The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-26

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cannot enjoy her charms, let us at least
reverence her worth. T. +. b.
CURRENT ITEMS.
Bismark is sharpening his spurs for
fight.
The first white child born in Ohio is
still living.
The vitriol throwers have reappeared
in New York.
Waterville, Maine, has elected col
ored constable.
The Columbus, O., post-Office is infest-
ed with female loafers.
The Paris Exposition building is said
to look like gasometer.
Fifty thousand dollars is offered now
for Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair.
A young lady, just arrived in Port
land, by steamer, died of sea-sickness.
Edwin Booth has bought house in
Thirty-fifth street, New York, for s75,-
600.
The Pittsfeld Shakers are shaky in
their faith. Elopements are common
among them.
Thurlow Weed, it is stated, has pur-
chased the New York Commercial Adrer-
tiser.
The Buffalo Board of Trade abandon
ed the GENITAL system and resolved to ad-
here to bushels.
There were no deaths in the town Of
Searsburg, VT, last year, and there are
no doctors in the place.
There are one million more women
than men in England. John Stuart
Mill is in favor of giving suffrage to
women.
The eX-Confederate ship Alabama,
bought by the Greeks, and called by
them Akadion, has arrived at Syria.
Three Barnums are in the field Of
politics in Connecticut, cousin of
Phines T. having set up as an independ-
ent candidate.
Montana papers report heavy sup
ply of provisions in that Territory
enough to supply the present popula-
tion one whole year.
The members of the Michigan Legis-
lature hold regular Wednesday evening
prayer meetings in the Senate Chamber.
Brigham Young sent 500 last week
to James Pine, Esq, of Port Byron,
New York, to pay a board bill contract
ed thirty yearsago.
The license money paid for houses
of prostitution in New York will 60 to
the support of the House for the Refor-
nation of Fallen Women.
Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, has
signed the bill requiring railway com
panies to carry all passengers, without
distinction of color.
The Chinese women who are to wait
on the restaurant at the Paris Exposi-
tion were purchased, it is said, in Can
ton for $50 each.
A single lode in Nevada is turning out
more gold and silver annually than did
the famous mines of Potosi i'll their
palmiest days.
"Boy," said facetious farmer to his
son, 1--WE had pretty hard days work
Yesterday, now let's have game of
chopping wood"
The Paymaster General of Massachu-
setts reports that the bounties paid by
that State since the beginning of the re-
bellion amount to over Sl3,250, 600.
A glow worm with two lights, one
the usual phosphorescent groom, and ti'o
other a glowing red, has been discover
ed in the Argentine Republic.
The President has signed the bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for the Paris Exposi-
ton, also the bill giving $4,000 for the
freedmen of the District of Columbia.
The Mussulman population of Jerusa-
lem have uttered threat of wholesale
massacre against the Christians, whom
they accuse of being the cause of all the
miseries of Turkey.
Weak doses of washboard are now
recommended to ladies who complain of
dyspepsia. Young men troubled in the
same way may be cured by strong dose
of wood-saw.
Guests Of New York hotels who wish
wine with their Sunday dinners
are compelled to order it on satur-
day. The enforcement of such law in
London or Paris would cause revOlu-
ton.
John Monaghan, Matthew Mccormick
and James Hineson, convicted of hav-
ing outraged three young women in
Brooklyn, n. Y, have been sentenced to
fifteen years imprisonment each.
The fair Treasury Clerks advocate a
long summer recess, as during the alb
sence Of their Congressional protectors
they can indulge in agreeable flirta-
tions with their fellew-clerks of the
sterner sex.-Uash Cor. 'l
General Halleck has issued an order
that tho Commissioners to Washington
from the Tycoon of Japan shall be re-
ceived at such military posts in his di-
vision as they may be pleased to visit,
with the honors due to public Ministers.
The better class OF haekmen in Chi
cago have formed an association, estab-
lished tariff of legal fares, which they
promise to adhere to, and have under
1 taken to reform the bullying, swindling
and outrage to which the public have
been subjected by hack-drivers from
time immemorial.
The Lafayette Courier has mysteri-
ous paragraph, about lady and gentle
man who were seen walking on the
streets Of that town the other night.