The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-09

lecture on "The Lost Arts or the one
on 1.-THE Peril of the Hour Phillips de-
livered both, and spoke four hours.
Over 100000 were sent from the VI
cinity Of Forney's Office in Philadelphia
for the benefit of the Connecticut Rad;
icals.
:, As many as l3o persons were killed IN
English mines in the year 1865, through
naked candles being burnt.
The Presidents cook is daily expect.
ing summons from the Impeachment
committee for not putting black pepper
in the soup. .
A petition praying Parliament to give
the franchise to women is in course Of
signature in the University of Cam
bridge.
Garibaldi persists in shocking bis
English adorers. The other day he pub
licly baptized baby in "the name Of
God and of the legislator Jesus"
The Wisconsin Legislature has pas
ed resolution granting $780, 900 to rail-
road companies for every twenty miles
of road hereafter built in the State. ,
The United States District Csuft Of
Kansas has granted an Injunction
against the collection of taxes on lands
belonging to the Union Pacific railroad
in that State. - !
Philip Heinrich, late Secretary OF a
Prussisn railroad, has been arrested in
Chicago, under the extradition treaty,
for alleged forgeries to the amount OF
over 900, committed in Prussia. = =
Last week q young woman in London
obtained from the bank upwards Of
E1OO, the amount of q legacy, and got
80 very drunk Immediately afterwards
that she died from sufOcation.
There is some discussion on the best
mode of ventilating the national Capt.
tol. We would suggest whether it can
not be better done by the people at the
polls, than,in any other way.-Ne@6Sry-
port Herald.
A two-year old steer iu Wales, Mass,
which was recently killed, had two
hearts, enclosed in separate apartments,
with arteries running from each. This
Is said to be the first instance Of the
kind on record.
During the last trip of the London
and Bristol steamer, Rosetta she ran out
If fuel, owing to the very severe wealth
II, and was compelled to burn the bod
es of 400 pigs which had died on board.
The loss of life by the earthquake in
the island of Mytelene, on the 9Th Of
March, was fearful. About thousand
persons were buried under the ruins Of
he chief town, and some hundreds in
Iiolino, while almost every village has
ts list of similarcalamities.
Twenty years ago there were no news
papers in California. To-day there are
;welye dailies, one tri-weekly and forty
me weeklies in San Francisco alone. In
he remainder of the State there are
Twelve dailies, one .tri-weekly and sew
,nty-three weeklies. go
when the Canadian authorities un-
lertook to blow up Table Rock, at Nj
agsra Falls, some weeks. ago, they. neg:
Iected to properly arrange the charge Of
powder, and the explosion only had the
effect to throw down some pieces OF the
rock. The main mass of it still re-
mains.
The fifth revolutionary attempt
against Geffrard's Government in Hayti
has just been suppressed. A desperate
was fought, in which many
ives were lost, the rebels being terribly
mt to pieces by the shells and projec-
lies OF Geffrard's partisians. The
streets of Port au Prince were strewn
with dead bodies.
Mrs. Avonia Brooke, nee Jones, the.
American actress, now in Scotland, is
llwsys attended by very large New
;oundland dog, endo we'd with wonder
'ul intelligence. He is admitted into
;he salons which his mistress graces; in
railway carriages and steamboats, he
holds his place by her side, in defiance
IF rules he sleeps beneath her bed, sits
IN private box with her at the theater,
md watches over her at rehearsals.
The earthworks Of the Paris Exhibi-
lion, including the Park, amount to mp
wards of half a million cnbic yards.
The iron work amounts to l3,200 tons,
IF which 1000 tons are in the great
gallery. The windows Of
this gallery presenta surface of So, 200
square yards, and those of the other
galleries 25, 900. The palace itself occu-
1ies an area of 140, ,1S4 square yards. Of
This, 81 900 square yards will be occu-
pied by France, 81 ,653 by England, and
900 by the United States.