The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-25
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Lucea, the prima donna, is coming
hither. .F! 49, affStft sgft
Rents are on the decline in New York
city.
The police force of Philadelphia now
numbers 827 men.
An Indian thousand moons old Is
reported dying out West.
The strawberry crop in the Middle
States is unprecedentedly large.
Mr.. Stanbery's opinion gives rise to
many opinion-ated articles.
Sixty thousand paying visitors attend
the Paris Exposition daily.
The name of the new paper in Japan
is the BaH-kok Shin -BHR-Shi.
Queen Victoria gave q grand ball to
her servants and tenants at Balmoral.
A mile of square frost slid down one
of the Swiss Alps this spring.
Incompatibility of temperament is
sufficient cause for divorce in Connec-
ticut. TlEf{D
There are 963 s,ammerers in France,
and 410S of military age who have lost
their teeth.
The Prince of Wales has been admit
ted a member of the Paris Jockey Club.
A beautiful Marchioness committed
suicide in Genoa, recently, but for what
cause is unknown.
N.P. Mason has been appointed Chief
Justice of Nebraska, vice Judge Little,
deceased. tl.a 5000
The fare on the night boats between
New York and Albany has been reduced
to a single dollar.
A man fell from distance of 80 feet,
into the water at Galveston, without
injury.
The Radicals do not talk so much
about the "unwashed Democracy" as was
their wont.
Frank Hiscock, brother, of Coles VIC
tim, has been nominated as a delegate
to the New York Convention.
The4body of Artemus Ward was ship
ped as statuary to humor the supersti-
tion of British Sailors
The Troy papers now make the Rev.
Mr.. Merrill white as snow, and the
North Adams young lady wbiter.
Private detectives are now stationed
on the Jersey City ferry boats to look
out for thieves and pickpOckets.
Competition among the Newburyport
Mass hackmen has reduced their fare
to five cents for all parts OF the city.
A girl has been arrested in Newark,
N. j., for trying to steal q waterfall
from the head of another girl on the
street. H. .r- ..
The tallest policeman in Great Britain
died recently of consumption, at Kelso.
He was six feet ten inches high.
The Meadville (Pa. Council have vot,
ed to adopt the Nicholson pavement in
all future street improvements.
Rev. Father Rupert has been made
mitred Abbot, in Minnesota. He is
the third mitred Abbot in the United
States.
Mr.. Bush, of Chicago, was fined 81
and costs for kicking his wife out OF
bed. She had scratched his hack with
curry comb.
The people of Central City, Colorado,
have subscribed $1,000 to be paid for
Indian scalps "with the ears on" at the
rate of $50 apiece.
Female suffrage, when once inaugu.
rated, will soon admit women to the
Jury box. Then what a rush there will
be among the mascnlines to get on ju-
ries.
The District Court of Appeals of Vir-
ginia meets in Fredericksburg July 9th.
Six Judges will be present. There are
twenty -four cases to be tried.
Forney's Press thinks sit would not
be possible to expend money more ju-
diciously" than by sending electioneer-
ing agents among the freedmen. Very
likely.
A servant girl at Salem, Illinois, has
been sued by music teacher for precip-
itating upon him pot of night "bloom-
ing serious" from fourth story win
dow,
While attempting to shoot at target,
o party on Staten Island killed o lady
who was promenading. The company
kindly offered to defrsy the funeral ex-
penses. 81
The French steam frigate Ribourt,
from Martinique, arrived at New York
on Wednesday. She has crew of 4S0
men, and mounts thirty-two guns.
The Princess of Prussia gave her
brother Alfred of England a hearty kiss
upon suddenly meeting him in tile Ex-
position. The smack astonished the
crowd like pistol shot.
The King of Abyssinia remains true
to his declaration of love for Queen Vic
toria, and declares that he will hold
the English Consul in prison until she
consents to give him her hand.
Twenty -one distilleries in the Eighth
and Ninth Collection Districts, in New
York, have been seized within thts last
two days by the revenue agents for al
legged Noncompliance with the laws.
In some parts of Rhode Island house
keeping goods are loaned on weekly or
monthly payments, until the value Of
the property is paid; great accommo-
dation to persons of limited incomes.
No one has as yet been up to the
White Mountains this year. Parties
report the snow twenty feet deep in
many places in the load, while the gen.
eral course Of the road is beneath the
snow.
When somebody asked the Bishop of
Oxford whether he didn't think the last