The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-22
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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Napoleon hasn't skated this winter,
But Y EYhe has. oas,.....sgrs
Michigan is the banner State for
Spiritualism.
Highway robbers do much abound in
Cincinnati. .sl-'0sT al,G HEEU
Michigan is about to pass its first law
against prize-ighting.
There are about one hundred and
fifty Mormon saints in New York.
Michigan sends threshiag machines
to California by way of New York.
Certain Boston females pay taxes on
S25, 5,0OO, 900 of real and personal property.
The post Office at Verona, VT, has
been held by members of the Whitehead
family for over twenty years.
Taunton, Mass, has four velocipede
manufactures, which are now turning
out ten machines daily.
Ammonia injected into the veins is
pronounced a certain antidote for the
bite of poisonous snakes.
James Logan No. l, arrested in New
York for the murder of Mr.. Rogers, was
released on Wednesday on one thousand
dollars bail.
In Florida the orange trees are sprout-
ing out again, and are rapidly recover
ing from the effects of the late freeze;
but the lemon, lime, guava, and alliga-
tor pears show no signs of life.
John w. Lee, respectable citizen of
Lexington. KY, on Monday last, while
temporarily deranged, cut the throat of
his wife with razor, and then cut his
own throat. Both are dead. Mr.. Lee
had been sick for long time. ~.
At Troy, New York, yesterday, George
Greening, charged with the murder of
Patrick Tieman in December last,
pleaded guilty of manslaughter, and
was sentenced to two years imprison-
ment.
The trotting horse John A. Logan,
recently owned by Captain Dexter, of
Evansville, has been sold to Amasa
Sprague, of Providence, r. l., brother
to the Senator. The price paid was
$1,000.
Mr.. Colfax, it is said, will tender his
resignation as Speaker of the House q
few days previous to the 4th of March.
Mr.. PomerOy, of New York, will doubt
les be chosen Speaker pro TEN.
The trial of Collector Thorne and his
sureties at Trenton, n. j., for alleged
frauds on the revenue, was concluded
on Wednesday. a verdict for 100000
was rendered for the Government.
Eight miles of ice have broken away
in the Hudson river since Saturday, and
the river is now open as far north as
Newburg, with every prospect of being
open to Poughkeepsie this week.
A party of English sportsmen, who
spent some time in the pursuit of game
among the mountains of the Blue Ridge,
Virginia, have purchased a tract, and
propose to colOnize it from England.
A New York letter says: "Not a few
Custom House officials received an Off
cial notification Wednesday afternoon
that their services would be dispensed
with after the lst proximO. A painful
sensa ion is the consequence and all
hands are wondering what is coming"
One of the Mormon Bishops who
works contract on the Pacific railroad
lately undert ook to deduct tithcs from
the pay of his men, who are "Gentiles."
The latter brought the bishop to terms,
however, by threats of suspending him
to the nearest tree.
DR.. w. NJ. Jennings, prominent ply
sician of Titusvillc, Pennsylvania, acci-
dentally poisoned himself last week,
and died in great agony. He inadvert-
emily took dose of tincture of aconite
from bottle which he supposed con-
tanned tincLure of orange peel.
Arizona advices have been received
at San Francisco, which state that Cap
tain Young's command of one hundred
and forty men were attacked by the
numbering three hundred, on
the night of the 9th of January, he
tween Williams and Prescott. The In
dians succeeded in capturing pack
train belonging to the command.
Two boys attempted to steal ride
for few blocks by getting on to the
COW. catcher of locomotive on the
Hudson River railroad, on Thursday.
They made the mistake Of choosing an
express train, and were carried as far
as Peekskill without stopping. They
were so terrified by fright that on reach
ing the depot in the latter place, one
tumbled to the ground senseless, and
the other had to be helped off.