The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-15
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New Bedford is growing Jealous Of
San Francisco.
One Jerseyman in thirty cannot read
or write.
Two New York editors had game OF
fisticuff last week. !Bt{ kE 1H
Rent in New York makes an awful
rent in an income. - % - @iA Ais
Mrs. Forrest is remarked, and lives on
Staten Island.
A canary bird has been sold in Dan.
vile, n. Y, for S75.
A Sunday school on wheels is anus
ing the children at Utica. 3
A Bangor man was drowned in hogs
head of water the other day.
The new Minister from Greece has
arrived in Washington:
Brignoli broke his collar bone, but
his voice isn't even cracked.
Parisian finery has to pay duty this
year, even when in ladies' trunks.
The Russian Emperor is believed to
spend abOut 500, 900 day in Paris.
There are thousand acres Of straw
berries on the line of the Illinois Cen
tral. T fH ...
The New York Times declares in favor
of Gen. Grant for the next presidency.
Edwin Booth has been offered 10000
for an engagement of two weeks ut st.
Louis.
Printing without ink and shelling
peas by machinery are two novelties at
the Paris Exposition.
The proposed semi-weekly steamship
line from Boston to Europe has been
abandoned.
A severe case of cholera in Buffalo
has been caused by indulgence in stale
sausage and sour beer.
The total numbers of pardons issued
by the Governors of New York, from
1776 to 1865, was 1O,93o.
A Massachusetts paper announces a
new college degree, d. {. B. r., doctor
of college boat rowing.
Arrangements are in progress for a
celebration by the Grand Army OF the
Republic at New York, soon. .....
Two cities in California are 80 healthy
that they b ad to 60 into partnership to
support u cemetery.
Our new Northern possessions are
sixty FIVE and one-half times as large
as Assachnsetts. Summers speech
will just carpet them.
The Lower House of the Connecticut
Legislature has passed an eight hour
law, to take effect from the date of its
passage.
Although the town of You Bet, in
California, has voted to keep Sunday
hereafter, Yuba Dam declines to follow
suit.
A field of turnips, containing 29,OOO
specimens, Of 300 different varieties, is
now in bloom at Rochester, New York.
A new suspension bridge over the
east river, at Harlem, New York, is
completed, and will be opened soon,
with public ceremonies.
Albany has been outraged by the ap-
pearance of bloomer costume on its
streets. The audaciOus woman was
hunted into station house.
Asmart telegraph operator in Jersey
City has been paying expenses by send
ing bogus dispatches to citizens and
pocketing the sums collected. g
Gerrit Smith has published long
letter to prove that he would have been
inconsistent if he had refused to sign
Jeff. Dav;s's bond.
The death ofa very brilliant woman,
and in her early days great belle in
New York city, Mrs. Medora Ward, }
is announced from Paris.
Juarez, having bought Macmillan
so cheaply, might make a good thing
out of it by selling him to his mother,
who, it is said, is ready to give fifty
millions for him. = Cs..CE &! z
A Cincinnati photographer caused a
slight sensation the other day by boil
stering up corpse on balcony on one
of the principal streets for the purpose
of taking a post mortem portrait.
Three young men in Albany, N. T.,
have agreed on swimming match, to
come off on the 25th inst. The stake is
silver cup, and the distance is only
three miles.
Pittsburg has been agreed upon as
the place for holding the next fair OF
the Pennsylvania State Agricultural
Society. The fair will commence on
Tuesday, September "a.
A town of Goo inhabitants has grown
up on the Pacific railroad within six
weeks, supporting a go, 900 hotel, bill
lard saloons, faro, monte and keno
banks, and other necessary establish
ments.
A New York team of tro:ters, Bruno
and Brunette, the property of Mr.. Har
ker, have done mile in 2:25i, beating
by 4 of a second, the best time made by
Mr.. Bonner's celebrated team.
Secretary Seward has lately called
the attention of the Japanese Govern,
me mt to the ancient unrepealed edict O
that country making Christianity o cap.
ital offence in Japan 20 s5Aa y
The proposition for a general stimuli
taneous reduction Of the armies of the
Great Powers of Europe is receiving
much attention, and, it is said, is no
unfavorably considered in official cir
cles in France.
In New Castle, Delaware, last week
q colored man who had killed his brothe
in drunken rage, was publicly pillo
ried, then whipped with sixty lashes
forced to pay a fine of FIVE Thousand
dollars, and then taken to prison to b
confined for life.
Captain Barnett, clerk of the Goodal'
House, at Columbus, who mysteriousl!