The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-13
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

< Fifty-fve business houses in Chicago
have just failed.
3 Cherokee county, Texas, makes 50O(
2 bales of cotton this year.
, Toronto is to have a fifty thoussnt
r dollar opera house.
Grants majority in Wisconsin will b'
about 81 900.
The health of OK President Pierce con
times very poor.
vicksbarg failed to pay her gas bill
and ia left in darkness.
Shooting buffaloes from car window.
. is favorite sport onthe Union Pacific
The hair of copper worker in Baffa
10 has turned sea green. .r
A brigade of infantry win leave Spain
, for Havana on the 18th inst.
Cuba, with 1,5OO, 900 inhabitants, ID
taxed S33, ,O00, 900 annually.
A tory candidate for Parliament sent
, his portrait to every electer in the Dor.
, ough. -,
In Wisconsin an Indian shot another,
was formally tried by an Indian jury,
and is to be hanged.
Canada has young lady of twenty
three, who is seven feet seven inches
tall, and weighs $40 pounds. 4.
Tweaty-seven beautiful white swans
were seen on Lake Monona, near Madi-
son, Wis.,, recently. Il.
August Belmont's picture gallery is
valued at $500, 900, and is one of the
best collections in this country.
All the troops sent to reinforce Gen
eral Rousseau during the excitement
previous to election, have been returned
to their commands.
Henry A. Wise did not vote, because
lie would not, he said, "touch either
one of their damned parties with ten
foot pole"
The Queen of Portugal, Victor Eman-
ueps daughter, is crazy, and occupies a
padded room to prevent her from
breaking her royal head.
A Providence Democrat wheeled q
barrel of apples from that city to Boston
in payment of an election wager, reach
ing Boston Saturday.
The fashion of invited guests kissing
the bride and bridesmaids at fashiona-
BILE weddings has been reintroduced,
says New York paper.
The Baptists, it is said, have added
over Ga, 600, by baptism, to their COM
munion during the present year. They
now number in this country over l,l0O,-
900. -r.
In Austria they have fenced in 10000
acres where ostrich are kept, and it is
found that the feathers of full grown
bird will sell for SlOO a year.
The Indians are harrassing the trains
on the Union Pacific Railroad, between
North Platte and Cheyenne. A freight
train bound west was thrown from the
track by distractions, last week, and
the fireman killed.
Miss Anthony proposes to &c into the
paper hanging business. She calls upon
her female coadjutors to help her paper
Washington all over with petitions for
impartial suffrage"
There is volunteer company in New
York numbering seventy men, none of
length. The captain, named Vieten-
heimer, cultivates an ornament of that
kind which extends to his knees.
A young man named Grimes, living
at Bryantville, Missouri, became jeal-
Gus of his sweetheart, invited her to
walk one evening last week, and during
the stroll shot her dead. He has es-
capped. His victim taught school in
the village.
1t is said that General Sheridan has
perfected his plans and is prepared for
q six months campaign against the
savages, which will end forever the
Indian wars upon the plains, if he is let
alone.
The most recent style Of thievery in
Milan is invented by vagabonds, who
invite young milliners and seamstresses
to the balls champetres, drug them with
wine con tanning opium, and then de-
spoil them of their hair.
A Providence negro found no diff
Guilty in devouring the contents of the
dinner-p pals and baskets of four fellow
workmen, the other day. He is in Jail
but will probably be released, as the
city cannot afford to keep him,
On the morning after the election,
the Philadelphia Ledger had no editorial
reference to the great event Of the day
before, but had instead, what the Bul-
letln calls a very exciting and revolu-
tionary article on calico printing"
The new railroad bridge spanning the
Mississippi river at Quincy, Illinois, was
finished last week. The bridge is $3.50
feet long and built of iron. 1t has two
draws, each l60 feet long. The cost of
} the structure was 81 500 900.
The Board of Education, in New York
city, has made An estimate of the ex-
penditures for school purposes in 1864,
which amount to So. 3.l5O,OO0, The Leg
islature had, however, authorized fund
Of s3,I5, sos to be raised, and the over
plus of Se25, ,S9S is to be expended in in.
creasing the salaries of the teachers and
, in erecting normal school.
n Two weeks ago Mr.. Edwin Forrest
paid. through Jay Cooke, at Philadel-
phia, S65, 900, the amount in full of the
) accumulated alimony due to his late
wife under the decision in the divorce
) decree, which has at last been made final