The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-31
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!, Australia furnishes diamonds as well
as gold.
A Troy paper says Parepa and Rosa
, "hitch most sweetly."
j! Two mulatto women fought for an
egg in Cairo until one was killed.
A Montreal lad of fifteen married his
brothers mother-in-law of fifty.
Hydrophobia prevails to an alarming
extent in some parts of Indiana.
Milwaukee wants good theatre and
the merchants are asked to contribute
to that end.
Papers in Canada insist upt com.
plete Canadian currency to the exclu-
sion of all other coins.
Some boneologists in Gloucester have
found what they suppose to be part of
an elephants leg.
Which is the greater funkeyism, de-
scribing personal appearance or detail
ing PERSONAL incomes! sas
Utah is blessed with o judge who pos
sesssss courage sufficient to boldly de-
Dounce the crime of polygamy.
When in commission the iren-clads
of France will number fifty-nine vessels
the most formidable navy in Europe.
! At the burning of Idaho City ON the
17th inst, 442 houses were destroyed.
The loss is estimated at 81 600, 600. . =.
Bradbury Rand committed snicide in
Portland. He had been married short
time previous and it wore upon his
mind. N3 -. tEtkG n =. II
Thad. Stevens, luggage: one dozen
cotton shirts, two pairs of flannel draw
ers, six pairs Of stockings, an overcoat
and a ton Of curses Ar oar l..
Z The clerks in the New York postoffice
have sent 500 bushels of corn to the
South, which will acknowledge the
corn" undoubtedly. .Fn I7-gT1,
The carpenter and paint-shops of the
Rock Island railroad, at Peoria, Illinois,
were burned on Saturday night. Loss
over $4,000. aYu. s''s
The Boston public bathing houses
will be doubled in number this summer,
making twelve in all, four of them ex. {
clusively for women and girls. .-
, The New York Sun thinks that at no
period within the last ten years have
there been so many unemployed work
ing-men in that city as there are ut the
present time.
Professor r. Owen, of the Indiana
State University, at Bloomington, after
carefully examining the so-called mad
stone, expresses doubts as to its efficacy
in cases of hydroph obia.,
1t is rumored that "a company of Rus ,
sian spectators have purchased the en-
tire material of. the Paris Exhibition /,
building, iron work, pillars, everything,
for removal to st. Petersburg.
The mission of the Japanese to this
country has at last transpired. They @
have become the purchasers of the ram
Stonewall and her armament for S4O0,-
600, and will soon return home. a..
Honolulu dispatches announce the ]
death Of the famous Colonel Caesar
Kaluak akuabanuapaukalain :
Observation-Disclosures Z
eo-continued in our next.
The coast fisheries in Massachusetts, I
are very remunerative this season. The >
forty Gloucester vessels engaged in
taking menhaden are very successful,
and the mackerel feet are obtaining
good shares. { ? t.. 4 ,F& - 4
In Washington there is much specu- :
lation about the probable fate of Max I
imilian, and the general belief is that |
he will be shot, although Secretary
Seward is hopeful that he will receive a
more human treatment.
The opinion of Attorney General
Stanbery, making about 1l,OOO words,
was, on Saturday, sent to the Southern '
press at the rate of about 1000 words
with greater rapidity.
Complete returns 0f the members b
elect of the New Hampshire House of n
Representatives for 1867 show that $50 .
delegates have been chosen, of whom r
202 are Republicans and 12S Democrats.
This is net Republican loss of 10 !
members over last year.
A man named Newlan, residing at
Grand Traverse, Michigan, accidently i
killed his little child on Saturday. He ,
was employed in chopping log, and, /
in STOPPING to cut on the under side, 8
the little head was suddenly thrust be- r
meath the descending axe, and received 7
the full force of the blow. a
The hotels in Claremont, New Hamp-
shire, keep their doors closed against I
the travelling community, because they L
are not allowed to sell liquor, and, in @
consequence, town meeting has been c
called to see what action shall be taken r
in regard to reopening the same.
Touching the new law of evidence in a
Ohio, which allows prisoners to testify =
in their own behalf, one judge has ruled t
that the witness may not be compelled, =
under cross-examination, to criminate 9
himself, while another holds that by Of : :
fering himself as evidence he valves .
his privilege, and must answer all ques-
tions justified by the rules of cross-ex- ]
animation. r
Road-mending in Paris is done by a
steam-rollers of about q tons weight; i
fine sifted gravel is plentifnlly- scatter. g
ed over the surface of the road-metal, +
and this is broken small. The road t
mending is generally carried on at C
night; and you may often find in the
morning some 250 or 300 yards of fresh d
roadway smooth and fit for traffic. e
An Omaha dispatch says . fight oc- =
CURED on rhe 10th, at Pine Bluff, be- c
tween party of men cutting railroad t
ties and the Indians, in which one of q