The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-06

In the family of Stephen Herrick, ol
Middlesex, Vermont, there are three
mothers, two grandmothers, one great
grandmother, three daughters, two
grand daughters, one great-grand'
daughter, two wives, one widow, two
husbands, two fathers, two sons-in-law
one grandfather, and one son-in-law,
and only six members in the family.
In q painting in a country town in
Germany, the painter, who had intend
ed to represent the sacrifice of lsaac
represented Abraham with blunder
buss in his hand, ready to shoot his son
This seems to have been fayorite idea
with artists, for Burgoanne-Travels IN
Spain-notices painting in SPAN
where Abraham is preparing to shoot
Isaac with a pistol.
Mrs. Lucy Osgood died at Mexico,
Maine, last week, aged one hundred
years, eight months and eighteen days
At the time of her death she had living
FIVE children and twenty-si1 grand
children, forty-two great-grand-chil'
dren, being seventy-three in all. Each
generation had its representative at
her funeral. She had been, until with
in a few weeks preceding her death,
able to move about the house. Al
though nearly blind and qaite deaf, she
80, 4 Har fn n wnndprfnl 6a.
gree and was a great talker. ..
A few days since, a man named Tulle,
a usually sober, quiet citizen, residing
near Spring Hill, Stoddard county, Mis-
souri,, returned to his home in state Of
intoxication. From some cause quar-,
rel sprung up between hims0lfand wife,
when he seized gun with the avowed
intention of shooting her. In order to
defend herself she threw up her arm
when Tulle struck her with the gun,
breaking the arm. AT this point son
interfered, wrestling the gun from the
father, and striking him on the head
broke his skull, SO that he died almost
instantly.
The ex-Queen of Spain left behind her
one hundred and seventy carriages, sew;
eral splendid Arab and English horses
as we'll as the finest collection of mules
extaut, in the coach-houses and stables
of her royal palace at Madrid. One ve-
hicle, that which annually conveyed
her Most Catholic Majesty to the open
ing of the Cortes, is q marvellous speci-
meu of gliding and carving, and gor-
geous are the trappings belonging there
to. More curious as historic relic Is
the quantity sculptured vehiclein which
Jane, Charles V'sinsane daughter,i itrav-
eled with the body of her dead husband,
Philip the Handsome.
A notable event has taken place in
London. An English company "for the
propagation of the Gospel in New Eng
land" has authorized its board Of com
missi oners to sell "the Manor of Girls
we'll and all other manors and heredi-
taments in the county of Suffolk be-
longing to the company" These vari-
Gus properties are to be sold forthwith,
by private contract, for the stipulated
sum of 100000. What the object of
the company is, in turning its lands and
tenements into hard cash, of course we
do not know. 1t may be that it has
been found utterly useless to make any
further attempt to propagate the Cos
pei among a people so .opinionated
as those of New England.
An old man, in New Orleans, with
hair white as snow, and face venera-
bic from age, applied for registration
At the same time q cornfeld negro, ig-
norant. hideous and beastly in appear
ance, submitted his claims. The old
man was jostled aside by the African
freedman, who received the polite as
siduities of the Board. No oath was re-
ouired of him-no questions asked but
his name and residence. When his
time came at last the old man was
sworn, numberless questions asked and
his name finally rejected. The one was
a citizen Of forty years standing, mer.
chant of distinguished success, and
honored by all who kew him; the
other is simply negro.