The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-16
NEWS PARAGRAPHS

The "White Fawn" lost the managers
SIC, 900 in Philadelphia.
Oxen are wanted in Oregon. The
average price is 500 a yoke.
A negro preacher in London accom-.
panies psalm tunes on the banjo.
The big earthquake day in San Fran
cisco 1000 dispatches were sent east by
telegraph.
A Mississippi colored preacher has
commenced publishing The Colored Cit,
izens' Monthly.
Poverty, oil, wealth, love, marriage,
home, dissipation, desertion and di.
vorce make up an Illinois romance.
New York has a Madame Rachael
who enamels the face and turns the hair
yellow, all for seven dollars.
A company of young men has been
sent by Maine ship.builders to Virginia
to cut ship timber this winter.
Four hundred and thirty-five new
wells were being put down in the en-
tire oil field of Pennsylvania on the
first of November.
Mr.. Dudley Hall, of Medford, Mass,
voted on election day, saying that it
would be his last vote, and died imme-
diately on his return home.
California has within Its borders 152
lodges of Free and Accepted Masons,
with an aggregate membership of 1000.
The Grand Lodge was organized April
15, 1850.
1t is predicted that among the first
acts of General Grant when he gets into
power will be to pardon jeff. Davis, j.
c. Breckinridge and other celebrated
rebels.
A newspaper biographer, trying to
say his subject "was hardly able to bear
the demise of his wife," was made by
tho inexorable printer to say, "wear the
chemise of his wife,"
The Republican tickets for Congress
men and electors in South Carolina
bore "the strange device" of an eagle
soaring in the clouds with carpet bag
in its talons.
A number of capitalists in Auburn,
New York, have purchased $4,000 acres
of land, near Pilatka, Flerida, and are
about to colonize it with the people
from that State.
The Montgomery Nail, of Sunday,
says not single disturbance or outrage
has been reported to them as occurring
in Alabama on election day.
A Democratic negro in New Bedford,
Mass, narrowly escaped ducking for
his "disloyalty" in voting for Seymour
and Adams.
"Radicap comes from the Latin word
"radix"-meaning root. The New
York World says the root intended is
probably dead beet.
j. II. Herrick, bright boy of eighty,
recently married gentle maiden, named
Chatfeld, of the same age. Their par
ents made no objection. Their resi-
dence is at Lodi, Conn.
The progeny of the famous horse
Buccaneer, during the last racing sea-
son in England, have won sixty-three
races, of which the stakes were S270,371.
Smith lives in Cincinnati. There are
six hundred and twenty three of him
doing business in that city, and those
of him who are named John have dwin-
died down to two hundred and ten.
Rev. II. w. Nelson, rector of Hart
ford Episcopal Church, informed his
congregation last Sunday that any
member of the church who attended the
GrandkDuche88 or Blue Beard operas
would be refused communion for six
months, and Bishop Williams Sustains
him.
Within twenty-four hours after it
was announced by the cable that q
mixed commission of eight Englishmen
and eight Americans had been agreed
upon to settle the Alabama claims,
there were over forty applications for
the place.
Nathan Cope, living about two miles
north of East Fairchild, in Columbiana
county, Ohio, has sold one thousand
barrels of apples from his orchard this
year at SO iper barrel, and has about
one thousand barrels still on hand.
His orchard consists of about eight
acres.
The medical magazines are warning
the women against the poisonous cos
metics offered for sale under seductive
names and descriptions. The compound
called "Bloom of Youth" is described as
"palsying lead disguised in rose wa
ter"
A lady in Philadelphia has just lost
her life in consequence of an apotbe-
cary having mistaken an IS" for "t'
in prescription; the lady's physician
having written As. as the abreviation
for assfetida, and the young man in
the drug stere having read it At, and
put atropia in the pills prescribed.