The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-25
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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rip, squeal and stink all over our beau
tiful townf-Plymoath (Indiana) Re-
publican.
"A number ofyoung women in Massa-
ohusetts manufacturing establishment
recently kept silent on a wager for sixty
long minutes.
Nine octogenarians Of New Bedford
sad down to a complimentary dinner
last week. Their average age is between
eighty-two and eighty-three.
Four large halls in Brooklyn are
crowded with students of the velocipede.
At one ladies are exclusively taught.
They wear semi-bloomer costume.
Senator Harlan, the father-in-law of
Robert Lincoln, is averse to having Mrs.
Lincoln's affairs being make the subject
OF further discussion in the Senate.
Prince Leopold, victoria's eighth
child, received confirmation January
30. Among the music sung at the core
mony was hymn of Prince Albert's
composition.
One of the Boston physicians has pro-
fessional charge of a young gorilla with
the lung fever. The pecuniary value of
the young patient induces the greatest
care of him.
At Philadelphia an unknown man
threw himself in front of an approach
ing train, on the Reading Railroad,
Thursday evening, and was instantly
killed.
Boston 6as "lady pickpockets" who
"dress .magnifcently," and by "fainting
away in gentlemen's arms" cause the
"down fall of the pocket-books,"
The Quebec Morning Chronicle COM
pletes one of its marriage announce
ments with the following information:
"No cards! No cake! No iCiRe,!
An enthusiastic young lady, fresh from
Buffers grand Washington party, re-
marks that it could not have been more
gorgeous if the gentleman had been a
contractor during the war.
The Common Council of Patterson,
New Jersey, in view of the terrible
death by hydrophobia, recently, of
Timothy Mccarthy, in that city, have
directed the Mayor to authorize the
slaughter of all dogs found on the street.
Not whiskey factory is in operation
in New York, the result of rigid en-
forcement of the law. The Tribune sug-
gests that attention should be turned to
Philadelphia, where things appear to be
conducted with looseness.
Georgia announces. an early spring.
The peach trees are in full bloom, the
buds of the forest are bursting, the
woods around Savannah are redolent of
the perfume of the jasmine and honey
suckle, green peas are knee-high,
blooming, aud early vegetables are
abundant.
1t is proposed to increase the number
ofmembers OF the House to three hun
drcd. The estimate is, that if no in
crease in the number of Representa-
tives be made, New York will lose five
members, Massachusetts, two. Vermont,
New Hampshire, and Rhode Island
one. The Western States will nearly all
gain.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times is authority for the fol
lowing dish of gossip: General Grant
and Mrs. Grant called yesterday on Mrs.
Benjamin +. Butler-not on the General,
as the dispatches this morning had
it. At the time of the call the General
was in the House, speaking on the army
bill, and replying yes to the query,
Did he mean to nominate General Grant
for the Presidency in 1927 A singular
coincidence.
THE New York World agrees for once
with General Butler, in his speech to
reduce the army, and says:
We are happy to agree with General
Butler for once, and give him the sup
port of our most earnest but perfectly
idle wishes, in his perfectly idle, even
if earnest, project of reform. With !
the Republican party in power, we
expect nothing valuable in the way
OF retrenchment, and attach no import |
ance to the bancombe proposals of in
dividual members of the party.
The Republican partylpledged itself at
Chicago that, in the Northern States, at
all events, the question of suffrage was
for the States to settle. After carrying
the election, it forces through Congress
a negro suffrage amendment which is
not to go before the people, but under
the whip and spur of party, is to be car
ried through legislatures elected without
reference to this question at all
To what depths of degradation and
of broken promises these men will de-
scend, before they are hurled from pow
er, no one can conjecture; we fear that
in short time there will be but very
little left of our good old Constitution,
if it is to be tinkered by every radical
caucus in Washington.
The Louisville Courier Journal has
some particulars of the last hours of
Aaron Jones, the pugilist. 1t says that
she died at the farm of Mr.. Ostrander,
three miles this side of Leavenworth,
Indiana, early in the forenoon of the
18th. About a month since Mr.. Os-
tmnder found Jones in the city of New
Orleans very destitute and in ill-health.
Through motives of humanity Mr.. o.
brought him up to his farm, where he
thought he might be fully recuperated.
1t is supposed, from the manner Of his
death that it was tie effect of poison
taken into his stomach while in New