The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-18
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Nov LULA WY
A correspondent says Paris Is ceasing
10 be French city.
Diplomacy will not be able to keep
the Turkish empire above ground much
longer.
The empress skated every day on the
lake near Paris while the ice held.
Miss Menken fell again from her horse
at the theater in Paris and bruised her
self very severely.
Negro servants are to be imported into
North Bridgewater.
Mr.. Greeley's boots are described as
young gunboats.
The town of Watervliet, New York,
is to be created into new county.
The black aborigines of Australia do
not want the gospel.
Barnum wants to ride into Congress
on the "woolly horse"
The Chinese drink tea almost scald-
ing hot, without milk or sugar.
The Temperance furore is being rap
idly revived.
Cholera, small pox and yellow fever
still prevail at st. Thomas, WI.
Music Halls, on the plan of those in
London, are to be started in New York.
The annual trial at the Philadelphia
mint commences on Monday.
1t looks now as though the Conven-
tion of Tobacconists at Washington will
end in smoke.
The winter style Of bonnets consists
of twine strings. with diamond set in
the top.
The largest opera houses in the coun-
try were built by parties engaged IL
the distilling business.
A National Home for soldiers has been
located at Togas, Maine, by the United
States.
The Mayor of New London, Conn,
has been fined for illegally selling liq-
uor.
Bunks have been fitted up in the Gin
cinnati station houses to acc Ommodate
the houseless poor.
Among the nations of Europe, Bava-
ria has the greatest number of schools,
according to population.
The Queens speech, transmitted re-
Gently over the cable, cost the American
press $4,000 in gold, or s3,973 in cur
rency.
Twenty thousand Turks have perished
in the Candian war, and the Cretans
are as far from being conquered as
ever.
J. II. Rice, Democrat, has been elect
ed supervisor at Binghamton, n. Y, by
five majority, q Democratic gaip of 300
since the fall election.
The Chicago Tribune says the i'm
peachment talk is intended to frighten
the President from veto of the tariff
bill.
Amongst other novelties promised
during the continuance of the Paris
Exhibition is swimming match across
the Channel.
1t is estimated that the total expendi-
lures for the ball season in Gotham this
winter will reach 81 ,l25,OOO.
The example set by Prussia in annex
alton has become very contagious in
Europe, and threatens to rage worse
than the Asiatic cholera.
The Chicago Tribune accuses Congress
of sacrificing everything to scheme of
robbery. The editor deserves impeach-
ment.
The political catch-words, universal
suffrage, and universal srmsbearing,'
have become rs famous in Germany as
universal suffrage and universal am
nesty" in America.
One of the local editors of Pittsburg
having been elected member of the
council Of that city, an exchange ex-
claims, show humanity is becoming de-
graded"
The repudiation by Massachusetts, OF
the Constitutional Amendment is attrib,
uted by the Washington Republican te
the weight Of John d. Baldwin, III. C..
of the Eighth district, which wa
thrown in body against it.
1t is about time for the agents of the
"Freedmen's Bureau" to make q thrill
ling report of operations in their coun'
ties-in o sophomoric style, highly
) spiced with accounts of murdered anc
lacerated negroes.
j L. L. Dorsey, of Louisville, part own
er Of "Gold Dust" has challenged the
owner of Dexter" the famous trotter
to trot three races for . thousand dol
lars each, the heats to be one mile, TIVE
miles, and three miles, to wagons weigh
{ ing one hundred and twenty-five pounds
A Turin journal states that there is
family in that city, consisting of fiv'
persons, who for the last year hav,
. lived upon cats flesh. The eldest boy
twelve years old, does the hunting an,
provides the household. The feline rae
Is gradually disappearing from thu
neighborhood.
LABOR At ATAGRICvLTURALC COLLEGES
: The officers of tho Pennsylvania Agri
. cultural College have abandoned tn
system Of compelling the studens Z
G dayota mart of their time to labor upOI