The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-28
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Thurlow Weed has experienced relig-
ion.
7The colored ladies in Buffalo rouge
highly.
Hamburg makes 15O, ,OOO, 900 cigarsp per
annum.
A London paper calls Artemus Ward
the clown of literature.
Wall street is enjoying "calm expec-
tation of failure"
Italy has been borrowing money ever
since 1859, and her debt is now
over 81 ,OOO, 100000.
A young blood in crack London
regiment has lost 100000 recently in
gambling.
1t is stated that some of the religious
papers are to be improved. There is
room for improvement.
On "all souls day" !nine hundred
Thousand people visited the cemeteries
of Paris.
Chicago, Cincinnati, and other West
ern papers speak despondingly of trade
prospects.
An Irishman who has heard it stated
that all flesh is grass, wishes to know
whether hay is beef a-la-mo,ccd.-Fan.
Nearly nine thousand pupils of the
public schools in Cincinnati are study
ing German.
The Nec York Post is out against
Horace Greeley for United States Sena-
tor, on account of high protection tariff
notions.
In the Supreme Court Chambers Of
New York case is being tried to deter
mine what constitutes "a man of color"
A petition praying for the impeach-
ment of the President was read before
the Anti-Slavery Society now in session
in Philadelphia.
The drawing" of the Chicago Opera
House Art Enterprise will positively"
take place on the 21st of January.
Several of the most wealthy capital
lists of Paris are prepared to invest their
money in an ocean cable between France
and the United States.
There is said to be more corn elevated
in Chicago than in any city in America.
1t is more in the juice than in the ker-
mel, however.
The rival commanders of the battle
field in Paraguay recently had an inter-
esting interview, but they shook hands
as adversaries after exchanging riding
whips with each other.
General John A. Sutter, the Califor-
mia pioneer, is now endeavoring to get
o claim against the government allowed.
It will be remembered that it was upon
the Generals farm that gold was first
discovered in California.
John P. Mayberry, Esq, Of Parkers-
burg, Va, died on Friday, the 10th inst,
very suddenly, while sitting in his car
riage, on the race track.
1t is reported that prominent Radicals
held caucus in Philadelphia, on the
10th, when articles of impeachment
against the President were drawn up
and will be submitted to O Republican
caucus of the members Of Congress soon
after the reassembling in Washington.
One Of the teachers of public school
in South Boston has committed forgeries
on the Broadway and Mechanics Bank
20 the amount of $4,000, and left for
parts unknown. He was connected with
a respectable family.
The surplus grain crops in California
are very large this year, and in San
Francisco the stock is now 100000
bushels, which is waiting tonnage.
A bill has been prepared, and will be
introduced dnring the first week of the
session of Congress, repeating the act of
July, 1862, which empowers the Presi-
dent to grant full or conditional pardons
to persons engaged in the rebellion. II
it becomes law it confines the Presi-
dent to the constitutional power to
pardon after trial and conviction. 1t is
part of the radical programme.
The city of Cincinnati is making
strong effort to force the Ohio & Mis-
sisippi Railroad to tear up its track
along the river front, and to come into
the city on some more interior track.
We hear of "the patriotic Douglas"
now that tho giant Sleeps the sleep
that knows no waking" Yet, ten years
ago, no man was so loudly e1ecrated by
the very samo mouths as he.
A thunderbolt from perfectly cloud
less sky struck o church ut Rising Sun,
Indiana, o few days ago. We presume
that politics has been habitually preach
ed from its pnlpit-otherwise the phe-
nomenon is inexplicable.
The Sand Tunnel on the Pittsburg and
Connellsyille Railroad is at last cut
through. Its total length is 400 feet,
being 1000 more than the long tunnel
on the Pennsylvania Central Railway
through the Alleghenies between Al
toona and Cresson. 1t is intended for
double track, and is % feet wide and
to be 10 feet high.
A shop in the outskirts Of London has
exposed in its window picture Of
"Perseus and Adromeda," with the fol-
lowing beautiful inscription written on
tho margin: This young woman was ex-
posed to be devoured by the unfeeling
wretch at her feet, but the cove in the
imaginary animal mp in the corner res
cued and married her for 35s.
roncarning the y0tes of the ladies,