The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-13
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Fisk is called a body-snatcher.

3 A man In Maine mas made soo,uVv ouV
: of one stallion.
One of Eugenie's dress-makers has a
salary of $4,000 per year.
: Eugenie will not necessarily be i'll this
year. 1t is q mistake.
, Flogging in the army has been abol-
ished in Sweden.
The professors getS2OO per month in
the Califo University.
. Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Williams are said
to have made fortune of s705,OOo.
, One hundred and two female teachers
in Boston demand the right to vote.
Peanuts are said to be very exhaust
ing crop, both for the jaws and the soil.
Longfellow and Prescott are said to be
the two American writers best known
in Italy.
There are twenty-eight newspaper cor.
respondents in Paris, twenty of them
Americans.
1t cost $4,000 last year for "pasting
and folding" for the Pennsylvania State
Legislature.
Eighty or ninety out of every one hun
dred of the school teachers of Massa-
chusetts are women.
A strong movement is on foot in Rus
sia to give higher and more complete
education to women.
Last year it cost Great Britain $4,000
month to support the 1900 families of
sick and disabled soldiers.
In the city of Boston, women are taxed
upon $4,000, 900 of real estate, and $751;
900, 900 of personal property.
An Illinois county, with voting pop
ulation of ten thousand, has produced
ninety-six divorces within month.
The pecuniary loss by the recent
earthquake at San Francisco will, it is
said, exceed three millions Of dollars.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
in his report, estimates the number of
Indians to be provided for at 300, 600.
A Philadelphia professor has invent
ed a steam brick kiln, wherein 100000
bricks can be evcnly burnt in three
days.
The construction Of the new bnild-
ing for Napoleon's official paper in Paris
carried on at night by the electric
light.
The Montana Legislature has adopt
cd report in favor of removing thel
| capital from Virginia City to Dear
Lodge City. Helena also wants it.
Ola two.penny reprint in an English
provincial town of the "Girl of the Pc
riod," from the Saturday Reriew, thirty
two thousand copies have been sold.
During 1868, the number of foreign
clearances at Boston was 30l7, COM
prising tonnage of 533,5i9-a gain of
299 vessels over 1867 but a--decline in
tonnage of G1, OBJ tons.
Thirty thousand smuggled cigars of
valuable brand were seized at New
Orleans few days ago. About the
same quantity were contiscated at Bos.
ton recently.
The discovery of human skeleton,
four miles from Pulaski, Illinois, recalls
the fact of the mysterious disappear
ance of stranger, ten years ago, in
that vicinity.
St. Joseph's Catholic Church has con-
tributed, during the year, $3.50 to the
support of the orphan asylum at Vim
cennes. Of this sam $40 were collect
cd on Christmas day.
Since the establishment of the orphan
asylum at Evansville, eighty children
have been received therein ard cared
for, fifty-fve of whom have been pro.
vided with good homes.
Since the invasion of the Papal States
the Catholic churches in Paris have
given 105, 600, 900 francs to the Pope.
The last annual collection of Peters
pence amounted to over 100000 francs.
There has been shipped from the port
of Manistee during the past season,
3l5, $780, 900 feet of lumber. A cores
pondent of the Mdnistee Times thinks
there is salt in that region, and wants
a company organized for experimental
boring.
Governor Marshall submitted his mes
sage to the Minnesota Legislature. He
says the States financial condition is
good. The receipts for the past year
were S34S,O5O; and the expenditures
S7G2,3l5. The taxable property has in
creased l5 per cent. in value since 1867.
The school fund exceeds two million
dollars. Last years wheat crop was
SIG, 900.
A Mr.. Lawrence, of Lowvilie, is said
to be the rightful heir to fortune of
Sl40, 900 900, which has been accumu-
lating in England. Mr.. Lawrence is
poor man, and is endeavoring to raise
funds to carry him to England by issu
, ing bonds for the payment of $1,000 each
ers to receive pay when he receives his
fortHne.
The "bee cholera" is an epidemic in
, Clinton county, Ohio. One bee raiser
has lost thirty out of eighty hives. He
has discovered that the bees are at
tackled with a violent purging, the mat
ter evacuated being of glutinous quail
, ity, clings to the bees in such a manner
IS to retard their motion. Their wings
become glued up, and in attempting to
!, fly they drop down a short distance from
their hives 6pd perish.
The Fond du Lac CoMmoHTeGlh has
the following item: The identical
/; watch of Major Andre, spoken of in the
story we print this week, is owned by
an aged widow who new resides in
! Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and who de-
s;ras m di,nose of il, The name of