Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-30
SPARKS.

clal purposes Vi cdIIlageS ana nOfSes pro-
yided at government expense for official
business. In recent publications it is
charged that almost every bureau officer
secures o carriage under the pretense of an
express wagon or mail wagon and driver
who appears on the rolls as messenger or
copyst.
Seven thousand FIVE hundred Peunsylva-
MIA troops are expected to take part in the
Inauguration ceremonies.
Tickets for the inaugural ball viii be FIVE
dollars each.
Secretary Sinclair has gone to New
York for a few days.
The Secretary of the Navy yesterday re.
ceived cablegram from Admiral Davis,
at Vaseasaki, Japan, announcing the death
on board the Trenton of naval cadet j. Y.
Toney, of Illinois.
The President has approved the act de,
tachirg Crunday county, Tennessee, from
the Southern division of the district of East
Tennessee and attaching it to the middle
district OF the State.
Gen. Hazen, Chief Signal officer, has
submitted to the Secretary of War charges
against A ssistant Adjutant-General Nc
Keever for having derogatory remarks
concerning the management of the recent
Arctic expedition.
The arrangements for the dedication Of
the Washington monument are progressing
rapidly. The commission appointed by
Congress to arrange for suitable ceremo-
nies have extended a general invitation to
the military, masonic and civic organiza-
tions (the latter not to carry any emblems
of political character) to participate Gen.
Sheridan requests all organizations intend
ing to take part in the procession to notify
him at the earliest possible moment in order
that proper places in the column may be
ssigned them.
- arrangements are being completed at the
Naval Observatory to extend the system OF
dropping time balls to Boston, Baltimore
and Hampton roads, and ultimately to New
Orleans. This will be done automatically
by telegraphic connection with the observa,
tory clocks, as is now the case with the time
ball of New York. In few days a ball
will be dropped in the exposition building
at New Orleans and the twenty-five or thirty
clocks in those buildings will be regulated
each day by telegraphic impulses from the
observatory clock at Washington.
One of the effects of the failure Of Con
gress to pass the naval bill will be to sus
pend all work at the navy yards except such
as is contingent on the care and preserya
ton of the buildings and other property.
Detectives are at work on case which
they suppose will reveal extensive swindling
operation. An advertisement has appeared
in several Northern papers which con
tains the names Of three cItl
zens of the District and state!
they have received an appropriation which
will enable them to distribute fifty thousand
mementoes of the Washington Monument
which they will do on the receipt Of 81
cents for postage. The piece of marble to
be furnished as o memento is to have 6
painting upon it, and is to be set in hand
some plush frame. The alleged advertisers
will probably be arrested within the mex
two days.
New York.
About one hundred saloon keepers were
arrested yesterday for violating the excise
law by selling liquor on Sunday.
Senior Luarez Guanes, Consul General o.
Spain, officially denies that Maxine Gomez
has landed any flibustering expedition on
the Cuban coast. He discredits the report
in regard to revolt among the troops oi
Vuelta-de-Arrita.
At meeting of the General Committee
of the Statue of Liberty, held at the Buck
ipgham Hotel Saturday night $4,000 was
pledged for the pedestal fund.
Mr.. Ackerman, business manager of the
Star, SAID Yesterday: John R. Mclean,
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, made an offer
for the paper. 1t has not been accepted.
Half dozen persons are desirous Of pur.
chasing it, having the impression that Mr..
Kelly, by reason of his illness, would like to
sell it. Nothing will be done about it until
after The first of January" In uptown
political circlesit was said last evening that
Mr.. McLean's offer was $l5O,OOO. 1t
was also said that the county
democracy people have a buyer in the
field wLo unknown to the Tammany chief
tan, and will try to secure the paper. Some
time ago county Democracy men sent a
prem incl printer to look over the plant Of
Truth 10 see if it could be proitably pur-
snased to Start an organ There is also a
story that Mayor Grace's friends have Sc,
cured an option on the Star if it is not sold
b b,fore given date in January.
The fog which hung over New York San
day was heavier than ever yesterday. Nav
igation in the rivers was suspended.
The harvesting OF the Hudson river ice
crop will give employment to 10000 men.
Domestic.
tits stated on good authority that Chaun'
cey ]. Filley, thei.chairman of the Republi-
can Central Committee, and other prom
ineht Republicans are to start Republican
newspaper in ST. Louis in opposition to the
Globe Democrat, which has always been a
bitter opponent to Filley and his followers.
The bodies of Charles Smith and Henry
Davis, the alleged burglars who were lynch
ed last Friday, have been recovered from
the Neuse river, N. c. They were in chains,
hand cuffed and one body was riddled with
bullets.
ThroAgh the carelessness of a driver
named John Martin, carriage containing
an old couple named Nicholans was driven
over an embankment on the Brownsville,
Pa, pike and the occupants, it is thought,
were fatally injured. The carriage was
badly wrecked and one of the horse s
killed.
Mrs. Mary Emmerfr wife of Mr.. Samuel
Fmmert died at the residence of her son,
near Funkstown, Nd, yesterday, aged q
years. Mrs. Emmert was the mother OF
thirteen children, eleven of whom survive
her. Five of them are leading business
men of Hagerstown, and one a merchant at
Martinsburg, ". Va.
Foreign.
Hundreds Of workmen are still buSily en-
gagged in the work Of preparing the Great
Eastern for sea. but the dates of her depart
ure and completion of the necessary repairs
are still in doubt The question of her sea-
woIthiness, Notwithstanding the exertions
which are being made to remove defects
caused by the neglect consequent upon her
long idleness, is being agitated, and she