The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-11
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
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- AAS Viu0SeHfoNOAFer--Ine earth.
A cold snap-Breaking your leg on
ice. -
The State Department expended $500
for soap last year.
Who was the first man condemned to
, hard labor for lifei Adam.
San Francisco has Strawberries and
fresh salmon the year round.
Young men anxious to get rid of their
wild cats will do well to get sewing
machine. Those covered with calico
are the best. >.#
William Mosgrove, proprietor OF the
United States House, Steubenvilie, o.,
died very suddenly on the morning of
the Sd, of apoplexy.
Westward the star of empire takes its
way. The Cheyenne people say they
are going "Down East" when they make
a trip to Omaha. eaze
j Here is a concise but hopeful love-
Iletter, written by q Colorado miner: :
"seven years is rather long to kort a gal,
bat lie have you yit, Cate"
A new material called parkesine has
been invented, which is destined to SUI
perse1e-gutta percha. 1t is composed of
vulcanized oil and collOdion.
An English Judge, Baron Anderson. on
being asked to give his opinion as to The
proper length of sermon, replied:
Twenty minutes, with leaning to the
side of mercy" .r....,
When stoves are red.hot, the gases of
com stion leak through their pores
like water through q sponge. This is
one cause of the unhealthiness of rooms
| thus heated.
Under New York law, if a burglar,
being surprised in house, shoots the
owner or tenant who attempts TO arrest
him, his crime is only murder in the
second degree. 81 So
The mansion of Thomas Jefferson, at
Monticello, three miles from Charlottes-
vile, Virginia, is sadly in need of re-
pair aud has been stripped yOf many
things of interest and value.
A good sort of a man in Maine was
recently asked to subscribe for a chan
deler fer the church. "Now," said he,
"what's the use of chandelier After
you get it you can't get any one to play
on It,"
A Southern paper is opposed to the
education of women as surgeons. Itsays
that, suppose one were put under the in
fuence of chloroform by such doctor,
"what is to prevent the woman from
kissing you :"
A reverend gentleman in Murfrees-
boTo, Tennessee, has been detected in
sending orders purporting to emanate
from the Kuklux Klan, for the purpose
! of avoiding payment of the rent of the
house in which he lived. He is, of
course, "lOil."
President Grant on Saturday last re-
moved all the Union Pacific Railroad
Commissioners, except Williams. Frank
Blair and Snow, of the Intelligencer,
were among those removed; and eS-
| Congressman Dodge, of Iowa, is under
stood to be one of the new appointees.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Ne,c Era, pretty
good Radical authority, says: 1--WE
have a class of impudent et-baggers
in the Republican party in Georgia who
ought to be promptly offered up as a
stink offering to the devil. They are a
curse to the party and disgrace to the
State and Union"
They have in Wisconsin what are
called "hard times parties" The invi-
tations are written on brown paper, and
request the guests to dress in their old
clothes. Bean soup, crackers and dried
herrings constitute the refreshments,
with "cambric tea" and water to wash
them down. The guests walk home.
The experiment of providing a res
tauyaut for the working girls of Boston
has proved success. The best meats
are fuAished at from ten to fifteen cents
a meal; meal of bread, crackers, fried
cakes, etc, is furnished for eight cents,
and other articles of food in proportion.
| The lodging house system has not
proved SO successful, and does not meet
with general favor.
The military idea of honor has re-
markable force in Belgium. Two COM
mon soldiers, recently under arrest, in
the same cell, played cards to pass away
the time. One of them lost the few
sous in his possession, then his clothes
and finally staked his life. He lost.
Next morning he was found hanging to
a peg in the wall, his companion sleep
ing serenely on the pallet.
Papa Grant is to be continued as Post
master at CovingtOn, Ky, and Alexan-
der Sharp, brother-in law of Ulysses, is
to be made Marshal of the District of
Columbia. Grant intends to take care
of his personal friends and relatives
first; then, if there is anything to dis
tribute, he may give it to the Radicals
who nominated and elected him.
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, has
just purch ased an immense water power
canal in Columbia, South Carolina, on
which he will soon commence a large
cotton mill. A SoutherA exchange
states that besides this enterprise, there
are several other large cotton factories
being built in South Carolina, several
in Georgia, three or four in Alabama, as
many in Mississippi, and that even Flo
rida and Texas are moving in the Same
direction.
An earnest Ohio Radical Congressman
in Washington was asked how he liked
the nomination of Cox for Secretary of
the Interior. To the interrogatory he
, replied: Cox be damned! Why didn't
he appoint old Ben Wadei Only for
Cox negro suffrage would have been car
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