The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-16
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The Black Crook is in Cincinnati
Court. 4a .,lY ri
/ Portland is full of thieves. -
Pennsylvania is going to prevent cru
city to animals. -.
John Bull is OH his legs again.
Europe is trembling OH the verge of
great war.
The Prince Imperial of France is eleven
years old. SIS
A little boy in Albany was poisoned
by eating green paper.
The Mayors Court of Albany has ex-
listed since 1856.
No Summer Session, say the Washing
ton correspondents.
Pennsylvania has 1884 miles of rail-
way under one management.
Ajudge decided that gold is not mon
ey but merchandise.
Bayard Taylor's brush is said to be
quite equal to his pen. s.
The "woolly horse" institution seems
to have lost its legs everywhere.
Spring fashions-less change in gen.
tlemen's pants than last year.-Wash.
Rep.
Thad Stevens is improving.-Taunton
Gazette.
There is great room for it.
The Upper Mississippi, from Lake
Pepin, north, is still firmly ce-bound.
General Slocum says he was never
defeated but once and then by his own
Union friends. =.
1t is again said that Eugenie is going
to visit the Pope as soon as the little
Prince gets well.
A medical college advertises that "dis-
secting will be rendered pleasant even
in midsummer"
Clerks in Toronto steal goods from
their employers and take them to houses
of i'll fame to pay for revels.
Idlers and loafers in Augusta, Maiue,
are compelled to contribute to the City
Treasury the sum of five dollars each.
The Earl of Brownlow died lately in
England. The infamy attached of late
years to the name, struck in and killed
him.
The King of Denmark and the Prince
of Wales inspected the London Fire
Brigade. Denmark wishes to adopt the
system.
There is q centenarian in New York
who has at no time during the past fifty
years taken less than fifty grains of
opium a day.
The wife of the editor of an Ohio
country paper amused herself one day
last week by throwing rotten eggs at
the editor Of Il rival sheet.
The row between England and Spain
wears still more threatening look.
England has sent fleet to Cadiz, with
what is reported to be percmptory dis
patches on board.
An excursion, on Government vessels,
to our new Russian possessions, is talk
ed of in Washington. Applicants for
tickets must, we suppose, have good
health and year tospare.
An inoffensive organ-grinder was
stoned to death near New York few
days ago, by party of ten or twelve
boys. Ten of the young barbarians are
in Jail. Their victim fingered three or
four days.
Sophie Boisclaire has been sentenced
to death in Montreal, OH a charge of
fatal poisoning. 1t is claimed that she
is enciente, and the matter is to be in
vestigated by detail of her own sex.
A fashionable thief in Washington
escorted the wife of Il prominent Con-
gresham to the theatre, and after hav-
ing seen her home, stole her valuable
velvet cloak, which has been found Mt
the pawnbroker's.
A Berlin correspondent says: "The
officers of the Guards, with the assist
ance of the Royal Princes, have arrang-
ed a quadrille OH horseback, which is to
be footed. or rather hoofed ut the Bcr-
lin TattersalPs.
One of those brutes peculiar to Eng
land kicked his wife nearly to death
and then kicked her into pool, near
London. Her body was terribly bruised
and lacerated. He was recommended
to mercy by the jury and obtained it.
A woman who was far advanced in
pregnancy, was gored to death by a
mad cow at Highland Falls, near West
Point. Her entrails were torn out and
a male thild was released from its nat
ural fastenings. 1t is still alive and
gives every symptom of growing up.
Last Sunday week, two little girls at
Franklin, Ohio, one the daughter of Mr..
Fred. McCutchon, and the other of Mr..
Lewis Cottle, were playing together in
Mr.. Peter Dickey's lumber yard, and, as
is supposed, in attempting to climb up
on pile of lumber, pulled it over on
them, crushing them beneath its weight.
When found, life was extinct in both
one having its neck broken, and its
back in three places. The other was
smothered to death.
The Washington correspondent of the
Detroit Post sends the following piquant
bit of news: "For some days it has been
whispered that q duel was being ar
ranged between an ex-Major General of
Volunteers, we'll known as Johnson
politician, and another. New Yorker.
The cause was blow publicly admin
istered by the latter upon the cheek Of
the defeated candidate for Naval Officer
of New York. OF course, their friends
declared that such an insult, not hav-
ing been resented on the spot, could
only be met by q duel. Doubts; how
ever, ON this subject, were put at rest
by General Slocum's departure for New
York. His assailant, q person named
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