The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-02
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A discussed bore-negro suffrage.
European hernia--the Prusso-Franco
rupture.
General Custer is still pursuing the
Cheyennes. hE ,...
The "chicken cholera" is said to be
very fatal in Indiana.
Laps the ladies do not. delight to sit
tin-the lapse of time.
The State House at Albany will cost
four millions Of dollars. .'.
There is a big row in the Philadel-
phia Radical camp.
There are 1924 exhibitors at the
Paris Exposition. ...g il.
The President leaves Washington on
May 12, for Raleigh. 2 =
An intoxicated man i'm Ohio was run
over by four railroad trains.
Brownlow's State Treasurer died from
All overdose of laudanum.
English papers are already sneering
at the American show in Paris.
The Dey Of Algiers has again mar
ried. Dey after the fair, says Quilr.
Anna Dickinson preached from u
Toledo pulpit OH recent Sunday.
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Lake navigation TO and from the port
of Buffalo has fairly commenced.
Horace knew all about good liquor.
Hear him on Hock-"Hoc juvat ct melli
est"
1t is stated that monitor for the
Prussia navy is going to he built at New
York. us So gE
George Colburn, of Niagara Falls, has
drawn $4,000 prize from an Havana
lottery.
Napoleon is working to perfect great
iron-clad fleet before the close of the
present year. 7
On and after the first of May New York
can get no more drink in Jersey City on
Sunday.
A fellow in Philadelphia mixed whis-
ky with his love and beat his intended
bride nearly to death.
Great destitution is reported in north
western Iowa, and measures have been
taken to relieve it.
Eighteen priests in Italy are said to
have married under new law of the
kingdom allowing it.
The estimate for expenditures required
by the Chicago Board of Health, for the
current year, is Sl15,OOO.
A model of steam vessel was made
by Mr.. Pierre Lacroix, of Montreal, who
promises speed Of As to 80 miles an
hour. ....-
The Westco:t House, at Lacrosse,
Wisconsin, was burned on Sunday
morning. Loss $4,000; one-half in
sured
A verdict Of $4,000 was rendered
against the Hudson River railroad for
running freight car over a lad in New
York city.
The Prussian residents ut East Sag
inaw, Mich, have received official no.
tice from their native land to report
for duty.
Count Louis CarlOwitch, one of the
numerous lost Dauphins of France,
died recently at st. Petersburg, aged
eighty-fvc.
Parties in New York have received
dispatches from Paris directing the
Withholding of goods from shipment to
the Exposition. War is considered Ger.
tain.
Beecher is reported to have observed
of his defeat, with characteristic cheek,
"that IL the Convention could get on
without him he could get on without
them"
The Virginia Conference of the Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Church is to
meet in Richmond on the 10th of next
month (May.) Bishop Wayman to pre-
side. -. ii p a ..L.
A beast in Detroit not ONLY got drunk,
but persuaded his boy, twelve years Of
age, to drink also. When found by the
police, both were found lying on the
floor in u helpless state of intoxication.
The total amOnnt of State tax to be
raised by the cities and towns in Massa-
chusetts this year is $1,000, 900, of which
nearly one. half is assessed upon eight
cities and towns within five miles of
Boston. --yF \
A delegation Of Sioux Indians have
arrived in New York from Washington,
where they have been for the purpose
of obtaining new reservations. They
visited the Park, rs also did the Japan
ese Commissioners.
A lady tainted few days since in the
ears. A medical gentleman present who
went to her relief, exclaimed: "Has
any .gentlemansa flask of whisky or
brandy r. Over thirty pocket pistols
flashed in the air ut once.
The Boston papers announce that
several Young meprin that city propose
to make long pedestrian excursions dur
ing the coming summer. Last week q
party of young men left for New Haven
lto. take Q lively spring walk through
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Senator Dixon was received ut his
heme in Hartford, on Saturday, by q
salute of thirty seven guns, and well
come from the Mayor. He made q
speech in answer, in which he said the
South was in state of slavery under
the reconstruction act. liz
The Cork Irish) .Eramiaer says that