The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-15
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A man in Lexington, KY, has just
married his twelfth wife. Horrible!
The Catholics are about to establish
another orphan asylum in Troy.
Philadelphia talks of having a Ma
sonic Hall which will cost a million
and half of dollars.
Albany is to have a new bank with a
capital Of S5OO,O00. Also several faro
banks--capital unlimited.
August Belmont is reported to have
paid over s4O0, 900 for the works Sof art
in his private gallery. e saH
Lotteries are springing mp in Louis-
VILE like mushrooms, and they all seem
to be well patronized. tst... -.- a..
Boston is endeavoring to have large
picture gallery,-but the prospects of
the enterprise are not fattering, -
The editor of the New Orleans Cres-
cent was presented with basket of
strawberries, grown in the open air, on
New Years day.
The New York Mail says: General
Sheridan is paying attentions to young
lady of Albany, who lives, the Mail
thinks, at the Executive Mansion. ISL.
The custom of making New Years
calls has begun to find favor in Boston,
a number of fashionable women there
receiving calls on the 1st.
Ten thousand dollars is the price
which some daring young man can OBJ
tain for marrying the beautiful daugh-
ter of u Gipsy Chief at Neensh, Wis
The New York Police are picking up
abandoned infants in the streets by the
two and three a night, since the cold
weather commenced. n
Dickens presented Harper & Brothers
with 100 complimentary tickets. They
were the first ones to publish his books
in this country. n.
The negroes in South Carolina have
got to stealing loaded wagons on the
road, sppropriating contents, wagons
and mules to their own use.
A st. Catharine's paper says: "The
week of prayer commenced yesterday
ih Buffalo. 1t was much wanted. A
year would do that city no HARM"
The Charleston Mercury calls atten-
tion to the fact that there are vast tracts
of original forest, containing the best
quality of ship lumber, left in South
Carolina, and advises the citizens to go
into the lumber trade.
The beer drinkers of New York are in
great state of excitement in consequence
of the threatening prospect ola material
rise in the price of their favorite bever-
age. The manufacturers seriously con-
template enlarging their charges.
A family living in Houston county,
MIMI, have had curious experience.
"At about ten O'Clock on the evening of
December 10 the house began to tremble,
from some inexplicable cause. until the
clock was made to strike, and other ar
ticles of furniture were displaced. This
singular manifestation was kept mp for
FIVE nights in succession, and was wit.
messed by number of people. The
house in question is a large frame
building; and stands on n solid founda-
tion."
Kant carried his demands of uncondi
tional veracity to such length as to
affirm that if a man were to see an in
nocent person escape from murderer,
it would be his duty, on being question
ed by the murderer, to tell the truth
and to point out the the retreat of the
innocent person, uEder any certainty of
causing murder. Lest this doctrine
should be supposed to have escaped him
in any heat of dispute, on being taxed
with it by celebrated French writer,
he solemnly reaffirmed it, with his rea-
sons.
In Albany, little girl named Mary
Boardman, aged FIVE years, daughter of
Lewis Boardnan, while left alone few
moments in room with younger sis
ter, on Monday evening, was burned to
death in consequence of her clothes
taking fire from stove. Her screams
were heard by another family living in
the same house, but before assistance
could reach her she was SO badly burn
ed that she expired in few moments.
Her mother, who had few moments
before gone to neighooring store, was
Mortified to find the child dead upon her
return.