The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-10
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Paris has aow twenty-three horse
flesh markets.
Cat-meat banquets are announced IN
LOnden. .......
Gambling is on the increase.in Lon
don society.
The Peruvians are DESTROYS of pun,
chasing navy from our supply ,of iron
clads.
New buildings are at once to be
erected on the burnt district at Pit
hole.
The snow averages two feet in depth
in Warren county, Pa.
A colony of Canadians are about to
settle in Kansas.
Vermont coined money rs late as
1857, later than any other State. 's
The White Mountain elevated rail-
way will be completed this year III time
for visitors to make use OF It,
A new flying machine, OF ingenious
adaptation, is in process of construction
at st. Louis.
Vermont gives tho ballot to every
man" twenty one years old, who has re-
sided one year in the State.
OrviIle or "Awfup Gardner, the con-
verified prize-fghter, is living in q
shanty on the shore of Cayuga Lake.
Seine fashionable ministers in New
York are said to receive as much as
$4,000 o year in marriage fees.
Two men in Vincennes, Ind, went
ont to fight a duel, made up, and got
drunk together as compromise.
The estate of Elias Howe, Jr., of
Bridgeport, the great sewing machine
inventor, is represented insolvent.
rat was lately shipped from Erie to
CORY, on whose life an accident insur-
ance policy of $1,000 had been taken.
A wife of fourteen years, who was
married after two weeks courtship, IS
applying for a divorce in Toledo, ONO
DR.. Arbuthnot computed the burden
in Noah's ark ut 90, O62 tons, more than
three times the tonnage of the Great
Eastern.
The health Of Bishop Stevens, OF
Pennsylvania, who was lately badly
hurt in q railroad accident, is gradually
mending.
A philanthrophist writes to the Lon
don papers, beseeching the hippophag-
lists not to serve up any glandered
horses. A happy thought.
A Roman Catholic College, to be
built in five years, and to rival the
Romish Universities of Europe, is I'M
der way in New York.
Romero, in place of his salary of $751;
900, took a convent (San Juan de Let
ran, in the city of Mexico) estimated to
be worth 100000, in payment.
Mr.. William Youug's new evening pa
per in New York, from which great
things are expected, will be called
Every afternoon.
The London and Brighton railway
has depot which covers twelve acres.
This is somewhat ahead of anything
that America can boast.
A bidder at horse auction in Nash
Vile last week mounted a mare to try
her speed, and was so we'll satisfied that
he has not yet returned.
Galt's statue of Jefferson will be in
augursted at Charlottesville during the
approaching Commencement week Of
the University of Virginia.
An amphibious dog, owned by a citi-
zen of Lee, Mass, whilst diving after
fish, caught catfish, the horns of
which tore his mouth aud poisoned his
blood. He died in great agony.
A gushing girl from Illinois writes
home that Buckingham Palace sis GER
tainly excelled by many block of
buildings in Fifth Avenue, and is utter
ly eclipsed by Michigan Terrace, Chi
cage" As an architectural critic that
young person is a success.
Western papers report remarkable
phenomenon at scOttIille, Illinois. In
digging an several localities near that
place, a depth of five or six feet, fire
breaks out, and continues blazing. The
citizens are puzzled and uncomfortable
about it.
The feeling in favor of annexation to
the United States is said to be steadily
growing in Nova Scotia. The town of
Digby, in that province, has new pa
per callsd the BluenOse, which is started
for the purpose of advocating annex
alton to the United States ID
Vitriol throwing is in vogue in San
Francisco, One man has died from the
effects of having yitriol thrown at him,
and another has died (saddenly) of the
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