The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-12
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

There are 1853 school-honses in
Ohio. - -
I A Young Woman's Christian Associa-
ton has been Termed in Cinciunati.1
Chillicoths, Ohio. boasts of two fam
lilies with forty-seven children.
The stallion Midnight has been sold
in Leavenworth for $1,000.
London averages eight persons to each
dwelling house, Paris forty.
Old Kilaukea, the Sandwich Island
volcano, throws up red hot stones to q
height of 1850 feet.
1t is stated that General George H..
Thomas voted this year for the first
time in his life.
"Baby soup" is mentioned as q COM
mon diet among the tamine-stricken
people of Algiers.
Drunkenness is greatly on the in
crease in the English army, according
to official reports.
There is a man in Southwestern Penn
sylvania whe has walked ninety years
OH a crutch.
Henry Herman, a mechanic in New
York, lost bet on the election, and
hung himself.
The Republican Presidential Electors
will be banqueted on December 10, in
Philadelphia.
An English paper advertises for sale
a pew which commands view of near
ly the whole congregation"
Iowa gave 23,626 majority fer negro
suffrage. Forty-one counties give Grant
81 ,057 majority, gain of 1895.
Carleton publishes, this week, biog-
raphy of Brick Pomeroy, prepared from
materials furnished by himself.
The engine "Philadelphia," on the
Reading road, is the largest in the
United States. 1t weighs forty-four
tons.
A man in Scotland who had been or
dered leeches for an injury, took them
boiled with his Cruel.
Brigham exhorts the Mormon youth
not to whistle and throw peanut shells
in the gallery of his theatre.
New York has Madame Rachel who
enamels the face and turns the hair yell
low, all for seven dollars.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad, it
is claimed, has 532 comotives-a lar
ger number than any other railroad
company in the country.
The first coins of any metal issued by
the United States were three hundred
tons of copper cents coined at the New
Haven mint in 1887.
| The silver mines newly discovered in
Eastern Nevada have yielded, during
the past three months, about an average
of 500, 600 per month.
Voters in Chicago were urged on
election day to be sure to deposit their
ballots so rs to show the unparalleled
growth of that city in population.
A thread company at lIolyoke, Mass,
employs three hundred hands, and man
ufactures three thousand dozon spools
of cotton per day.
They have "confidence man" under
arrest at Jetfersonville, Indiana, against
whom no less than twenty three indict-
ments are pending.
The "substantial business men" of
Laramie keep Sunday. They don't do
business on that day, but just 90 round
hunting up suspicious characters, and
hanging them TO telegraph poles.
The magistrates sf Colchester, Eng
land, recently sentenced young lady
to twenty.one days imprisonment at
hard labor, for having plucked bunch
of lavender.
L. is a singular fact that no President
of the United States, up to the present
time, has had child born in the White
House. 1t is understood that the fact
will not exist long after the 4th Of
March next.
General Sheridan, it is said, reports
that he has seen a herd of buffaloes
ninety miles in length and twenty. FIVE
miles in width, and estimates TIE num-
Der it contained at 100000
Brigham Young is issuing currency
in Utah generally resembling the na-
tonal grcenback. There is said to be a
good deal of it in circulation, aud the
Mormon President finds his banking
operations very profitable.
Recently two young men were play
ing ball in San Francisco, when one of
them struck at the ball and instantly
fell forward and expired, without say
ing word. Disease of the heart was
the occasion of his death.
In Middletown, Vermont, is single
tomato plant, ten feet high aud eight
feet in breadth, which had upon it one
bushel of fruit, some of them weighin Q
q pound each, and all of them of large
size. They are called the perfect to-
mato," are thick meated, have very few
seeds, and grow very large.
e Four hundred and seventeen male and
twelve female convicts in the Indiana
: PeniteHtiary have made that institu,
. tion self-supporting during the past
year, and added little to its treasury
, The State appropriation of Sl2, 500 ha:
, not been touched.
E Salnave, of Hayti, is not a full-blood
ed negro; he is mulatto, bat he is a.
ferosious and barbarous as the King o.
+ Dahomey. He recently caused the bonn
a bardment of a tswn called Jeremie, ant
;. the principal victims of the onslaught
were women and children.
: The last feature of New York fash
;, ionable wedding is for the organist Il
: play low accompaniment to the wordl
: which the minister utters in performin!
b the ceremony. A correspondent of tn
c Home Journal attended wedding las
q week, and noticed that the groom neg
lected to kiss his bride at the coHclu