The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-16
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La SEOSScy "ASNO''"' 1880
ton OF $3.50.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, is to build SlOO,O
worth of new churches this year.
A rainbow was seen just before sun
rise III New Haven u few mornings since
John C. Breckenridge's son writes
that his father expects to be in Quebec
by the middle of June.
Nathaniel Weaver, of Newark, Ohio,
bile out hunting, Saturday, accident
ally shot himself and died almost in
stantly.
Coburn and McCoole cleared SeGoo
spiece from railroad tickers. They char
tered the train in partnership.
Hudson now claims TO possess more
handsome girls in proportion to popula-
ton than any other city in the Union
Four persons were killed at Water
ford, Canada, on Monday, by the exPlc-
sion of boiler in steam saw mill.
Hoboken sells lager on Sunday, and
thereby extracts $4,000 a week in nve
cent bits from New York pockets.
The Worlds Personal says: Hiram
Ulysses Grants public admission that
he has no policy is an acBuowledg-
ment that his election is not insured"
Captain Gates, of Mystic Bridge, Ct,
died of poison, this week, administered
BY a mistake in doctors prescription.
George Wilkes, stakeholder in the
McDevitt-F Foster championship billiard
match, has decided that McDevitt is en-
titled to the stakes and cue.
A man named Kit was totally blind
ed Mt Milwaukee on Wednesday, by
falling with pail of whitewash, which
splasbod into his eyes.
Miss Josephine Lapham, a graduate
of Antioch College, Ohio, has just APP
peared at Dayton az a Unlversallst
preacher and created a sensation.
The editor OF the Wellsville (OhiO)
Union Says he knows OF five meu in
that place who sent seven dollars each
to New York swindiing concern, TO
secure "prizes," of the drawing of which
they had received notice.
Miss Kate Randolph remarks that
''even the calm and well-balanccd mind
recoils ut the dreadful thought of the
immense number of single ladies who
are to ad0rn the present century IN the
old Bay State"
A learned looking gentleman who
wears spectacles, and who was elected
as Judge at the recent election draws
soup regularly every day at the City
Soup House in Montgomery, Alabama.
Pawtucket, r. l., has been enjoying
the spectacle of Il steamboat forty-seveu
feet long ard eighteen feet wide, pass
ing through the streets on wheels,
drawn by five yoke of oxen and ten
horses.
4 little son Of Mr.. Wilson, brick
maker, near Maumee City, o., put his
head into a brick mac bine, on Friday,
TO see how it was made, and the ma
chine, starting up, cut off his head close
by the ears.
A thunder storm came over Shelby,
Ohio, Friday, which so darkened the
sky that tie trains were stopped, it be-
ing considered unsafe 10 run them while
the gloom remained. Several houses
were destroyed,
In Monticello, FLORIDA, ON Friday
week, a soldier got drunk at negro
hanging, and shot Sheriff Jordon
through the arm, the same ball passing
through tie breast of Miss Lizzie Will
llaIDs, causing very dangerous wound.
Carl Schurz, temporary chairman of
the Radical Convention, once in a
speech at st. Louis, alluded to the Al
mighty as "the ideal gentleman beyond
the skies, called by some people God. :"
A fine leader for the party claiming to
work in the cause of God and human
ity."
A note worthy incident of the visit
of the Chinese Embassy to Washington
was the hosting of the flag of the En-
pire of China at half-mast IN honor of
the memory of ex-President Buchanan.
1t was the first Chinese Embassy flag
ever raised in this country.
Caroline c. Grant has won, in the
Boston courts, yerdics Of $1,000 dam
ages against Jonas NJ. Wiley, Cd, for a
breach of promise to marry the de-
feudant having pleaded the expensive
ness of married life, aud incompatible
ty OF temper, IS reasons for breaking off
the engagement.
Mr.. Dudley B, Davis, ofSalem, Mass,
who has saved eighty persons from
dro WING at different times, received
last week some slight tokens of recog-
aiyion for his noble efforts. The Humane
Society of Massachusetts, have sent him
rich, massive silver medal, bearing o
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