The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-11
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tory state.
All the rats in the sewers Of Vienna
have been destroyed by means of green
vitriOl.
Areward of 5000 is offered for the
apprehension of Head Centre Stephens
in Dublin.
Montreal will probably be the future
capital of Canada under Confederation.
1t is agan proposed to unite the Ber-
muda Islands with Nova Scotia by a
submarine telegraph.
An Indian delegation, with squaws
and wigwams, from the Northwest, Is
going to the Paris Exposition.
A Saxony crinoline manufacturer has
made in one year s6s,7s4,OO hoop-skirt
springs.
The coal fields of the United States
cover an area equal to twenty eight such
States as Massachusetts,.
A company of Americans are manu-
featuring condensed milk at Zurich.
The Philadelphia Press speaks of Joe
Holt as an interesting character. So he
is, and Conover is another.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune says four-ffths of the
House are ready to vote for impeach-
ment.
We have private information that the
latest Partisan style of ladies' dresses is
something about midway between Ma
zeppa and the French Spy.
A rat-hunt at Spring Valley, below
Xenia, Ohio, resulted in total slaugh-
ter of 1878 rats.
Boston is to have an Art Building
costing s1,OOO,000. Land valued at
$3.50 900 has been donated.
Forty men and women were recently
slaughtered in one of provinces on the
coast of West Africa, as sacrifice on
account of the death of the ruler of the
province.
The Hartford Comm Times gives the
particulars of q very fatal case of pois-
oning at Berlin, in that State. 1t says
that six persons were poisoned in the
family Of Cornelius w. Peck, and that
only three of them will recover.
Three little girls, who state that they
were stolen from their homes in Buffalo,
by gypsies, have asked Mayor Morrison,
of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, to
rescue them from those who now have
them in charge. The gypsies are tarry'
ing near that city.
Mary D. Brown, member Of the
Friends Society, has recently given slOC
to the Jewish Hospital Association OF
Philadelphia, for the benefit Of The hos
pital recently established. This insti-
tuition combines a refuge for the sick
and disabled, and an asylum for the
aged lsraelites.
The reservoir connected with the hy
draulie press used in the Treasury
printing department ut Washington
burst yesterday and fell from its posi-
ton, shaking the builing and involving
a loss of $4,000.
Forty-fve drunkards were arraignet
and fined the usual amount, and foul
common drunkards were sent to the
House of Industry for six months in
Boston on Monday last.
An artificial ivory is now made il
France from o paste of papier macht
and gelatine, and to which the name O
Partisan marble is given. Among 9th
er things, the finest and most compli
Gated mouldings for ceilings can bt
made, or capitals Of columns can be con
structed in any color. 1t is said to be
hard, durable and elastic.
Liverpool, in 1864, although it con
tanned only one fourty-fourth of the
population, had one-seventh of the
drunken cases in all England and Wales
1t shows one case of drunkenness fol
every thirty-three of the population
while Birmingham shows only one il
every two hundred and thirty-two.
A Methodist preacher, named David
son, seduced young lady named Mary
Dunn, whose parents reside north of In
dianapolis, and brought her to Louis
vile, where they have been occupying
room in an assignation house. The CIR
was taken home by her father, but the
preacher made his escape.
A rifle match recently came off al
Point st. Charles, Canada, to test the
relative endurance and rapidity of firing
of the Ballard and Palmer rifles. At the
three hundred and sixteenth round the
Palmer rifle gave out. The Ballard con-
tinued to fire until ! ,O23 rounds had been
fired in one hour and forty-fve minutes,
During the past ten days there ha,
been unusual activity at the Brooklyn
navy-yard. Orders have been received
to get eight vessels-the gunboats Pen,
obscot, Peoria, Gettysburg, Unadilla,
Huron, Quinnebangh and Purveyor, and
the sloop-of-war Iroquois, in readiness
for sea with all despatch. The Gettys-
burg was formally put into commission
with orders to report to Admiral Palmer
of the West India squadron.
Hogan, little boy, in Albany, New
York, was playing Q few days since
among some empty potato barrels with
three or four Of his young comrades
He got into the barrel feet foremost, and
his companions raised the barrel upon
it's end, TINS placing him upon his head
In this position he was left until the
blood rushed to his head and his face
had become black. When removed he
was taken to his home, but died in
few hours afterwards.
A movement is on foot in England,
Qiterally,) headed BY no less a person.
age than Countess de Noailles, to abol-
ish the use of shoes, 50 far as children
ara ,on,arrad. or in nther words Ia