The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-19
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The hop fever has gotinto Iowa.
Hon. Robert G. Winthrop is i'll Rome.
Coal in Boston has advanced from 50
to $40 per ton. .....
Philadelphia isassessed on Sil5, 5Oo,-
600 real estate. ~
The leading Omaha hotels have raised
the rates ofday board to - per week. .
Sixty tons of poultry were shipped
from Mendoza, ILL.,, last year.
In North Carolina they are 9at ering
radishes from the gardens.
The number of drunkards in the Uni
ted States is said to he 4SO, 200 ...
Ashes and charred timber have been
found at depth of seventy feet in Kan
sas.
According to the Directory, New York
city has only eleven hundred John
Smiths.
The "Granite" State, as might be ex-
pected, is very hard to convert.
Bayard Taylor says that only one
meerschaum in ten made in Germany is
genuine.
The Roman Catholic clergy have Off
cially declared against round dances.
Stains in marble caused by oil can he
removed by applying common clay sat
urated with benzine.
Iowa has built one thousand two hum
dred and nine miles of railroad, at
cost of $40, 19l $50. -...
In church near Toledo, Ash Wednes-
day was celebrated by a wedding, a
christening, a fight and funeral.
The New York Typographical Society
owns the printing press which Franklin
used when journeyman printer.
Work on the bridge across the Ohio
at New Albany will be commenced
about the first of April.
The Housatonic Valley supplies New
York city with four hundred thousand
quarts of milk daily.
VIM. Holmes, of Moth Iowa, raised
last season over six hundred dollars
wsrth of hops on one acre of land.
The Hannibal and st. Joseph (Mo.)
Railroad Company sold 10000 acres of
land during the month of February.
There are liz lumber yards in Chi
cago. They sold 100. 900 feet more lum-
Der in 1867 than in 1862.
In afew weeks the period will expire
which Talleyraud stipulated should
elapse after his death before his me-
moirs were published. He died on the
18th of May, 1888.
The Hindoos extend their hospitali-
tally to their enemies, saying: "The
tree does rot withdraw its shade even
from the wood-cutter." -f,.
A family in Oswcgo, N. Y, consisting
of father, mother and ten children, was
recently found starving, having been
without food for four days.
There are in San Francisco from four
thousand to six thousand Chinese. The
whole number in California ranges from
forty thousand to sixty Thousand. q.
Advertising is valuable in Paris. An
agent there has just paid 100000 for
the privilege of hanging framed adver-
tisements in the Grand Hotel and the
Hotel Du Louvre for FIVE years.
The nude drama, which is raging in
France, England and America, has
burst out in Germany aud Bavaria. A
critic writes that offending parties per-
formed only in stockinet, and hardly
any of it at that. 49,.
The Lewistowu Journal says u gentle
man of that city, long troubled with
the dyspepsia, has been cured by drink
ing cold water from the AndroscoggiI
river, instead of impure WAFER from y
well. ".'
The annual business Of the thirty
five mills of Wisconsin amounts to over
ninety million feet OF lumber, and
more than one hundred and fifty mil
lion shingles, and over twenty million
lath.
The Dubuque (Iowa) Herald says:
Governor Merrill pledged Congress 1OO,-
600 men from Iowa. His home has just
responded by electing Democratic
Mayor by over eighty majority. 1t is, q
much larger gain than his majority OF
eveaty-three last fall.
Benjamin Disraeli, the new British
Premier, is not partial to reporters,
since one of them translated, by the use
of stenograpby, his remark: Gentle
men. am not one of those who scatter
ambiguous voices in the market places"
into HGoutlemen, / am not one of those
who staggsr and use big voices in the
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