The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-31
WHEEIING W. THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 81
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Montana reports q large crop ofgrizly
The New York swells now wear seal
skin coats.
Catnip celebrations in honor of the
first born are now in order.
Spain is now struggling with that
well known financial animal, deficit 2
The snow sheds on the Central Pa
cific railroad extend twenty-five miles.
The open existence Of Free Masonry
is permitted at last in Austria. -
Throughout Canada the telegraph
rates have been reduced ene-half.
Official vote of Oregon Seymour,
II, ,l25; Grant, 10,961. Seymours major
ity, l64. ~ u" w '. =
Three sisters were lately married at
Dubuque, Iowa, on the same evening"
An economical procedure. .lUrlI
A railroad train is showed up at
Chappaquiddiddle, Me. Served it right
for going to such place.
In suit now carried ON in an Illinois
town, large dry goods case, filled with
papers, is daily brought into court.
Seven thousand dollars worth of point
lace is used to trim a W hito velvet bri-
dal dress on exhibition in New York.
Since the Prohibitory Liquor Law has
been in force in Maine, opium eating is
said to have increased to IN alarming
extent. ..... t
The appearance of beggars in the
streets of Salt Lake City is noted by a
Utah journal as an evidence of"advanc-
ing civilization"
John Morrissey is reported to have
made $250,000 by the rise in the Cen
tral, Vanderbilt having taken Morris
sey into his secret.
All the old servants of the Orleans
family are said to be hack drivers in
Paris. Among them is the coac hman
who drove the Duke of Orleans when
he was killed.
In recent French press trial one of
the lawyers urged that there should be
more calmness and gravity in French
politics, saying that in America the peo-
pie prepared themselves for an election
by several days of fasting.
1t was reported few days ago that
John Spalding, railroad conductor,
was killed at bridge on the Jefferson
Vile and Indianapolis railroad. John
has called upon the editor of the New
Albany Ledger and protests that he is not
dead.
Markham & Barnum, plow manufac-
turers, of st. Louis, gave a Christmas
dinner and ball to three hundred and
fifty persons-their employees, with their
wives and children. The little folks
URfA further made happy by a large
tovs and honhons -''""lV loaded with
A singular family shooting affair oc-
Cured last Tuesday in st. Louis, Bar
county, Indiana. A man
named William Dean, about forty years
of age, after living with Miss Mattio
Nading as his wife for some time, mar
red her younger sister Carrie. Mad
leued with jealousy, she had been heard
TO threaten his life, going so far as to
procure n revolver, and bOasting of the
use she designed for it at the first favor
able opportunity. Last Tuesday the
two sisters were conversing, and Dean,
the talk concerned himself,
slapped his former wife in the face.
She Immediately got her revolver and
shot him, the ball passing through the
leshy part of his arm, and lodging in
the right breast, but intlicting no seri
)us wound.
The Montgomery (Alabama) Malsays:
'The town was laughing, yesterday, at
The reply of General Clanton to q toast
offered to Boston, at supper given
night before last to the Boston capital
sts who have gotten possession of the
tlabama and Chattanooga railroad.
The General being called on to reply to
/. toast to Boston, said he was happy |
20 pay his respects to a city which had
ust elected a Democratic mayor, which
vas the cradle of the Ku KluX Klan, in |
having originated that first disguised |
,and which threw the tea into the har-
,or, and which was the home of John
Hancock, who, when Governor of the
State, sent his aid-de-camp to receive
President Washington, declaring that
he President was the agent of the
States, and shsuld wait upon the Gov
,rnor, and not the Governor upon the
President. We suppose the Boston cap.
talists swallowed the joke and the oys-
ers at the same time"
We presume that not less than two
lundred thousand persons are now
within sight of our city steeples who
lave no work, no real homes, and no
means which insure them livelihood.
Some of them beg or steal outright, but
, larger number exc out miserable ex
stence by running into debt for lodg-
ing, for board, or at groceries, or by
borrowing from week to week of whom
soever will lend them, or by quartering |
themselves on reluctant relatives or
friends. When ice begins to form on
he hngtnnoa Of fit and |
denly and seriously contracts, throwing
tens of thousands ont of work; and, just
at this time, tens of thousands more are
from farms or c@untry resi-
dences closed for the winter, and drift
down to our pavements in quest of that
which it is morally impos
sibie that they should find.-Ne'c York
Tribune.
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