The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-27
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A church for the deaf and dumb is to
be erected in London.
There are rnmors of the discovery OF
lead mine in Connecticut.
Nearly 5000 barrels of eggs arrived in
New York city last week.
Influenza appears to be the epidemic
in half the countries of Europe.
Fourteen steamers, European and
eoastwise, sailed from New York on
Saturday. ....
A man in New Orleans, shooting
pigeons from his window, slew baby
in the al ms of its mother.
William Close, of Greenwich, Conn.,,
has been offered $4,000 for his celebrated
stallion, Allen G. ,Patchen.
General Cole does not allow his chill
dren to visit him while he is in jail at
Albany.
The Emperor of Brazil has two
daughters and no sons. Good catches
for some Yankee boys.
The police of Cincinnati will not al
low open air preaching in the park OF
that city. -. .s
In Canada, Judges can hereafter SEN
teuce boys guilty of larceny to be whip
ped, instead of imprisoned.
Ladies will be pleased ts hear that a
process has been discovered Ivy which
they can electroplait their hair.
A man in the Sandwich Islands, who
took advantage of the recent earth
quake and eruption to preach SECOND
Adventist doctrines, has been lodged In
jail a
AMeriden boy lately caught a two
pound trout at Yatesville, Connecticut,
which he sold the same evening for 50 so,
aud is was afterwards resold for 50.
Prof. Loomis says 100000 shooting
stars shoot through the earth's atmos'
phere every twenty-four hours. Most
of them are very small-lSO to the
oun ce
The Musical STANDARD says lady has
arrived in London from Batavia who
plays simultaneously Oh the piano two
different airs with each hand at the
same time, and likewise sings q nth.
The Shawano (Wisconsin) Journal re-
cords a wedding in high life among the
Stockbridge Indians. 1t was "bril'
liant affair" Thirty.tw drunken lDdi'
ans were seen by the mail carrier on one
trip lying along the road between Sha'
wano and Keshena.
A Wisconsin paper relates that mar
riage recently took place in which both
the parties were about sixty years Of
age. They became engaged at their
first meeting, and were to be married
that day week, but not being able tC
wait so long, they fastened the happy
occasion By fonr days.
There is one more revolutionary hero
lingering this side of the grave, JESSE
Blakenship; who was born IN Chester
field county, Va, is now one hundred
and ten years of age, and served abou'
one year in the revolution before the
close Of the war. He is now living II
Russell county, KY.
Rev. o. b. rockingham says: lin
temperance is ever removed from socie
ty, it will be by moral forces which af
feet people in society; not by policemen,
but by principles; not by batons, but by
ideas; not Ivy statutes but by influences
not by prOhibitory laws, but by re-
straining, regulating sentiments"
When Narvaez was at tie point Of
death, his confessor urged him to for
give his enemies. any enemies" ex
claimed the old tyrInt, "bless my soul
! have not an enemy in all Spain. | haC
every one of them long since court
martialed and shot The priest did moi
| insist.
A young machinist in Detroit hat
made locomotive engine and tender
complete, about four feet in length, and
weighing only 300 pounds. Attached
are ad-light, bell, whistle and every
"fxin" to be found in regular locomo
tive engine. IL can run with ID pOHnd'
of steam, though as high as 80 pounds
can be put on II necessary. Tho boiler
HAS 13 haCs. The maker has refused
$500 for it.
Two swells, whose reSpectiye parents
rose to affluence, the one by making
bricks and the other by boot making
met in a bar.room. Said the son O
Crispin impertinently to the son o.
Bricks, "Supposen We moisten our clay.
"By all MEANS" replied the other, "prO
vided there are no heel-taps."
Daniel Webster had two chances tc
become President of the United States
first, when the Wings proposed t,
nominate him for Vice President with
Harrison, in 1910; and second, wher
profered the same honor on the ticket
with Taylor in l549, both of which hC
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