The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-21
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West.
Hydrophobia is prevalent in New Or
leans.
The peach crop in New Jersey is hurt
by the late frssts.
In Michigan the majority against the
Constitution exceeds 3S, 1000.
Miss Oscanyan, daughter of the THrk,
is the belle of Staten Island.
August Belmont is about to have the
most elegant country place on the Hud-
son.
The city of Charleston is to have a
new Masonic Temple, of great beauty,
and costly.
General Grants son rides to school
every day with General Grants orderly
behind him.
Daring two days of last week no less
than twelve abandoned infants were
picked up in New York City.
The Rerolation, Elizabeth Cady STAN
toms paper, has reached, it is asserted, a
circulation of 10000 copies.
The severe storms recently on Lake
Michigan have caused great destruction
of shipping.
The annual expenditures of Boston in
1899 amounted to about $4,000, the ex-
penditure of two days i'll 1868.
While the Methodists hare coDtribu-
ted 500, 900 the past year for church ex-
tension in the South, the Catholics have
contributed 100000 for the same pur-
pose.
Persons in the habit Of using brown
sugar will be interested, if not pleased,
to learn that it has been discovered to
be the home of innumcrable microscopic
insects.
The Memphis Bulletin says: sit ap-
pears probable that most people in this
State who are in want of situation
will run for Congressman for the State
at large"
The bequest of Ralph S. Fritz, of San
Francisco-a crazy man, who willed his
property to the United States-was paid
into the treasury in seven-thirty bonds.
Mrs. Bachelder, widow of John Bach
elder, years ago hunter aud trapper of
note, died lately in Wesley township,
Washington county, Chic, at the age of
lO3 years.
Samuel II. Lyon, of Bedford, Pa, was
fatally injured short time ago, by
kick on the forehead from horse. Last
fall the same animal ran away and
killed Mr. Lyons daughter.
The National Assembly of Crete has
requested the United States to recog-
nize that Government, and to secure the
complete emancipation and independ-
emce Of the island.
Indications are that there will be
quite an extensive experimental culti-
vation of the Ramie plant in this coun-
try this season. The plant, if capable of
all that it gets credit for, will soon run
cotton out of the market.
The London Spectator says: at has
been calculated that out of S2,5OO, ,OOO,-
900 of money invested in British rail
WAYS, at least S6OO,000,O 900 have been
entirely lost, owing to the msmanage-
mcnt of railway affairs"
An eminent statistician is invcstigat-
ing the fact involved in the query
"whether the dirty boots of men in
horse cars soil ladies' garments as much
as the bedabbled dresses of women soil
gentlemen's apparel in omnibusses."
The Hindoos consider bathing in
tub an abomination-no washing at
all. They insist on stream, or at the
worst, a pond. Water poured over a
Hindoo arm serves his ideas of ablution,
but to use the self-same water twice he
regards as wasted labor.
The bridge now in process of erection
over the Mississippi at st. Louis in
wolves an experiment hitherto untried.
The central span is to be 5l5 feet be-
tween the abutments. and the other
two 497 feet respectively. No span OF
500 feet now exists in the world. Steel
is to be largely used in the structure.
Pennington, Maine, has wonderful
visitation of the measles. More than
half the population have been in de-
mand Of pennyroyal tea within the last
month. Churches, schools, stores and
police court are all closed, and coufu-
sion in general reigns.
A yirginian has carved cane which
contains likencsses of General r. E.
Lee, General Stonewall jackson and
President johnson; the Lords Prayer in
full, beautiful maidens, angels, babies,
elephants, tigers, foxes, OpOssums, birds,
insects, serpents, fishes, and nearly
everything that walks or creeps, flies or
swims.
The Quincy (Illinois) Vhig says that
on the afternoon of the Sth instant, a
lady was walking near the river there
with her babe. She left it for a mo-
ment, when gray eagle swooped down
and bore the child away. Pursuit was
quickly made across the river in askiff,
but the "bird of freedom" and its help
less nrey soon passed out of sight. The