Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-21
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Only one registered letter in every $4,000
Is ioet.
Mexico is to be the new field for Chinese
Immigration.
Two S:ar-Route jurors have commenced
building new houses.
Incoming vessels report the passing of
large icebergs in the Atlantic.
Atlantis is the only Southern city whose
capitalists have invested Ia ->ly in Mexi-
Can silver mines.
OF the bishops of the Church Of England
three are over eighty and nine over seventy
years of age.
The cholera, it is said, resembles the To-
Gusts in that il makes its appearance every
seventeen years.
One year ago there were not over 200
people in Dickey county, Dakots. Now the
population is from 1900 to 5000, and rap
idly increasing.
Ex-Governor Stanford, OF Californis,
owns one ranch at Yina, Tehams county,
covering 5000 acres Of land. 1t will be
planted with vines.
The London Spectator says "the most
powerful man in Ireland is at best poor
country gentleman for whom q subscrip-
tion is being raised
The right OF women to bear arms in this
country is soon to be extended by French
fashion of wearing nothing at all on the
left arm and shoulder.
Two English sparroWs, at Psducah, Ky,
tried TO drown each other in a street gutter.
The struggle was q long and desperate one,
and finally one got the head OF the other
under water and kept it there until life was
extinct.
4 mahogany desk, which was owned by
Rev. Francis Msknire, who organized the
first presbytsTAi;"s s,this country, on the
Eastern Shore oItfS-sA fyiand, in 1886, has
come into the possession of Rev. L. P.
Bowen, OF Marshall, Mo.
One Of the sights in Rio Janeiro is a very
dark negro who goes abroad in a dog.cart
driven by white dandy. The driver is
ckrey, imported from London expressly
to mark the wealth, fashion and import
c. cf his sable master.
Th.r- was neither boat nor bridge to cross
the IoEa stream which separated Patrick
Foley from his sweetheart, Kate Marion.
"If you loved me, Pat" the girl called to
him, you'd swim over to me-" He was
drowned in trying to do it.
Genera Ramon Leocadia Bonachea, chief
of the Cuban Vanguard, was at one time
one OF thu wealthiest men in Cuba He
fought nearly twelve years in the war Of
the patriots. He believes that the people
of Cuba are ready to throw of the Spanish
yoke.
1t is proposed to reduce by three or four
rounds the knapsack of the German sol
Ger on march. But the decrease viii, it is
hOught, be partly made up by the addition
of ten or twelve cartridges TO the stock OF
eighty now carried. Some influential Off.
GERS have proposed. instead, to add second
cartridge wagon to each battalion.
Lordsburg, New Mexico, is frontier par
adise. 1t has 500 inhabitants and thirty.
seven saloons, besides chice collection of
dance houses and gambling dens. Since
July 3, lSS2, fourteen persons have died in
the town, and the causes Of death may be
classified as follows: Lynched, one; muir
dered, three; suicides six; small. pox, three;
doubtful, one.
Hurbe, father Of the three great Mexican
millionaires who own the most valuable
estates in the City Of Mexico, began life as
a mule driver. Senores, the eldest son
Ives quietly with hIs family. The second,
Ion Manuel, is bachelor, and spends
much Of his time in New York and Paris.
The third, Don Felipe, married Senorits
LENA Murusge, daughter Of the then Span
! Minister in Mexico.
Miss Ada Parker is q girl of nineteen
Who lives on a cotton plantation two miles
N Monroe, La. For the last four years
las had exclusive charge Of the place,
which her widowed mother, sister and
younger brothers reside, supporting
III all by her industry. She is her own
.rseer supervising all work done in per
81 no brawny son OF Ceres knows bet
Z r how 10 raise crop or handle labor.