The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-09

to change JnemJ as Sne Coulu noG ueIeT-
mine whether she had got the right
sleeve in the wrong place or the wrong
sleeve in the right place.
At Greenville, Texas, recently, ac-
cording to the Mckinney Messenger, a
son of Judge Halt amused himself by
firing off pistol among the inmates of
the hotel, and resisting the Sheriff, was
shot and killed by the latter.
A three year old child, temporarily
left in charge of its infant brother in
Columbus, Ohio, last Saturday evening,
got angry with it and killed it by beat
ing it over the head with the nursing
bottle.
For some weeks or more past Connec-
ticut newspapers have been publishing
paragraphs about mysterious tracks"
which have been observed at Norwich
Falls. The superstitious appear to
think that Apollyon is making tracks
about there.
Judge Brewster, of Philadelphia, in
pronouncing sentence last week, said
that the public had como to regard
nearly all murderers as either heroes or
martyrs-heroes if they escaped punish
ment, martyrs if they received it,
Among other dreadful things said of
Lopez, of Paraguay, it is avcrred that
he is Jeastly cruel, and voluptuary Of
the worst sort, and that the young
girls of any beauty in his dominion are
subjected to his passions.
John 4. Washington died at New
bern, North Carolina, last week. lie
was the grandson of the uncle of the
Father of his Country. Query for gene
relation was John to
his country f-Er.
The Governor Of New Jersey has We
toed bill passed by the Legislature to
incorporate a base ball club, on the
ground that the fourth section author
iZipg exhibitions of feats of strength
and all games requiring skill and SCI,
ence, might indirectly sanction illegal
games aud gambling"
In class of little girls at school the
question was asked, What is a fort =
"A place to put men in" was the ready
reply. "What is a fortress, then =
asked the teacher. This seemed puzzle,
till one of the girls answered, A place
to put women in"
Parepa-Rosa, who is now i'll III BaItl-
more, is reported to be arranging for q
season of English opera in New York,
next fall, on a scale of unparalleled
magnificenoe, beginning with Lurline.
No expense will be spared i'll making
up the best company in England or
America.
The Mormons had an execution late
". The criminal was brought irOned
into the court yard, where there was
crowd of some four hundred, and seated
in chair. He then read aloud a chap
ter from the New Testament, the irons
were taken off his hands, and, at a sig
nal from the Sheriff, he was shot dead.
The New York Commercial makes the
startling statement that mot ene-half
tho income tax of the country is paid -
and as an example and illustration, it
says, that it knows of one house in New
York city, where twenty one gentlemen
board, and only one has ever made an
income return, or paid an incOm ne tax, or
ever been asked to do so.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Press and Her
aid, of Wednesday, says "a party of
distinguished gentlemen from the Celes
tial Empire passed through our city yes
terday en- route for West Tennessee,
where they expect to settle and engage
in the culture of the tea plant. They
are to be followed by another party who
are looking out a suitable location for
an extensive fire cracker factory.
Indiana seems to be fairly within the
clutches of crime. With an entire pop
ulatiou that does not exceed those of
New York and Brooklyn, there have
been twenty-one murders in Indiana in
less tkan ten days. In ten of these
cases only were the murderers arrested,
in five others they were known to the
authorities but escaped, and in six cases
the assassins are not known.
What was the color of the gloves worR
by Grant at his inauguration The
correspondent of the Herald say he wore
oorn.colored kid gloves the correspond
ent of the UIorld says he wore canary
colored kid gloves; the correspondent OF
the Times saws he wore w-eot0red Kid
gloves; the correspondent OF the IrioaR'
gives no information on the PolAt-
probably because the new constitution
al amendment forbids all discrimination
of color.
A writer in the New York Tribune says
that the recent issue of an insurance
pelicy on the life of young gentleman
in that city, amounting to Sl25,O0O, i:
not the largest transaction of the kind
on record. A we'll known banker recent
| ly effected an insurance on his life. The
policies are issued in thirteen different
companies for the aggregate sum o.
S2OO,95O. Amount of yearly premium
to be paid for ten years is s, As
Total in ten years, SSO,6446O. This Ii
believed to be the largest transaction OF
record, in this or any other country.