The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-15
SPLINTERS.

John Mitchellis looking after his pea
nut estate in Georgia. zoe ~ o z
Sir Henry Bulwer is working on some
new "Charscters" - " aeyJ d
The Marquis ofBute let's his isparishers
choose their own clergyman, -'----
Schamyl, the Circassian rebel, has
been hob. nobbiDg with the Sultan.
BENJAMIN Loder, an old dry goods
prince of New York, has gone by the
board, .- --
Jenny Lind has overdrawn her ac-
count. She has but few notes left for
small change.
A disastrous prairie fire is reported in
Northeastern Texas.
Beecher says he seldom reads "tbe
newspapers" The newspapers have no
difficnlty in reading him.
John Jay, our minister to Austria, is
raising d row about his father-in7law's
property, which he wants to finger.
John J. Eckel, who knew all about
the Burdell-Cunningham murder, has
Just died aud "made no sign"
1t is rumored that fillibustering ex-
petition to Cuba started from Augusta,
Ga, on Thursday last.
An Edinburgh chloroform manufac-
tory makes 5000, 900 doses in a year.
A vigilance committee was formed at
Los Angeles, California, on the lss inst.
Some of the Philadelphia city rail-
roads reduce their fare to five cents at
ter the lst Of March next.
A local journal contradicts the report
that the Bible has been excluded from
the schools Of Allegany county, Mary
land.
The Indians in Arizona are active and
have captured 4 herd of Government
cattle recently near Apache Pass.
Ross Browne tells US that the Chinese
are i n the habit of stealing children and
cutting their eyes out for medicinal
purposes.
Mrs. Lincoln, it seems, is not going to
marry that impecunious German poten-
tate. She is living at Frankfort in Sc.
clusiop.
Isabella has caused denial to be
made of the report that she took with
her, in her flight from Madrid, crown
of diamonds.
The Pope has decreed that in case of
his death the Ecumenical Council shall
be dissolved and none but Cardinals vote
for his successor.
A convention for the purprse of organ
izing All "independent political temper
perance party in the State of New York"
is called to meet at Syracuse on the 22d
inst. >
Brigham Young recently lectured the
sisterhood on table matters, advising
! them to avoid multiplicity Of dishes,
and rely on Johnny cake"
Father Hyacinthe took passage on the
steamer Periere at New York, Saturday,
| for Havre. He promises to come back
again sometime and see more of the
country.
There are to be new postage stamps
in place of those now in use, rs large
as the Old red ones, and having profile
marble busts OF great men engraved on
I them.
A company in Fair Haven, CT, is
making arrangements to erect factory
in that place for the manufacture of
paper pulp from potato vines.
A salute Of thirteen guns was fired on
the Sth, at sunrise, from Fort Trumbull,
in respect TO the memory of the late
x-President Pierce, the orders haTing
just arrived At that post.
One of "the most wonderful optical
illusions ever witnessed" can now be
seen at a London theatre-a skeleton
dancing in a castle ball. The moral
effect" is said disagreeable, and will
prevent it from becoming popular.
An English laboreI's wife recently pre-
seutentei her husband with FIVE chill.
rem at a lirth, all of whom were alive at
last accounts. The poor womin has
twenty-five children, including two sets
of triplets. The Queen has sent her
81.
Ayoung man in Carroll county, Ten.
uessee, some n ghtsa ago protested against
the stealing of his mothers chickens by
a party of skull. boners." The youth
was instantly shot dead for his imperti-
nence.
The Rev. Rockingham, of Richard
SON Mcfarland fame, preached ser.
mon Sunday in New York, denanciatory
Of editors and iHterviewers. including
them in the catalogue of "foes to SO.
ciety.' .,
The Alexandria (Va) Gd-ette says
at gives us pain to know that so many
active young men of the land, it's very
bone aud sinew, are leaving Virginia
and North Carolina TO seek their for
tunes in the far West
| General Reynolds has issued an order
requiring the Texas Central and Wash
ington County railroads "tO pay into
the Treasury of the State, in specie,
within thirty days from the date of his
order, the arrearages of interest sscer.
tanned aad stated TO be due the State"
Il A man deposited a check for $50 900,
purporting to have been drawn on a
New York bank by a firm in that city,
in the National Bank of the Republic
at Washington, Saturday. and subse-
quently attempted to check out six or
seven thousand dollars, but did not sHc.
ceed. HIS thirty thousand dollar check
was found to be worthless.
1t is asserted that Gerer Prim is
contemplating coap d'etdt in Spai9,
having in view the elevation OF the
Duke Of Genoa to the throne and him.
self 10 the Regency. This assertion has
been denied, however, in the. Cortes, By
General Prim himself who, neverthe-
less, expresses the belief that an i'm.
mense majority of the people are in
I favor of the Dake OF Genoa.
4 yoGug swindler named Edward G..
Howe has been arrested in New York.
HIS line of business consisted in repre-
senting himself to be detective officer
to parties who had lost money, and after
receiving sufficient funds to enable him
to work up the case, he wopld disap-
pear. He was always pleutifully SUP
piled with fraudulent letters of recon-
mendatiOn. r