The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-29
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the mackerel in Massachusetts.
Colgate, whose name became familiar
to most users of soap, is dead.
More shoes were sold in Lynn, Massa'
cLusetts, last month than ever before
in the same time.
The comet known as Brorsen'S was
seen at the Vassar College Observatory
on the evening of the 10Th inst.
1t does not startle Southern man in
his morning walks to find couple OF
men hanging to the limb Of tree.
The Richmond newspapers are COM
menting with great cheerfulness upon
the prospective revival of the tobacco
trade in that city.
Mr.. II. W. Heath, of Memphis, has
patented all auger which II is claimed
will bore wells at the ratio of seventy
five or q hundred feet day.
The play bills of Ford's Theatre for
the night of the Presidents assassina-
ton are selling for ten dollars apiece
in New York.
The Appletons, publishers, New York,
have sold over five hundred thousand
volumes of their edition of Dickens
works.
Eugene discards trails, and all fe-
male Paris is cutting off The extra length
of its dresses in despair at the mutabil-
ity Of human affairs.
A little son of James Weekly, of Shel-
byville, Indiana, while playing with q
stick, a few days ago, fell down and the
stick ran through his neck, killing him.
Somebody has been trying to frighten
Senator Grimes with lot of anonymous
letters, threatening him with assassina-
ton if he shall vote against the re-
m0val of the President.
More men and animals have been
killed by lightning i'll the last two
weeks, than were ever before killed in
the same time at the same season of the
wear, since the settlement of America.
Upper wrote seven stilted stanzas on
the bones of some assumed martyrs re-
Gently dug up at Smithfeld. Subsequent
investigation disclosed the remaius to
he those Of pig.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has de-
cided that juries composed entirely of
whites, under General HancOck's order,
are illegal. This decision annals num-
Der of important convictions recently
made in the State.
The widow of n Rhode Island law
Judge has received $2O0Os from the
State in consideration of the fact that
her husband shortened his days by his
assidious devotion to his judicial du-
ties.
A Western paper cruelty says: sour
member in Congress has made great
speech-one of his very best. 1t was
written for him by graduate of this of
ice, and the matter and delivery do
credit to both parties"
An ambitious fellow in Connecticut
appeals, over his own signature: "TooI
thee michannieks and laburing men of
my native town. l will reprizent you
in the Stait assemblee irrispectif of
psllytics, relijion or eddicaShun.
MIS-. McMann, of Cleveland, in open
ing some bottles of pie fruit broke one
OF them. Her little boy, after eating q
piece of the pie, fell to the floor in con-
vulsions, he having swallowed q large
piece of glass. The recovery of the
child is doubtful.
John Massacre, of Westchester county,
was bitten by his own dog, last Febru-
airy. The dog was not thought to be
mad, and nothing was done in the mat
ter. Massacre died last Saturday in
terrible agony. His wife was also bit
ten by the dog, but hgs not yet exhibit
ed any symptoms of the malady.
SIR. Disraeli's first act of grace, as
Prime Minister of England, himself a
man of letters, was to bestow, in the
Quees's name, a pension of two hun
dred pounds year upon the widow of
Sir David Brewster, who died lately, IN
acknowledgment of his long and great
services 10 science.
A radical editor, newly imported from
Massachusetts, undertook to give the
people of Kansas City, Missouri, aprac-
tical lesson in negro equality one day
last week. He presented q negro with
q ticket to some amusement in Franks
Hall, in order to make ease for Judi
cial decision. The negro went to the
show, and was led out by Radical
constable. The officer was tried and
acquitted by Radical jury and Rad
ical justice. Radicalism out West diff
fers sentimentally from Southern scala
waggery.