The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-14
NEWS PARAGRAPHS

NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Geo. Peabody has given away Sc, 1885,,
600. ....
Grants majority in Kansas will be
from $1,000 to 10000.
Vallandigham has withdrawn from
the Dayton Ledger.
California has nearly 100000 null
berry trees.
Scotch sha wis, worn as plaid, are q
threatened fashion for gentlemen.
"Initialed portemonnaies" are among
the latest things out.
General Mcclellan is about to take up
his permanent residence at Hoboken.
Reverdy Johnson is still eating and
drinking and making merry.
There are one hundred and nineteen
HON Gopathic physicians in the State of
Indiana. t-
Mrs. Mary Z. Tucker is going to write
life oc Brick PomerOy. 1t will be "red
hot"
A man in Coventry, Vermont, recent
ly presented n bill of thirty-six dollars
against o school district for water that
the scholars had drank from his we'll.
The notices of Anna DickinSoa's
novel are in the form of 'alf and 'alf-
about equally divided between hattery
and abuse.
The stories about cannibalism in Al
giers, that are going the rounds of the
press just now, are delightful appeti-
Zers
Johu Quincy Adams, the Democratic
candidate for Governor in Massachu
setts, ran ten thousand ahead of his
ticket at the recent election.
The Secretary of tho New England
Female Medical College recommends
that lady physicians use the abbrevia-
tion of Drss. to designate their sex.
A man at Illiers, France, nearly killed
himself by drinking eighty-fonr cups of
coffee for q wager. A cup of streng
salt and water, poured down his throat
in time, saved his life.
A justice in Buffalo recently decided
that umbrellas are property, and SEN
fenced man to the penitentiary for
thirty days for stealing one of those use
ful articles.
1t is said that on the first day Of the
next session, Congressman Kelley, of
Pennsylvania, will introduce consti-
tutional amendment, providing for uni
versal suffrage in all the States.
Judge Treat, of the United States
District Court at st. Louis, has decided
the fact that man being in the South
ern army or disfrancbised by a State
law, does not disqualify him as a juror.
Judge Mike Connolly has nearly sixty
thousand majority for Register over
Horace Greeley. Greeley intends to
take the caset o the eourts on the ground
of gross frauds and Ku Klux Klan out
RACES.
a queer case of combustion occurred
at Elk Grove, Grout county, Wisconsin.
Mr.. Shane Morgan was threshing wheat
with machine, when the wheat ignited
from the machine, and stacks, machine
and appliances were all consumed.
An advertisement in the London
Times announces the forthcoming pub
lication of a first class daily paper, in
which the special is to be the abandon
ment of the anonymous system. All
the leading articles are to bear the sig
nature of their writers.
The Secretary Of the Navy has decided
to further reduce the expenses of that
department by ordering home some of
the larger vessels from distant squad
rons, and supplying their places by
smaller class vessels.
The Spanish navy consists of six IRON
clad frigates with 1874 guns; eleven
screw steamers of Ago guns; three side
wheel steamers with II guns, and, in
all, l20 vessels, with total amount of
from one thousand to twelve hundred
guns, manned by fifteen thousand sail
orS.
A jury recently rendered a verdict
against the town of Walpolc, n. H., in
favor of Miss Ella A. Gates for S5l6S, to
compensate her for injuries sustained in
consequence of driving against post
which the authorities had permitted to
remain in the road.
1t may not be generally known that
New York horses chew tobacco, but they
sometimes do. On the ferry boats it is
net unusual to see men giving their
horses "quid," which the animals not
only chew, but swallow, and there is 4
popular idea that the stimulant is good
for their wind.
The Providence Journal says that one
of the wealthiest residents of that city,
who died last week, is understood to
have bequeathed nearly his whole for
tune to female clairvoyant, or Spirit
ualist physician, at whose residence in
the Ninth ward he died. The amount
of property involved is estimated at
from $500, 900 to 100000. The will has
been presented for probate, and steps
have already been taken for contesting
it. The deceased was bachelor, and
his legal heirs are brothers and ne
. nhews