The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-23

and 14th In slant speaking Oh tne airi-
val of 129 and 200 hogsheads of new
sugar the days previous, and 200 and
400 barrels of molasses. The price of
each keeps up, though there are numer-
ous orders awaiting decline of prices.
Inferior sugar is quoted at 9, and prime
at 1871; inferior molasses at 60, and
| choice at sc.
George Francis Train has written a
letter descriptive of the Pacific Railroad
excursion. On the trip the party
passed praric dog village, of which
Train says:
A million dogs. Two shot. Ancona
kills n dog. Painter a rattlesnake.
Five hundred shots and two killed. i
shot one because l could not see what
harm they had done. They were not
Rebels. How peculiar they live! A
prairie dog, an owl and rattlesnake,
and in one hole! A radical, conserva,
tive and q eopperhead living in one
''Happy Family" r
The Montgomery Mail gives the
footings of the census returns from "a
counties in this State; and these, COM
pared with 1860, show an increase Of
only $3.50. Eight of those counties re-
turn an increased population, while in
the other 25 there was decrease, in a
few of them, ranging from 2,500 to 4,ooo'
The probability now is, that the cen
sus returns of the whole State will ex-
hibit an actual decrease of many thou
sands since 1860, principally among the
colored.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin says:
'It is because many of the solid men OF
Boston are so solid that they block up
the highways of enterprise. Enterprise
to them is only another expression fol
reckless adventure; they live only in
the region of dividends and rents; and,
dying ,bequeath rich legacics to Harvard
College, to perpetuate wisdom III
coming generations. This is no carica'
ture-it is truth that stares us in the
face; il is the wealth of Boston thus
consolidated, that is the incubus dead
cning all our energies"
The Media county (Ohio) Enterprise
saws that two large boa constructors, the
property of Stewart Craven, of Con,
gress, Ohio, escaped from their keepers
in company with three or four Other
snakes, short time since. The boas
have not at last report been captured
An alligator escaped about the same
time, taking possession of field near al
hand, driving out the cattle and SHEEP
in very short space OF time. Mr
Craven secured the monster by throw
ing a lasso over him, and he is now con
fined in a small compass, by heavy
board fence. These reptiles were lfor
merly part of Dan Rice's menagerie.
An American gentleman having seat
ed himself in an omnibus, while on
visit to London, saw and heard what
little amused him. A man, bearing nc
peculiar marks of authority, looked il
at the door, took professional view o.
the passengers, and called out to the
driver, without any pretense at modest
concealmcnt of his thoughts, "You CAM
90 on; there's two of the swell in here.
The coach waited, until at length 9
pursy, wcll-looking old man rose and
stepped out, saying as he did so, "Pve
too much money to ride with pickpock'
cts" In a moment more aspruce young
person said, as he decamped, "Ill follow
the old gentleman's lead" $50 or
now,n said the detective policeman
''the swells have gone out and alPs
right"
Henry Ward Beecher truly says: 81
know that the wealth of tho North ha!
got to go to the South, and if schoo
masters an d school mistresses are to g
among them and teach schools, and i
there is to be hearty circulation o.
feeling among them, you have got to
prepare the way for it by the establish
incnt of cordial state of feeling be
tween the people of the South and the
people of the North" It's n pity the
Republican party cannot be brought tt
recognize this as n fact.
A few Sundays ago, while the presi'
ding elder was preaching in the NJ. f
Church, Massillon, member of the
choir gave an involuntary sneeze. A
couple of his fellow vocalists smiled
whercupon the elder lectured the sing
ers at some length. His structures ar,
said to have been exceedingly biting
At least so thought the choir, which Ii
tdispersed, and the church has since go
along without choir singing-all from
a sneeze.-Cdntoa (O.) Republican.
Twcnty-one divorces were granted
by the Superior Court for Hartford
county, Conn.,, at its recent term. The!
are the usual records of desertion, ha
bitual intemperance, adultery, ant
other evils which destroy the happi
ness of the marriage relation, and q
Hartford paper, in alluding to it says
"The evil lies back of our laws. 1t ha
its growth in hasty, ill-timed marriages
the uniting of persons whose tastes ART
dissimilar, who are entirely uncongen
ial in their natures. If persons desiring
to marry would make their courtshil
more of q stndy-fully realizing the
great responsibility of forming an ALI
ance for life-thau, as many do, mer,
sidc-show, made up wholly of soft say
ings, sweet smiles, and governed b,
impulse rather than real affection, ther,
would be less work for our courts TO d.
in the matter of untying knots which
have get badly snarled, owing to tn,
careless way in which they were put to
gether. 1t may be well enough Il
change our divorce laws, which ART
very loose, but very much human na
ture needs changing as well.
The styles of occupation and amuse
ment at the baths of Lenk, in Switzer
land, is thus described: At five O'Clock
each morning, q bell is rung for the
bathers to repair to the baths, and then
comes one of the most whimsical scenes
that can be imagined. The baths are g
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