The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-19
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Smuggling is rampant on the Maine
border.
Sir Frederick Bruce has had all his
spoons stolen.
Commerce and trade are at their last
gasp in Spain.
The New Jersey papers talk about q
horse weighing 1858 pounds.
1t is demonstrated that Pennsylvania
is increasing more rapidly than New
York.
Some six hundred thousand pupils at
tend evening schools in France. ~
SAKE, the poet, is going to Europe.
The old country will acquire a new at
traction. ...
1t is proposed to clothe the Black
Crock ballet girls with furs this winter.
A young man of nineteen, and q
prince, is missing from Naples.
People are prosecuted in London for
allowing an unnecessary escape OF
smoke from their chimneys.
The cholera has suddenly broken out
in Rome, creating much CONSERVATION
among the Romans.
A mortgage, containing 16,92o letters,
was recorded by n New Albany clerk in
two hours and forty eight minutes.
A movement is organizing in Wash
ington to run Speaker Colfax as the
Republican candidate for President
with Senator Howard AS Vice President
BY the completion of the Northwest
ern railroad. Council Bluffs will be in
direct communication with Chicago
early in January.
1t is estimated that from {, 800 to 1000
houses have been built in Cleveland,
Ohio, in 1866, ,and yet there are no houses
to rent.
A lock of the hair of John Hart, of
New Jersey, one of the signers OF the
Declaration of Independence, which has
lain in the earth s6 years, has just been
presented to Gov. Ward for deposit in
the State library.
The committee who went to Portland
to look after the morals of Gen. Banks
have requested him to resign his seat in
Congress, as he said he would if the
the charges against him were proved
true.
In response to the London Times,
which hopes that independence Will
follow confederation" the Toronto
Leader says:
There is no Disgusting the fact; indie
pendence means, i'll the case OF these
provinces, annexation 10 the United
States, if the Union be reconstructed on
firm basis. This is what we all feel
and what the great majority of us
dread.
The New York bakers are taking a
lively interest in the unsound flour
question, and are already making prep
arations for an appeal to tho Governor
and the Legislature, at its approaching
session for revival of the inspection
laws under a judicious and faithful in
spector They say no reliance can be
placed on the character of the dealers
or on the appearance of the floor.
The Scientific .4mcriean gives the fol
lowing recipe for preventing the decay
of potatoes Dust over the floor of the
bin with lime, and put in six or seven
inches of potatoes and limo again re.
peating the operation until all are stored
away. One bushel of lime will do for
forty bushels of potatoes, though more
will not hurt them-the lime rather i'm
proving the flavor than otherwise.
A London paper in speaking of the
meteoric shower, gets off the following
specimen of "fine writing" "There is
cosmical grandeur in this idea; baby
star. cold to the heart with the silence
and frost of the empyrean, suddenly
heated in frenzy of fire by the coarse
air of earth, till the chilly heart and
the glowing skin split asunder, and the
baby star perishes in dust and glory
perishss of his teething.'
Manners are loose in New York. The
Express tells of q new rising fashion
particularly damaging to the old folks
and that is, exclusive young ladies
parties, with young gentlemen, o
course, } from which all married people
are kept out, and where the old folks
are put under the ban. Such parties az
these occur about every night, and tht
writer hears of and sees young ladies
almost unattended, going home from
"the German" from to 3 a. III.
Isaac Taylor, an orphan boy, came tc
this country from Engladd some years
since, and, on reaching Cleveland
blacked boots and did all sorts o.
drudgery. He was afterward farmer
in Michigan and lumberman in Wis
consin. He became rich, and deter
mined that a large portion of the prop
erty should be devoted to the endow
ment of an orphan asylum. His inten'
ton was not carried ont during the life
of himself or his wife, but the latter, il
her will, after making numerous be
anests from her husbands estate-whicl
wa. valued at 1915 ,000-to relative:
and friends and bequeathing S65,O 900 tC
, Racine college and $1,000 to Nashotal
Seminary, left all the balance of hel
property, which is estimated ut ,OOt
IN S150. 600. TO found an orphan ASYLUM
for the orphans of Racine county, to b'
named after her husband.
seedy Women.
A new trouble has turned up; o.
rather a new way of its development