The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

| A Cleveland, Ohio, woman has had
seven husbands in eight years. One
was killed in the army, another was
killed in street fight, and the balance
are alive, four of them having been di-
yOrced. A seventeen years cid daugn-
ter of this wsman has been twice mar
ried and divorced.
The Chicago Post makes the following
announcement: The convention OF
such Of the laity and clergy of the Prot
estaRt Episcopal Church as do not
subscribe to the Remaining tendencies
of the Bishop OF the Diocese and his CO.
workers, is fixed for the 18th OF June,
in this city.
The pertinacity with which condemn
ed cenvicts are interviewed in the East
eru prisons warrants the supposltion
that the enterprising interViewers
would even follow them into the next
world in order to record their sensations
and Impressions of things in general,
could they only secure a dead head tick
ct there and back.
General Alexander Webb, the new
military Governor of Virginia, is a son
of General James Watson Webb, the
Minister in Brazil. He is graduate of
West Point, and was Lieutenant of ar
tillery at the breaking out of the war.
II -, nnTlnD
the war. lie was Inspector General OF
the army of the Potomac, and Chief OF
Staff of General Meade's command.
Mr.. Pinchbeck, the distinguished
colored man" of Louisiana, who, as a
member of the Legislature of that
State, threatened to lay New Orleans in
ashes, not long ago, has been appointed
by General Grant, Register of the Land
Office at New Orleans-a fit appoint
ment for pinChbeck Administration to
make.
General Robert Anderson, the de-
fender of Fort Sumter, has been compel
led by his necessities to sell his library
and go and live in Europe. He served
his country long and well, but being too
patriotic TO keep pace with the strides
of RaGicalism, he has been practically
turned ont of his commission in the
army and left to shift for himself.
In recent trial between two Ger
mans in New York city, it came ont that
the great whale, which used to disport
himself SO frriously in the New York
aquarium" to the great awe and
amazement of visitors, was nothing
more or less than piece of mechanism,
with a man inside of it. One of these
Germans was the Jonah in the belly of
this artificial monster.
A good story is told by the Richmond
Dispatch A colored soldier affixed his
mark ts an application for back pay
and bounty. While the claim was pass
ing through the Department he learned
to write, and signed his name to the
additional papers subsequently re-
quired, and the Red Tape Bureau, as
touished at his euickness, declared the
|
do YOU" said Fanny, tother day,
"In earnest love me as yen say
| Or are those tender words applied
Alike TO fifty girls beside I"
Dear, cruel girl" cried I, "forbear;
For, by those eyes, those lips, swear"
She stopped me- "a the oath took,
And cried: You've sworn, now kiss the book"
An old gentleman of the name of
Page, finding a young lady's glove at a
watering place, presented it to her with
the following words:
IF from your glove you take the lctterG,
Your glove is love, which devote TO thee
To which the lady returned the fol-
lowing answer:
IF from your page you take the letter p
Your Page is age, and that won't do for me
A burly-looking female of unmstaks-
bic origin was recently arraigned before
New Orleans magistrate for some or
dinary offence. While nature had mu-
niticently endowed her with health and
physical strength, the question of good
looks had been neglected in the haste
with which she had been prepared for
the world. What are you up here for Z"
inquired the Magistrate. "My beauty,
| reckon" Your what" "My beauty ~
Are you certain of thatP "Oh be-
dad, there's no mistakem Then l
discharge you-you amt guilty." and
the acquitted lady took her departure.
Says Washington letter: Lieuten-
ant Governor Dunn, of Louisiana, is
daily upon the floor of the Senate and
the House. He produces q decided SEN
sation. He is a large, we'll formed
black (not Yellow man. He has a su.
perior education, is easy and dignifed
In manner, graceful and fluent speak
er, and withsl man whom every one
Is compelled to respect. Garrett Davis
shakes his head laughingly and saws, 81
told you so" and with emphatic mean.
ing wilson replies, 80 did l, and am
profoundly grateful to God and the Re-
Puohcan party that now see it,"
The huge elephant Hercules, of Rev.
no'u great Mexican Menagerie, broke
loose at Forest, Miss, a few days since,
and attacked the locomotive of a freight
train that was running at the rate of
twenty miles an hour. He was instant.
: l! Killed, and the train was thrown
from the track, the engine running into
non $ cage, killing a lioness and let.
IIu8 iooSe furious lion, which pursned
man and beast. He killed and nartIT
devou7ed a horse, and killed a cpi"ra3
man. At last accounts the keener Of
; the lion and several other persons rsra
IN pursuit Of him, to secure him if nos'
{ tsible, alive. -i'Ih' l. pos
a preacher Of the brawling descrip.
tion was enlarging upon the beantiss r.
an unsullied conscience and A nnrs
heart, before congregation of whom
some were Irishmen. "Let your action.
be so pure" >" said he, "your conscis,oa
} so clean, that if you had a window j.
your bosom, your neighbors conId soo