The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-03
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The Nevada Legislature has licensed
gambling.
Indiana is said to have 5000 square
miles of iron and coal lands,
A late invention is a glass mould
board for a plow, to resist corroding
| soils.
The French Institute has elected Doc
tor Livingston dead or alvey men,
Der.
Ten per cent. of the population of the
City of Mexico have been in prison in
the past year.
John c. Clarke has played Major We'll
lington de Boots two hundred times in
London.
The New York Sheriff makes 100000
a year, $4,000 being fees from Ludlow
Street Jail.
The Sault Ste. Maria Canal has been
ceded to the United States by the State
of Michigan.
The Cuban insurgents intend to get
up loan and sell their bonds in the
United States.
A man recently made the run from
Akron to Toledo, on vclocipede, about
ninety miles, in fifteen honrs.
The Sultan of Turkey has written to
the Pope, asking information concern
ing certain points of The Catholic re-
ligiou.
Thirty years ago A. T. Stewart was
rated on the mercantile reports, "Said
to be worth $50, 900; credit A l; cautious
and safe"
A common sight in Italy is dirty
nurSe-maid leading along little boy
baby two or three years old vino has o
cigar in his mouth.
The Humboldt monument at New
York is receiving contributions from all
parts of the country.
The home of the late Mrs. Sigourney,
the poetess, at Hartford, has been sold
for railroad station.
Wade Hampton has been buying one
thousand mules in Illinois, for use on
his Southern plantations.
The Legislature of British Columbia
has appropriated S20,00O to bring SER
want girls from England.
The little ship cred, White and Blue"
has been brought home from Europe on
the deck OF steamer.
Oaly seven hundred and fifteen citi
zens of New York want to be "private
secretary" to Mr.. Grinnell, the new Col
lcctOr.
When singer of the Theatre Royal
at Dresden becomes hoarse by singing
outside the opera house, a months pay
is forfeited.
A Portland apothecary has placard
in bis window, announcing twelve
emetics for one dollar; not to be taken
on the premises"
st. Charles, Minnesota, has an infant
three months old who talks, . all of
which is attested in tho newspapers by
the family physician.
A lunatic locked himself up in Chi
cago hotel and commenced smashing
things. lie was captured by an army
of thirty men armed with chloroform
sponges.
Preparations are making iu Kansas
City, Mo-, for a buffalo hunt. The ex
cur5ionists propose to go by rail four
hundred miles into the suburbs of the
city.
Russia has sent an entire salt ring"
to Siberia. A government official was
at the head of it, and it had already
stolen $4,000 tons of salt from the gov
ernment.
Lamartine twice resisted offers of
Napoleon Third that would have freed
him from debt, although they would
have forced him TO sacrifice his political
principles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raiden, of Albany, Yer
mont, have lost ten children within four
years. Seven of the number died of diph-
liberia, six in one week, about three
years ago.
Holland has abolished the stamp duty
on newspapers, and to make up for the
deficiency thus occasioned, has raised
the duty on liquor. A singularly wise
people-the Dutch.
Louisa Muhlbaoh, who weighs nearly
half ton, and has written her weight
in execrable Historical novels" is ex
periencinga a season of retributiye pow
erty.
The London Spectator says of Reverdy
johnson "that no man was ever yet
spoken of as the represents of q ma
tiOn who took so much pains not to de-
serve the name"
William Powers lost leg in the Kesr-
sarge Alabama fight, and has lately met
with a more endurable loss-an uncle
who left 81, ,0O0,000 for Williams conso-
/ lation.
General Logan denounees rings
We presume that he means no imputa-
tioR upon the twenty-dollar ring that
Mrs. Lincoln says that ne passed on on
hnH Ill