T2l bushels of barley,
making 4 grand total of l0,T1+95l |
bushels, against l0,6l515i Bushels q
week ago, and II, ,2O1, l5S bushels at this
period last year. Milwaukee warehouses |
are stored with l,Oil,S74 bushels Of |
wheat, loO bushels of corn, 1850 bush
els ofoats, lOO,79O bushels of rye, aud |
27S, S95 bushels Of barley.
The Philadelphia North Americo7',
one ofthe most careful and conservative
papers Of the country, says "If the tele-
graphic dispatches from Washington |
correctly report the evidence in the
Congressional investigation of the al
legged abuses in the Treasury Depart
ment during the administration of Sec
retary Sherman, the exposure is lament
able IS well a disgusting and disgrace
ful. Although at first supposed to be
petty persecution, it rises steadily in
magnitude and Importance as gross
abuse ofPUhlic trust"
Lewis J. Jennings, the London cor
respondent of the New York World,
says "the English people are beginning
10 believe that a Quaker policy is not
good for Ireland" In other words. ac-
cOrding to this view, the imprisonment !
Of the lady member of the Land League
meets with hearty commentator in the
Queens immediate possessions. 1t is
fine irony TO hear anybody talk Of Eng
.auds growing "tircd" of treating Ire !
taEd "a q Ir,,ullg, generous-nliU,ied !
fashion. Just when the mothereountry |
has been in the habit Of thus dealing !
with her subjects il would be difficult to
specify.
Baron Kolb, the eminent German
statistican, hTs recently exploded an old
idea that one Of the cOmpensations of
poverty was, that those who endured it
\ lived longer than the rich. He shows
this to be 4 mistake. Taking a thou
sand each ofpoor and rich children at
.birth, he fiuds that five years later 655
Df the former and gi3 Of the latter were
alive; at fifty years there were left of the
prosperous 55', Of the poor only 2SS. At
seventy years cfage2}5of the well-tO-dO
and only IS Of the poor survive. The
average duration Of life is with the
wealthy 30 years, with the poor only
about so. The same authority makes
the startling statement that out ofevery
hundred infants in Dundling asylums
\ eighty die during the first year.
AWashingtOneo correspondent describes
y tine Reagan bill, which has already been
reintrOduced with slight amendments in
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