The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-17

VIII be maTIlCu W w iH' -
Gonesee county,.N. Y, next June
Walter Brown has Just built IN Boston
the Iip Jtsst wood wherTy ever con.
structed. 1t is So feet long, lOt Inches
wide. and weighs only l9s pounds
The Hon. Frederick W. Seward late
Assistant Secretary Of State, has p ur-
chased the interest of Mr.. lhuIio"
Weed in the n. Y. CoRBlereiat Adrer'tSsT'
Prince Salm Salm's book on Maxi
milan and Mexico" has reached lis sec
ond edition. 1t WAS received wlth much
favor by the crowned heads OF Europe
The equestrian statue of Washington
destined for the Public Garden OF Bos-
ton Is rapidly approaching completion
at the Ames establishment Ia Chleopee,
Mass.
Harriet Beecher Stowe has arrived IN
Hartford from her winter residence IN
Florida. The story that she found the
title to her Southern estate insecure, Is
untrue.
Queen Isabella pays 5000 francs for
four mouths rent Of little place IN
the Pare dc VillefriX, NOisy-le-Grand,
which was once the property OF Madame
de Maintenon.
John Brougham goes to California
June lst, aud before his departure from
New York will be the recipient of a
complimentary benefit, in which lead
ing actors of all the theatres will take
part.
Andrew Deloria, while searching for
pea sticks, three miles south of Vim
cennes, Ind., Sunday week, discovered
"a large SUN of money in gold and silver
buried in the ground at the foot of an
old stump.
During the past winter not flake of
snow fell in Portland, Oregon. Only
three or four nights did ice form, and
then only to the thickness of window
glass. Sowing and planting were going
on all winter.
The ten officers of the New York AS
sembly-frOm Speaker to postmaster
were presented with an elegant gold
watch and chain, by the members.
Report sayeth that the members them
selves need watching.
Vegetation is of rapid growth in CAL
ifOrnia. Four locust trees, less than
twenty years old, were lately cut, and
| twenty-nine wagon hubs having been
made from them, the remainder made
then four cords Of fire wood.
1t is computed that the total num-
Der of persons annually employed
] a -, IN 10 In
Great Britain, BOO, 900, in Belgium and
France, 10000, i'll Prussia, $4,000 and
the remaining 2OO, 900 elsewhere.
d. A. Moore, who lost leg in the
seven days fight in front of Richmond,
wanted TO be postmaster at Columbia,
South Carolina, but Grant appointed IA
negro, who can hardly write his name.
This is making treason odious.'
There is . photographer of spirits in
Buffalo, who processes to take the legiti-
mate article and no other, and who is
ready to take spirit photographs in any
gallery in the city, with the materials
of that gallery, in the presence OF all
the photographers in Buffalo.
The former editor and proprietor of
a
Ledqer takes leave of the patrons of
that sheet in the following unique
style: -,
'Valedictory-Farewell! No tears,
no sighs, no money. Let us have
peace IL. ). H."
1t is reported that Baron Buest has
been sounding the English Cabinet re-
speCting its conduct in the event of 3
war between France and Prussia. Lord
! Clarendon is said to have stated that in
such case England would observe a
strict neutrality, which, however, would
cease the moment that the Eastern
question should be again agitated.
Mexican news up 10 the 18th instant
has been received at Havana. The rev.
olutiOnists in Sinaloa have beeen routed,
and fed to the mountains. The ap-
pOintment of Mr.. SHELTON as American
Consul at Mexico was well received.
The Mexican journals represent the
Prussiau Minister rs q mere commercial
agent of the State of Guerrero, and is
extremely hostile, and bids defiance to
| the Minister. The proposition TO issue
greenbacks meets with great opposition
The idea of the establishment of pro-
tectorate by the United States causes
much excitement among the Mexicans
A San Jose California; paper of the
18th notices strange sight in the sky
on that morning. The sun arose ac-
companied by two luminous, comet
formed bodies of white light, situated
on the northern and southern sides of
the sun, and almost horizontal to the
centre of the great luminary, at dis
tance of about twenty degrees from the
latter. The heads of these bright
masses next the sun were slightly rides
cent, and their hOrn-shaped tails
streamed off into space north and south
to the distance of twenty degrees. The
spots remained visible from sunrise till
eight O'Clock 4. NJ. The phenomenon is
known to sailors as water dogs" and
is deemed sure sign Of cold weather in
high latitudes, but the spectacle is
rarely seen in the latitude where this
display was witnessed.