The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-11

the other day, in place called the Pas
sage des Thermopyles!
The Queen and the royal family have
been pilgrimaging to the tomb of the
late Prince ConsOrt at FrOSmore.
The Turkish ladies are beginning to
face the world. Several Of the fashion
ablcs made their appearance at the OPP
era in COnstantinOple.
The municipal authorities Of Boston
have ordered the establishment of pub
lie soup houses during the months of
February aud March.
The Lowell (Mass.) Courier says there
is a gratifying evidence of an improve
ment of the business of some of the
manufactures there.
The Buffalo Courier says that there
were $4,000 barrels of lager beer and
ale made in hat city during 1867, yield
ing 81 900, 900 to the brewers.
John Thomas and Henry Williams,
two enterprising burglars, are under ar
rest in Philadelphia, charged with eight
different robberies.
The Red Men of Philadelphia have
just dedicated splendidi Hall, eighty
by one hundred and ten feet, and one
hundred and six feet in hight.
Claudet, well known for his numerous
inventions and improvements in con-
nection with The photograph, is just
dead at an advanced age.
The Hampstead, J.. L., Inquirer claims
that gold has been discovered in Rock
viio Centre. Here's chance for an
other purchase By Mr. Seward.
The Socict y for the Prevention Of
Cruelty TO Animals last month procured
fines to the amount of SIP.
Hiram Bankston, well-to-do citizen
of Savannah, Georgia, has been ARE sted
upon charge of arson, having set fire
to several houses, his own property.
Lucy Stone said "There is cotton i'll
the ears of man, ami hope in tho bosom
of woman" Lucy made a mistake and
got the cotton i'll the wrong place.
The Mobile (Ala.) Register states that
Judge Busteed, lately shot by District
Attorney Martin, has nearly recovered, 4,
and will hold court again ut an early
day, even if he has TO do it at his ho-
tel.
Three unsuccessful attempts have
been made within week to rob the
Clinton National Bank in New Haven,
Connecticut, hut the burglars were
frightened of each time.
A day or two since champion ska
ting match took place in Chicago,
whore Swift" the great skatiSt, proved
too swift f.T his opponent and won the
champion belt Of the United States.
At Il meeting of the merchants in
New Orleans, held January %, it vas
resolved to request property holders TO
reduce their rents fifty per cent. on ac-
count of the general stagnation in trade.
The New Orleans authorities have
"nabbed" Galveston, Texas, murderer,
on whose person was found $3.50 in
gold, aud 500 in grcenbacks, which
had been stolen from his last victim.
4 farmer named +. w. Dixsn, of Pitt
sylyauia county, Virginia, was reduced
TO bcggary few nights since by being
robbed of S5O00-the amount received
frem the sale of his farm bnt one day
previous.
A Nova Scotia paper says: 4 lead
mine has been discovered near the
Quispamsis Station, on the Railway Of
Shediac. One ofthe samples taken out
is almost pure lead, such as is used in
sheet lead. The seams, four in number
give some eight feet in the thickness OF
the lead.
The internal arrangements of goose
received on Christmas day by james
Parker, q veteran conductor on the BOS.
ton and Albany r. R., were very salts
factory to him. When il was prepared
| for the oven it was found to contain d
neat little box securely encased in oil et|
silk, containing superb gold watch.
An enterprising and ingenious Hi
noisan, of the romantic name of Wig
gins, had seven young women under
promise of marriage to him in the same
village at the same time, two of them
being sisters. and in each case had an.
| ticipatCd his marital privileges. He
departed between two days, and al
present there are seven young Japhet
Wigginses in search of a fugitive father
An army contractor has been sen.
fenced TO five years of penal servitude
for attempting to swindle the English
Government in some matter relating to
the Abyssinia expedition If those
contractors who did swindle during the
war were put TO servitude, the whole
cotton crop of the South could be har.
vested for many years to come by com.
pulsiye labor Hartford Iimes.
On Friday night last Mr. D. Yande,
veer, of West Jamaica, \. y, was bru-
tally murdered by highwaymeu, neal
that place. His neighbOrs offer $1,000
reward for the apprehension of the
murderer. A young German named
Otto Hagan, who was found lying in
the road near by with a pistol wound
in the head, was arrested on suspicion
of being implicated, but turned out to
be swould-be suicide who had shot
himself on account Of his extreme
poverty.