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

Mr.. Tennyson has long poem ready
for publication.
In Milwaukee they call harness-ma-
kers "horse milliners."
A Cleveland Dutchman drank LOG
layers in one day.
CARLYLE denies any intentions upon
the life of George III. -.1.
i A girl advertises in New York paper
for position as "sales-lady."
The late General Gates was the first
cadet that ever entered West Point.
The announcement Of the marriage of
Hon. Schuyler Celiax was premature.
General Lee has a Bible class of one
hundred and five members in his college.
Ii is calculated that there are now
about $4,000 Cinnamon settled in Cali
fornia.
The Bombay potentate, Chimmlajee
Mahary, has married girl of ten years.
He paid $40 600 for his bride.
Charles r. Cornwell has been ap-
pointed Marshal of New jersey by the
President.
"a storm at sea, with rolling waters
the whole weighing two tons"-is
advertised for sale in an English paper.
Sunday evening religious services
have commenced in more than half a
dozen of the London theatres.
The people of Wecdsport, New York,
have invented new church entertain
ment-a "mush and milk sociable."
There are at least twenty-five mil
lion feet of lumber stored in the yards
of Minneapolis and st. Anthony, Min
nesOta.
Sergeant Boston Corbett, who shot
Wilkes Booth, preached at the Bethel
Church in New London, Connecticut, on
Sunday.
The Indiana farmers aae selling their
corn in the field at fifty cents bushel,
to be fed to hogs, which sell for eight
cents pound.
John Potts and John Stebbins are
matched to run two hundred yards
foot race at Pittsburgh, on the 4th of
December, for $500 side.
The London streets, placed in sim
gle straight line, would reach from
Liverpool to New York. 1t takes 360,-
600 street lamps to illuminate London.
Colonel Lerchi, an Italian officer, is in
Jail at Naples, charged with choking to
death his young bride, two days after
their wedding.
The Peruvian survivors of the earth
quake were too lazy to dig out those
partly buried, whose cries were heard
for five or six days. .-.. .. ..
There are frequent failures of the gas
in Portland. A iodger at one of the
hotels informed the clerk that the gas
in his room wouldn't burn, and he
| thought it needed new wick!
Col. Drake, who sunk the first oil
we'll on Oil Greek, and gave the world
the benefit of his discovery, is at Titus.
vile, living in extreme destitution.
The fires in the Oregon woods are
double calamity. Besides the destruc.
ton of property, they drive the wild
beasts into the settlements, where they
commit great ravages.
The successor of the late Archbishop
Of Canterbury will have snug income
of 100000, and the patronage of one
hundred and seventy-seven liviAgs.
Mrs. Allen, of Dayton, Ohio, not
only perforated her husband with
pistol, but went the subsequent and
supertluous length of decapitating him
with an axe.
A gentleman in the Bank of England
has calculated that if all the English
shillinss in circulation were piled one
upon another, the column would be
eighty.seven and quarter miles IN
length.
James Lynch, the colored preacher of
Mississippi, is to commence the publi-
cation. in that State, of a monthly
magazine, to be called The COtOred Cit
i=enS' Monthly.
Now Mexican Pretends to have
solved the problem ofperpetual motion.
He causes motion by means cf cleo
tricity, produced by the machine-the
motion, in turn generating electricity.
Weston, the pedestrian, is now pre-
pairing for his great walk of 5000 miles
in 100 consecutive days. Starting from
an extreme point in Maine he will cross
several States eastward, and bring up
finally at st. Paul, Mimi.
Governor Scott, of South Carolina,
has violated the law about distinction
on account of color, by offering $50 900
reward for the arrest of the murderer
of a negro, while the amount offered for
the slayer of white man is $3.50.
Among the curiosities at the recent
State fair in Vermont was an enormous
gray Clydesdale stallion, lately pur-
chased in Canada. He weighed nearly
two thousand three hundred pounds,
and his fore shoes weighed seven
pounds each.
Nine young men who left Rouen on
their velocipedes at seven in the morn
ing, reached Paris at nine in the even
ing. They performed the distance of
thirty.two leagues in eleven hours,
having rested three hours during the
day.
/ Whenever Northern carpet t-bagger
goes South and swindles the people un-
til he is compelled to leave, in order to
keep out of the Penitentiary, he imme-
diately turns up in the North and re-
ports himself driven away from the
South by the Ku-Klux Khan.
Rosa Bonheur has been incapacitated
from painting during the last two or
three months by very malignant felon
; on the thumb of her right hand. A