The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-19
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THE weekly mortuary statistics OF
New York present the startling fact OF
widespread destitution in that city.
Twelve persons died in that city last
week from starvation. If this be the
rate for seven days at this season, what
are we to expect the coming winter
It appears that the greatest receipts
the cable company has yet gathered III,
were for two dispatches; the one con-
tanning the speech of the King of Prus-
sia TO the Chambers, and the other the
account of the great prize fight which
took place over here in August,
between Mace and Goss. Here we see
force and reason allied even in the ca
Bile!
THE st. Louis Democrat announces,
with great cOmposure, that AT the
present moment our list OF pending
libel suits is as follows: Madame Cora
James S20,OO0; Frank Blair, SlOO,OOO
Edward Brooks, S25, 900; T.. Larkln,
So. 900; ]. ONeil, S25, 900; 2. A. Berth
old, So, 600; total nominal value, SO far,
1920, 0O0."
JOHN G. SAKE, the poet, was one OF
the orators at the monster meeting In
New York. Mr. SAKE said: Il never
hear Andrew johnson called u traitor,
without almost forgetting my manners,
and remembering only my muscle"
BUTLER says he doesn't think Davis
was the worst man i'll the contederacy.
No, the Doctor was there himself sever
al times.
IL is said that young and pretty
woman fell in love with Pellicier, the
murderer, while he was in Jail, wrote
him notes, and wished to marry him,
but was prevented.
THERE has recently been put into cir
culation well executed counterfeit OF
the So note of the Bank of British North
America, payable in Toronto.
PROF. AGAsSIZ is announced to deliver
a course of twelve lectures on Brazil,
before the Lowell Institute, Boston, be-
ginning on the Odd inst.
A REMARKABLE MARRIAGE.-Thc
peaceable village of Clondalkin was on
Monday morning thrown into state OF
excitement consequent on the marriage
of doating pair of lovers. The veneer
able bridegroom (who, by-the-bye,
moves by the aid of Il propeller III the
nature of staff counting the round
number of IS summers, and the bride
herself only 62 of them.
TIE love of miscgenation couple in
Cincinnati have been gradually on the
wane since the day they left the altar,
and the other day some domestic diff
culties of knOck-down. character
brought them before police magistrate,
where they cursed and swore so furious
ly that they were given the salutary IN
fuence of few days confinement to
cool off in.
AN innocent young girl of Rochester,
n. Y, after being accused aud arrested
for stealing gold rings, and hauled
around for two weeks from the Jail to the
police court, abused, treated as Il felon,
and condemned to the society of the
degraded and corrupt, has at last been
saved from life in the States prison
the confessions of another girl.
Mrs. GLADSTONE, with her own hands,
has rescued hundreds of children from
the pestilential alleys of London, whom
the cholera has deprived of parents and
home.
In the town of Bethlehem, New York,
the body of a little child after being
placed in its coffin gave signs of life; it
moved, turned over and was again
clasped in its mothers arms, and is now
well.
ADRUSKEN husband of Cleveland, Ohio,
lately kicked his wife down into a cellar
and attempted to burn her alive, but
her little daughter putting out the fire,
he pounded her to death with billet of
wood