The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-23
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A lady appeared at Long Branch
fancy ball as Amiability. Her husband
failed to recognize her
Goffstown, n. H., boasts a ten feet
three inch cornstalk-and growing yet
Eight thousand glasses of Congress
water arc swallowed daily at Saratoga
Fashions for August ere dumb on bon.
nets. The subject is too limited.
Stanton is going to the mountains
unless the mountains come to him.
President Johnson is great ON vetoes.
He has V-toed Stanton out of the Cab.
iuet.-Chicago Times.
A dancer in st. Petersburg was pre-
sented with boquet that filled an en-
tire carriage.
An amiable negro in Rolla, Missouri,
gouged out another negro's eye. 1t was
in moment of passion.
A wealthy Englishman- remained
eight years in Clichy rather than pay
his creditor.
Modesty is like sober flower, says
the London FHa, it takes no more than
its due.
Mr.. Jones went To sleep OD q window
sill in Cleveland, fell to the ground, and
leaves an interesting widow.
The journal says we are Il stumbling
blockhead. Then let him keep his head
ont of the way and we will not stumble
over it.-LOuisriiie Democrat.
A man in Chicago who obtained n wife
from the Love Bureau there, died from
poison she administered to secure his
effects. sr
The negro equal rights convention in
Pennsylvania declared for Sumner, Ste
yens, Wade and Stanton for the Presi-
dency.
The Bureau of Military Justice has
bred more crime than it has punished;
more perjury than ever heaven will for
give, or the country forget.
The odoriferous Linburger cheese is
now manufactured in New York, which
accounts for one of the city's horrible
smells.
A New York paper publishes the fact
that Queen Victoria's feet are large and
clumsy. She should use them upon the
writer.
Miss Babson, of Boston, represented
"Night" at a Saratoga chop" She is
pronounced as lovely night as ever was
seen.
ST. Louis complains of mud, Detroit
of lizards, and Cincinnati of whisky in
their respective water. Detroit is the
least unhappy, having discovered that
lizards digest as easily as oysters.
The wife of Jesse Carter, of Mobile,
Alabama, was recently killed by her
son, who mistook her for robher.
The horse fair at Hartford, Connec-
ticut, opened Tuesday, and will continue
three days. Premiums to the amount
of $4,000 are offered.
Mr. Edwin Booths new theatre will
be located on the corner of Sixth avenue
and Twenty.third street, New York.
Work will he commenced upon il at
once.
Mrs. Donihu, of Glenville, New York,
while visiting Maison's grain elevator
in Schenectady, on Monday, had her
dress caught in swift revolving shaft,
and died few moments after being
extricated.
The defaulting tellers of the Trades
mems Bank, at New York, have con-
fessed their crime, and are assisting to
make good the losses of the bank. They
speculated through a broker, who failed,
aud they were heavy losers in conse-
quence.
The colored men of Columbia, South
Carolina, have petitioned General Sick
les for the release of the young men,
Radcliffe and DAILY, who were impris-
oned for some alleged misconduct to-
wards two Northern orrespondents.
The New York T1ib uRe says sustaining
the President does not in the least de-
tract from a mans patriotism and fdel-
ity as a citizen. Greeley, don't you tuIn
"Copperhead."
Some 360 converts recently left Wales
and Scotland for Utah. The ladies are
described as healthy, ruddy and buxom,
and they bring some seven thousand
dollars in money with them.
The Charleston, s. c., negroes are
marching in torchlight professions and
doing other foolish things at the insti-
CATION of radicals there, who teach the
blacks everything but work.
The New York journal Of Commerce
thinks that the Southern press, on the
whole, is better tempered than the
Northern press. 1t is fairer towards the
Northern people than the Northern
press is towards the Southern people
According to the daily papers 1.-The
troops are still securing the country af-
ter the Fenians." This is surely uune-
cessary. The country cannot be so very
dirty, since the Fenians managed to get
clean off.-PaRCh.
An elegantly dressed lady, evidently
a Spanish woman, is attracting atten-
tion by promesading Broadway without
any bonnet. She wears the graceful
Spanish mantilla thrown over her head
and shoulders.-N. Y. Gdsette.
Greeley says, Eve sustain no man
whose record is not as clear as the sum-"
You sustained jeff. Davis, how about
his records You claimed the right of
the Southern States to secede. Is that
record "as clear as the sun ?" Go to,
you mouthing hypocrite.
There is a place of entertainment in
the Champs Elysee, in Paris, on which
You may read in large capitals, without
punctuation, these words, "Cafe Eng
fish Spoken Here.D 'Cafe English" is a
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