The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-03
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Rio Janeiro has started q new news
paper.
Joseph Bonaparte's old country seat,
Bordentown, N. j., has been sold to a
milkman for $4,000.
The Internal Revenue Inspectors
seized s1,7OO, 900 of property in New
York in two weeks.
Fitz-Greene Halleck was a member
Of the Roman Catholic Church.
The festive natives of Feejee have
eaten a Wesleyan missionary and six
Christian Indians.
London furnishes a living for $4,000
street peddlers.
Goodrich and Frank Swift are to
skate for the championship of America.
jeff. Davis bail bond is Autographed,
and for sale in Richmond.
Immense beds of peat lie convenient
to the city of St. Paul, Minnesota. A
company is about operating.
There are still in circulation four and
q half million dollars New Orleans city
notes.
A successful Australian digger had q
gold collar for his horse. Another shod
his horse with gold.
Girls are employed as dry goods clerks
in Boston at "a q week.
The entire range of Catskill noun
tain is covered with snow.
The Confederate ram "Lady Davis"
has been purchased by junk dealer in
Philadelphia.
There are five vessels on their way
from Bremen with emigrants for Texas.
DIR. Mudds success with yellow fever,
it is said, came from giving no medicine
at ALL.
The only monument over Braddock's
grave is a shingle nailed to an adjacent
tree.
Ten thousand dollars is offered for the
discovery of process to soften mica.
One of the "upper ten" of Troy is
about to erect mansion in that city at
a cost of S25O,0OO.
A Maine railroad carries Indians at
half price and clergymen free.
Venice is said to look like Pittsburg
under water.
The Mississippi, which is now lower
than it has been for many years, is also
clearer.
The families of deceased soldiers re-
ceive S. q month in Massachusetts.
A Washington newsboy was found to
be likely young girl in breeches.
A white man registered in Wake
county, n. c., who had attained the age
of one hundred and three years.
There is so little Southern travel now
that only one through train a day is to
be run between Washington and New
Orleans.
The Utes have been invited by Kit
Carson to 60 to New Mexico and fight
the Cheyennes, and they are going
A "loll" preacher at Evansville, lndi-
ana, named c. Runk, has been fined $50
for trying to defraud the government
out of license to peddle potatoes.
Forney denies, with virtuous indig-
nation, that Anna Dickinson is either to
be married or to 20 on the stage.
There is q great quantity of real
estate in the market in New Orleans,
and prices are lower than they were
last year.
The Butterfield Skating Rink, Utica,
will contain ninety thousand square
feet. This is probably the largest on
the continent.
Prof. Morse generously gave up the
gold medal voted to him at the Expo
sition to the inventor of the telegraphic
printing machine.
A Milwaukee man buried his wife,
married again and became again o
father, all in four days. Queer, as well
as quick work.
Charles Dickens, Jr., is clever, pop
ular young man, given to athletic pur-
suits, and president OF q London boat
club.
Bulldog" is harsh word to trans
late into French, and the journals which
published the list of species of dogs at
the late show in Paris gave it up and
used the English name. - q, e
The manufacturer of patent beer in
Berlin, who is one of the most extensive
advertisers in the world, pays tax on
five millions accumulated in few years.
A remarkable religious revival is in
progress in Upton, Mass. Protracted
meetings have been held over two
months. Nearly hundred conversions
arc reported.
An ambitious youth in New London,
while attempting to stand on his head,
for the edification of his schoolmates,
hurt his neck in some way, so that he
has been unable to get his head back
into proper position since.
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