The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-26
The Springfield Republican speaks o

The Springfield Republican speaks OF
the barber-ous custom Of Sunday shaw
ing. The wickedness of the beard in
growing on that day is not alluded to.
A woman in Mobile died from the ef-
fects of taking medicine into which, rs
an ingredient, the apothecary had put
Prussic instead Of Tartaric acid.
On the race course at Atlanta, Ca,
Monday night, dispute arose, and Que
Reid shot man named Neintzer. NeintZ-
er's brother then shot Reid. Both are
dead. Pt
Some fifty colored people were ship
ped on Saturday from Fortress Monroe
to Boston, where employment has been
obtained for them by the agents of the
freedmen's bureau.
It is estimated in New Orleans that
the loss to government, in the matter of
internal revenue, by the destruction Of
this years crops in Louisiana, will
amount to between eight and ten mil
lions.
"A drinking fountain movement has
began in Boston. Gardner Brewer, one
of the merchant princes of that city,
has presented q splendid fountain and
basin to be put upon the Common.
The London Times American cores
pondent says sit is probable that Mr.
Peabody will leave America in May
next with the conviction that his coun-
trymen, in spite of their wealth and
prosperity, are nation OF beggars'
The Independent says "that the politi-
cal equality of American citizens is
likely to be sooner achieved in Missis-
sippi than in Illinois-sooner on the
plantation of Jefferson Davis tnan
around the grave of Abraham Lincoln"
Mills, the Frsnconia murderer, who is
under sentence of execution, escaped
from the Jail at Haverhill, New Hamp-
shire, on Saturday night, by saving off
an iron bar sn inch and quarter thick.
A reward of $500 has been offered for his
arrest.
A lady at Reading, Pa, found large
lizard in the milk she poured into her
coffee. The milkman got water for his
cans out of spring instead of hy-
drant. Hence the trouble. The people
are indignant, and demand return to
the hydrant.
Thomas Dougherty has been arrested
in Gloucester, Mass, for the murder OF
his three year old son. Hewas punish
ing him, when, an Older son remonstra-
ting, the father became enraged, dashed
the little fellows head against bed
stead, killing him instantly.
Miss Butt, of Decatur, Illinois, who
had obtained verdict of 5000 against
a Mr.. Wilson, voluntarily relinquished
her claim upon the defendant, oil the
ground that she had not sued him for
money, but merely to vindicate her char
acter, which had been grossly maligncd,
and now that she had succeeded. she
was content.
Two owners Of fast horses were the
other day overheard disputing about
the abilities, as regarded speed, of their
respective horses. After onehad Landed
his own animal by comparisons some
what derogatory to the others, the lat
ter defended himself by replying:
"Pshaw! my horse can go faster stand
ing still than yours can trotting.'
1t is not to be wondered ut that the
King of Prussia is now AS popular in
his own capitol as a year or two ago he
was the reverse. Berlin was illumina-
ted on his birthday, and the Austrian
Embassy had device to this effect:
Hail to the laurel-crOwned victor" 1t
is hardly possible to conceive the hui
initiation of Prussia's great rival going
beyond this.