The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-20
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l Six thousand masons are on Strlhe
in Berlin.
The absence of blondes at Saratoga is
the subject of comment. .-.--l ~
The grape rosfs almost destroying the
vineyards in Southern Indiana.
II is suggested that lady dissolved
in tears makes AL eligible water front.
1t is estimated that there are now
l70, 900 Chinamen in the United States,
aud more coming.
st. Mary's Roman Catholic Church,
Chillicothe, was dedicated last Sunday
by Archbishop Purcell.
A heavy shower Of rain fell at Rich
mond, Va, on Monday evening last-the
| first in about two months.
A Chinese place of worship is shortly
to be erected in thecity ofNew York,
where there are said to be some 10000
Chinese.
Chicago reclprocates the compliment
of California fruit by sending the Pa
cific several car loads of butter.
Pinchback and Anthony the hippo
droming negroes, from Louisiana, are
now living off their colored brethren in
in New York city.
The Gar has banished the stern faith
er from Russian novels by declaring that
no girl shall be made marry anybody
whom she Doesn't like. a
On shoemaker's shop Ia Philadelphia
is placard announcing "Gootweel ind
tgstyers fur sail"
An American who broke his ankle by
railroad accident in Hesse Darmstadt,
Germany, in June last, was paid $4,000
in gold, damages, by the railioad com
paDy. -.H--.
Detroit and Milwaukee railway con
ductors are now in full uniform of blue
cloth. 1t is not stated whether the uni
forms are made without pockets sr not
In recent seizure of champagne
making establishment in New York, the
articles found on hand were four barrels
of common white wine, one barrel of
molasses and one barrel of vitriol.
Captain VIM. C. Barry, we'll known
New York seaman for forty years past,
died at Brooklyn Friday night last, of
several carbuncles on the back.
The total valuation of Boston for taxa
BILE purposes, according to the assessors
returns for 1869, is S549, ,51l 500, being
an increase over last year of $50, ,937 900.
Robert f. Sprague. broker of Og-
dsnsburg, New York, was arrested in
New York city, on Monday, where he
has recently arrived from Mexico,
charged with eloping from Ogdensburg
with another mans wife, and taking
with him two thousand dollars in money
belonging to other people.
The farmers of Southbridge, Massa
chusetts, are troubled about a strange
kind of cattle disease. 1t first appears
on the animals leg near the hoof, in the
form of n large and painful swelling,
and the part affected soon suppurates
aud discharges, the animal meanwhile
hei2g unable to bear its weight upon its
foot.
The Chicago Tribune, describing
fashionable marriage in a church,
utters a profound truth when it says
that Marriages draw better than
theaters, and the interest felt in them
by ladies never grows cold" The same
remark is equally true of Chicago di-
vorCes.
The gushing Winnie Ream, whom the
Government set up in the chiseling
business, some years ago, is still work
ing away upon that attenuated statue
of Lincoln, ut Rome. Her subject is
likely 10 be forgotten before she can
evolve the monument which is to com.
Isemorate him.
A poetical genius, who feels and be-
lieves that poetry should necessarily
consist of solid fact, has jerked a
pOme," on Grant, which bowls off in the
following style:
The hero of Vicksburs,
Part owner OF Brcksburg.'
Tennessee Stokes, We are told, "bows
TO the verdict of the people, and will
not interfere with the State Govern
ment." This is certainly great piece
of condescending magnanimity upon
the part of the party of the name Of
! Stokes.
At q recent meeting of the poor board
of Paddington, England, the chairman
remarked that in recent visit 70 the
inhrmary he was accOsted by pauper
inmate who few years ago possessed a
fortune of S250,000 to 500, 900, was
blood relative to one of the highest
Peers of the realm and had lost all his
property by the failure of Overend and
Gurney. The rules of the work house
did not allow the master or guardians TO
draw any distinctions between paupers,
and the only thing that could be done
was to write to the noble Lord and in.
form him of the destitute circumstances
of his poor relative.
At the locomotive works in Taunton,
Mass, a very novel machine, designed
for freight service on the Pacific rail
road, is building. 1t looks like two en-
gines joined; it has six driving wheels
on each side and weighs tfty-fve or
sixty tons; the boiler is thirty. eight feet
long, and on its top, in the centre, are
the stations of the engineer aud fire
mau; IT carries its own wood and water,
dispensing with tender, and can be
, driven In either direction equally we'll.
The machine will be finished in the fall
shocking Outrage by m Negro