The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-29
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The King and Queen of Portugal are
in Paris.
The political kettle boils merrily in
Europe.
Beecher's Church is eelipsed by San
Francisco society.
A loupcervier four feet long was re.
Gently killed near Buckfeld, Me. -
Lady Franklin, the widow ofthe Arc
tic navigator, is in Rome.
The Unitarians of Springfield, Mass,
are erecting 500, 900 church.
Prince Alfred of England is taking a
Jolly cruise around the world.
Edwin Forrest subscribed $500 for the
relief of the South.
Adultery and bigamy are now known
as domestic Irregularities"
New York is the most ineOnveniently
arranged commercial city in the world.
Tobacco manufactured by deaf, dumb
and blind people is exempt from taxa
tiOn.
What is called "churchyard hair,"
taken from the scalps of the dead, sells
freely in London. + |
Mr.. Quilk thinks the ''Black Crook"
runs SO we'll on account of the number
of legs in it.
Officers of the Austrian army are not
allowed to wear their whiskers mutton
chop fashion.
A New York widow put $1,000 in
greenbacks under her carpet for safety,
and had them stolen.
A Radical paper in Hartford says, "if
you want your daughter to marry a
negro, vote for Hawley."
The Earl of Browlow, just deceased,
had an income of s65O,0OO, but was
never well an entire day.
Several hundred English sparrows
have been shipped from Belfast to New
York for farmers.
A scandalous case in the London Di-
vorce Court, resulted in verdict OF
$4,000 against the seducer.
Punch humanely hopes it will not be
necessary to suspend the corpus as well
az the habeas in Ireland.
A land owner in Switzerland was con-
demned to eighteen months imprison-
ment for putting water in his milk.
According to New York journal,
the Fenian resolutions in Congress are
only "Erin-gO-Buncome.'
The cholera and yellow fever have
ceased to rage at st. Thomas, and clean
bills of health are now issued.
Solomon n. Beirce, of Canandaigua,
New York, convicted of bribing jury,
has been fined 81 900.
\ New York paper says George S.
Hilliard, of Boston, is "the best after
dinner speech-maker in this country"
An exchange says that "bridal envel-
opcs," so extensively advertised for sale,
mean simply night gowns.
The Detroit Free Press presents as a
ticket for 1863: For President-Zacha-
riah Chandler, of Michigan. Vice Pres
ident-John Covode, of Pennsylvania.
John and Mary COnde are in prison in
London for slowly starving their step
son to death. He was l6years old when
he died and weighed only little over
twenty pounds.
1t is said little girl eight years of
age is performing the duties of an en-
gineer at well on Bennehof' run. She
is paid So day, the salary of the best
engineers.
The legal pay of the members of the
Illinois Legislature amounted to s95 to
each for the last session. Perquisites
voted brought the amount actually rs-
ceived by each up to ss76.
A boy, fifteen years old, in Brillion,
Calumet county, Wisconsin, after des-
perate struggle, killed a large she bear
and captured four cubs, and the next
day killed a catamount.
= At ball given at the Tuileries, the
Russian Princess Kimsky Karsakaw
wore dress, the material of which was
completely invisible, so closely was it
covered with fresh hot-house roses and
diamonds.
A Hartford Comm woman whipped
little son nearly to death last week
because he played truant, and while he
was lying senseless, fosged another son
in the most hrr'"i manner LOT the same
orfence.
In the lecture course at GAINESVILLE,
Wis, the following lecturers did not
pay expenses: Rev. Mr.. Milburn,
the blind preacher, Horace Greeley, G.
w. Bungay, Theodore Tilton and Ralph
Waldo Emerson. The largest loss was
on Mr.. Tilton.
Characters at fancy dress balls are
sometimes "played to the life" but in
the following case character was play
ed nearly to the death: A man IN Port
land, Maine, attended a masquerade,
dressed as an ape. Whilst passing
through an entry q large Newfoundland
dog attacked him and he was obliged to
fly for his life.
An English artist has succeeded in
the photographing Of guns while being
fred. In the pictures which were taken
the moment had been so exactly seized,
that the ball could actually be seen
protruding from the muzzle of the gun,
while in the very act of leaving it.
The electric mechanism by which the
gun is fired and the plate exposed at the
exact instant desired, is said to he ex-
quisitely ingenious.
Isham G. Harris has written a letter,
doleful enough. He says there are
eight million inhabitants. in Mexico.
If seven millions of these were exter-
minated, he thinks it would be good
country for civilized people to emigrate
to. He estimates the number Of edu-
Gated people at one million. Half Of
these are in favor of an Empire, and
half opposed. A large majority of the