The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-26

A negro and carpet-bagger from
New York are rival candidates for the
position of postmaster at Columbia,
s. c.
Japan has model dentists who loosen
the teeth by blows from q mallet, and
then pull them OUT with the fingers.
1t is said the temperance lecturers, in
appealing to the topers to choose be-
tween Alcohol and Sobriety, exclaim,
Under which King, Benzineian |"
The colOred people are going to start
paper in Washington, under the man
agement of Fred. Douglass, George T.
Downing and other influential colored
men.
The Boston Transcript expresses sur
prise that General Graut should want
another fish in his Cabinet when he has
AdOlph in already.
The Princess of Wales has been mar
ried but six years, yet she is said to ap-
pear at least twenty years older than at
; the wedding. Her husband leads her
Il sorry life.
Sheffield, England, has witnessed
another attempt, fortunately not sue
cessful, to blow up, with an Internal
machine, a workman who did not be-
long to the Trades Union.
A compromise has been made in Paris
between the long and short dresses.
I The latter are to be worn by ladies with
small feet, while others are to be al.
lowed to sport trails.
The Maine Legislature is after the
baggage smashers." 1t has passed
law imposing one hundred dollars fine,
OF one years Imprisonment, on any per-
son who, by design or carelessness, in
iures baggage.
Hundreds of the soldiers of the regu
| lar army stationed in Dakotah are mar
ried to Indian women; and these wo-
men make faithful, virtuous and labo-
rious wives. The soldiers rarely desert
them.
The French papers in Egypt-gener-
ally supposed to be subsidized by the
Viceroy-are becoming more and more
outspoken on the subject of Egyptian
independence of the Sublime Porte.
The mildness of the winter in Europe,
1t is said, is shown in Paris by the chest
nut tree in the garden of the Tuileries,
called lie Yingt Mars, which has this
year anticipated by more than month
the usual time Ofputting forth its bios
SONS, as it is now in full bloom.
DR.. Nealton, of Paris, has just ex
tracted an eye, with the aid of chloro-
form, from NJ. de Montmartre, who was
threatened with total blindness. 1t is
hoped that the sight of the other eye,
which was in danger from sympathy"
with it's diseased companion, may now
be preserved.
A peasant, whose only possession
thirty years ago was stony field near
Cannes, in Southern France, has since
become a millionaire, spleadid villas
having been built on the lots into which |
the field was divided ten or twelve
years ago. Property at that fashiona-
BILE watering place is as dear as in the !
best quarters of Paris.
A German wrote an obituary on the |
death of his wife, of which the follow
ing is a copy: "If mine wife had lived |
until next Friday she would have been
dead shust two weeks. Nothing is pos
sible with the Almighty. AS the tree |
| falls so must it stand"
1t is stated that Mrs. Lincoln lives at
public hotel in Frankfort, in plain
and unpretending style, occupying a
room on the third floor. She has the !
appearance of one living economically
on limited means, and is regarded in |
Frankfort as having been rather harsh !
ly treated at home. Poor thing.
The house hunters in New York say
that the opposition to children, sew
ing machines and pianos on tn part of
people who have rooms and parts of
houses to rent is stronger and deeper
than ever. The opposition to children
appears TO have become lunacy. 1t is
rigid, almost universal.
An inventor in New Albany, Ind, is
making new locomotive apparatus.
1t consists OF pair of skates on the
bicycle order, the wheels being five
inches in diameter and three-fourths of
an inch wide, fastened to wood, which
are to be strapped to the feet. The
wheels are made large and broad in
order that the wearer may have no diff
Guilty in passing over rough pavemeuts
at rapid rate.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of
the United States, it is announced, will
next June decide the question whether
the laity shall hereafter be admitted as
delegates to the conferences. All the
members of the church, male and te-
male, will vote; and in order to ascer-
tain, in an informal way, the views OF
the denomination on the subject, a
series of mass meetings of friends of the
change will be held throughout the
country.
1 Jacob Surget, ninety-seven years old,
died at new York last week and left a
property valued at Sl0,OOO,OOO. He was
Creole Frenchmau, but was born in
the United States. He lived by rule
and was very abstemious, drinking
nothing but water. He used to say that
he had a secret of longevity which he
bought of gipsy woman when he was a
sailor, and he thought he should live to
be hundred. For many years he spent
, his winters in Mississippi, but when the
war broke oat he came to New York,
where he remained until he died,