, 1863-11-06
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The Wheeling Register IL officially required
to be dated West Virginia."
The great Boston organ, which has been
scVen Years In building, WIS formally e,hlbI.
ted at Music Ha1l In that city on Saturday
exenigg; Mt Morgan, o5gsnist, at GRACE
ment, and the Boston papers describe the
sceneas one Of "une3ampled enthusiasm"
"A Confederate surgeon who WAS beastly
drunk when our forces captnred Little Rock,
Askansae. found himself among the Yankees
when be got aober, and remarked that It beat
Rip Van Wfnkle that a man couldn't go TO
sleep in the Confederate States without waking
up In the United States.
-Denpfs GalxVan, an 11ishman living In
Lynn Mass, has been committed to jail for
tr1al for poisoning his wife and two children
with Spanish flies, which he plnced In q tea
pot. Their lives we're for while despaired
of, but it Is row thought they will recover.
The New Orleans -Bte says that there is
great. scarcity Of labor On ths n sngar planta.
parish The loss Of the planters, owing to this
want Of labor, will not be less than ten or
fifteen thousand hogaheade.
-On Deso1atlon Island, southeast Of the
Cape Ct Good Hope, fossil shell fish aud
whales hare been Uncovered on mountain
2,0o0 feet above the level OF tha sea- i,
DIR. Draper Of New York city has photo.
graphed the moon. Who will. take photo.
collection district Of the State Of New York,
is $2CO, ,00o By New York merchant, and the
sn allest is 81 by New York broker. !
The, PhI1ade1phIans bare to pay seven
centA per quart for milk and water.
The largest. locomotive in the United
States, II not in the world, has just hes1 built
for The Philadelphia and Resdirg Railroad
fsn 1+3u{ -Ir Irn11
md weighs more than one hundred thousand
pounds.
The wife Of Lorenzo Dow, the eccentric
preacher, died at Nontvil1e, Ct On Tuesday Of
last reek..
"A fad case is told Of mother who made
the pretence Of a yieit to her Hlegitmate
son, dying at the. Soldiers Home IN Proyi.
6erce, a chance to, steal al bis money from
nneerhls pillow. -...-.
:. --Brjgadier General Louis B1enker died at
bis residence in New Jersey. on the 3ist ult.,
In his fifty-6econd year. >.
The San francisco Golden Era ssya Adah
Ieaacs Menken netted over $4,000 by her
fret engagement at Magulre's Opera House.
Aedsh eeems to have taken the SIN Francis
cars by storm. -. ~.
- On the 9TH nit, q Roman tesselated pave.
ment was discovered In the old town Of Ches-
ter Epgland. The teGselln are black and
white. On The nest Is an elongated vase,
with stcppe. in white, some twentY.four
inches N length, with star Of whtte ADORE
zone twelve inches IN diameter: On the east
t IL Il peculiar pattern Of black and white,
triangular in ehape, and sou1e tao feet distant
frcm the ba1e-
| "A Washington correspondent Of the New
York Indpe,tdknt, Gags: "There mas sight
20 be seen n broad daylight fer days sEo,
gave thcse who Witnessed It u shocking idea
temperance has made In good society," du-
ing tie last few years, A women clad In the
1iehest and mest ashionsble gsa garments, VIII
tho slant Western sunshine, sat upon the
houeward wnlk without betraying herself.
at last she roee and started on, sTayfDg to
snd fto, and yet soon rested again, utterly NJ
able to proceed. The carriage ofa foreign
minister passed blythe poor wonaa was no
ticed-and 1t turned, stopped, took In the
lady, and carried her to her lnxn1ious home.
For the Indy Is wealthy aud occupies . high
social position, but ehe Wa. drunk In tho
streets Of WashlngtonI -