The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-14
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Illinois has an eight hour law, = 81
Queen Victoria has left off mourning.
The "swell mob" is on the increase in
Cincinnati. Ts
Bismark empties bottle Divine every
day, .SIJ1E ~ e y =
+ The "Right Way" has gone the rounds
of ell the earth.
Grant and Lee is the N. Y. Herald's
last presidential ticket.
Beechers church is o serious competi-
tor with the theatre.
The Radical managers in Connecticut
feel and look very cross.
A couple in Maine were married on
the ice. Cool, if not romantic. $500,
A London paper says America 10
home for old world errors.
The "storm" in Ireland was lively
Fenian elbow"
Lord Belgrave, Of London, and aged
II years, has an income of 5000 per
day.
The London Engineer does not think
the Atlantic cables will be serviceable
much longer.
Artemus Ward was good Democrat
and good fellow to the last.
Philadelphia has convention to Sc
cure "a national recognition of Provi-
dence."
A woman boldly affirms that "a man
cannot cook meal of victuals." Many
wives can't either.
A country paper notes as a remark
able specimen of porcine fecundity the
production of thirty pigs in one litter.
The department of the Paris Exhibi'
tion building assigned to the United
States will be full to overaowing.
A marriage in New York was indef.
initely postponed in consequence Of the
bride being too drunk to say eyes"
Master Richard Coker, the boy 30
prano, is about to return to Europe. He
gave o concert in Philadelphia last
night.
A Wisconsin soldier has bullet in
his brain and lives in apparently good
health, feeling no other i'll effects from
the bullet than an occasional headache.
There are twenty-five beautiful and
we'll educated girls at Port Royal, and
not single bachelor. That must be
good place for young men to emlgrate
to.
Looking at the whole condition of
things in the British empire at the
present moment, there appears to be
serious apprehensions of general rev.
olution.
Barnnm, P. T., says he "will not per-
init dollar of his to be used to pur-
chase a vote,D yet he is "willing to be
taxed" by the State Central committee
to help carry the State.
We once heard of rich man who was
badly injured by being run over. sit
isn't the accident" said he, "that l
mind-that isn't the thing, but the idea
of being run over by dirty swill cart
makes me mad"
Some idea of the magnitude of the
Paris Exhibition building may be iorm-
ed from the fact that the outer gallery
is nearly mile in circumference, moro
thar one hundred feet in width, and
eighty feet in hight.
A brother and sister who had not met
for fifty-fve years, lately had reunion
dinner near New London, Ohio. The
turkeys were carved with knife forty
eight years of age, but the fowls, we
presume, were not correspondingly ven
erable.
The "star spsngled Banner" was hiss
ed few nights since in Portland, Me-,
probably on account of the bad mu-
sic. If this had happenedi in Southern
city, there would have been commit
tee appointed forthwith by Congress
for investigation.
A New York clergyman recently, in
the course of sermon bewailing the
GOODNESS of his flock in religious mat
ters, said that the kind of. conversion
most sought after by the church mem.
bers of late had been the conversion OF
seven-thirties.
It is estimated that since the State
constables commenced their liquor seiz-
ures in Massachusetts, they have secured
seventy-fve thousand gallons, estimated
to be worth s25O,OOO. OF this amount
only fifteen hundred gallons were ale.
About two thousand gallons have been
destroyed.
A new and fatal disease is prevailing
among the cattle of Wolfboro and vicin-
ity, New Hampshire. 1t usually ter
inmates in death in three or four days
from the first attack, aud the town au-
thorities are taking measures to check
its spread by slaughtering the diseased
animals.
A religious paper says: Protestant
Christianity in America is fast losing
all hold on the popular mind, and is
evaporating into dim conjectures."
Rather say il has been suffocated in
blood. The Northern ministers Of
Christianity turned themselves into
priests of Bellona.
A Chicago journal says: "A spurious
divorce woman files bill in the alb
sence of her husband, and procures
divorce within two days, and FIVE days
thereafter marries the only witness in
the case" If more of the fast and loose
can be expressed in so short q compass,
we would like to see the trial made.
A London surgeon has invented an
article called "rhigoline," from petro-
leum. which will have all the beneficial