The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-15
BY NAIL.

The fashionable tour this season is
over the Pacific railroad.
Seven deaths from drunkenness is the
daily rate in Russia.
Nine cases of small pox were reported
in New York on Friday.
Cotton from an acre of land in Geor-
gia sold for S276 last week.
They have twenty-five foot snake
sensation in the vicinity of Lima, Ohio.
Donald G. Mitchell edits Hearth aud
Home for $1,000 year.
Anthony Trollope, the novelist, is said
to be worth S250,O00.
Parton will give the Washington lob.
by an airing in the 4tldatic Monthly
A young culprt, aged ten, recently
attempted to bribe the Recorder of Ho-
boken with twenty five cents.
The Alaska Times, printed at Sitka,
boasts of representing more territory
than any other paper in the world.
Bailie Pey ton, a famous old politician
of thirty years ago, turns up in Tennes-
see as a candidate for State Senator.
A witty but somewhat irreverent
writer calls the Evangelist st. Matthew
Collector for ,.e Port of Capernium."
The GAINESVILLE (Wisconsin) Gazette
suspended publication for two days,
"as the printers celebrated the Sd and
the editors the 5th."
The New York Express thinks "the
physician who deals in blisters" is an
Operative plasterer" not likely to
strike for higher wages.
A baggage-smasher on New York
railroad was astonished recently to see
q valise exploed under his mauipula-
tion. 1t contained torpedocs for the
Fourth.
A Kentuekian, with weakness for
horticultural experiment, has succeeded
in grating black Hamburg grape vine
and La PactOle rose upon an orange
tree.
A Georgia paper says that the heat
has been so intense there for ten days
past that the thermometer fails to indi-
cate the degree-the mercury pushes the
top off and rises above the figures.
The New York World reports that Gen.
Butterfeld was appointed Assistant
Treasurer at New York on the recon-
mendation of Mr.. A. L. Stewart.
The first time writer in the Cincin-
natl Times saw Thomas Buchanan Reed,
he was pasting theatre bills for stroll
ing company, of which he was one.
A man in Adair county, Iowa, has in
vented 8 cannon which he claims will
throw a proiectile fourteen miles, and
has gone to Washington to get q patent.
He proposes to offer it to the Govern
ment for 81 100000.
James Fisk, Jr., telegraphed back the
words, "NOH pOsSUmuS," when Patti sent
on her terms for an engagement of one
hundred nights. These were $500 900 in
geld, one-half in advance, the rest in
daily installments.
A disgusted highway robber returned
n ten cent note to the Chief of the Hart.
ford police, with a note stating that il
was all he obtained by going through
a man on the Park the night before, and
it was so torn he souldn't pass it.
The Dayton Journal says: "ln the
country north of Dayton, near the line
between Montgomery end Miami coun'
ties, harvest hands are so scarce that
farmers are having serious time get.
ting off their grain. They offer 81 and
$3.50 for hands. The present plenteous
harvest offers wide and profitable field
of labor to the idle fellows who loaf on
the street corners and hang about the
saloons"
The Neenah (Wis.) Times tells how a
Neenah theatrical troupe performed at
CLAYTON. While tho house was waiting
for the curtain to rise on the heart
rending scene" one unlucky actor ran
against the scenery, and down come the
curtain and all, revealing q tableaux
not on the bills. To say nothing of the
"posish" of the lady and other actors,
the "star'' was beheld in paris natsarati-
bus, attempting to put a nightgown
over his head, preparatory to his trans
formation into an angel! There was no
iurther performance that night.