Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-06-09
THE NEWS.

There are 1000 cases Of measles in
Fain6eld. n. J.
Robeson is becoming known as "Keif
,r' jersey lily" This, We fear is sar,
caSm. - s
Senator Cameron's candidate for the
pcnnsylvania GOwrnorship wears a
Grant medal.
"Awfu!ly Jolly" English girls now
ant their hair short and carry heavy
walking sticks.
Ex-Governor Moses, Of South Caro-
Ina, has selected Blackwelps Island, for
his summer watering-plaee.
Jeptha Turner, the first white male
child born in Wayne county, Ind, is
,,ill alive and in vigorous health.
The Republican Congressional eandi-
dates in Vermont are likely to be ex-
Governor Stewart and Judge Poland.
Mr.. Frank Hurd proposes to run for
Congress as an out-and-Out Free Trade
Democrat in the Toledo, Ohio, District.
1t is q solid comfort to bankers,
plumbers and Journalists to Know that,
al any time, they can get gold bars for
coin.
Governor Hall, of Delaware, builds
ships and names them after the men,
bsrs Of his family He has reached the
thfri generation.
Senator Lapham is tender of the
women and wants them to vote. The
senator is a cousin of the venerable
susan B. Anthony, and has imbibed his
sngelic trait from that ancient source.
ten. Jubal a. Early has contributed
more literally than any other person TO
the Hollywood memorial fund in Rich
mOnd and an iron gate leading to the
soldiers graves has been named the
nJubAl A. Early Gate.n
Theodore c. Dickson, the man who
planted the first stake" in Denver, is
Hng in Cheyenne and is only fifty
our years of age. Like most of the
other pioneers of flourishing settlements,
he i not troubled with large bank ac-
rvunt.
a venerable Ohio man died in Nor
row county, the other day, and the pa
r,rs started him at one hundred and
aine, then they raised the old patriarch
"a one hundred and fifteen, and at last
scounts he was going the rounds of the
press st a hundred and sixteen. Me-
,huselah must look to his laurels.
The late John B. Eldridge, of Hart
ford, Conn, has bequeathed about one
half of his estate, which was valued at
$4,000, to various religious and char
table institutions, among the bequests
icing 80, 900 10 the American Mission
ary Society of New York, for the educa-
ion of the eolOred people Of the South.
The London World sBys: ''Three
llmsy well known in Wall street have re-
ceuly annoyed the British public.
W. Jay Gould has recently sold them a
Vast amount of more or loss WnpthAs<S
.o.k, Mr.. Vanderbilt has run up the
r,,,e Of pictures, and Mr.. Keene sent
them the best three-year-Old of its sea-
,an."
4 Apumber of Congressional nominal
aop, have been made. Mr.. English,
J, will run against Congressman Peele
N the indianapolis, Ind, district, and
CoDgressman Watson, Democrat, will
have the chance of reelection IN the
FINh district in the same State. Cen
sal Lowry succeeds Mr.. COlerick as the
Democratic candidate in the Twelfth.
All of the Kansas members in the pres
,pt House have been nominated. In
Pennsylvania the Republicans have two
candidates for Congressmen-at-large.
Acadia, which LOngfellOw celebrated
IN the familiar poem Of EvanSeline, in
ruded not only Nova Scotia but part
ufthe present State of Maine, and, it is
said, there are now 1900 Aeadians
dwelling in that State-chiefly descend
ants Of French Canadians, who settled
there when the territory was eeded to
our Government by Great Britain.
There will be an Aeadian convention at
Lewiston, on the 10Th inst. y general
hand-shaking and some verses by NJ
Frechette, the Canadian poet, cOnsti'
mte the programme.
1t isn't often that a dead man has q
place in court in his own proper person
but Mr. Calkins' patent Election Com
mittee have 80 fixed it that Mr.. Smith
a Republican contestant from the
Fourth Alabama District, would bt
cheerfully seated by Keifer's men if ht
we're not a little too dead for the pur
pose. He is live enough, however, t
be able to unseat Mr.. Shelley, the Dem
ocratic occupant of the seat, who hac
the snug majority of 2,65l. After a few
days the district will probably have NJ
representative.
Arab Bey, the Egyptian War Minis
Ter ndfuture Dictator, was just 0efor
hE accession to power apetty employ,
IN the Cattani firm, where his dutie
consisted in experimenting the fOdde
supplies with which that firm was in
EISted. This is by no means the frs
ume since thee days of Joseph the Hebrew
NHen mean man has sprung to powel
III The Valley ofthe Nile. The founde
u The present Khedive's family wa
himself but an Albanian peasant, 5;
lNa6i Bey's rise is not a thing To b'
,auShed r,,.ii over by quidnunes, but Yer.
much the reverse.