The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-08
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
London has 450, 900 houses.

a statue of old Thad. In the capitol,
is talked of.
Chicago clergymen discuss spiritual
ism periodically.
The great question in France-after
Louis Napoleon-whati
An old woman in London was thrown
down and killed by child's hoop.
A Vermont editor makes delinquent
subscribers cash up by writing their
obituaries.
The capital stock of the Hudson
River railroad has been legally increased
to s2l, 100000.
The next Maine Legislature, it is an
nounced, will abolish capital punish
ment in that State.
Paris has ZOO, ,s24 cats, by exact count,
which accounts for the quantity of
"kid" gloves made there.
: A Londoner advertises for a "hau nted
house," for which he will pay good
price, II tne SuOsU lb lVely.
Reverend Henry Ward Beecher says
women make the best prayers in the
Madame Anna Bishop will shortly ar
rive in New York, and take her farewell
of the stage.
The fashionable colored people of Mil
waukee are making extensive prepara-
tiOns for grand ball.
The principal of Chicago public
school has been fined Sc for furnishing
refractory male pupil with his fist.
James Cassidy fell fourteen feet, from
the steps of an Office in Mount Vernon,
Ohio, last Thursday, and broke his
neck.
Old Bill Davis has signed articles to
be slaughtered; on the 18th of Janu-
ary next.
The new suspension bridge at Niaga-
"a Falls, it is expected, will be complet
ed early in December. 1t has single
span of 1864 feet.
Yellow Smoke, chief of 1900 Omaha
was murdered by roughs in
Dunlap, Iowa, a few days ago. Trouble
may result.
Garibaldi is said to mediate emigra-
ting to this country, so panied is he by
the reproaches of Mazzini and other re-
lutionists.
The Jews in Warsaw have q theatre
in which all the plays are founded on
Old Testament stories, and all the parts
are taken by males.
Fox-hunting has set in in Eagland,
and already one Lord and two or three
gentlemen have ridden into eternity
over fence that was few inches toe
high.
Mr.. Getz, proprietor of hotel in
died suddenly of apoplexy
Oh Thursday, while chastising, with his
cane, an old vagrant who had stolen his
overcOat.
The New York Mail says that "olive
Logan has not visited Elmira, her
birthplace, for thirty years" Which is
an ingenious way of calling Miss Logan
an old maid.
John Fry, aged twenty, was killed at
Mohecanville, Ohio, last week, by the
bursting of fy-wheel, One fragment
few through his thigh, shivering the
bone in frightful manner, and causing
death in few hours.
In Dardanelle, Arkansas, a few days
ago, the wife of a citizen of that place
shot and killed Jennie Gross, dissolute
woman, of whom her husband had be-
come desperately enamored, intiicting a
mortal wound. The fire was returned
without effect, when the husband shot
the wife, killing her instantly.
A countryman went into drug store
a few days since, anG asked to be served
with two pounds of opium. So large
quantity excited the suspicion of the
druggist, and he inquired what it was
to be used tor. The verdant replied to
stop cracks in his cart wheel. He was
advised to get some oakum.
The Emperor of Russia contemplates
building a railroad from China across
Asia to the capital of Russia, his pur-
pose being to prevent the United States,
with its railroads and steamers, from
the whole China trade.
Agents OF the Russian Emperor are now
in the United States engaged in study
ing our railway system.
The report of Treasurer Spinner
speaks of the feminine clerks employed
in his Bureau in the highest terms, and
it is understood that be will recommend
that they be placed on an equality with
male clerks of like qualifications. The
highest rate of pay of the former c lass Is
500 year, while the lowest grade OF
male clerks receive Sl2OU.
At the Working Women's Protective
Association, in New York, they are ex-
hibiting a cloak that required thirty
days to finish the embroidery on it, and
in which one hundred and eighty skeiOs
of thread were used. For that amount
of skillful labor and time only twelve
dollars were paid by a prominent Broad
way house.
An East Indian paper publishes a
matrimonial advertisement from a
young lady in England, in which she Of
fers herself to an Indian prince. The
young lady commences by stating that
she has lost her papa aud mamma, that
she is living with Wesleyan minister,
is twenty-one years of age, has some
property, and would like to marry a
king. She has seen the MaharajAh well
spoken of in the newspapers, aud would
be glad TO hear if the potentate is will
ling, and if he twill name the day"
The Wesleyan minister attaches tss-
timOnial, pronouncing her very nice,
auiable, kind, aud excellent young la
dy, who would make an excellent wife.
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