The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-06
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Mobile at seventy-fiye cents qu%i''
Some of the New York editors have
49, residsnces aud offices connected oy
telegraph lines.
One natent medicine manufacturer
o6vertises in twenty-five hundred papers
in this country.
woman, named Cattell, was run G!
over and killed, on the Indianapolis
and Peru Railroad, on the 4th.
The Indiana Legislature has located located
the Agricultural College at Tippecanoe
battle ground, near Lafayette.
Ira A. Bloomfield has been appointed
Superyisor of Internal Revenue lot Ihe
District OF Illinois, vice John oIhey'
MR.. Grants reception on the +tH,
vrobably the last of the season, was at, ,
tended by large numbers of ladies anu
gentlemen.
The New York papers say the rush
n secnrs choice berths on board OF the
European steamers this spring IS some
thing unprecedented.
The city of St. Paul has delivered
$40 600 worth of bonds to the Lake Su'
perior railroad, the balance of the S5OO,
600 voted having been delivered some
days ago.
Scientific men say that the time OF
the diurnal revolution of the earth is
gradually being shortened, on account
of the slrinkage of the earth by cool
ing in the interior.
A fellow out West advertises fuga-
ciOus wife, who he says "has left him
lust as his summers work is beginning,
Notwithstanding he has had The ex-
pense of wintering her"
The National Board of Underwriters
at New York enjoyed $1,000 dinner at
DelmOnicos s on Thursday, after they had
decided to put up the tariff rates and
curtail commissions to agents.
A young clerk in the Central Tele-
graph Office in France has discovered 3
very ingenious plan for the rapid self
printing of dispatches, and has been Of
fered 300, 900 francs for his patent
The footprints on the sandstone of the
Connecticut valley have been found not
to be those of birds, but of animals of
the kangaroo species, by Mr.. Water
house, the celebrated English naturalist.
Several gam es of base ball have been
arranged between New York, Boston
and Philadel phia clubs, aud challenges
are to DO issued to clubs throughout the
whole country for a grand tournament
during the summer
The Hath anniversary of the birth OF
Samuel Hannemanu, the founder of the
Homeopathic School of Medicine, was
celebrated in Paris by banquet, at
which nearly all the physicians of that
school in the city were present.
James Burns formerly keeper of the
Toledo House, and who was sentenced
to be hung for the murder of Lynch,
which sentence was commuted 10 im-
prisonment for life, by Governor Chase,
died few days since in the peniten-
tiary.
II is said that the farmers who have
been holding back their potatoes for
large prices are getting badly denoral-
lied, and are rushing them to market at
fearfullS low rates. A Michigan paper
says the III! mGrs III portions of that
State are obliged Ia sell potatoes at tif
teen cents per bushel, for which they
refused one dollar ahd fifty cents last
fall, aud that they have very large
stock on hand.
A Boston paper says the President is
generous enough to desire his errors
pointed out to him. They arc as numer-
Gus as the "sins aud inGrmities" of q
greater than be, and we would, there
fore, suggest n committee of ten per
cent. of disappointed oflice-seekers,
which would probably number one hun
dred thousand men, to remind General
Grant of his sins of omission and com
mission Their work, although so sub
divided, would be no sinecure.
A. T. Stewards new model dwelling
is rapidly going mp in New York. 1t IS
to be entirely of iron and brick, eight
stories in height, inclosing a court 100
feet square. 1t is to contain an elGva-
tor, a steam. heating apparatus and a
water-tank, and be furnished with
sleeping apartments for 1900, restau-
rant, parlor, bathrooms, laundry, kitch-
en-, &c. II will cost over $4,000, 900, and,
it is calculated, will afford the working
women, for whose benefit it is erected,
lodging, food and washing at o cost of
two dollars a week.