The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-05
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New York is to have 3 great musica
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4 . Colfax, is laying. Presidential pipe il
Iowa. ~ {t4IEsjf3
! Maine is forming Young Mems Chris
tian Associations. --
| A lady in Albany recently died O
grief at the death of her husband.
+ A lake larger than Lake Superior i,
said to exist in British Columbia.
One million of dollars has been paid
in New York for liquor licenses.
About all the big-bugs of Europe arr
hob-nobbing with Louis Napoleon. -
The Vermont Democratic State Con
yention will be held at Montpelier OIL
the 2lst. Vy}Y.
Maximilian is thirty-hve years old.
and his friends think he will not be
much older. .- .a.H .f-
1 yJshn Bull thinks that Fsnian blood
is not necessary to safe the greediness
ofthe British lion.3 y UgL
Two steam troop ships for the Bra
lillian navy have just been completed in
England. .,r-..k
The Massachusetts Legislature ad.
journed siae die on Saturday night, after
a session of FIVE months.
The new French "terrible weapon
tnrns ont to he sling improved up to
the aineteenth century standard.
The demand for sausages in Paris is
represented to he extraordinary. Do.
mestic animals are consequently rare
The slave trade is brisk in. Havana
The new Governor General is doing a
lucrative business by winking at it.
1t is pleasant to read that -four de-
clined two dollars per barrel at Spring
field, ILL.,, and that wheat fell forty-fye
cents per ebushel.s ( { FL FL -.>-.
A woman in Philadelphia wearing
immense green goggles is swindling
liberal people out of:a large amount of
money.
Some Of the Maine farmers are going
to try planting some upland rice seed
from Panama, which ripens in 80 days.
!. Several neighborhoods about New
York city are already afflicted with
mosquitoes This little pest has also
visited Philadelphia.
Two lady compositors in the Portland
4drertiser office were the FIRST in Maine
to set thousand ems toward the fund
to erect q monument to Artemus Ward.
The Boston Trareler says that Secre-
taly Seward some years ago said "there
was not a doubt he would be the candi-
date of the successful party In 1868"
AN Irish woman, in poor health, was
indicted for selling liquor, which so ex-
cited and alarmed her that she immedi-
ately fell sick and in two or three days
died.-NeTburyport Herald. 4 u
THE idea of abandoning the trial of
Suratt on the charge of murder, and
trying him for treason and conspiracy
has been rclinquished, and he will be
put on trial on the present indictment
this week.
A NEW YORK tobacconist has struck
oil by placing daily a hundred dollar
bill in q package Of tobacco, and ming
ling the precious package with others
for sale. Five purchasers have already
drawn each prize.
WHILE on her way to church in Green's
burg, Pennsylvania, on Sunday last,
Miss Martha Portser, young lady in
the prime of life, suddenly fell to the
ground and expired. She was victim
of heart disease.
The Leavenworth Bulletin says the
panic on the grasshopper subject is fast
subsiding through Kansas, and farmers
who, q few weeks ago, determined to
plant nothing from fear of the pests are
now beginning to put in largo crops.
An English physician dined every
day for more than twenty years on a
tankard of strong ale, a bottle of port
and quarter of pint of brandy and a
pound and n half of rump steak. He
thus daily spent an hour and half of
his time, taking only one meal day.
Judge Kelly, who has returned to
Washington, gives a hattering account
of the condition of the Southern terri
tory through which he travelled. In
compliance with pressing invitations he
will return to Virginia at future day
to address the citizens Of that State.
The otoe Indians of Nebraska are re-
ported by their agent to be in q starv-
ing conditions. Many of them are dying
from the effects of eating putrefed
meat. Their corn and bean crops last
year were very scant and they had bare
ly seed enough to commence operations
this spring.
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A widow in Paris aged forty:five mar
ried young man aged eighteen. By
her first husband she had son whose
age ut the time of her second marriage
was twenty-one. She recently died and
by her will left her fortune to her son
and husband. As her husband was not
of age her son was appointed his guar
dian. Curious, isn't it'
The new trial granted Rev. Joel
Lindsey, indicted for whipping his
child to death at Albion, New York, was
concluded on Saturday. The jury fail
ed to agree, standing ten for acquittal
and two fer conviction. They were dis.
/ charged and the prisoner then pleaded
guilty of manslaughter in the fourth
degree, and was sentenced to pay q fine
of $3.50. rfau
Mr.. George Neusel, farmer of very
poor circumstances, living near Mt.
Pleasant, Hamilton county, Ohio, COM
mitted suicide on Friday. 1t is stated
that one of his horses was diseased with