The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-03
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+ New York last year had 121 incendi-
airy fires.
The Madrid Panch has been swallow
ed by the police.
Political dogs are picking the bones
of Turkey.
Church improvements drop cur
tain and side wings.
France proposes to tax bachelors for
not proposing"
The Kansas ladies are to have news
paper to advocate their right TO suf-
frage.
Illinois sent 165, ,257 head of live stock
to New York during last year.
The American side of Niagara Falls
has receded $50 feet within two weeks.
Nine thousand dollars premium is Of
fered for the best design for the Illinois
State House.
Ex-President Fillmore is member of
society in Buffalo for the prevention
of cruelty to animals.
I There are said to be six Young Mems
Christian Associations in France, num!
bering 200 members.
During the past year France exported
to England II, 1854 waterfalls, with hair
enough for 1000 more.
Victor Emanuel has decorated James
Geddes Day, of New York, with the Or
der of st. Maurice and st. Lawrence.
Thiers' words-that "there was not
single blunder left for the Government
to commit"-created great commotion
in the French Corps Legislatif.
Two hundred and fourteen millions Of
dollars have been collected from inter
nal taxes since the 1st of July-the COM
mencement of the fiscal year.
The New York Herald thinks Chief
Justice Chase ought to be impeached for
having declined to carry out the laws,
while President johnson seems disposed
to do his duty in this respect.
A. S. and J. A. Allen, of Providence,
r. l., the first balloonists employed in
our army, have received commissions in
the Brazilian army as aronauts, and
have sailed for Brazil.
The recent wholesale burning Of
churches in the vicinity of Boston has
decided the insurance companies of that
city to increase their rates two and
three hundred per cent. on this class of
risks.
| The Boston Herald says: There is
quite flutter among the ladies on ac-
count of report that the State Consta-
BILE intends to prevent the sale of hair
oil, that article containing more or less
alcohol"
Miss Ida Lewis, whose father keeps
the Lime Rock lighthouse off New
port, R. l., rescued man from freezing
to death, Sunday morning, being the
fifth life she has saved during the past
few months.
The New York Common Council hav
ing voted to pay $1,000 for file of the
Herald of that city, the New York Times
deplores its own stupidity in selling an
incomplete file of that journal at ten
cents pound for waste paper. -
A number of clubs are being formed
in various parts of the country to go
to the Paris Exposition. 1t is stated
that company of two hundred is or
ganizing in Chicago, and intend to
charter q steamer to convey them to
Paris.
An Exchange" in allusion to Con-
gressional controversy, says of the par
ties, The one stands proclaimed in the
forum of the people rs the murderer of
an innocent woman; the other as cow
ard and knave. A little more grape"
In Columbus, during the past twelve
months, there were foIty-one fires and
alarms. The damage by fire amounted
to Sl7, 7,5l2; insurance, sl5,72 net loss to
individual owners, Sl,SleVThe expenses
of the Fire Department were Sl4,692 81.
In Swan Creek, near Monroe, Michi-
gar, the other day, man named Kelson
lost an AK, and q clairvoyant told him
one of his neighbors, named Watson,
had stolen it. Going to Watson's shan,
ty, Kelson charged him with the theft,
and, in the quarrel which ensued, Kel-
sons head was split open. Watson had
not been captured, at last accounts.
AS the customs boat was going from
Queensclitf to the bark Arctic, an enor
nous shark rushed at the steer-oar,
seized it with his teeth, and nearly
knocked the coxswain overheard. The
shark made second bite at the oar,
taking a piece out of the blade. The
men describe the monster as being the
largest shark they had ever seen, and
estimate its length as being over twenty
feet.-Meibourne Age, Jan. 20.
The French papers tell good story
about Victor Emanuel. He was driving
down to his hunting seat at Mandria,
near Turin, on the 9th instant, when
his carriage was stopped by footpads,
who levied black mail from the Re Ga
lantuomo, He had an escort, but his
horses, being fast trotters, had left the
numbering cattle of the earbineers
long way behind, and when they came
up the gentlemen of the highway had
got clear off.
The Duke de Persigny, Minister of
State, opened debate in the French
Senate on the 18th of March, on the
subject of the proposed alteration of
the Constitution with regard to minis
terial responsibility, in which he made
the highly important official ayowal
that England wished and worked for
the final disruption of the American
Union during the JEFF. Davis rebellion,
aud endeavored thus to get nd of her
American nightmare for couple OF
centuries at least;" but that the god
4 dess Opportunity passed from her
hands, through party division and the
fear of Cabinet changes. .-.lr.
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