The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-21
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vesuvius iS capped with snow.
Detroit claims q population of 10000.
Eggs are eighty cents per dozen in
Cleveland. Ifes.4. o. lis. 'as. 30. r.,
Flour sold for $6 barrelin San Fran
cisco on New Years day. i,4
A first class American journal is about
to be established in London.
A popular lecturer places Grant and
Sherman in the second class of generals.
Queen Victoria will attend the Paris
Exhibition in a.quiet kind OF way.
The Adventists of Connecticut are
preparing to Ego up" on or about June
Journeymen printers literally acquire
grammar at their fingers ends.
. About one-third of the farmers in
Ireland hold long leases at low rents.
The greater proportion Of Americans
now in Europe are in 1taly.ri
Lord Ernest vane Tempest has been
sent to prison in London for three
months.
Buffalo meat is selling Turkey.-Er.
And turkey meat is selling in Buffalo.
A foot bridge is going to be built at
Niagara Falls across the river little
below the Clifton House. R .-
A st. Louis twenty-one year old horse
was match against time, single mile,
In 2:3Sf.s Is biDG Jp >#E
The English Government hesitates
about calling out the Irish militia for
annual training -. -. Ant Joss
Rejected office holders form large
and growing class in Washington.
King Charles XIV. of Sweden has
written a memoir on military reform,
dedicated to the Emperor Napoleon.
Clutch HEINRICH well-known bank
thief, refuses to donate his picture to
the Rogues' Gallery in New York
The President has withdrawn the
nomination of George Bancroft rs Col
lector of the Port of Boston.
Skulls and other bones from the old
Presbyterian burying ground are tum-
bling round the streets of Patterson, n.
jersey.
The new Academy of Music in New
York will not be so large as that in
Philadelphia by an area of over 10000
square feet. ,,. .
An Ohio paper, in an obituary of an
old citizen, says, "He was honest and
industrious until enfeebled by disease
and age"
There has been serious outbreak Of
cholera in some colliery villages near
Durham, England, and much alarm pre-
walls in the neighbOrhOod.
One hundred and fifty-two railway
bills will be submitted for the cOnsid-
Grafton of the English Parliament at
the ensuing session.
The Emperor Napoleon has sent to
the Prefect of Police the sum of fifty
thousand francs to be distributed among
the most necessitous families in the
capital. ...
Chicago papers call the killing of n
man out of jealousy only "Trnsel work"
in honor of Mollie Trusel, the par
doned murderess.
The New York Methodist considers the
social purity of the church seriously
menaced by the fashionable corruptions
of the day.
A Denver paper says sit would make
savage smile" to sec some of the con-
gregations of that city worship the
great Jehovah.
A Missouri editor says that the Radi-
Gals in Congress will soon enact law
requiring mems clothes to be made
without pockets-there will be no use
for them.
Over seventeen thousand tons of iron
were forwarded from Cleveland by rail,
during the month of January, and
nearly one million feet Of lumber.
A San Francisco paper announces an
important acquisition to its editorial
staff, but witholds the name for the
present. Oh, scissors!
An exchange thinks the expression OF
young Bennett about his yacht-"she
lies in perfect order'-more applicable
to the newspaper concern at home.
Colonel Lynch the Fenian prisoner,
is fireman in the foundry at the Kings
ton penitentiary, and Rev. Mr.. Mcmahon
does duty as puddler.
A mouse in Cleveland, n. y, stole
$500 in greenbacks from a mans vest
pocket while he was asleep, and made q
nest of the lucre. 4 suspected servant
| in the mans house feels much relieved
at the discovery. .'s."#
Some Congressman want to force from
market and discourage the use of "man-
ufactured hemp" by trying to taI it
fifty dollars per ton. The policy is
pretty thoughtful, considering the case
Of some Of 'em.-E. ti
Judge Cady, who was strongly "anti-
woman's rights used to address his
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
as my dear SIR
Some one in London has invented a
machine Cor tolling bells. 1t is wound
up on Saturday night, and commences
and ends its operations at the exact
moments on Sunday.
The amount of specie leaving the
country now is almost unprecedentedly
small. The three steamers which left
New York on Saturday took less than q
quarter of q million dollars.
More snow has fallen among the
White Mountains within the past fort
night than during the previous eight
weeks. 1t is about five feet deep in the
road do and much drifted.