The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-30
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Geologically this is the "drift" perio'

Geologically this is the drift period.
Philadelphia mourns for a "Black
Crook" ,-, .... -,.,--.
New York City complains Of ice-ola-
tion.
The Wisconsin railroads are to be con-
solidated.
Ten females are confined in the Yer
mont State Prison.
Lead quarters and half dollars are cir
culating in Quebec.
Cincinnati has become the third man.
ufacturing city in the world.
A colored man wants to be Mayor OF
dusky Pittsburg.
H. w. B. says cholera is "God's opin-
ion of nastiness."
1t is computed that there are about
200, 900 tons guano on the Guanappe
Islands. O. - ssss sr,F - EH e
Seventy-fve thousand hhds. of French
wine were consumed last year.
A young lady of fifteen summers in
Minneapolis journeyed forty miles on
skates in six hours.
There will be four eclipses this year
two of the sun and two of the moon.
The State election in Connecticut
takes place on the first Monday in April.
Political squabbles prevent the De-
troit Common Council from organizing.
Horace Greeley lately delivered long
speech without once alluding to the ne
gro.
A mans business capacity nowadays
is measured by the quantity Of his ad-
vertising.
Secretary McCulloch has recently had
a daughter born to him.
The Mexican Minister in Washington
is about to marry a blooming widow
there. 'Hs. SHsF '.- "f
A California paper speaks of Senator
Nye as "the black buzzard of Nevada"
A joker in Quebec distributed several
hundred invitations to dine with the
Mayor of that city.
The official journal of Rome has been
perfectly silent about the evacuation Of
the Pontifical territory.
A young man in Indiana cut down
tree that contained two coons and six
larrn m rottlpsnakps
The toilettes of Madame RistOri en-
braces collections Of merchandise and
jewelry to the extent of $50, 900.
The plan of uniting Spain and Portu-
gal, and driving the Bourbons from
power, is an old one of Napoleon's.
A dinner was recently given in Paris
at which all the guests were literary
men, and all cooks. .....
Speaking of impeachment, Mr. Gree
lev says "no patriot will wantonly or
lightly shake the twin fabrics of Pub
lie Order and Public Credit"
Some one reckons George Peabody's
benefactions in fourteen years at an av-
erage of 81, 900 day exclusive of Sun
days and holidays.
A German in Chicago has been fined
for letting two worthless old horses
starve to death. The poor animals last
meal was handful of shayings.
In her hurry to attend sick child a
woman in Wabash, Ind, threw uncon-
sciously package containing 81 200 in
to the fire.
An individual in Cincinnati worth
S75,O 900 has been in the habit of going
through the cars and stealing all the
newspapers and books while the passen-
gers were dining"
1t is stated that General Sherman told
a friend that he always liked to obey
orders, but he be id if he was going
to ride Thousand miles on mule to
hunt for Juarez, or Maxinilian either.
The Vermonter, who. was imprisoned
in Ohio, on a charge of blackening
sheep and selling them as merinoes, has
turned the tables. His sheep were gen
uine, and his prosecutor is now in Jail
for false Imprisonment.
A man in Berlin lost his life by put
ting his head out Of an open window in
n cab door. At the same moment an
other vehicle which happened to drive
past pushed against the door of the cab
in such a manner that the neck of the
gentleman was jammed i'll, and his head
remained outside the door.
In Leavenworth, the other day, two
girls got into dispute over the sugar on
the table as to who used the most, and
during the wrangle they upset the ta-
BILE, which, falling upon the head of n.
three year old child, broke its neck,
killing it instantly.
A Washington correspondent says
"protracted clerical service in the de-
partments has tendency to destory
the intellectual yirillity of the male sex,
and endow it with all the weaker traits
of the womanly character" In other
words, ten years of department clerk
ing will come very near to making
woman ont of man.
When Governor Andrew sent the
Massachusetts, girls to the Pacific coast
to supply the want of femininity in that
region, he said that they need not mar
ry Immediately, but could find plenty to
do in teaching the little children. Anna
Dickinson cant see it," She says:
Where the little children were to come
from out ofa population of ten thousand
men was more than she could imagine;
but, she thought that probably Govern
or Andrew, being man, might be able
to do So"
The schemes now talked of in Europe
are: 1. Union of Spain and Portugal
by means Of revolution that shall de-
throne Queen Isabella and place the
House of Braganza on the Spanish
throne. 2. Union of all Scandinavia,
10y wrestling Finland from Russia and
restoring it to Sweden, and Denmark TO
the same no ver or at least the insular