The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-11
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Springfield tolls the city BELLS when a

OPP III SHSiu bOiio 'hO ivy ONiio " HN"
child is lost.
Quails are unusually scarce in the
New York markets this season.
An Italian has written a novel on the
loves of Queen Isabella.
The prevailing disease at Montgom-
cry, Ala, is negro highwaymen.
Thereport that Andy proposes to veto
the election of Grant lacks confirma-
tiOn.
The prosecutions of President John
son are not yet ended. Miss Ann $.
Stephens is writing his life.
A young man out west ate cooked
rat on an election bet. 1t tasted like
young squirrel.
Drunkenness is greatly oil the in.
crease in the English army, according
to official reports.
The new Spanish government is hav-
ing Isabella's effigy punched out of the
postage stamps.
1t is fashionable now to have ones
breath smell of onions, for the Empress
eats garlic.
Tho number ot lives lost during the
late riot in New Orleans was sixteen
six white and ten colored.
An English rector was caught using
gravestOnes fora new and much admired
sidewalk in front of his residence.
A st. Petersburg paper announces that
there are no fewer than one thou.
sand ladies in that city engaged in the
remunerative art of fortune-telling.
MIS-. Partington (P. B. Shillaber) was
a Democratic candidate for the Massa-
setts Legislature in the recent election,
and was defeated.
All the public officials Of Rockland, 4,
Maine, are running away. The city
marshal, city clerk, city physician and
one of the assessors are all missing.
The Chicago Ministerial Union has
resolved that the theatres are "fear-
ful and growing evil" and one Rev Mr..
Smith denounced them as ian abOmin-
able stencil in the eyes of moral folks.
Whelau, convicted of the murder Of
Darcy McGce, in Canada, still denies
his guilt, but hints that he knows some
thing about the murder, by saying that
it wonld be disgraceful TO turn traitor.
1t is cool in the New York Times to
declare that if the rejection of the cleo
toral votes of Louisiana and Georgia
was necessary to secure Grants election,
the Senate would reject them.
On the first night Of the arrival OF
Mr.. White, U. S. Consul at Matamoras,
he was robbed Of his trunk, watch and
all his clothing, even to his boots, chain
and spectacles. Mr.. White expected
they would come after the body the
next night.
The Mayor of Macon, Georgia, lately
caught a negro thief, at midnight, rob
bing his gard:n. The Mayor shot at
him and brought him to halt. Moth
ing dauuted, the negro Indignantly ex-
claimed that the thine was coming
when the people would 90 where they
pleased without being halted"
Eleven old sinners of Berlin, Prussia,
have been arrested on the charge of
having seduced and violated thirty or
forty little girls. between eight and
! fourteen years of age. One OF the su.
perintendents of the poor house is
among the villains.
In the cause of medical science DR.
Lespiand inoculated himself with virns
from the tubercles of consumptiye
lung, aud DR.. Decroix ate raw outlets
from a sheep that died Of hydrophobia
Nothing happened to the former, bat
! DR.. Decroix had lively time.
Madame TrianoD, Who was bitten by
mad dog which she Immediately
clasped and held until it was killed
thus preventing its biting others in th'
crowd which surrounded her, is cured o
the bite, and has been presented with a
gold medal by the French Govern
ment.
A little girl, aged five years daugh
ter Of Andrew Jackson, was burned t.
death in the town ofLeroy, Dodge coun
ty, Wisconsin, last week. Her parent
were absent from the house about tw
hours, and when the mother returne'
she found the crisPed and charred re
mains Of her little girl in the garden
II is supposed that her clothes took tir
J from the stove, from whence she ran
where her body was fonnd.