The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-14
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cOSU Si00,ooS. a
The Montgomery Mail reports the Al
ALBANIA crops doing well.
New York's new postoffice is to cOyer
two acres of ground.
Edwin Forrest has been an actor for
just half q century.
The income of Louis Napoleon is Sl4,-
24O per day. Francis Joseph has slO,95O
per day.
A man living in Pittsfeld, Mass, says
lie has lost $50, 900 at faro within fifteen
years.
An alarming report is abroad that the
chignou is no longer in style, being dis
placed by curls. sa
There is legless beggar living in
Jacksonville, Indiana, who is reported
to be worth 10000.
1t is estimated that the machinery OF
Great Britain does the work of four
hundred million men.
Charleston, S. c., has L curiosity in
the animal kingdom in the shape OF a
cross between rat and o squirrel. f
The clergymen of Pittsburgh intend
to call national convention OF Chris
tians opposed to secret societies, i'll that
city, to be held i'll May.
A medallion carpet, from the Paris
Exposition, is to be put down on the
parlor of lady residing on Fifth Ave-
Due, New York, who paid Sll 200 for 1t.
4 surprise party recently took place
at Albany, Me. The next morning
thirty or forty of the party were sur
prised to find themselves "broken out"
with the measles.
Accounts from Texas indicate that
there is better feeling between the
freedmen and planters than at any time
since the conclusion of the war.
Maine is running race on divorces
with other States. Last month twenty
Ave in Knox county and fourteen il
| Oxford were recorded, and twenty-five
libels are entered in Somerset county.
4 recent New Orleans suicide left the
following written explanation: 81 have
seen enough of this world, and am Gu
riOus to know what there is in the
other one"
The New York papers get some "fat
takes" for advertising from the New
York City Government. The Tribune
has just been paid bills amounting to
$4,000, the Times $4,000, and the Her.
aid S23,0 600.
1t is proposed to establish II printing
ellice in Sing Sing prison, to teach a
part of the convicts the printers trade.
The New York city printers have met
and protested against this action as
desecrating the art.
A Philadelphan who had married
Quaker city beauty, Thursday evening,
was called from the festive scene to the
door by an unsuccessful rival who
brought a pair of pistols and invited
him out to settle it, but he declined the
pleasure.
The report that General Grant had is
sued an order to military commanders
in Southern States, directing them to
suppress the organization known as the
| KukluX kIan, is without foundation, as
no action upon that subject has been
taken, thus far, by Grant.
About twenty of the cOnvicts of the
Nashville penitentiary, recently par
doned by BrOwnlow, have taken pos
session OF an old building in the sub
urbs ofthat city, and are committing all
sorts of depredatiOns, from rObbing hen
roOsts 10 attempting to ravish te-
males.
A young Frenchman has been con-
demncd to death for stabbing n widow
in thirty nine places aud throwing her
body downa well. She crawlcd up the
chain and appeared to testify against
him; the jury, very singularly, finding
30 "eXteuuatiDg circumstances"
To protect his face from the whisking
of his cows tails, while milking, Her.
kimer county, New York, dairyman
stretched stout wire across the stable,
| immediately back of the cows. lu the
brush of each cows tail he fastened a
small iron ring. A hook upon the wire
secures the offensive member out of the
way of the mixer.
At Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday, Mr..
Thomas J. Hellbigle, who had lost a
WAGER on the election of Mayor, with
John NJ. Shoup, trundled his successful
adversary through the streets i'll q
wheel. barrow, attended by large
crowd. Music on the fife and drum,
and the firing of cannon, did honor to
the ceremony.
The young ladies of Sullivan, Ind,
certainly believe in leap year. May
heaven help the young men of that
place-a wish which will he echoed by
every feeling man when he reads the
following paragraph: "a foot race be-
tween two Young ladies of Sullivan
may be looked for to-day at II o'clock,
on the open space this side of the depot,
4 W uCCfuO WIN o"p ~ N'N'~ N''@'S
upon young man.
There IS a stage driver in Pike conn
ty, Pennsylvania, named David Staruer,
who has driven stage for the last forty
years, averaging thirty miles per day.
Deducting the Sundays from forty years,
leaves 1880 working days, which, at
thirty miles day, makes total Of
375, GOO, equivalent to fifteen times the
distance around the world. aud six hun
dred miles over. He is new sixty years
of age.
On Tuesday last, at De Kalb, Illinois,
while the wife and daughter of Rev.
Mr.. Locke, of Dixon, and Mrs. Hubbell,
with whom the ladies were visiting,
were examining a small sized revolver,
at unexpectedly exploded, the ball peHe-
! trating the body of little son of Mrs.
Locke, aged three or four years, infict-
ing wound which resultedin his death
in about twelve hours. The mother of