The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-23
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New Haven has produced a chicken
with -four legs.
D1sraeli is said by the Jetcish .HeSsen-
ger to be an Unitarian.
Trichiuoscopes are sold in Paris-a
pocket lens 20 spy ont horrible things
in pork as it comes on the table.
John Watson, late carpot-bagger of
Virginia, has fallen from his high es-
tate, and weltered in Richmond police
court. sag,.
Samson's claims asa public perform
er are based upon the fact that in his
last appearance before the Philistines
he brought down the house. ."-Jlortd.
Al incorrigble person who goes to
Niblo's says he has become q-white
fawn.d of the great spectacle.-Bu1a'o
Commercial.
Baron Holstein says he does not think
lie was killed in duel near Brussels,
recently. If he was it was without his
knowledge.
Heller is in London with new trick
which he calls the 'girl of the period"
He throws young woman of that sort,
aged sixteen, out of hat.
A well known Wall street firm has a
regular lady customer who daily spec
ulates through them to the amount of
fifty or q hundred thousand dollars. A .
General Frank P. Blair is entered by
his friends in Washington for the Pres
idential race against Pendleton and.
Hancock, and it is said they are secur-.
ing support for him in all quarters.
The Emperor of Russia has pet dog
more favored than the Empress. The
dog followed his master into the Im-
perial Council Chamber, which is strict
ly forbidden to the Empress.
General Mcclellan is credited with
purpose to return to this country in
September, and actively advocate the
election of the Democratic candidate
for President, whoever he may be.
An English gentleman named Anque-
til Gray had occasion for certificate
of his baptism. For some time the reg
lister ofthe church was searched in vain.
At length, however, they found him en-
tered as Ann Kettle Gray.
In New York city there is but one
Turk engaged in commercial pursuits,
and he is druggist named Eugene Du
tills, who has an income of $22, 1000,
which would hardly su6ice for any
very large number of wives in this coun
try. ...... ..... 80.
A sleek specimen of the carpet-bag
persuasion has been in Chester, S. c.
persuading the credulous freedmen that
he is the Government agent authorized
to distribute corn, bacon, &c. He took
down the names and the amount of the
several articles each one desired; then
| collected the freight in advance.
Mr.. and Miss Spotted Tail, of the most
aristocratic aboriginal circles, are board
ing at one Of the palatial hotels of
Cheyenne, and a communicative waiter
/ of the establishment informs the editor
of local paper that recently they de-
molished sixteen plates of soup between
them at dinner. &
The st. Paul (Minn.) Dispatch, an ad-
mirer ofRepresentative Donnelly, prints
his most vulgar speech in full, from the
carefully pruned and amended copy of
the Congressional Gtobs, and calls it a
triumphant yindication of his private
and public character It must be q
pretty hard character that can stand
such a vindieation. ' .e o.,
The New York correspondent of the
Louisville Democrat asserts that NADIA
line Smith, who murdered her lover by
poisoning, in Scotland, several years
ago, is actually residing in Lexington
avenue, net far from Thirty sixth street,
is married and has n family of several
children BY husband who is known as
q thrifty and much respected mercant
of Maiden Lane. 1t is not certain that
even he knows the terrible story with
which his wife's name is irdelibly asso-
ciated.