The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-03
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago has 5000 Scotch citizens.

Chicago has 5000 Scotch citizens.
Canada has 1O4,435 Sunday school
scholars.
They have an African dwarf thirty
nine inches high at Boston.
A proof-readers' society in Boston calls
itself the "House of Correction"
The New York theatres are serving up
all the indelicacies of the season.
The Emperor of China is fourteen
years old, while his intended wife is
nearly eleven.
Jenkins has picked out several we'd
dings that General Grant is to go to next
week in New York.
Minnesota pays SO apiece for wolf
scalps, and in the past year has expend-
ed $4,000 in such purchases.
Two young men while gambling at
Terre Haute, Indiana, last Friday, quar-
relied, and one killed the other.
Sheet music, reproduced in a minia
ture shape, by means of the camera,
has made its appearance in New York.
The Radicals are trying hard to raise
funds for the establishment of a paper
in Louisville, without much prospect of
success.
John Powell died in New York ball
room on Thanksgiving night. Too much
dancing and heart disease were the
cause.
Cornelius II. Reid, of Washington
county, Kansas, who was bitten in the
hand, last July, by an apparently rabid
dog, died of hydrophobia, last week,
after suffering forty-eight hours.
The Union Pacific road conveys pas
sengers one thousand four hundred and
thirty miles from Chicago. "Only ten
days to California" is advertised by the
company, in connection with the Wells
Fargo Express.
A young girl named Barber has been
arrested in Corning, New York, for
stamping an infant, which was left in
her care, until almost lifeess, and then
roasting j TO death on hot stove.
A bill is on its third reading in the
Tennessee Legislature providing that
lawyers who do not gain their cases
shall not receive any fee. The idea is to
prevent needless litigation, which is
stimulated by INSCRIPTIONS lawyers.
1t is stated that there are now over
three hundred graduates of female med
ical colleges in active practice in the
United States, some of whom are in the
receipt of $40, 900 per annum from their
profession.
Up to the time of the fearful coal
mine disaster in England on Thursday,
there had been less than 400 lives lost
this year in the British colleries, 2S6 by
fire-damp explosion, and the remainder
by falls of roof and coal.
T. R. Toole, assistant opeclal agent of
the Treasury Department, seized, in
New York, on Friday last, $4,000 yards
of fine Lyons silk, together with large
number of French clocks. This is said
to be the largest seizure ever made in
the United States. The total value is
estimated at $40, 900.
John Nevin, native OF Ireland, and
living with his son at Underhill, Yer
mont, is said to be one hundred and
seventeen years old, and yet as vigor-
Gus as a man of sixty. He has worked
on his sons farm during the past sea-
son. He is the father of thirteen chill
dren, the "baby" of the family being
fifty years old.
The students in several colleges in
Cambridge, England, have struck
against the cooks. They say their dim
ners are bad and dear, and that the
cause of both defects is the custom Of
considering the cook permanent col
lege officer, irremovable by those he
feeds. In Sydney College the students
struck, retiring as soon as grace was
said, and the authorities have agreed
70 look into the matter.
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