The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-29
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


Malignant scarlet fever prevails in New
Haven.
New York is to have q ladies' museum
of anatomy.
The salary of the Governor of Illinois
is but $500 year.
Car Alexander is having locomo-
i tive made to run on ice.
The Home Journal says that Fitz
Green Halleck died Roman Catholic.
Dog shows are popular in England,
where they form adjuucts to agricultur-
al fairs.
The English cruiser Nymph has cap
tnred eight slavers off the coast of Afri-
ca during the past season.
A pumpkin pie, nine feet in diameter,
was exhibited at recent fair in Ports
mouth, New Hampshire.
1t is calculated that ex- Queen Isabel
las Confessor, who received S6500 a
year, only obtained eleven cents for
eacn SIN aDSolVeu.
A countryman was recently swindled
in Cleveland by bogus check drawn
on bank in Titusville, Ohio, by Enock
Arden.
A young man named Charles Karns
bled to death at New Philadelphia,
Ohio, from having several teeth drawn.
Burglars are operating in Evansville
on grand scale. The Journal says the
town is full of dead beats, pimps and
scalawags generally.
Fifty-five per cent. of all the cotton
imported into Great Britain during the
first nine months of this year came from
the United States.
There is said to be but one hammer
in the world which weighs as much as
sixty tons, and that is in Krupp's steel
works, at Essen, Prussia.
A gay young fellow in New York
playfully took a pair of diamond ear
rings from the ears of nice young girl
whom he had just escorted home from
the opera, and carried them off in his
pockets. They were found at the pawn
brokers'.
About the Umbagog waters there have
been taken this fall one hundred minks,
fifty foxes, seven hundred muskrats,
forty sables aud various other furs, such
as fisher, lynx, bear and otter about
one Thousand dollars wort b in the last
six weeks.
The Albany Argus says that the Re-
nos and their fellow-victims belonged
to a gang that robbed express compa-
MES without being directors. If they
had been directors, theirs would have
been capital opportunity as it was,
it became capital offence.
The estimated cost of conveying ton
of merchandise mile on the ocean is
from half cent to one and ahalf cents;
- 49, l"tns two oants: on the rivers
two and three-fourth cents; on the ca
nails from two to five cents; and on rail
roads from three to three and half
cents.
Fifty thousand people in New York
wear wigs, and seven thousand wigs
and scratches" are sold every year.
Five hundred merchants in human hair
have all they can do with the city and
country trade, which amounts to near
ly 81, 200, 900 for New York and S6OO,OOO
for the country.
The Chicago Post, Radical sheet,
became so tired of seeing only Briga-
dier and Major Generals during the late
army reunion in that city, that it ad-
vertised for private soldier of the
Army of the Cumberland, Tennessee,
Ohio, or Georgia. 1t wanted to see how
one of those who did the fighting for
thirteen dollars month looked.
A few days ago newly married cou-
pie took passage on steamer at Mo-
bile for Tuscaloosa. During the trip the
wife fell overheard and was lost. Upon
T, arrival of the boat at Tuscaloosa
the friends of the couple rushed aboard
to congratulate them, little dreaming
of the melancholy catastrophe that had
occurred. The scene that followed Is
indescribable..;
Alfred Ingals, wealthy proprietor of
patent "seeder," of Dubuque, Iowa,
very nearly lost his life at the hands of
eyraged Missouri farmers, last month.
He sold $4,000 worth in one county,
and had taken notes for the money.
While he was negotiating these notes
report reached the farmers that gigan-
tic frauds had been perpetrated on the
Illinois farmers by the sale OF bogus
"seed Sewers" Indignation turned
against Mr.. Ingals, though his machine
is really a good one, and the farmers
prepared to hang him to the nearest
tree. Law officers rescued him, ana ne
was finally thrown intojail under ball
of $4,000.
A Western paper contains the follow
inc advertisement: "Wants situa-
ton, a practical printer, who is COM
Detent TO Idho Sudt 80 Va eHs
ment in a printing and publishing
house. Would accept q professorshlp
in any of the academies. Has no o1Jeo.
tion to teach ornamental painting and
penmanship, geometry, trigonometry,
and many other sciences. Is particu-
larly suited to act as pastor to small
evangelical church, or as local preach
er He would have no objection to form
a small but select class of young ladles,
ts instruct them in the higher branches.
To a dentist or chiropodist he would be
invaluable, as he can do almost any
thing. Would cheerfully accept posi-
ton as bass or tenor singer in choir.
Would board with family decidedly
pious. For further particulars inquire
at Browns Saloon"
Andrew T. Andrews, on the 18th OF
October, 1866, married worthy young
woman of Painesville, Ohio, named
Mary E. Foot. For over year he has
been living with his wife and CHILD anu
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