The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-25
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Missouri voted against negro suffrage
by 23,435 majority. ia
The use of grape-shot has been abol-
ished in the British army.
The "Gentiles" at Salt Lake city, on
election day, voted 50 for Grant and II
for Seymour.
Bull Run Russell didn't "run for Par
lament as well as lie did for Washing
ton.
Omaha has a street railway, and is as
proud as if it were the first one laid
down in America.
Russia is getting a large amount OF
.breect- loading arms manufactured In
the United States.
The census of 1870, it is said, will
show the population of the United
States to be 100000.
The smallpox is prevailing in Mil
waukee to such an extent that the
schools have been closed.
The women of Alton, n. H., gutted
liquor shop in that place last Wednes-
day and emptied the fluids into the
streets.
As10,OO0 diamond necklace appeared
among the bridal presents at New
York wedding on Thursday.
Thirty i've candidates are out for
common council in single ward in
Boston. Four are to be chosen.
Robert Bonner says his New York
Ledger is to be the "official organ" of
President Grants administration.
thoughtful people are already begin
ming to buy their holiday presents, and
have the first choice Of the goods.
Brigham Young objects to Mormens
becoming engineers On the Pacific rail-
way, because the accidents may make
too many widows. 81.
A great number of Jesuits, lately e1-
lied from Spain, have taken up their
abode in Brussels and Prague, where
their order owns large establishments.
An egg dealer in Worthington, Ohio,
sells his hen-fruit according to the size.
He has board with three holes in it,
by which he grades the eggs.
A married lady in st. Louis is pre-
pairing a formal application for the
office of postmaster-or postmistress of
the city. A petition in her favor is re-
ceiving many signatures,
Wendell Phillips is out in an article
in the Anti-Sldrery Standard demanding
suffrage, without regard to
sex, race or color, and the reduction OF
the interest on the debt.
An internal water tumor, it was
found, had formed on the breast of Mrs.
Seeley, who died at Troy, New York,
last Saturday, weighing one hundred
and twenty pounds. 1t had to be re-
moved before the deceased could be
buried.
A gay widow of HOboken was sur
prised the other evening, in the act OF
a private marriage, by a
number of friends who arrived for the
purpose of inficting surprise party"
The Vermont Legislature has passed
a bill delivering the bodies of executed
criminals to medical schools, one argu-
ment for its passage being that the
prospect of dissection would deter
from the commission of crime.
George Warren apparently died of
typhoid fever in Meadville, Pennsylva'
MIA, last week, and all the preparations
were made for his funeral. After lying
in a trance for forty-eight hours he re
turned to consciousness, and Is now In
a hopeful way.
Some ten miles north of Salt Lake
City is boiling sulphur spring. 1t
gushes out in great volume at the foot
of a limestone rock, from an aperture as
large as a hogshead and stream that
would fill a tube a foot square. The
water is very strong. 1t is boiling hot,
and strolling MormOns often cook eggs
in IL