The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-25
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gars.
Ice boat races are the sport on the
Hudson.
The Bishop of yerdun died from over
eating.
Minnesota has ratified the c. A.
Nine theatres were burned last year.
Illinois contains six rogues to Wiscon-
sins one. .m. . fur 4
The cypress of Lomma, in Lombardy,
is more than 1900 years old.
The Amazon river has been declared
free to merchant ships of all nations.
Judge Woodward declinesa nomina-
ton to the Supreme Court Of Pennsyl-
vania.
The attempt to grow apples in Min
nesota is a failure.
Apretty schoolmistress in Olmstead,
O., beat small girl nearly to death
with beech stick.
A Berks county cattle dealer paid n
boy ten cents for two weeks service.
Two million five cent pieces come
from the Philadelphia mint every
month.
The banker Periere gave way 10000
bread tickets in Paris on New Years.
A Washington paper speaks Of Mons.
de Ia Forney, as the political chameleon.
Two wood-choppers in Eden, VT, had
ferocious and fatal fight with axes.
One was killed.
Almost all the colleges in the North
last year increased their endowments.
1t is only the small beer presses and
the small fry politicians that cry out for
impeachment.
A lady slipped Oh the ice in Philadel-
phia and would have dashed her brains
out but for her waterfall.
A large-sized man in Buffalo walked
1 q mile in his bare feet one bitter cold
night on wager Of 81.
The railroad from Vera Cruz to the
City of Mexico, when finished, will be
one of the most remarkable i'll the
world.
A woman in Coldwater, Michigan,
asked for a divorce from her husband
because he refused to wear mustache.
They have female beggar in Que
bee, who goes on her professional rounds
in sleigh drawn by her own horses.
A woman in Missouri, an "unbe-
lever shot herself because her husband
held religious meeting mt their house.
The chair occupied by President Lin
coin when he was shot by Booth in
Fords Theatre, was on Tuesday turned
over to the Interior Department.
BY the returns of the city passenger
railways of Philadelphia, it appears
that their receipts during 1866 amount
ed to -, scopes.
A Chicago caterer has put cooking
ranges into the sleeping cars that run
ont of that city so that passengers may
have warm breakfast without leaving
the cars.
Arthur b. Masoner, formerly lieuten-
ant and regimental quartermaster of
the 9TH Kentucky cavalry, committed
suicide at the Spencer House, in Gin
cinnati, Oh Thursday, by taking nor-
phine.
The statue of Edward Everett has
been completed in clay by Mr.. Story,
and is now at Munich ready for casting.
1t is expected to arrive ut Boston some
time in May, and it will be dedicated in
June.
The citizens in Chicago, now the
lake tunnel is done, propose to build .
range Of mountains near the city, to
sac the trouble of having to go to the
White Mountains, y. H., in the summer
| season.
John Morrissey takes stock in a new
Democratic paper projected in Troy. If
he has any voice in the editorial man
agement, political and other opponents
will no doubt be handled without
golves.
1t is not generally known that the
leaves of gersnium are all excellent
application for cuts, where the skin is
rubbed off, and other wounds of that
kind. One or two leaves must be
bruised and applied to the part, and
! the wound will he cicatrized in short
time.
Victor Wright, of Middleburg, VT,
sold twelve ewes to a western purchaser
for 81, ,oOO-one thousand dollars each;
Edwin Stowel, Of the same place, sold q
ram lamb for $1,000; and Z. Hammond
sold ram Lamb for 81 900; another gen
tleman sold yearling ram for $1,000,
which he epurchased u year ago for $50.
1t is asserted that cargo Of sixty
thousand bushels of white wheat was
delivered by sea in the port Of Philadel-
phia on New Years day, from San Fran
cisco, at less cost of transportation
than the same amount Of wheat could
have been delivered in that city from
Chicago by railroad.
The New York EoonOmst, relnarking
on the failures Of 1866, concludes as fol-
lows: 1.-The elements of the crisis of
1857 were mainly these three-exces-
sive prices, excessive credits, and exces-
sive stocks. In 1867 we may not be able
to avoid excessive prices, because of
the redundant currency; but he who
holds light stock is on the side Of
safety, while with respect to credits and
speculative operations, the merchant
ought to, and can, TO very large ex-
tent, control his own fate.n
A sensation was created in Girard
Pa, last week, by the abduction of a
girl named Mcintyre, nine years Of age,
daughter of VI. L. Mcintyre. from one Of
the schools of Girard. On the evening
preceding, gentleman and two ladies
arrived at Girard by rail, and the next
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