The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-04
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The Saints in Utah discard stoye-pipe
hats.
Brooklyn tops have domesticatcd the
velocipede. ..-......
The now cable to connect Cuba and
Florida is on its way from London.
Reverdy johnson will probably be
nominated Minister to England.
A call has been issued for the fOrma-
ton of the Society of the Army of the
Potomac.
Baron Rothschild is said to have made
$4,000, 900 by his recent transactions on
the BOurse.
Butler is bald, and as u matter OF per-
sonal pride he wants to get Woolley
"where the hair is short"
The fair sex of New York patronize
the enterprising boot blacks, at the
street corners, and get "shined up.
Senator Yates says he has rod IN
soak for Mr.. Trumbull. When does the
old soaker propose to use 1t!
Gepsral Butler, in trying to use his
pot of lamp-black upon Senator Grimes,
begrimes himself.
The Chicago Convention very nat
nrally declared itself delighted with the
complexion of things in the South.
A man in Peoria, Illinois, last Thurs
day ate six dozen of eggs during the day
On q wager.
A carriage with India rubber wheels,
for the use of invalids, has been pro
duced in London.
One-third less cotton has been plant
ed in Georgia this year than last, but
the plants look thrifty.
Alta recent trial of the Henry repeat
ing rife at Woolwich, England, thirty
shots were fired in fOrty-tour seconds.
A lady in the city of Mexico was re-
Gently killed by catching her foot in the
crinoline of another, and falling against
the cnrb-stone.
A New York broker, Henry King, is
under arrest for misappropriating $1,000
in gold, sent from Louisville TO another
man of the same name.
George Washington, negro boy only
II years of age, was hung for arson in
Kingston, North Carolina, on Friday.
He confessed his crime.
Rev. T. b. Maury, u proseiyte from
Episcopacy to Presbs terianism, has now
gone from Presbyterianism into onter
darkness aud been extruded by the
Synod sitting at Richmond.
Senator Sumner was able to state his
opinion in the case of Andew johnson
in fifteen columns and a-half of the
Globe He is acquiring great power as
condenser.
A new kind of sleeve is threatened in
Paris, made of silvery gauze stretched
over wire, so as to meet above the
wearer's head, after the most approved
fashion of angels wings.
Before leaving Richmond General
Schofeld was called on by number of
citizens, who paid their compliments to
him npou the manner in whicA he had
managed to discharge his trust without
unnecessarily annoying the people.
Robert Watson, a negro worth SlOO-
900, died without heirs, in New York,
recently, and score of darkeys are try
ing to prove near relationship. Among
the number is one claiming 10 have
been his slave-wife.
The American bellies in Paris are be-
coming so noted for their fashionable
dressing and pronounced manners, that
some Of them have got into the French
illustrated papers. AS Artemus Ward
would say, "Sach distinction may he
eeod for those who like it,"
The persevering attempt to raise cot
ton in Ixdia from American seed has
proved o total failure. The Government
Secretary officially reports that the ex
neriment has been costly, and attended
with no advantage whatever. he re-
commends that the attempt be aban-
doueda E1
A life saving apparatus vas tested IN
New York harbor a day or two ago, by
some men who went down to the Mar
rows ia the United States steamer Henry
Smith Two men dressed in India
rubber were carefully lowered to the
water, where they tloated about
for an hour aud q half, with no
fatal results.
o. The Nashville (Tenn.) Press and gimes
says'that ii is now. "tolerably certain
that proclamation of universal amnes-
~ is in course of preparation at the
White House, and will be issued before
the meeting of the National Democratic
Convention"