The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-29
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The potato bug is doing great damage
in Illinois.
Toombs has sold his plantation and is
practicing law.
A monogram OH the back of light kid
gloves is tho recent vanity.
Austrians are emigrating to Calltor-
MIA at an unprecedented rate.
There are about four thousand Ger
man Baptists in this country.
All Efforts to reconcile General But
Ter to the nomination of Grant have
failed.
Colfax is forty-fve years of age, and
his mother is but sixteen years his Sc
nioT.
If the waves threaten to cngulf you,
don't add by your tears to the amount
of water.
A secret has been admirably defined
as "anythiag made known to everybody
in q whisper"
The annual production of lumber in
Michigan is placed at the large figure
of 500, 900, 900 feet.
Since the assassination of d. t. McGee,
$4,000 photographs of him have been is
sued by house in Montreal.
A Radical Philadelphia editor has lost
all he is worth on impeachment, and
Tribune editor is out $500.
Memphis is doing. In the way OF
homicides she has been unable to score
more than one day for week.
Montana is Ovorrun with titled OIL
GERS. A gentleman writing from there
saws he was introduced to fifty colonies
in a single day.
A physician in Michigan has been ar
rested for furnishing his daughter, a.
grown woman, by deluging her with
water while securely fastened to chair.
Thad. Stevens desired most earnestly
to see the Senator who "dared" to vote
against the impeachment iniquity.
Well, he can see several OF them now.
A witty Democrat says the eleventh
article was taken up first on Scripture
grounds, as the impeaehers hoped that
little 'leven would leaven the whole
lump.
prominent Oswego Republican made
q bet the other evening with Radical
brother, of ten tons of coal, that the
State of New York will give $4,000 ma
jority for the Democrats.
The heaviest alibi on record is that Of n
Possy county, Ind, negro, charged with
killing boy. He proved that he was
in three different places, five miles apart,
at the time of the killing.
Romantic dear: ooh, Frederick! Is
it not delightful to wander in the suiet
country and listen to the cuckoo's notep
Frederick: "Oh-ah-yes l dare say
it's all right, only it always reminds me
of hiccups."
The authoress of o charming novel,
"Hood and Glove" published in Eng
land, says that GAIL day long Claude
PAGES backward and forward like an
overseer on q Massachusetts, cotton plan
tstion."
just think ofit!-eighty celorsd menu
bors in the House of Representatives of
South Carolina. Imagine the effect on
hot day, (such as South Carolina often
has, with q cheated debate" and closed
doors.
When Madame Rachel saw her stout
sister. Sarah dressed for the part of q
shepherdess, her comment was: "Sarah,
dear, You look like q shepherdess who
has just dined on her flock"
Speaking of Anna Dickinson, New
York critic says: "The lecture was
q very clever presentation of untenable
propositions, but to hear pretty wo-
man pounding away at logic is very
like q canary bird splitting his throat
with Hayden's oratorio Of "The Crea-
tion."
Victor Emanuel recently attended the
wedding Of one Of his Legitimate
daughters, who was married at Turin to
aRobleman of An ancient Genoese fam
lily, to another member of which a beau
tiful American lady was lately united.
This branch of the Kings family is said
to b. numerous, and it is added that he
is never Indifferent to tfeir claims upon
HIM.
William Murray, aged seventy-eight,
while walking recently along Basing-
hall street, London, stepped upon the
long dress Of a lady, and was thrown to
the ground. The lady walked on and a
q crowd gathered. The police and some
men lifted the old man and carried him
% the hospital, where he soon after
died from the effects of q fracture of his
right thigh boue. A coroner's jury re-
turned verdict of Accidental DEATH"