The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-24
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Financial squalls are blowing in the
West. lr.a .,.i-
UPhiladelphia has Morgue.
England has several ladies' boat
clubs. q"
A religious paper says "a Christocra'
cy is coming"
Asiana is suggested as narse for the
Russian territory.
The English papers have done writing
about Fenians. s.. ..rr
A correspondent says Greeley can
swear as fluently as most men.
Body snatching is said to be highly
profitable in Chicago.
Pears are growing in California al
most without care or cultivation.
The Atlantic Cable receipts now av-
erage about fl150 per day.
Jackson county, Ind, had fourteen
murders within as many weeks. "a
The New York State Legislature adj
journed sine die on Saturday night.
In Italy no man is allowed to vote
who is under twenty-five years OF age.
The Oneida Communists believe in
the. power of religions criticism to cure
disease. Hf
The bulls and bears of Gotham are
about equally divided on the European
question. .....,
lit required tive weeks to ship to San
Francisco the bullion on hand at Vir-
ginia City. ~
1t is believed that the coming wheat
crop will be the largest ever grown on
this continent. a.-i iL raa
The exodus of Cubans to the United
States will be very large this year. I'm
usual hot weather. .s
A wealthy bachelor Jew, recently de-
ceased in New York, left nearly $1,000
to charitable institutions.
The New York and Erie elevator, at
Buffalo, was burned on Saturday morn
ing. Loss about 100000.
The Columbus street cars are to try
to be self-sustaining by raising the fare
to seven cents.
London has an Everlasting Club"
The fire never goes out, the wine al
ways set.
A cable dispatch states that Mr..
Gladstone has written a letter abdica-
ting the leadership of the English
Liberals. ....r
Under tho "garb of excessive loyalty
the treasury of New York has been plum
dered and the State disgraced," says a
Radical paper. .... .....
The disbursements of the Government
for last week were S2,394,942. The re-
ceips of Internal Revenue amounted to
81 ,976,942.
The Washington Chronicle, Forney's
paper, expresses the belief that there
will be no quorum in either House of
Congress in July.
The Democratic gain ut the municipal
election just held in Chicago is seven
teen hundred over the last preceding
city election.
A barber in Bangor advertises that
his shop is conducted on temperance
principles. He says there is no alcohol
in his soap or hair brushes.
At recent trial of twenty-inch guns
at Fort Hamilton, New York harbor, q
range of four miles was attained with
projectiles weighing 1880 pounds.
A horse race is announced in Cuba,
the distance to be 500 yards, and the
amount to be run for 500 gold ounces
each, or $500 in gold, making a stake
of $17 900 in gold. =
We hear that the Indian lodged in
the watch house last evening" was
pressed to inform where he got his
liquor, replied with great emphasis
sInjun drink, but no squawkum."-
Bangor Times.
The ship. carpenters and caulkers of
Chicago have resolved to work bnt
eight hours day after May /, but have
agreed to reduction of wages from
four dollars to three dollars and fifty
cents per day.
About forty offices remained to be
filed, when. the Senate adjourned on
Saturday-mostly in the Western States.
The place of Naval Officer at New York,
and the Consulship at Havana, are the
m ost important of the vacanies.
The Idaho Statesman says that Indians
attacked stage coach near Farnit's fer.
ry, on the 25th ult., killed the driver,
named Younger, and two passengers,
named Cllman and Buchee. Three 9TH
er passengers escaped.
The woman in Springfield who had
an unpleasant habit of going into dry
good. stores and charging the first clerk
she met with being the father of her
children, has been sent to lunatic asy-
lum.
Governor Cummings, the absentee
Governor of Colorado, has been provid-
ed with an Office which viii enable him
to remain permanently within easy
reach of Washington. He was nomina-
ted and confirmed Collector of the
Fourth District Of Pennsylvania, on
Saturday. -...
At Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday
evening, while a scow was crossing the
high water, on the south side of the
city, and when within thirty rods of
the shore, it sunk. George Jock and
Asher Holcomb were drowned, and two
Others are still missing. The horses
swan ashore, and several men were
saved by clinging to them. Z
Chicago is having an excitement
about mad dogs. Crowds in every sec
ton of the city gather daily at some
sudden cry of "mad dog and kill ev-
ery unfortunate cur they meet. Dogs
! are hunted through streets and alleys
and into back yards, and are lucky if
they escape. Persons are bitten nearly
every day; but at the present rate there
will soon I've no dogs left 10 bite