The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-05
SPLiNTERS.

Russia meditates stringent press law.
Portugal regrets failure of her olive
crop.
i St. Louis is preparing for balloon
wedding. - = H
Corn fifteen feet high is raised in
Louisiana.
Sodalia, Missouri, has a paper called
the Daily Basoo.
The Boston banks pay 50, ,387 ,O65 in
dividends to- morrow. eEJt:'I y ..El
Buffalo papers speak of considerable
activity in real estate.
They are. demolishing. the Bull Run
breastworks in Vi,ginia.
/ A thirty-four pound mackerel has been
caughton the Pacific coast.
Pearls of great size and beauty are be-
ing found on the Australian coast.
On the Rhine the landlords are de-
ploring decrease in Yankee travelling.
i Ninety bushels of fruit have been.
gathered from one Tennessee apple tree.
i An attentive correspondent reports
from Paris that Napoleon wears no
nightcap.
A Carnival of Blood" is spoken of in
the Chicago papers as going on in that
city. ES
Governor Scott, of South Carolina,
has purchased a faIm of 800 acres al
Columbia. gli n mn
The Queen of Prussia has had an ap-
opleotlc stroke, but Is reported some
what better.
Cinnamon cannot attend the San
Francisco theatres without being hissed
and hooted. ---
The latest Paris fashion is for lady
to carry peacock's feather in the hand
on promenade. rt
The latest about the Grand Duke of
lug Of the brain.
The viceroy of Egypt's son is to study
at Oxford-but whether he will study
hard Is doubted. rE.sa
Prof. Cyrus Northrup, of Yale, has
declined the Presidency of the Ala
bama University. g. II s.-E
Spain is getting into "corner." All
colonial officers are to have their ssla-
ries reduced five per cent. -
The Harvards presented the boat they
used inthe recent international race to
the London Rowing Club.
! Humphrey Marshal berates the prison
officers of Kentucky for their barbarous
outrages on the prisoners.
Miss Louisa Moore, of Wallack's
Theatre, is called the "cbampion weep.
ist" by the press of New York.
Salnave disconsolately "gives up the
ghost" in Hayti. In the language of ye
tonsorial nsmogrifier-"Next."
The st. Paul Pioneer thinks that not
less than 80, 900 bushels of apples will
| be gathered i'll Minnesota this year.
Semmes has been fined 50 for fighting
in the streets of Philadelphia. Not
that Semmes, but another-colored.
Lieutenant Governor Dunn (colored)
| is officiating as Governor of Louisiana,
In the absence of Governor Yarmouth.
Chicago is in raptures with the
weather, and Chicago paper says IL
observes the highest, need of praise"
NJ. Rouher, the lately deposed French
Minister, is said to have made money by
tspeculaung on his own downfall.
A man in Kentucky recently threw a
stone through 4 Window at his wife. She
immediately shot him tor Ku-KIux.
A Gloucester vessels crew recently
caught a shark that had an iron hoop,
deeply imbedded in the flesh, around its
body.
There is an experiment now under
way, which is no less than carrying
live cattle to Europe from the liver
Plate.
The latest proposition about Dover
Straits Is to carry a railway under them
from England to Frince through cast
iron tube.
Massachusetts has had a fair, at
which trial of cook-stoves took the
place of trial of horses, but betting |
was not lively.
The cranberry crop of New Jersey is
said to be exceedingly large this season,
and of superior quality. The fields at
present are alive with pickers.
One of the Boston lecture courses an.
nounces a "Womau's Evening"" when
rhere will be dramatic readings, sing
ing, and organ playing-all by the la
dies.
The Hebrews are building a magnif-
cent synagogue at the corHer of Broad
and Mount Vernon Streets, Philadelphia,
with walls az massive as those OF fort
ress. -.rr...
Work on the Onondags Valley Rail
way has commenced, aud it Is deter
mined to complete the road by the lst
ut November next. Laborers are wanted
on the contract. ...-"
A politician in Wisconsin, having
written long letter explaining his po
sition, au adversary thus epitomizes 1t
"lf have done anything / am sorry
for, am glad of it,"
The Proof Sheet estimates that there
are printed in States and Territories
542 daily and 4425 weekly newspapers.
The number of monthly publications is
277. Total 5244.
The Yale College Freshman Glass
numbers l55. The number of students
connected with the several departments
is as follows: Theological, 35; Law, ls;
Medical, %; Scientific, l36; Academical,
SIS. Total, 729.
The latess about Napoleon is that he
shows very little respect for the doctors
attending him, who are called chiefly to
| n, nnhlic ap1 his fa,,;lv opd