The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-16
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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ing.
Greece is stubborn and Turkey is pre-,
pairing for war.
The smallpox is raging IT, an alarm
ing extent in California.
Hops are said to grow wild in Arizo'
ma, in great abundance.
San Francisco gets her supply Of
horses mainly from Oregon.
1t is said that Hannibal Hamlin will
succeed Senator Morrill,.
There are thirty college newspapers
published in the United States.
A young mother in Ohio recently Bit
off her child's nose in dream.
Rossini's funeral was postponed three
days, in order to rehearse the music.
Mrs. Martha Cotteral, of Cleveland
has been detected in extensive shop
lifting.
In Worcester, Mass, the Republicans
have nominated two women for school
directors.
TIE latest "women's rights" move
ment is to oppose the trial of females in
courts presided over by men.
Mr.. Alabama Semmes is lecturing on
"the wind" it is supposed, as a means
of raising the same.
George Francis Trains friends want
an office for him-a collectorship or
something else that will pay well. (
A discharged lamp lighter in San
Francisco revenged himself by putting
out the street lamps nightly. r.
Married Methodist ministers in the
Cincinnati Conference average 1925 a
year, and the bachelors S545.
An Indian dairy woman stamps her
butter with set of false teeth. This
is unique, but the butter doesn't sell
we'll.
Happy and enthusiastic parents In
Idaho publish in the papers the ,weig M
of each addition to their families. 2. -
An open winter in Kentucky is pro-,
dicted, because the woods are filled with
red headed wood -peckers, which usual
ly migrate. ID
The latest dodge in New York is, for
sharp fellows to secure seats in crowd
ed horse-cars, and then sell out for fifty
cents apiece. ]
They have "traitors" in Michigann
That is what Senator Chandler's friends
call the truly loyal who oppose his re-
election.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was
driven to exclaim recently in sermon
at Plymouth Church: "The name of
Judge stinks,"
The G. A. R. organization in Tifiin
has sold its furniture. The Cincinnati
branch is holding together to get OFF,
GERS for the rest of its leaders.
The "ten thousand heirs of Anneke
Jams" have adjourned indefinitely. They
have evidently given up the hunt for
her fortune as bad job.
A lady in Boston, a few days ago, fell
down stairs and broke her arm. The
surgeon who came to set it, fell on the
steps as he was going away, and broke
one of his ribs,
Fourier asserts that, in the progress
of the world, the ocean is to lose its
saltiness, and acquire the taste of a pc
culiarly Favored lemonade.
A Treasury clerk at Washington was
discovered, the other day, who had held
his position for year, on a forged Or
der from the President.
A publishing house is said to have in
preparation a work entitled Reverdy
Jshuson and his Times" Mr.. Johnson's
" times" are the London Times and din
ner times.
A torpedo of extraordinary power, it
is reported, has been invented by an
Englishman, Mr.. Whitehead, of Elume,
who has received 100000 from the
Austrian government for his secret.
The Boston Herald is informed that K.
Stroinski, physician, formerly of that
city, whom misfortune chased every
where he went, Iooeived recently
~, 400, coo I'm Prnssian currency from
his deceased father, the Count Won
Stroinski.
General Grants latest speech was at
Providence,AR.I l. Some one in crowd
called out, "Say just two words, Gen
eralT :" Grant replied, "No, sir" He
intends TO constantly repeat thatspeech
to office seekers during the next SIX
months.
At recent Milwaukee wedding be-
tween bridegroom of 81 and bride OF
81, the couple danced reel with great
spirit, the bride remarking that she
always wanted young husband.
The latest fancy potato story is told
of man in Hubbardstown, vermont,
who bought one eye of a "Nc. 4" potato
for $40, and raised from it this season
potatoes that he sold for $3.50, and has
three left. Eight were bought by one
man for S40O.
A Northampton, Massachusetts,, girl
recently introduced to her sister man
whom the latter had never met or
heard of before, and told her she might
as well get married now as ever, and
here was the man who would mako her
a good husband. And that same even
ing they were married.
An Episode.