The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-26
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Sm3li-pOA 10 Pfo'efSHs - &--~-'J - -
of Indiana. -
Four hundred thousand volunteers
and militiamen garrison England.
An exchange, in speaking Of divorce,
calls her a "retired wife,"
Some of Grants "prominent friends
propose to do him and his horse in
brass. - r $500 lJYlIa lt3- ~
Extensive coal mines, have been dis
covered in Johns Mountain, near Dali
ton, Ga. st.,C. ~--oEfg3 ,---.-.,. r d.
! Four thousand million pounds Of rags
are estimated to be anuualiy made into
paper in the world.
Six violent scoundrels have made their
escape from the Davenport Qowa) Jail.
The neighborhood is alarmed. a1
The trail of the velocipede is over all
our exchanges. To the suffering news
editor it is literally "come wheel, come
woe."
Intemperance is growing to be ma
tional vice among the Swedes. Their
Kingis agitating total prohibition laws.
There is an attempt in New York to
revive the old proposition that ladies
shall dress in black when attending
church.
1t has recently been decided in Paris
that "the obligatory revelation of o
medical secret does not exist in French
legislation"
A cargo of wheat from California,
which recently arrived at Boston and
was sold, returns net loss to the par
ties interested of over $4,000.
Levy, the cornet player, has decided
on leaving the Parepa troupe, and will
for the future blow his own trumpet on
his own account.
"Mack" states, in a letter to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, that General Butler
has found out that sixty or more Re-
publicaus in the House are national
bank directors.
The Duke Moptpensier is anxious to
secure the Spanish throne-even if it
cost him any amount of Spanish crowns
and he is bribing everybody who is
open to his advances.
The Union League of st. Louis held
meeting, last night, and passed resolu.
tions favorable to cooperating with the
Democratic organization in selecting q
peoples ticket for the coming charter
election.
Mrs. Sophia Boyce, a widow aged sixty,
living in Fremont, Ohio, while looking
through q tannery there, with a party
of friends, last Saturday, had her dress
caught by cog revolving rapidly on
shaft, and was instantly and horribly
mangled to death.
At recent representation at the Ital'
ious, in Pario, a lady sitting al"nA in one
of the most conspicuous boxes was so
excessively decOlletee that she was re-
quested by the manager to throw her
opera cleak over her shoulders. Rather
than submit she Indignantly left the
theatre.
The statement is made that nearly $50
Mormon families reside in Williamsburg,
New York, each family averaging ten
members. Thirty of the heads of fami-
lies mentioned have plurality of wives,
the largest number, eleven, being sealed
to a lascivions old cuss of sixty-three.
The youngest, fairest and favorite of the
number, is only thirteen years of age.
She is already mother.
Five passengers from White Pine ar
rived in San Francisco, January p, each
the posscssor of about 100000, the pro-
ceeds of their seasons operation in the
newly discovered Silverado. Three of
the number had grown rich by selling
the proprietorship, or shares, in we'll
known mines, and the two Others by
selling and by the proceeds of mines in
which they still hold considerable in
terest.
An American lately in Russia was
present at a supper and ball given last
month, in the Winter Palace, st. Peters
burg, by the Emperor. Two thousand
guests sat down to the table in the sup
per.room, without the slightest confu-
sion, and with the most ample accom-
modation, aud near the close of the en-
tertaiBment tea was served, each guest
being served with separate tea service
of silver.
The crowning scandal of New York is
a divorce case, in which the plaintiff,
DR.. John A. Ward, AYERS that his wife
contracted criminal intimacy with the
artist, William J. Hennessey, and that
she justified her conduct by the mon
strous doctrine of free love. He claims
that he has always treated her with the
utmost kindness, but that she persisted
in demanding free intercourse with any
one to whom she might feel attached,
or for whom she might have an affini-
ty." The names of many people eml-
nent in the literary and artistic world
are published in connection with the
matter, either as friends or advisers OF
the parties.
woman, acting as midwife at Heugh-
ton, Michigan, asserts that on recent
occasion when she was holding child
two weeks old in her arms, and physl-
clan was preparing a prescription for
its neither, the child raised up and ut
tered "in a pleading tone" the word
"mother" twice. She (the midwife)
recognized this as warning, and urged
that the medicine should not be taken,
but her suggestions were not needed.
Again, when the medicine was being
taken by the mother, the child repeated
his warning" and before a day had
passed, the woman was dead.
Somebody now says that Dr. McCosh
never played game of whist in his
life, and never drinks wine except when
propriety demands it. Some one has
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