The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-19

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Trade is better in New York. 81
Dickens is really "going through" the
principal American cities.
Over one hundred new vessels are be-
ing built or contracted for in Maine. Il
One hundred and twenty thousand
children in New York. do NOT sttend
schoolo, % - s9H9a sALg
Prof Agassiz received three thousand
dollars for delivering six lectures in
New York. g. ri n -. ,.,. 80. 80
Colonel Taylor has been again reject
ed for Postmaster of Cincinnati, by the
Senate.T y ,FHTS FIgE sol =
"A small store at tho corner of Lom-
bard street, London, rents for If22, 900
per annum. uIZaro gpL AZ -,
Whether Louis Napoleon will knock
the chip from Bismark's shoulder is the
question in Europe! , '@''1lh -
Granville John Penn, great grandson
of;William, Penn, died in London on the
Goth ult.
Mrs. Bassett, of New York, killed her
self because her landlord had served
her anotice to qpitsr1T ,ro--sE v
Punch says the fruits Of elections are
generally preceded by the appearance
of some early Bri-beries. III
From $50 to 200 human skeletons ara
annually sold in New York city. They
are worth about Sl5 apiece. l4
The payment of. Communication of ra-
tions to soldiers who were PRISONERS
during the war is now in progress in
Washington. " 80 39Ja tu5l5J
The assessed valuation of property
on Broadway, New York, from Houston
street to Union square, is SIS, ,000, 600.
The yearly meeting of the Orthodox
Friends began in Philadelphia on Mon
day, aud will continue during the week.
1t is estimated that there are $500
professional thieves in New York, Of
which number 2lOO are males and 400
females. a.s-, I
Lowell, Mass, has forty-nine factor
les, the capital stock of which is sl3,-
Isl, 1000. 2,O13 females and 4,9l4 males
are employed.
A shoemaker out West has advertised
for "aifemale who has o knowledge Of
fitting boots with good moral charac.
ter"
Bisniark has decorated with the
"Black Eagle Victor EmanuePs two
sons, and the elder youth is going on o
grand spree to Berlin. 4 gVN # =
b, Three thousand tailors met in Paris
to organize strike. They
have to suit for a certain price, but the
price doesn't suit them.
A dispatch from southampton, Eng
land, states that the American yachts
engaged in the recent ocean race, are
for the return voyage.
A highly respectable married lady in
Indianapolis, and mother of two beauti-
full children, eloped with a man who
talked through his nose and vended
corn plasters and sbrass jewelry.
The work of removing the Federal
dead to the cemetery at Mound City,
Illinois, is progressing rapidly. Over
300 have been taken from Cairo and
Birds Point, and 800 remain.
Nursing colds, cleaning yards, plant
ing early peas, dress -inrking, house
cleaning and keeping ones temper, are
the principal domestic duties of the
season.-Spring. Repab.
The city council of Philadelphia have
to build Morgue, or dead
house, in that city, similar to that in.
New York. - FgPIlLa
A female seminary was recently start
ed in Salt Lake Ciey, which succeeded
very well, until the principal eloped
with and married the whole school.
The eoroners Jury in the case of DR..
Howe, supposed to have been murdered
ut Holyoke, Mass, returned verdict of
death from intemperance. :.
The Catholics of Lawrence, Mass, are
about to erect o house for orphans, at
an expense of S30, 900. 1t is to be under
the charge of the Sisters of Charity.
The water in the railroad reservoir at
Alliance, Ohio, broke through the banks
on Monday, doing considerable damage
10 cellars, &C., in the town.
An action for slander is in q New York
court on account of the defendant hay-
ing stated that hs had to tie rope
over o certain horse in order to prevent
Il form "kicking the stable to pieces.'
"Hole in the Day." Chief of the Min
nesota Chippewas, has just arrived at
home from Washington, with a white
wife, who was laundry-maid in one Of
the hotels at the capital.
Perhaps no other one person is such
4 thorn in the flesh of the Democratic
party as is Gen. Butler.-[ Bait. Times.
o, no-ho used to be, but he isn't
now. He is, thorning another side,
about these days. cfa,-2 'lN.Os
A man in st. Cloud mixed poison
With his whisky and gave it to two of
his children and urged his wife to drink
Of it. She refused and administered
milk to the poisoned children, and saw
ed them. The man died. ~
Two schoonsrs land steamer have
been purchased BY the Liberals to block
ade Vera Cruz on the Gulf side. Pofrio
Diaz is said by Imperialists to have met
with some disasters at Puebla, being
forced to fall back on Oajaca.
The Canadians are proposing to buy
from the Hudson's Bay Company the
belt of land lying along the saskatche-
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