The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-14
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A new 1Ork eQltOr mas tuIucu aceoi.
A Toronto newsboy has fallen heir to
100000
The indebtedness of New York State
is sl25, 100000.
Isaac Rynders is preparing his auto
biography.
Artemus Ward will clear fifty thou
sand dollars by his visit to England.
The Fenian whistle at Sweetzburg
cost the Canadian Government about
100000.
Marshall Random, the French Secre-
tary of War, began his career as
drummer boy.
1t will require fifty millions of dollars
to run the Freedmen's Bureau two
years.
A Nevada miner has brick worth
$1,000. He does not carry it in his hat
habitually. '
Page 1867 commences with accounts
of frighful accidents, murders, &c,
throug ghout the country. s,
The New York papers state that this
is the; dullest season in the year
in trade, and the gayest in fashionable
circles.
There were erected in Toledo, Ohio,
last year, 1899 new buildings-9e2 OF
them dwellings-at cost OF Sl,621 ,oeo.
New engines are to be put in the
steamship Great Eastern. They will
cost 100000. .s''
The Federal Assembly at Switzerland
has voted loan of 100000 francs for
furnishing the Federal army with breech-
leaders.
Two boys belonging to Boston were
arrested i'll Toronto on Tuesday for
stealing s25 900 from their father on De
cember "a.
A dispatch from st. Louis states that
all the Protestant churches have become
incorporated associations, in order to
evade taxation.
The editor of the Worcester Sry has
seen the oldest book in New England
printed twenty-five years before the dis
covery of America by Columbus.
Four young lads, under twelve years
of age, were discovered in Boston
church on Sunday playing euchre for
the beer for the crowd
The statement going the rounds that
George Peabody, Esq, had given do
nation of $4,000 to the Five Points
House of Industry in New York is said
to be without foundation.
An act is now before the Pennsylvania
Legislature repeating all laws which
have been or may be construed to pre-
vent the running of passenger railroad
cars on Sunday.
In Pittsfeld, on Christmas eve, a
waterfall of ponderous proportions COM
pelled the sexton to give its proprie-
tress q seat in tie front part OF the
church in order to shut the outside
door.
A fire at Galesburg, Illinois, ON Sun
day, burned more than one-half n block
of business buildings, including the
candy factory of Wells & Townsend,
Aliens meat market, Lees music store,
Culver's stove store, &c. The total loss
is $4,000.
EAn English Protestant clergyman
says that over FIVE millions of the peo-
ple of England are living III open ne
elect of the means of grace, and gives
statistics to prove his assertion.
A new Bedford lady who recently
wrote to Boston publisher for copy
of "Gclert: or, Trust in Cod" received
the sad reply: "There is no Trust IN
Godr to be found III Boston,"
The committe in charge of the Port
land relief fund, have decided not to
appropriate any of the money under
their control to aid in rebuilding the
churches destroyed by the great fire
III July.
There was q shaker settlement inNew
Gloucester, Nc, composed of two fami-
lies, and possessing 1900 acres of land
The Shaker settlements in the United
States number l6, comprising l5,OOo
persons.
The Ellsworth american chronicles a
queer feat Of runaway horse in the
streets of that town. The horse jump
ed lengthwise over n COW, knocked her
down and injured her tail so that am
putation of the member was necessary.
She will not fully realize her bereave-
ment until fy-time.
The new Tycoon Of Japan, it is stated,
is a prince of no common Intelligence,
and is in favor Of carrying out the trea-
ties already made by the Japanese for
trade and intercourse with the various
civilized nations. The commercial re-
lations ofJapan with Europe and Amer
ica, now constantly Increasing, are not
likely hereafter to be interfered with.
The large estates in the county OF
Schmalkalden, in Hesse, which the
King of Prussia Chas lately made a
present to the Duke of Coburg, Gotha,
in acknowledgement of his friendly pol
icv, are estimated at $2,6O0,0O0. The
yearly revenue is 10s,75o.
The Minister of Education in France,
N. Duruy, has ordered peoples Libraries
to be established in oil the mairies Of
Paris. Large rooms have been hired for
this purpose, and they will be warmed
and lighted in the evening for the use
of the working classes.
A Paris correspondent of the Pitts
burg Chronicle says that the deaths by
cholera in the French capital in 1866
exceeded 1900. In ls49, $1,000, and in
1854, 5000 died from the same epidemic.
The city is outwardly very clean and
tire drainage excellent, so that the ply
sicians are at a loss to ascertain the
causes of so great mortality.