The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-04
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Porte CrayOn is losing his eye sight.
Longfellow is forging ont new poem.
The St. Louis artesian well has
reached depth of 1906 feet.
Mrs. Burdell Cunningham is a clair
voyant physician at Mazatlan, Mexico.
Dickens sent home f16,00O as the
first installment of his gains in America.
Meme but members of the craft will be
employed on the new Philadelphia Ma
sonic Temple.
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, has charm
ing preacher, Miss Chaplin by name.
She is pretty and bat p.
The public are becoming surfeted
with the vulgar illustrated papers, and
their circulation is falling off
Two large ships are loading at Nor
folk, Va, for Liverpool, being the first
instance of direct trade since the war.
A Judge in Cincinnati declares that
the Indiana divorce laws are disgrace
TO any State claiming civilization.
The peach trees near Norfolk, Va,
are in full bloom, and fears are enter
tanned that the cool weather will Ges-
troy the crop.
. An Australian lady gives public notice
that if her husband does not turn up In
three months she means 10 marry again
Real estate is high in Washington.
Secretary Welles' house was put up at
auctiox, but was withdrawn because on
~ SAC, 900 were bid.
A Western editor says that in smoky
Pittsburgh men kiss each others wives,
and are able to tell which is their own
only by the taste.
Rents in Louisville have declined
mere than twenty-five per cent. this
spring, and yet there are many unrented
dwellings, i'll the city.
A miner who lately came from Nir-
ginia City says that vegetation is SO
scarce in that region that two mullen
stalks aul bunch of thistlcs is called a
grove"
n young man murdered i'll haunt o
evil in New York the other day, was a
son of Ex-Mayor WescOtt, of jersey
City, and inherited fortune of S23O,OOO.
A young actress in Paris set her dress
on IRE from u bowl OF blazing punch,
was put out with wet blanket, and
returned TO finish her performance af-
ter change of Costume.
Mr.. Bergh expresses the opinion that
q live animal, in the same vehicle with
q carcass, suffers to the same extent
that n nan would if confined in . wag
on with dead, uncOffined human beings.
The eldest son of Lola Montez, who
occupied a distinguished position in
the Bavarian army, has resigned his com
mission, having inherited considera-
BILE fortuue--frOm the Ex-King0f Bavar-
ia perhaps.
Mr.. 0xenford, the London Times the
atrical critic, declares that he saw rats
drinking out of his water-pitcher at the
New York Hotel. Gentleman in that
condition more commonly see snakes,
but sometimes it's rats.
A portrait of the Prudish Menken,
taken in conjunction with the shy and
modest Mr.. Algernon Charles Swim
burne, has been issued bp the LondSn
Stereoscopic Company, and is the occa-
sien of considerable comment.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Press says: General Han
cocks relations with General Grant,
which we've exceedingly pleasant before
he went to New Orleans, are now quite
the reverse, so that his service here
will not be of the most tranquil nature,
except III his connection with the adj
ministration."
A letter from Lexington, Virginia,
says: "GeneIal Lee was recently con-
fRed to his room for some days, but he
is now performing his usual duties. /
think there is very pcrceptible change
in him since he came to Lexington.
This life of confinement does not agree
with him. He lacks that lightness of
step and brilliancy of eye that were pc
culiar to him when he commanded his
fiery legions."