The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-07

Spain washed her hands of Chill
with CASTLE soap. 1f#1.'2ii
The war of the Western cities wakes
hot.
Cincinnati Is 10 the milky way. She
has 5S1 cows.
The internal revenue men are very
severe upon incomebents.
A town in Maine makes thousand
quarts of shoe pegs per day.
The question in Mexico now is which
army will starve first.
Forney's son should learn his "letters"
before writing them.
The failure of the English iron-clad
fleet seems to be complete.
Brigham Young says it is now rs i'm
portant to raise crops as it is saints.
The New York State taxa Radical
imposition-will amount to Ia per cent.
The Indian war will draw largely on
the national resources this summer.
Italian sausages made Of mule meat
are the latest innovation.
The skeleton of mastOdOn has been
found in Noble county, Ind.
The German sharpshOoters arc to have
a grand festival in Detroit next month.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has be-
come momber of the Episcopal Church.
An Albany paper thinks it is woman
and not her wrongs that ought to be re-
dressed.
Whipping in public schools is likely
to come to an end. The boys say it al
ways came there.
Some little boys in London poor
house swallowed eighteen marbles,
''they were so hungry"
The capital employed in the dry
goods trade in New York is estimated at
SlOO, 100000.
The government has shut up all the
great cafes of Madrid because they are
"centres of revolution"
The people Of Paris are so excited
about the state of affairs that all seri
ons business transactions are arrested.
The emigration from Ireland to this
country is immense. Nine steamships
were filled in n week at Cork.
Eighteen years ago the wealth Of
California was represented by thou
sands; now it is over two hundred mil
lions.
Chicago business men give sad ac-
count of the shortness of crops in
Western and Northwestern Minnesota.
A clergyman in Indianapolis married
a couple substituting the words "gen-
tleman and lady" for man and wife.
The total amount of money raised by
the Brooklyn New York; Southern Re-
lief Association up to April %, was
9.003.
The N. Y. TriLnae puts forth feeler
under the correspondent" dodge, for
Chief Justice Chase for Presidential can
didate.
A little girl in Sheboygan more than
year ago swallowed needle, and
one day last week it came out of her
knee.
A shawl was recently sold in New
York for $4,000. In the same city wo-
men make shirts for shilling apiece.
Gen. Lew. Wallace has arrived in
New York from Mexico, and denies that
he has been on on "filibustering ex-
peditiOn.'
Under the head of Broken English"
Paris paper places such Englishmen
as get smashed up by railroad collisions
or financial disasters.
Measles are very prevalent among
the children of Worcester, Mass, and
some of the schools are nearly depopu-
lated.
New York has contributed for the re-
lief of the South Sl75,OO0; Boston $44,-
600; San Francisco $4,000 in gold; and
Philadelphia S3s 900.
A bag containing two hands, an arm,
leg and hip bone Of woman was
found by the New York police, floating
in the North river.
An exchange thinks the pcws of some
of the churches ought to rest on pivots,
so that the occupants could see who
comes in without straining their necks.
The whole number of sewing ma
chimes manufactured up to the close of
last year is computed at 750, 900, and the
present rate of manufacture as. about
200, 900 per aRnum. =
The returns Of the number of immi- |
grants arriving at New York show that
from the beginning of the year to May
lst, 44,337 have arrived, as compared
with 45, 1877 during the same period last
year.
The spiritualist, Williams, who
starved and fiogged his little daughter
almost to death, is now pretending to
be crazy. Miss Mann was cheerful at |
last accounts. Such sweet female she |
would be as matron of an orphan asy-
lum.
At Markell Mill, N. j., on Tuesday
last, a little girl thirteen years of age
was caught by her clothing in the shaft
ing Of the machinery, and before she
could be rescued both thighs were bro
ken.
Andrew Robinson was severely in
jured at Porter Center, Niagara county,
few days since by the accidental dis
charge of q gun in the hands of his
brother. His eye was blown out and
his face terribly mangled.
A little boy named Magee was hanged
in sport in Orleans county, Vermont,
last week, companion playfnlly put-
ting around his neck rope which was
fastened to scaffold, and which by
some mishap became tightened and
choked the boy to death.
A land slide occurred Tuesday night
near Wilmore, Pennsylvania, on the