The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-22
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baltimore mas nau an llIiuN Ol PICK
pockets.
Motto for neutral paper-all talk
and no slider.
There is village in Pennsylvania
called Longaeoming.
The Chicago playgoers gave an act
ress 81 ,0C0 worth of presents ut her BEN
etit.
Factory operatives are allowed one
clean sheet in two weeks.
Reconstructed Germany has l9l ,S63
square miles and population of 49,
so, ,J43.
4 scientific speculator says the Min
nesota winters are growing milder.
An Indianapolis girl has been shooting
Terre Haute landlord for some i'm
proper conduct.
Nat. P. Willis is said to be up and ut
it again, pen i'll hand.
A Cincinnati squire has been mulcted
in $1,000 for falsely imprisoning n cit
izen Of that city.
A toung lady in Adams county, Pa,
ged eighty -four is learning the tobac-
conist trade.
A well-infermed Frenchman recently
sold his young and beautiful wife for
five francs.
An English market gardener was shot
dead by cat that leaped against gun
barrel.
Thurlow Weed may now he consider
ed gentleman, scholar and patriot.
He has joined the Manhattan Club.
Banks habits, the Louisville Demo-
crat says. have been established by first
proof. He established them by fourth
proof.
Blackwood calls President Johnson a
thorough lawyer and an excellent speak
er. In Radical circles they call him a
drunkard and an assassin.
Three villains set upon New Haven
merchant the other night, but threat
tening to shoot them with n store key
/ they incontincntly skedaddled.
! English manufacturers, with an eye
to business, sell arms to Fenian agents,
and the government afterwards seize
the same.
The trial of Mollie Trussel, for kill
ing George Trussel, commenced at Chi
cago some weeks since, was concluded
on Saturday. The jury rendered ver-
diet of manslaughter, and she was SEN
fenced to one year in the penitcntiary.
An English judge in charging the ju-
ry in railway case, said that lie thought
the blowing of tobacco smoke in the
face of fellow railway passenger may
be considered an assault.
Pouring cold water or the face and
head destroys the effect of narcotic pois-
ons. A girl poisoned with laudanum in
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other remedies had failed.
A California paper tells of lady at
Alma, who became grandmother on
the day she was "a years old. In this
latitude such cases are rare, but not in
tropical countries, where humanity
comes to maturity much sooner.
The Mexican Liberals are not only
| fighting Maximilian, the French, and
the Church. but they are prepared to
knock the chip from the United States
shoulder whenever it pretents itself.
Forty thousand acres of forfeited
school and swamp lands in Winconsin
will be offered for sale in the Secretary
of States office, at Madison, and on the
9th the forfeited mortgaged lands will
| be offered.
The New York NewsbOys' Lodging
Room Association has received 4 dona-
tion of $4,000 from Mr.. Bose, of Iowa,
whose brother left $4,000, 900 to be ap-
propriatcd to the benefit of poor and
neglected children.
An ingenious pickpocket in the West
is said to have driven good business
by getting on railroad trains, refusing
to ray his fare, aud then picking the
conductors pocket while he was put
ting him out.
The London Reric'c says:
We have heard rather 4 good story Of
Bismarck. He is said to be partial to
brandy, and before leaving Berlin for
the seat of war, q little son of his asked
him how long he was to be away. Tie
replied that he did not know. There
upon servant came in to inquire how
many bottles of Cognac were TO be
packed up i'll the Counts luggage.
eTwenty-four, was the answer. An,
papa cried out the terrible infant,
now / know how long you are ts he
from home, twenty.four days.
A Western man--one of the Smith
family. has disclosed horrible plot,
amounting to nothing less than the de-
struction of the lives of sufficient
number of Radical Congressman tOplace
the party in minority. As the danger
appears to have passed, the Congress
men interested can amuse themselves
with what follows-the gist of Mr..
Smiths "cock-aud-bull' story:
II have recently come into possession
of information to the effect that plot
has been formed To destroy the lives of
a sufficient number of Republicans to
reduce them to minority in Congress.
Railroad accidents. poisonings, etc, will
be resorted to as the means to accom-
plish this rssult, and unless you are
very careful they will succeed. My ad-
vice to each of you would be to start
for Washington two or three days before
the time announced, and 60 unob-
served, and keep sharp lookout after
you get there, for still deeper plots are
in store for your destruction, and the
overthrow of our republican govern
ment. have the whole secret of their
plottings from the very commencement,
and will reveal it all when the time ar
rives."
A gentleman who has just returned