The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-09

called on him for his opinion OF the
piece; Foote returned the play with q
grave face saying, "Sir, depend upon it,
this is not thing TO be laughed at"
1t is said that Barnum, the Snowman,
intends to stump the Fourth Congress
sional District Of Connecticut in his
own behalf, accompanied by side
show, to which all who will promise to
give him their support will be admit
ted as dead-heads.
The preservation of Boston harbor is
considered by Congress of so much i'm
portance to the nation that an appro-
priation of $4,000 to be expended for
that purpose has just been made.
Six United States soldiers got on n
drunken rampage in Richmond on Fri
day, and commenced hostilities indis-
criminately against all persons III the
street, until arrested and put III Jail.
The correspondent of Boston radical
paper sorrowfully says that Wade's in
experience rs n presiding officer has al
ready killed fifteen or twenty bills
which otherwise would have been pass
ed
Samuel +. Tourtelotte, q well-known
and highly-respected citizen of Worces-
ter, Massachusetts,, committed snicide
on Monday evening by shooting himself
with pistol.
A rich silver mine has been discover
ed on the farm of VIM. Bradley, Page
county, Va.
Two negroes, woman and q boy,
were drowned in Rockingham county,
Ca, on Tuesday last, while attempting
to cross the river.
In Beverly, n. j., on Sunday after
noon, while Rev. John Nichols, Pastor
of the Universalist Church, was preach
ing his farewell discourse to that socie-
ty, he was attacked with paralysis, and
had to be conveyed to his home, where
he died at eleven o'clock the same even
ing.
The health of Alexander II. Ste
phens is again reported to be failing
rapidly.
The debt of Atlanta, Ga, is SIG for
each inhabitant.
A fuse factory is about to be started
at Grass Valley, Nevada Co., Cal.
An Irishman says that coffin is the
house q man lives in when he is dead.
Twenty thousand of the Suitan's
troops are said to have perished already
in the Candian war.
On hearing of the death of his wife,
recently, Albion NJ. Heath, of Bridport,
VT, sank down aud expired in a few
minutes.
Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama,
are in lively contest, the former to
keep and the latter to get the State
capital.
Henry Shaw, of st. Louis, Mo-, has
given that city 1870 acres of land for n
public park, and 100 acres for botan-
real garden.
The Methodist centenary collection
now foots up over S3,S0O,00O, and it is
not yet all in. 1t will undoubtedly
reach s4,000,000.
The Eau Clair, Wis, Free Press says
that the smallpox has made its ap'
pearance among the men in the Chip
eva pineries.
The venerable Father Webb, the
oldest Methodist clergyman i'll the
world, is said to be very i'll at his resi-
dence in Barnstable, Mass, and is not
expected to recover.
The Victoria Cross has been conferred
for the first time in England, on col
ored man, private Samuel Hodge, litl
West India Regiment.
A man in Napoleon! Ark, drank a gal
Ion of rum in day, on wager, and as
he finished the rum, so he finished him
self
A season ticket to the Paris EXp0si
tion, including admission on the day oI
opening, costs sixty francs, is strictly
personal, and accompanied by the sig
nature or Photographic representation
of the owner.
The mortality of this city is extraor
dinarily good for q new and mining
country, says Helena, Montana, cor
respondent-only dozen men killed
within the last four weeks.
1t is reported that the water" of al
Artesian Well, in Corpus Christi, Texas
which the people of that plaza have
been using for various disorders, turn
ont to be pure kerOsine oil.
A correspondent says the city of Nor
folk, Va, looks for all the world as if i
had been dug up in fossil state ont O.
the ruins of very ancient instead of ;
very late "COnfederacy."
The editor of the Pittsburg Gdzett
says from a conversation with Genera
Sheridan he thinks the latter is Of tn,
opinion that before affairs are perma
nently settled at the South, another ap
peal will be made to the sword.
At Napoleon, Ark, a new Radica
paper was issued on recent Monday
and the following Tuesday the .offic,
was burned down. The natives thogh
it an incendiary sheet, and regarded it,
destruction as a plain case Of sponta
neous combustion.
A slightly intoxicated individual re
ceived Gaming" or rather q parasol
ing, in a street car in New Orleans, no
long since. from lady, for putting hi
feet too close to hers. There was som,
fun created in the car by it.
The tallow tree of China has been in
troduced into India. The tallOw pro
duced from it is said to be excellent il
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