The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-11
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Queer thing, is an insurance pollcy.
If I can't sell it, cancel it, and If 1
cancel it; 1 can't sell it. ltrEf-
Never trouble trouble till trouble
troubles you; for trouble rarely troubles
people who never trouble themselves
about trouble. .I # T.
Rev. Hart L. Stewart, the hero OF the
recent divorce snit in Chicago, is said
to contemplate lecturing tour at an
early day.
Prof. Agassiz continues i'll in Wash
ington, and fears that he will be COM
PEELED to abandon his engagements
there. -... 4.. .,..,..
The latest triumph of photography is
plan by which pictures of sunken
ships are secured, much to the benefit of
wreckers.
There is, it is said, space of4, 49,
900 square miles around the North
Pole. which is now o blank on our
maps.
The expense of running an oil well in
the oil region of Pennsylvania is from
s25 to $50 der day.
There are nearly twice as many news
papers published in the United States
as in the rest of the world put together.
A forty-fve ounce nugget from the
Gilmer river gold mines was exhibited
in Montreal, Canada East, on Tuesday.
Mrs. Lutz was married at Circleville,
Ohio, lately, her own daughter and
grand daughter acting as bridesmaids.
The same expenditure of money that
will get q train over mile with grade
of eighty feet will send it over four
miles on level.
A young and we'll dressed lady has
been caught stealing money from one of
the Boston hotels. She was transferred
from one granite editice to another.
There has been a great religious revi-
val in the churches of Sacramento, Cal,
and large numbers have joined the va
rious denominations.
Gen. Charles II. Howard forwarded
thirty freedmen to England on Mon
day, where homes have been obtained
| for them.
There are 1926 breweries, large and
small, distributed throughout the towns
and villages of Prussia, for the manu-
facture of lagar.
The value of taxable property in Ne
braska iu 1866 was sl7, ,s35, ,s5l 81, an in
crease of more than four millions over
the previous years valuation.
The Victoria Rifles will leave Mon
treal, C. E., for Chambly, during this
week, on snow shoes, it being the
only regiment that could attempt the
feat.
There are in California 26,903 chill
dren under the age of fifteen years. The
school expenses last year were S559,-
229 10, and the receipts s9ls,s5l SO.
During eight months of last year,
steam engines to the value of 1926
in gold were exported from Great Brit
ain to foreign countries, chiefly Russia,
India, and Egypt.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland keeps
up the state due to his viceregal posi-
ton, his wife, the Marchioness, never
going out, even when shopping, with
out four horses to the carriage, and two
outriders.
The Toronto (Can.) Leader is informed
that farm laborers, &c, are in great de-
mand in the interior at wages ranging
from $3.50 to $50 year, board included
A "wife agency" is in operation at
Cleveland, Ohio. 1t is conducted on
the employment agency system, the
prices ranging from s. to $40.
The meadow Lake Sun, the loftiest
paper in California, says the passage on
snow shoes of citizens down the noun
tain side outstrips tho locomotives
flight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blackburn, of Columbus,
who are charged with fiendish abuse Of
their little daughter, have been COM
mitted to Jail in default of S3,0oo bail
each. The little victim is at hospital,
and improving.
Mrs. wilby kicked conductor in the
mouth, at Erie, Pa, because that un-
happy man would not let herself and
husband get on the train without show
ing their tickets.
Henry Lee, prominent and inAuen-
tial citizens, died in Boston yesterday,
aged IS. He received the electoral vote
of South Carolina for the Vice Presiden-
cy, at the reelection of Andrew Jack
son in 1882. "..,t .t
An outdoor relief committee in New
York last week found q girl, about
eighteen years old, who exists by max
ing trimming at five cents per yard,
and is able to make only three yards
per day of twelve hours. The trimming
is sold by the dealers at seventy five
!
cents per yard.
In the Kansas House the concurrent
resolution to amend the Constitution by
striking out the word white which
had passed the Senate, was amended SO
as to strike out the word 'male," and
also make intelligence the basis of suf-
frage after 1870.
The case of Calvin NJ. Northrop, for
attempting to poison his wife, came up
on Monday at White Plains, N. Y, be-
fore the Supreme Court, Judge Gilbert
presiding. The District Attorney, John
S. Bates, moved for judgement, upon
which the defendants counsel asked for
delay of sentence until bill of excep-
tions could be settled, with view to OBJ
tain certificate from the judge upon
which his counsel might move the Court
to bail the prisoner, pending the decis-
ion Of the Supreme Court.
The Galveston Cirilian announces the
opening of the city railroad in that city