The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-06
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The German" is going out of fashion
in New York.
Saratoga is to have two race meetings
the coming season.
Indiana has school fund of sht and
a quarter millions. -rpr--g,
A Greek church has been opened at
San Francisco.
Winnie Rsam's statue of Lincoln is
nearly completed. - #-...#
Chicago covers an area of twenty five
square miles.
The latest about the Pope is that he
disapproves of chignons.
The Mount of Olives has become the
property of the Crown of France.
Salt Lake City is now but three and
a half days from Chicago. Bad for Salt
Lake City. = ..--a. w.
An imprisoned Vienna murderess asks
permission to have piano brought into
her cell. 4.
A Connecticut court has decided that
a man who will not support his family
is a pauper.
Euameled bricks, of various colors,
have been introduced in Cincinnati, for
store fronts.
The Montana Legislature, just ad-
journed, fixed the capital at Helena, and
the penitentiary at Deerlodge.
Although but one revolutionary SOL
dier survives to draw pension, the
names of sss widows appear upon the
rolls.
The New York Times says: "Messrs.
Mason and Slidsll will shortly return to
this country in company with Jefferson
Davis"
The Wisconsin Assembly has passed
resolution "to promote good morals by
prohibiting the chewing of tobacco in
the Assembly chamber"
One of Baron James Rothschild's last
business operations was to reduce the
salaries of most of his employees, on the
pretext of the very stringent money
market.
A girl of eighteen was recently ar
rested in England for wearing male
attire, who confessed she had worn it
since she was nine years old.
Two thousand women, wives, &C., of
the Rajah of Jeypore, lately set upon
their guardian, who was keeping them
too strictly, and beat him most un~ er-
cifully. He barely escaped with his
life, and broken arm.
The Glenn's Falls, New York, Messen-
ger chronicles the marriage of Sirius
Smith and Mrs. S. Stanton, of Bolton.
The happy bridegroom launches cut for
the first time on the sea of natrimony,
at the mature ago of ninety-two years
1t is said that the diary of J. Wilkes
Booth, found on his person after his
death, contained this record made on
the day of the assassination: "Until to-
day nothing was thought of sacrificing
to our country's wrong"
A clergyman in Boston, the Rev. Mr..
Murray, thirty years old, and pastor Of
the Park Street Church, created n SEN
satiOn last Sunday by praying that the
Lord would "bless those mlddle.aged
females in the congregation whose
youthful hopes had been disappointed y
The actor, John Mccullough, had a
benefit in Salt Lake City, the other
night, at which the receipts consisted
principally of corn in the ear, sweet po-
tatoes, white mice, young pigs, and two
hundred e-handles.
Queen Victoria wears her hair, ia pri-
vate, as English ladies were wont to
wear it five and twenty years ago; on
the rare occasions on which she appears
in public, she bands her tresses under a
diamond colt, after the manner of Mary,
Queen of Scots.
The Dakota Legislature adjourned
without finally passing the Woman Suf-
frage Bill. One branch passed it, but
the other insisted upon an amendment
Submitting the question to the voters in
the Territory, and between. the two
branches no final action upon the meas
ure was taken.
An elopement in high life, no less
than that of the spouse of Prince Putia-
tin, of St. Petersburg, has lately come
to light. The noble lady, having fed
in company with Major of the Guards,
was last heard of at Altoona, near
Hamburg. The prince sent l2O tele-
grams in all directions of the compass,
but, as it appears, without avail