The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-21
y G WHEELING w. vA SATURDAY MORNING, 2 1868.
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The Chicago Post declares for female
suffrage.
Grants majority in Indiana is about
5000.
Eastern papers call Fitzpatrick "ah'
social evil"
Two large velocipede factories art
now running in New York.
A cabbage has been grown near Jack
son, Miss, with l3 solid heads.
Bank runners in New York have theil
wallets chained to their wrists.
Marshall county, Iowa, claims te
have vein Of fmarble equal to the finest
Italian. .
In New York State Seymour received
425, ,722 votes, and Grant 4l9,556. Scy.
mour's majority, 9l63.
Edward Gowland, an Englishman, has
won the great prize of q thousand
ounces of gold in the last Corieutes lot
terry.
Dreadful naughty boy was Thad. Ste
vens. A correspondent of the Albany
4rgns intimates that he was the father
of eleven iliegitimate children.
Over one hundred thousand applicants
for Office under Grant have already ap-
piled, and 1--WE are coming, Father
Abraham, three hundred thousand
more"
In San Francisco greenbacks are said
to be as rare as Bank of England notes
are here-seldom seen, unless in the
window of brokers' shop.
The daughters of the late Chief JUS
tice Taney, it is said, earn their living
in Washington by copying reports and
papers for the Secretary of the Interior.
The tax on q gold watch worth one
hundred dellars is one dollar; the tax
on one hundred dollars worth of tea is
at least twenty five dollars. Who pays
the taxesi
They have in La Crosse blind wood
sawyer, John Hogan; blind broom
maker, Henry Henryeson; and blind
authoress, selling her life.
A Troy milkman, blind drunk, drove
a blind horse into the canal; and the
question now agitating the Troy debat-
ing society is, whether he was trying
to water his milk, his horse or his
whisky.
The sheriff whose duty it is to hang
Harris, the Auburn (Me.) murderer, on
the 4th proximo, has misteriously dis
and it is doubtful whether
the warrant can be executed.
A little boy of thirteen having placed
a penny on the railway track at Bruins
wick, Maine, to see tho locomotive
crush it, one of the train hands threw
q stick of wood at him and he was in
stantly killed.
The Louisville Democrat has changed
hands Most nf tho -a:t~-- .-..a .opOi Gers
have been discharged, and their places
illed by those formerly employed upon
the Courier and Journal.
Large iron works in Roane county,
are just going into opera
ton, under the control of General j. 7.
Wilder and w. o. lockwood. The coal
and iron are almost side by side, and
the Tennessee river is adjacent. Quite
q little town has already sprung up.
The English Duke of Cambridge is
fortunate office holder. He gets $35
day as commander-in.c chief; $50 day
as General, and So, 900 year for the
three Colonels' commissions he holds in
the British army. The Duke also has,
besides these, 100000 year income.
The comic papers in Buenos Ayres
contain caricatures of the leading per-
sonages in the Washburne affair, in
cluding our minister himself, who is
as running off with his um-
brella and carpct-bag, in state OF great
alarm.
A member of Congress who applied
for railroad pass for himself and two
children, received one for himself and
ten children. The railway official,
Judging from the number of children
that he was Methodist clergyman, in
scribcd the pass to REV. Mr.. -"
A bloody war has been inaugurated
in the Fejee Islands between the set
tiers aud natives, in which the parties
vie with each other in deeds of cruelty
and inhumanity. The natives appear
to have recovered their relish for hu-
man flesh, and several instances are
cited in which they killed and ate pris-
oners taken in battle.
The number of meteors counted at the
Observatory on the night of
the 18th and morning of the l4th inst,
by three observers, was 4G4l. Great
care was taken that the number should
not be exaggerated by counting the
same meteor several times by different
observers, so that the number visible
was probably somewhat greater than
the number counted.
The Bangor Whig tells a remarkable
story of man down at Tenants Har
Dor, who, being eat in his dory, fell
overheard, and, not being able to swim,
conceived the idea of striking the bot
tom and footing it" ashore. Accord
ingly, shutting his eyes and teeth firm
ly together, he struck out for shore, un-
til, believing he must be near land, he
opened his eyes and found himself in
the middle of corr field.