The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-05

Ioool annals. IL is said, mention siIty-
hn,bnnates hoO in Massachusetts, dur
ing the past two hundred anu 'u'i
years.
w.map has built in Detroit SUP
80 house. out of the profits OF
match peddling in the streets Vi 'n"'
city.
Tho Nav York Mail wants some
uaaItbv citizen to "immOrtallze MS
Womss by establishing free public baths
in that city.
snit ia set down for early trial in a
Tennessee court to test the rlgnt OF a
magistrate solemnizing a marriage 70
kiss the bride.
Acorrespondent writes that Don feE'
sando. of Portugal, declined categoli,
callyr the Crown of Spain, Whicn was
offered him.
snohIe bodied negro died Of starva-
ton at Columbus, Georgia, recehoiy' Ine
evidence at the inquest showing thaI he
/ Starved rather than work
The New York Herald thinks the re-
cent extensive publication in the Con-
0ressiopal Globe, show Sprague to be a
imam of letters "
Tn. hosiery trade in London is to
bayean organ of its own, which will
hear the singular title of the ''5 BO,c-
churchyard Magazine"
4 contemporary wants some one to de-
wise a street passenger railway car that
will be less au instrument of torture
than the one now in fashion.
The Memphis Sun says that only five
or six companies of Tennessee State
militia are now in active service, and all
would be discharged, if the State had
money to pay them off.
The Southern Opinion (Pollard's Rich
mond paper) is defunct. The editor, in
his farewell address, says that 1.-THE dis
tinct Southern principles upon which
the paper was founded are dead in the
hearts of the people"
A New York jury has cast General
John A. Dix in $4,000 damages for i'm
prisoning in Fort Lafayette, during the
war, u udu udLueu DdulCl h' OSlIJ vi
Rochester, New York.
On Friday night man named White
side, driving blind horse, lost his way,
while leaving Indianapolis, and drove
were drowned. Whiteside was intOxi-
Gated.
A resident of Treasure City, in the
White Pine mining region, recently
died, and a man was hired to dig his
grave. When the funeral cortege ar
rived at the spot they were informed by
the grave digger that he had struck q
splendid lead, and had staked off a
claim; and he refused to allow the body
to be buried in the hsle he had dug.
i Washington letter-writer reports
that recently an Ohio Congressman re-
ceived a petition, signed by three hun
dred persons, asking the appointment of
woman as postmaster, and three davs
later had received twenty. five cOntiden-
tial letters from the signers, Informing
him that she was not fit for the place,
aud that they had not the courage 10 re-
fuse TO sign her papers.
A tender hearted American citizeness
of African descent knocked one IF her
on the head with a club, in
Bourbon county, Kentucky, the other
day. She threw the body over al
fence into q ueighbOring garden, and
there il was found shortly afterward.
When asked why she did it, she heart
lessly replied that she had too many of
them anyhow. She has not been ar
rested,
A correspondent of the New Bedford
Mercury writes from Sitka concerning
the manners of the inhabitants, that
the children amuse themselves by slid
ing with bare feet on the ice, clad in a
fragment of blanket; the elders keep
dogs ard beat their wives; the women
paint their faces to save the trouble of
washing; and when one dies they build
a dollhouse of sticks, just large enough
to hold body, put it inside and set fire
to If, and burn 1t up, all hands sitting
around in circle, the women bowling
and the men beating time with big
sticks.