Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-15
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Albany capital will cost SO, ooO,o 900.
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
treated the Legislature 10 three vetoes in
on e day.
Backwood novels, Gaborian's detective
tales and Howells' Sleeping Car" went
to Florida to solsce and smuse the presi-
Dental intellect.
The new local government in India is to
be administered biz by bit though boards
elect ed by 4OO, 900 villagers.
The St. Louis CODE says that Mr.. Tilden
is like the lady of whom Byron wrote:
"She has been dangerously i'll, but Is now
dangerously we'll"
Derbyshire workingmen are going to pre-
sent Mr.. Gladstone with set OF that crown
Derby ware which DR.. Johnet complained
"cost more than silver" Each plate repre-
sents Derbyshire scene.
The Democratic candidates for the nomi-
nation of Governor in Kentucky thus far
announced are ex-Congressman Proctor
Knott, Thomas l.. Jones, Judge Owsley
General Buckner aud Mayor Jacobs, of
Louisville.
The Mansfield, Ohio, Herald, Senator
Shermsn's home organ. says there is a
growing desire that he should lead the
Republican party in the coming contest
and that he will not decline a gubernator-
ial nomination.
The British regular troops will be with
drawn from Halifax in the fall, leaving for
England about the time the Marquis Of
Lorne retires. The fertilization and ord.
nance lands at Halifax will then be handed
over to the Dominion Government.
The ingenious paragrspher OF the New
York Morning Journal rises to remark:
Ex-senator Thurman has broken his arm
through fall, but is doing well. That
will not interfere with his running for
Nice PRESIDENT on the Tilden ticket next
year"
The Pope is said to work till late at
night. He is so chary OF audiences that
many an offended visitor departs without
offering the Peters pence he brought with
him. The latter yielded in the month Of
February $4,000 from the diocese OF Bres-
lau, SIS 600 from that of Munich, $500
from Aix.la-Chspelle, and $3.50 from
TIeves.
Concerning the rUmOr that he is Candi-
date for the Democratic nomination for
President, Governor Ben Butler said to
reporter OF the New York Tribune There
is not word OF truth in the report. While
was in Washingt on did not talk to any
one about the campaign, much less did |
declare myself to be q candidate. / SIN
not candidate, and have not got the Pres.
idential bee in my bonnet
Governor Crittenden, OF Missouri, is
said to be very vain for 50 able q man."
When the Legislature appropriated $780,
90 for the State university he sent from
jefferson City TO St. Louis and bought $40
gold pen with which TO sign the bill. Then
he sent the pen as present to James Roll
Inns, accompanied by letter saying that
the only time the pen had been dipped in
ink was to sign the bill appropr!ating $780,
600 to the university.
General Tewfik Bey, the new Turkish
minister at Washington, is an excellent
English scholar. At the time Of his ap-
pointment in 1874 to superintend the Turk
ish army contract with the Providence Tool
company be held the commission of major
general in the Turkish army. On his re-
turn to his native country in 1880 he was
appointed chief mi mister OF finance. He
is very scholarly, and has written a treatise
on slg Zebra and calculus which Is published
in English.