The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-04
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Ijects.
Gottschalk is concerting in Rio JAN
eiro.
The carpenters in Germany are all on on
a strike.
The King of the Belgians decorated
an editor in Paris.
/ A Norwegian infant in Wisconsin
measures Z feet 10 inches.
The Car gave the poor of Paris SlO,-
600 for very poor welcome. E-r.
The Sultan borrowed ten million
francs of the Greeks to 90 to Paris.
A matrimonial broker in New York
sues for $3.50 brokerage for effecting
marriage. a = f.....--- ~..
The Chinese mattresses at the Paris
Exposition have passion for playing
dominoes.
England is to stop the transportation
of criminals to western Australia this
year. ts#sI #a'... It
An actress in Nevada was recently
complimented by two silver bricks be-
ing thrown upon the stage.
A lady brought before the Police Court
of Cleveland for drunkenness wore
S50OO worth of diamonds.
Drunken men are allowed to sleep all
night in the New York horse cars by
paying the driver fifty cents.
After being married six months gen.
tleman in Westminster, VT, hang him.
self He could bear it no longer.
The Empress of Russia gave 500, 900 to
the wife of the equerry whose horse re-
ceived Bereznowskis bulles.
A Vermont lady has produced three
welcome little strangers at birth.
The father is as well as can be expected.
Butler promised to appoint q colored
cadet to West Point, hence no one was
surprised when he appointed II white
one.
A barrel of whiskey, one of varnish
and $3.50 cash were the present lately
made to pastor by his Western congre-
CATION.
Prof. Gillespie, of Union College, hav-
ing received the degree of LII. d. from
two colleges, signs himself "Gillespia,
l. 4, ID q"
Bismark was observed to be the only
silent and moody spectator of Ma
poleou's great military show at Long
champs.
The illumination of Paris to celebrate
"tLe Cars escape" was the most exten-
sive and magnigcent that city ever wit
messed.
Ann Cantlan was arrested in New
York on Saturday for stealing treasury
notes from W. L. Winter, of Steuben-
vile, Ohio.
A church is to be erected in London
to commemorate the abolition of slave
~ and to be at the same time II memoir
I ial of President Lincoln.
1t is settled that new Radical even
ing paper is to he started in New York
about the LIST of September. 1t will
be under the arrangement of Mr.. c. A
Dana.
Vallandigham will not make the COM
mencement address at the University of
Mississippi. Bnt though he has no COM
mencement, unfortunately, there is no
end to Val,
A wholesale pilferiug of State and
Legislative documents has been detect
ed at Harrisburg. Three wagon loads
of reports, statutes, etc, which had been
sold for old paper, were captured.
The "Grand Army of the Republic"
at Toledo, O.. recently resolved "that
Horace Greedy is an ass" and then re-
gretted that the English language was
not strong enough to express their SEN |
timents toward shat gentleman.
IfSurratt is acquitted it will be proof
conclusive that his mother was brutally |
murdered by the Military Commission.
1t is, therefore, necessary that the Rad
icals should hang Surratt in order to |
vindicate the propriety of such Com
mission.
Tuft, who murdered SiGley in Cleve-
land the other night, was captured on
Saturday morning about o'clock, at
the house of his sister-in-law in that
city. He had not been more than six
miles away at any time since the muir
der.
The body of Ernst Geiss was found ON
the lake shore near Chicago, on Thurs
day. Letters we're found upon the
corpse showing that it was q case of de- |
liberate suicide. He was tired, lie |
said, of a world "wherein he had met |
nothing but misery and misfortune"
Considerable trouble exists at Jules
burg, between the old settlers of that
town and the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, in consequence of the latter |
trying to occupy lands squatted upon by |
the former. The squatters refuse to va
cate the lands.
The japanese Commissioners now at
Washington have purchased 10000 vol
umes of school books for the instruction
of the Japanese. Good things! The |
young Japs will learn much from these |
books concerning the monstrous crimes
of rebellion, slavery and conservatism.
Some times ago the New York Com
mon Council passed an ordinance grant |
ing to the Peoples Gas Company" per-
mission to lay gas pipes in the street.
One of the parties interested testifes
that he paid to an 6lderman so, 200 in |
cash and $50, 900 in stock for getting this
ordinance passed.
Austria has conquered the Hungarians
and Russia the Poles by adopting hu-
name policy toward those who, net long
ago, were avowed enemies. The con-
quest is more thorough than could have
been achieved through bloody combats. !
In each case dangerous source Of weak
ness has been converted into an ele- |
ment of strength.
In the period of half century there
have been, it is estimated, upwards of
seventy five executives, emperors, pres
idents, dictators in Mexico, and no less