The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-16

The Wesleyan Conference, at its re-
cent session in Cleveland, Ohio, re-
solved in favor of female suffrage.
The Boston Post says with savage
sadness: Temperance is no special
virtue where there is nothing to i'm
bibe."
A Southern barber shaved twelve men
in twenty-five minutes, and claims the
tonsorial championship.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that
the lumber mills there will soon be
obliged to shut up for want of legs.
The lung disease is prevailing among
the cattle in Delaware county, Pa.
Quite o number of cases have proved
fatal.
Planters associations are meeting IN
various parts of the South and ressly-
ing to plant grain instead of cotton
next season.
A damsel in Boston recently borrow
ed five hundred dollars, and gave her
self as Collateral" The note has one
year 10 run.
The Reading (Pa.) Journal says that
several cases of Asiatic fever have Oc-
CURED in that place, some of which
have closed fatally.
On Thursday morning the thermome-
ter at Gorham, N. H., stood at seven de-
grees above zero, and the ground was
covered with snow.
Two nice young men in Omaha re-
Gently paid S56 each for the original
amusement Of sprinkling a ball room
floor with cayenne pepper. gn.t.
During the late political canvass in
Massachusetts, the Democratic rallying
cry was "Adams and Liberty" that of
the Republicans, Bullock and Roaft
Beef"
The census returns Of Iowa are now
complete, with the exception of four
counties, which show population, thus
far, of sos, ,l94-a gain of las, 900 in two
years.
A professional snake killer is employ
ed at the New York Central Park, who
averages about twenty victims daily.
The park has the garter, grass and wa
ter snakes.
Two negroes in South Carolina were
drawn to serve on a jury. The intelli-
gent voters were so frightened at it
that they took to the swamp and have
not been seen since.
A tremendous hail-storm occurred at
Warminster, Bucks county, Pa, last
week. The hail-stones are said to have
been as large as chickens foot, which
they very much resembled.
When the Water Cure was burnt, at
Richmond, Ind, the citizeus are said to
have drunk up several gallons of whisky
in which snakes, beetles, and other rep
tiles had been preserved.
A modest individual in the Nutmeg
State announces that his golden we'd
ding will come off just thirty years from
now, and offers a liberal discount on
any presents his friends then design to
make him.
A new secret society has been estab-
lished in Michigan, called "The Order
of the Sacred Temple" Its object is
said to be the moral and intellectual
improvement of woman. Only females
are admitted.
One of the fashionable ladies of Bos-
top,e gorgeously arrayed and gorgeous
ly drunk, lay upon the sidewalk of
Summer street until policeman called
q carriage and took her home, Sunday
afternoon.
A little boy at Mount Pleasant, Pa,
carried some powder and matches to-
gether in his trousers pocket. Another
lad threw an apple at him which hit
the pocket, ignited the matches and the
powder and eccasioned his death.
A man named Powell, in Miami coun-
ty, Ohio, was recently robbed of Ss5 by
highwaymen, who generously gave him
back SIS when he told them he was o
Democrat. They knew he was poor and
honest, and couldn't afford the loss.
The Gloucester Adrgtiser tells of a
worthy lady of that place who rose
early last Sunday morning, did UP her
washing and hung out her clothes to
dry, dressed herself and went shopping,
but was brought to sense of her mis-
take by finding the stores all shut and
the Sabbath bells ringing.
Accounts from different sections of
Missouri and Kansas mention very Sc
rious losses to farmers from prairie fires.
In some instances whole farms have
been desolated-fences, barns, sheds,
grain and hay-staek, orchards, and oc-
casionally houses, being consumed.
Many thousands of dollars worth of
property has been destroyed.
At Blandville, Kentucky, on Monday,
A. ]. Warden, County Clerk, met o. D.
Campbell, against whom he had some
old grievances. Advancing to attack
Campbell, the latter retreated q few
steps, aud then turned and fired, shoot
ing Warden in the mouth. 1t is not
supposed the wound is fatal. When
Warden fell, his daughter, eighteen
years old, took his pistol and pursued
Campbell. After running some distance
he fired upon the girl, emitting her ear.
She discharged her pistol, bat missed,
and Campbell fired again, the shot
taking effect in her bowels. She is still
living, but can not recover. Campbell
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