The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-02
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

| Grant dimes at Six.
"Marbles" have come.
Mrs. Grant Is home-body. y
A snore- preventative is patented.
Sleeping cars now run within hfty
miles of Salt Lake Valley.
There are nine American studentS at
the Surgical College at Wurzburg, Ger
many. t-tf t- q
The Freemaa's Journal calls Henry
Ward Beecher's the church of Theology
Boafe. seq --r4 81
The spring meeting ever the Magnolia
course, Mobile, commences March p,
and continues five days.
Boston has milk inspector, and his
operations have materially improved
the quality of the milk sold there.
Ex-Governor Swift, of Minnesota, is
sick at st. Paul, and is not expected to
live long.
Christ Church, Boston, possesses, a
communion service which was the gift
of King George II, in 1913.
1t is stated that there is not a single
distillery in operation in New York, the
last one having been closed on Friday.
Gov. McClurg, of Missouri, last week
pardoned thirty -four murderers,e etc, out
of the State Penitentiary.
Velocipedes have become nuisance
wherever there is Nicolson pavement in
Philadelphia.
Three Japs are at Amherst College to
be educated for the ministry. In all
probability they will be ministers to
Japan"
The natives of Pennsylvania, re siding
at Davenport, Iowa, gave a keystone
Festival in that city on the 23d ult.
Mr.. Burlingame's credentials to the
French Court were five feet long aud
covered all over with fve-clawsd drag
ons.
The Boston Post thinks it must be un-
healthy in Maine, because doctor there
drives blooded horse with $4,000 set
of harness,
The Reroluti0n states that Mrs. Fanny
Kemble long age set the example to the
women of Massachusetts, of riding
astride on horseback.
The billiard room attached to Will
lard'S Hotel, Washington, has been let
to California delegation during in
auguration week for $4,000.
Miss Mary Louise Warner, aged four
teen, is the most popular barber in Ian
sing, Michigan. She is established in
her own shop.
The recent suicide of Captain Kinney,
of the United States Second Artillery,
in Alaska, was caused by a threatened
trial by court martial for the infraction
of some military regulation.
The favorite Chinese concealed
weapon" is an iron bolt about eighteen
inches long, covered with red cloth,
with heavy ball on one end. They
are very common in San Francisco.
A gentleman in Texas was so provi-
dent as to savo twenty-five thousand
dollars in gold and bury it, and so in
considerate as to die without telling
where it was hid.
A Mobile editor was arrested by ne
gro policeman and fined $50, the other
day, for showing a country editor the
practical working of the ire.alarm tele-
graph by giving false alarm of fire.
A son of Rev. Mr.. Humphreys, of
Bell Haven, Va, aged fifteen years,
killed negro woman at that place last
week. The woman attacked him with
an ak and he stabbed her in self-de-
fence.
The wooden bridge over the Kentucky
river at Frankfort having become unsafe
by the giving way of the central pier, a
ferry has been established between
North and South Frankfort. A free
bridge is o be built.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
decided that money lost at faro can be
recovered at law by the loser or his
creditors, within six months after the
money was lost, and after six months by
ahy one who chooses to sue for it,
A Boston merchant has made $780,
600 within thirty days on the advance
in sugar caused by the revolution in
Cuba. Cigars also have an upward
tendency.
Rev. Miss Upper now ministers to
the Universalist Society in Menasha,
Wisconsin. Last week the admiring
Youths of the congregation presented
her with a splendid gold watch.
Rev. Geo. Trask, the anti-tebacconist,
lately received the following railroad
pass: "Pass the Rev. George Trask, for
services in fighting the devil on his own
hook, until December 81, 1869"
A velocipedist in New Haven, while
crossing a street, ran into horse and
knocked him down. The horse was so
injured by the fall that the owner was
Obliged to kill him, and he now holds
the velocipede rider responsible to the
extent of $500.
At Peoria, Ill.,, recently, convention
of grape growers sat down to repast
which was washed down by native wine
furnished from 225 samples. This fact
shows to what an important point the
manufacture of American wine will soon
attain.
There is pending in the Legislature OF
Ohio a joint resolution providing for
the reading of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence in the public schools, and to
have it put in all school reading books,
together with the Constitution of the
United States, and the Constitution ei
the State of Ohio.
A clerical teacher in Bordeaux adopt