The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-14
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

A New York bootblack has $4,000 il
the savings bank.
Philadelphia has been having Spanish
evangelization meetings.
Boston is to be no longer Boston-it'
streets are to be Strengthened.
Indiana papers are talking about the
necessity for new State House.
1t is said that nobody but pawnbro
kers now do a profitable business il
Paris.
The first house in San Francisco was
built just % years ago.
Thirty-seven cents in coin, is the
price of a shave on California line OF
steamers.
The first electric light ever used in
Italy is to shine from the light house OF
Brindin.
The Siamese twins sailed on Saturday
on the steamer Iowa for Glasgow, and
thence to Paris.
A Providence, r. l., dancing master
has seduced three girls, between the
ages of fourteen and seventeen.
Manuscript sermons at fifty cents
apiece, suitable for any denomination,
are advertised in Boston.
Humpty Dumpty had reached its
three hundredth performance at the
Olympic, New York, on Tuesday night.
A fatal cattle disease is raging in
Polk county, Iowa. No effectual reme-
day has yet been found for 1t.
Victoria has recovered from her grief
sufficiently to use a monogram on her
note paper, done in silver and black.
The real estate of Philadelphia is
valued for 1869 at S464, ,156, ,429, an in
crease of eight and one half millions
over the valuation for 1868.
A young man in Ellsworth, MaAoning
county, Ohio, named Broadsword, in
digging around an old house, unesrthed
an iron kettle containing about $500 in
silver coin.
In Baldwin county, Alabama, several
marriages are null and void, having
been performed by disqualified JUS
tice. A genuine magistrate is actively
engaged in the work of reconstruction.
A Mormon saint expects to conduct
fifty converts to Observation-Disclosures,
from Bethel, Oxford county, Maine. His
fourth wife is "young thing" of nine
teen, and he lank, loose-jointed fellow
of fifty.
Chicago has about ten miles Of river
dockage, and seven miles are being ad-
ded on the lake front. 1t claims also to
have laid more water-pipe than New
York and Brooklyn combined dnrins
tho last tan years
A Wisconsin paper thinks farmers are
in no danger of suffering when they can
get thirty-fve cents for butter, twenty
eight cents for eggs, and six to seven
dollars for wood; even if they do get
less than dollar for their wheat.
Erie county, Ohio, is again infested
with wolves, and many sheep are killed
by them. Sixty mighty hunters had a
chase after the quadruped carpet bag
gers the other day, saw seven, shot at
one and missed him.
Mrs. Grant has her troubles as well as
the General. She is run down by peO-
pie who want donations, and by ser
wants anxious for situation. III the
White House.
A red-hot gospeller in New Haven tore
cut the tresses of bar-maid because
she refused to listen to his exposition
of the doctrine Of future punishment, or
to give him more liquor.
Commodore Meade, who had been in
an asylum as insane, was produced in
court in New York yesterday afternoon,
upon a writ of habeas corpus, when DR..
Halstead, who was appointed to exam
inc his condition, testified that he was
perfectly sane.
Colonel George W. McCook, Hon. r.
P. Ranney, General Durbin Ward, Hon.
H. J. Jewctt, Colenel George w. Many
penny and Hon. Chiffon 4. White have
been named in connection with the
Democratic nomination for Governor of
Ohio.
The yarmouth college boys invent
original derivatons of words; as, for
instance, the word restaurant, they put
down as a compound word ofres, thing,
and idWdnt from taurus, a bull, the
whole indicating bully thing, which
they are bound to patronize.
An editor in Macon City, Missouri,
has had present of radish weighing
eighteen pounds, about thirty inches
long and twenty-five and half inches
in its largest circumference. There are
also several beats" in that region,
nearly six feet long.
The young Princess of Prussia, who
was married in 1867, to that scapegrace
buhe, "lIIIdh VI hcShlcuDuIS, =, las
succeeded in tanning him, and is said to
be very happy wife and mother. At
the time of their marriage it was pre-
dicted that a divorce would be applied
for in less than six months.
An English genius proposes to over
come monitors with vessels armed with
fre-engines, which will throw water in
to the portfolios and wet the powder,
and into the smoke stack and put ont
the fires, when the intrepid tars" will
"board the helpless log" and take it in
to port. He proposes to "put an end to
maritime warfare"
The inmates of the Jail in Upton, In.
diaEa, abandoned the hospitslities of
that cozy retreat, the other night, and
recklessly Exposed themselves to the
cold charities of an unfeeling world"
Benevolent officers of the law are look
ing for the wanderers.
The longest artillery range on record
in England, viz: lO, 300 yards, was at
tained at Shoeburyness, last month, by
Whitworth's 9-inch muzzle-loader gun
of fourteen tons, firing a shot of two
hundred and fifty pounds, with a charge
of fifty pounds.