The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-06
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ohiohas Il, 900 acres devoted to grape
culture.
Twelve hundred mechanics are about
to leave Boston for California.
Some of the ladies of Syracuse are
about 10 put on the Turkish costume.
scarlatina is making sad havoc with
the children of New York.
Under the classification heading Of
"sunbeans, the New York Sun pub
FISHES an account of female prize
fight.
Dickens had very large house in New
Bedford, including scores of Qnakers-I
q rare event ut any evening entertain
ment.
1t is quite fashionable now among
rich families in New York to have
their christening ceremonies sketched.
Forty-six persons dipped in twenty
minutes is the boast of man who Is
called the champion bnptizer"
Funeral and burial at the conve-
nience of tho family" follows an obit-
nary notice in Hartford paper.
1t is said that George Wilkes has
played in the role of mediator, and eff
fected reconciliation between Gencr-
ais Grant and Butler.
One of the enterprising "T' firms in
New York has imported a hveJapanese,
who stands in trout of the store, dressed
in grand oriental costume, and di strib-
utes cards to the crowd.
The Chicago Journal says: "Sey-
mour's speech reads as if he were adj
dressing Pendleton in the language OF
st. Paul, Il would that yuu were almost
and altogether such rs | ain, except
these bonds"
General Cochrane was so exasperated
because tbs laugh came in at the
wrong place in speech to a Republl-
can audience in Connecticut, that be
Jared M and called them "set OF
pumpkin heads" Continued laugh
ter.
"Jones," said Brown, "arn't you rath-
er extravagant, dressing mp that boy OF
yours in patent leather boots" Yes"
said Jones, "but it's all for my own con
venience, I'd rather do that than be
obliged to black them for him."
Sataniello, the Italian bandit. has a
way of treating prisoners which may
be considered effective. Thirty of his
men at once plunge poinards into the
body Of the victim, while another
"2lits him through the head and "ewa
the back with an enormous Ratchet.
The wounds frequently prove fatal
The bad effects of wotlen not having
votes are said to be at present shown by
the dismissal of some thirty-tive female
employees from the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington. This is done un-
der a retreDchmeut order, bnt is is
curious that only ona sex suffers from
the economy shown in the present dis
usissal.-Phila. Ledger.
"That is probably the oldest piece OF
furniture in England" said collector
of antique curiosities to a friend, ana
pointing to venerable looking table as
he spoke. Glow old is it :" asked the
friend. NEARLY four haudred years.
"Pshaw, that is soothing; have an
Arabic table over two thousand years |
old" 'Indeedw Yes, the multiplied
tian table.n
In divorce ca g recently instituted
In Chicago, the husband, who is plain
tit, asks tor separation on the ground
of extreme and repeated cruelty. In
mia recital of wrongs he alleges that his
better half had thrashed him while in
bed with boot, had pelIed him with
hrickbats, aud had severely beaten him
on several occasions.
A lady Washington correspondent,
referring to Anna Dickinson, says OF her
,s q lecturer: "She hurls arguments at
the head with sledge hammer blows, bat
she forgets to use woman's strongest
surest. most fatal weapon-that jewell
ed, nameless, esehauted dagger, that, II
found in the hand of the weakest
among us, never fails of reaching the
heart"
A marriage ceremony recently came
TO q rather abrupt termination in Prov
idence, in consequence of the to.be bride
puttingin stipulation that the to-be
bridegroom should thenceforth eschew /
his cigar The young man very sensi-
bly, replied that he could get along very
much more comfortably without wife
than he could without his weed. and
consequently the proposed marriage
"snded in smoke"