The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-24
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Italy gets two and half millions ;
year from lotteries.
Miss Kate Field has ready bool
about Planchette.
|. Isabella's personal fortune does no
exceed 100000 p
Rev. Mr.. Ward, of New York, denounc
es piano playing as "lascivious."
The new Government of Spain pro
poses to abolish bull-fghts.
California has preduced an apple sew
enteen inches in circumference.
There are 5000 lumbermen in the pi
neries of Muskegon county, Michigan
this winter.
Between ninety and one hundred
thousand dollars worth of fractional
currency is daily printed at the Treas
.ury Department.. ed e. D
General Grant Is importuned for mon
ey as we'll as Office. Every day he re.
csives more OF less letters asking fol
gifts or loans. SID lt.I. O
New York has twelve clergymen whs
are each paid over $4,000 year, and a
hundred others who don't get $1,000
each. -...s ...s
1t is stated that during the last year
the births in Ireland have exceeded the
deaths and emigration, for the first time
in 30 years.
In late Maine marriage the bride
groom was eighty-five and the bride
eighty. They are looking forward
eagerly to their golden wedding.
Eighteen female employees in the Print
ing Division at the Treasury have been
dismissed and twelve farloughed on ac-
count of the decrease of work in that
division.
The Illinois State Board of Edscation
advises the pronunciation of the name
of that State in the old fashioned way,
without sounding the final letter.
In Poughkeepsie a man sold his vote
for barrel of flour, and was himself
doubly sold when, on opening the bar
rel, he found it filled with sawdust and
sand.
The flag of the scheme for obtaining
money under false pretenses, known as
the Cuban expedition, is of red and blue
bars, with lone star on a white cor
ner-ground.
Nearly all the brewers of Troy, New
York, have combined to put mp the price
of ale. They justify their action by
saying that the increased cost of ma
terials renders necessary the advance.
The Marchioness Of Hastings is rather
better off than she was with her hus-
band alive, as she has a large dowry,
is only twenty-six years old, and can
mourn luxuriously until she sees fit to
marry again.
The Hamilton (Ont.) Times has just
come ont victorious in libel suit for
heavy damages. hacansA nf ito oHPooo,
last spring, of the outrageous swindles
and extortions practiced at the Table
Rock Hetel, Niagara Falls. ,
At Lawton, Michigan, on Tuesday
evening, George Covert, a young man
about twenty-three years of age, who
lived at Marshall, while attempting to
couple two cars, fell between them,
and his head was crushed fat by the
bumpers.
The Dayton Journal says: David
CooYer, aged about thirty years, and
measuring only twenty-eight inches in
height, died in Butler township the 9th
Or day. He was an estimable gentle
man, of more than average intelligence,
and of very active habits.
Brazil keeps standing offer of $4,000
in gold to any one who will invent a
mode of preserving beef SO that it will
be suitable for expectation, and though
no less than four hundred processes
have been put in competition for this
prize, none has yet received it.
A Miss Ward, of Bethany, Genesee
county, New York, recently met with a
terrible accident. A COW, which was
being worried by dog, ran towards
her, thrusting her horn into her mouth
and upward, forcing one eye from its
socket, and inflicting fearful wound.
1t is thongEt the girl will recover,
though she will lose an eye.
Henry Ward Beecher says that the
best time for family prayers is immedi-
ately after breakfast and Immediately
after supper, for then the children will
be most likely to be quiet, and to feel
that they have something to be thank
full for. No one will be hungry; no one
will be sleepy.
"Timothy Titcomb" writes from Swift
zerland that cheap wine is no remedy
for intem perance, and recounts his for
mer belief to that effect but he admits
that the intoxication of the Swiss,
caused by wine drinking, has few of the
brutal characteristics of alcoholic
Peter V. Sweeney has recently risen
into prominence as the Great Mogul of
Tammany Hall, He is considered one
of the shrewdest of the Democratic pol.
iticians; makes politics his trade, and
thrives by it. He is of Irish extraction,
though native here. He is the City
Chamberlain, and has made himself ia
nous by paying over to the municipal
certain monthly sums of
interest that have heretofore been kept
by the incumbent of the office-a pro-
ceeding so unprecedented that few New
Workers have been willing to believe
that any man who would do such a
thing acted from disinterested motives
Until recently bank president has
usually been made the Chamberlain,
apd tba hapL hos racaiya1 tha dano.;.,