The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-27
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hug delusions."
There are $500 laundresses in New
York city.
The first snow of the season in Phila-
delphia fell last Thursday.
John Morrissey is reported to have
given 81 900 to church in New York.
Blr. j. Madison Bell, n colored poet, is
giving public readings in Cincinnati.
The newest Yankee invention is an
umbrella with a gutter round the edge
and spout at one corner.
The paper mills of Bcloit, Wisconsin,
turn out four tons of paper per diem.
The ex-King of Naples has dismissed
his courtiers and subsidized into an ordi-
nary citizen.
The guano at the Chiuchi Islands is
nearly exhausted.
The Chicago Tribune pitches into
brother Greedy uncommon strong, as an
INSPIRED Harlequin" &c.
A noted California courtcsan las
died, leaving virtuous sister Sl0,O 600 in
gold.
Gov. Morton, of Indiana, is in peck
of trouble over the L. S. SenatOrship-
hostility to him is increasing.
A jilted young lady has commenced a
breach of promise suit against the con-
sui Of the Netherlands i'll st. Louis.
Charles c. Yeaton, of Brooklyn, OWLS
and runs the most wonderful invention
this side of the stars-the type setting
machine.
The New York Herald says that the
full dress of Il native lady of Colombo
is Il hair pin and garter.
Hon. John Morrissey says he is pre-
pared to spend $4,000 to elect Mr.. Gree
ley to the United States Senate.
There is street in New York city
where the tenants of every house on
both sides Of the street have applied for
license to sell liquor.
New York offers TO sell the lower end
of the Park TO the Government for
81 100000, as site for post-oilice.
A New York dry goods clerk has gone
deranged in consequence Of the daugh-
ter of a millionaire with whom he was
enamored not reciprocatins his attec-
tiOns.
No accurate estimate can be made Of
the millions sunk in mining, coal and
oil companies during the past three
years.
Southern Kansas is growing cotton
with success. In other places they grow
it with guano.
Lord Stanley, the English Minister of
Foreign Affairs, says in private letter
that the United States is Eow the most
formidable military power OH earth. \
colossal compliment.
A returned Californian named Whit
ing, who had been absent for three years,
found his wife living with another man
in Philadelphia, and the mother of Il
child. He threw the child out of the
window Saturday, stabbed the woman,
and fled.
A. Smith, who was elected from New
York and Albany steamboat for selling
his statcrOom at premium, has main
tanned in law his right to do so, and got
verdict of Il 400 for being put off the
boat.
By late intelligence from the Amer
lean colony at Jatfa, in Palestine, it APP
pears that the colopists, who at first
lodged in rudcly constructed tents, are
now provided with more substantial
shelter. One man and two children
have died, and an infant has been born
since their arrival. They are protected
by guard of Turkish soldiers, who are
furnished at the solicitation of the
American Consul.
Sidney Tompkins, of Saltwater, sar
atoga county, New York, was killed a
few days ago by q singular accident.
While attempting tofelieve COW that
was choking, the animal tossed him into
the air with her horns, and in falling he
struck upon picket fence, one OF the
sharp points of which severed an artery
in his neck and impalcd him upon the
fence. When discovered he was in that
position, having bled to death.
| A mystery which quite surpasses the
sphinx is astonishing the New Workers.
1t is living human head, resting upon
very small cushion and floating in mid
air under a strong light. 1t laughs,
talks and recognizes persons i'll the hall,
but there is no obvious body, and 1t
floats at least four feet from the floor,
ceiling and walls. 1t is the greatest
puzzle yet.
The New York Methodist has this sig
nificant paragraph in the course OF its
editorials; at is to be feared that
church members, above reproach in the
general tenor of their lives, will some
times select from pile of umbrellas
one which they are not sure belongs to
them. and will let it hang on their
rack, or devote it to household use with
but little concern about the rights of
the true owner. Others of equally good
character will borrow one and wear it
ont, never mentioning their Delinquent
cy nor thinking of offering payment.
A Candidate for Office at the approach
ing charter election in New York city,
makes the bold announcement that he
will demand that all rival candidates
shall meet him on the stump, "to salts
fy the people which of us will steal the
least" and also that he will make them
all most solemnly swear in the open air
that they will not rob the people. The
citizens of New York, who, if tithe
of what we hear be true, must be rob
bed by Wholesale by their public ser
wants, should profit by this candidates
suggestions, and elect to Office the men
who will steal the least.
The Dublin correspondent of the New
York Tribune thus describes the ODon-
oghne. the representative Irishman: