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

OF stock in its stomach, as post mortem
disclosed.
A New York colored man has BROUGHT a
suit for damases-S250 in the sum men.
toned - for eight ounces of blood re-
moved from his arm for TRANSMISSION pur.
poses.
The weapons used in duel by Wagner
aud Burkhsrt, Missourians, were club1,
which, by agreement were to be perfectly
smooth and weigh four pounds apiece.
Burkhart was hit on the temple and IN
stsntly killed.
Miss Liliard did not die in CINCINNATI,
though the doctors said that she could not
possibly recover, and she regards the res.
toration of her health as a miracle. There
fore, she is about to open a hospital in
which prayer will take the place of medi-
cine.
The Postofice Department advises that
the address on printed matter or merchan-
disc mailed to distant points at home or
abrosd be written on the enclosure as we'll
as on the wrapper. Failure TO deliver the
articles in case the wrapper is lost or de-
stroyed will thereby be avoided.
The st. Louis bakers are Al Cling as to
who shall have the contract for baking the
pies which are to be supplied the unruly
pupils OF the st. Louis schools after Sep
tember l, as the old.fashioned rod is not to
be allowed in the schools after that date
The pie wagon will approach the school
buildings only after nightfall.
Mary Bullock got ridiculously heavy
verdict against the English company on
whose railroad she was slightly hurt. But
new trial has been granted on the ground,
IS expressed by the judge, that she and her
sisters, who appeared as her witnesses,
were So beautiful that their charm OF per-
son had seemingly deprived the Jury of
Common sense.
Sir Robert Garden, ex.Lord Mayor ot
London. was run over the other day, and
he paid the fine of the offending cabmsn.
Though eighty-seven years old, he was un-
injured, being as hale and hearty as most
men half his ase. This makes the third
time he has been knocked down by a cab,
but be is always up and smiling directly
as though nothing had happened.
Citizens OF Bermuda have petitoned the
Legislature to rid the Bermuda Islands Of
English spsrrows The sparrows have near
Iy destroyed the beautiful native red and
blue birds. Twenty-Five years ago crows
were imported into the Bsrmndss as scav-
engers. They proved so destructive to the
grain that twenty-five cents a head was
paid by Government for their extermiua.
ton.
Capt Ebenezer Morgan, of Groton, Conn,
not long ago subscribed SIS, 900 to be used
in securinga genuine translation of the
Bible from Baptist standpoint. Now ne
has bought the translators library, which
the Bap,ists of this country had collected,
after FIVE years effort, at the expenditure
ois-4O.p01, paying only $4,000, and he will
present It to Madison University, at Ham
Iiton. y \.
Alter shooting at it eight or nine times,
Mr.. W. II. Richardson finally killed with a
ninth shot, few days ago, milk.white
deer in the forests near BiEbee, Ala. The
negroes think that white deer are akin to
witches, and are probably delighted that
sne OF them has been laid low. Two more
of the beautiful creatures have been seen
recently in the forests of Washington coun-
ty, Ala.
Ribeiro, Brazilian merchant, has taken
TO London and is exhibiting to great crowds
FIVE sbOrigines so that Europeans may see
what gentle, smiable, governable people
Il Of do
look ferocious, buta hideously ugly. The
tallest is we'll under five feet. The peculi-
arity is the under lip of the two females,
which protrudes nearly three inches, the
result of artificial distor ion, and is sup
ported by sort of wooden bracket.
The Des Moines Register relates an anec.
Gote of Gen. George w. Jones, one of the
two first senators from Iowa, though old,
is rich: President Pierce notified Jones by
telegraph Of his appointment as minister
a BogOta. The General replied: Il ac-
c.pr: but Frank, where in hell is Bogota''
The general geographical studies has been
neglected. but rs that was before the days
OF the civil service commission that was not
an obstacle to his appointment.
One of the most adventurous and inSeni-
Gus leaders of society in Paris has achieved
radical innovation by organizing apedes-
trian excursion to some of the most pictu-
rescue and romantic sites of France. The
first rendezvous is at Blois in the course OF
the coming week. The party will proceed
to the chsteaux of Cnambord, Amboise and
--Sheacaceaux, crossing and recroSsing the
Loire and coming to a halt at Anglers. 1t is
fairly entitled to be called the pilgrimage
of the beauties of Paris to the beauties of
nature for it will be made by fifteen of the
prettiest young mariees who grace Parisian
society.
The following tough story is told by the
nail carrier from Newberry to Grand
Narias, Mich, who reports an adventure
with a buck deer one day, while going
through the woods, he saw the buck at
little distance, and shot, woundipg him.
The buck Immediately started at the man,
with his head to the ground. The man
started to get over big log, but, before he
Was on the log the buck struck at him,
running his horns into and pinning the
man tight to the somewhat rotten log, and
as the buck could not loosen his horns, the
man was obliged to wait for few hours
for the buck TO die, and then cut of the
hCrnS.
WESTON.
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