The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-10
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A Methodist College is to be founded
in Ireland.
Napoleon has given twenty Arab
horses to the Tycoon.
Winnie Ream denies that she is max
ing bust of General Lee.
Sherman's force averages one man to
5000 square miles of territory.
A Cineinnatian offers to be layor of
the city at salary of-nothing.
English ladies are adopting'the fash
ions of wearing belts with small dag
ger attached. g.. .T.AI
A woman in New York died, of fifteen
bottles of soda water. 1t was called
cholera.
A Tennessee paper is jubilant over the
marriage of Knoxville lady to an Aus
trian prince. s,t:ssbtiTg. Eit
Some parts Of Texas are almost as
aisorderly and dangerous to life as Bos-
ton, on Fourth of Jnly.
Garibaldi is at it again. His last
speech is, Mark me we'll: Without
Rome there is no Italy," III "
The authorities of Newark are taking
pre- limiaary action towards the estab-
lishment of public baths in that city.
A clergyman who was preaching in
New York State tainted while in his
pulpit, when he was discovered to he q
woman.
A gentlemanly prize fighter named
Cotton engaged in q dispute in, New
York last week and subsequently lost
an ear and thumb.
A statistical visitor has calculated
that it would require fifteen months
and half to go through the Paris Ex-
position in detail.
The army worm has made its appear
ance among the cotton Oh several OF
the sea islands between Charleston and
Savannah.
The Philadelphia Press coolly says it
would not desire to see such man rs
Brownlow Governor of Pennsylvania,
but he is good enough for Tennessee.
The returns Of the Registrar General
of England show that in 1866 there were
1s7 $40 marriage, 753,l8S births, and
SOC, ,93S deaths. Et
The London Standard says expert
ments show that the American $50
pound gun is fatal to the invulnerabil
ity of the present British ship armor..
Jordan Potter, of Wicasset, Maine,
recently drove nail into his own head,
while partially insane, and died from
the results in a few days.
An Ohioan is said to have invented
and patented knitting machine, which
can knit fifty pair of stockings i'll q
day, and is 50 simple that child can
manage 1t.
A number of Americans in Rome have
purchased a marble group, executed by
Edmonia Lewis, young colored artist,
and will present it to the Young Mems
Christian Association in Boston. She
calls it "The Wooing of Hiawatha."
The raising of silk is spreading so
rapidly in California, that where two
or three years ago there were not half a
dozen lots of silk worms, now there are
upwards of 400, and next year there
will probably be over 1000.
We noted the fact not long since that
the st. Louis Board of Health prohibit
the selling of any green thing in that
city. Several physicians have protest
ed against the order as bad for the
city.
A New York correspondent says: New
or were there 50 many dry goods and
other clerks out Of employment as at
present. When by chance an advertise
msnt appears for one, the doors OF the
advertiser are besieged early in the
morning by anxious applicants.
A serio-humorous dispatch from New
York says: "The Browns intend hold
ing a convention here soon, to look af-
ter the immense estate left by one Of
the family in England. The object of
the meeting is to determine who are
the legal heirs" At what hotel will the
Browns stop!
The 4mericdn 4griculturalist thinks
we never get the full power of our
working oxen in our present system of
yoking them, and thinks that any one
who has watched fight between bulls
or oxen ought to be convinced that the
forehead Of the animal is the great
point of power, and that yOking by the
head, as is done in South America,
would be an improvement.
Two little boys, named Edward Per
and George Merryfeld, while returning
from school to their homes in Cory,
Warren county, Pennsylvania, few
days since, stopped to play on a sand
bank, leaving their dinner pals by the
side of the road. The bank caved in,
burying both of them. But for the din
ner pals remaining in sight, their fate
might not have been discovered. They
were both dead when extricated.
The Tscdrdwds .iarocdte says the Tus-
carawas Coal and Iron Company, COM
posed of wealthy and intelligent citi-
zens of Licking, Coshocton and Tusca-
rawas counties, has bought and put in
operation extensive coal mines on the
canal, in Tuscarawas, and intends soon
to erect in the same county yrolling-mills
and blast furnaces, which will employ
about three hundred men.
The st. Louis Democrat, of Tuesday,
saws "We saw Mike McCOole yester-
day, taking his ease at his saloon on the
corner of Fifth and Carr streets. He
had just come from the Abbey, his train
ing ground, to look after his business.
He is fast getting in condition, his flesh
being already as hard as rope, and his
muscles bulging out in fine style. He
has but little to say about himself and
the approaching fight with Jones, but
he seems no way uneasy about the re-