The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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assessors; actual value, 81, OOO, ,O0O,OOO.
The North Missouri railroad is no
nearly as far north as Bloomfield.
There were 14,143 funerals in Phili
delphia last year, and thirty-Hine mul
derers. s-.r i.
| Tye-Kim, a Chinaman, is teaching
school of colored children on Bayo
Goula, Louisiana. --
w. w. Beebe, q leading man anon
the horticulturists of the States, died i
Dubuque last week.
The railroad from Sioux City to LAX
Superior, via st. Paul, has q grant Q
100000 acres.
The New York slate-roofers are on
strike, on account of the reduction O
their pay from $3.50 to "a per day.
The receipts at the Paris Gran'
Opera, when Patti sings, are abou
1900 francs; on other nights abou
5000.
Lord Napier has sent Grant ono o
Theodore's Arabic Bibles, for devotiona
use.
Sir Samuel Bakers new book, Cast u
by the ISed, is dedicated to boys from
eight to eighty years old.
The Bavarian King is going to st
Petersburg, to ask the Gear to let hin
marry his only daughter, Maria.
Gustave Dore's Spanish Beggars" ha'
become the property of John Bonner
the New York stock broker.
The Pope is said to be SO displeased
with Napoleon that he will not make
the Archbishop of Paris Cardinal.
Evelyn Evans, recently an actor in q
Rochester IN. ~ theatre, has been
transformed into 0 Methodist minister,
and is holding revivals in Pittsburgh.
A generous individual, too modest to
give his name, gave $500 bell, weigh,
ing two thousand pounds, to the town
of Peabody, Mass, as New Years pres,
ent.
The Percy and Campbell families,
famous in English and Scottish history,
were united on the 22d ult., by the mar
riage of Earl Percy with the Duke of
Argyle's daughter. FA
Hon. James A. Seldom, who acted
for several years as Confederate Secre-
tary of War, has become q member OF
the mercantile establishment of George
Lee & Co., Richmond.
AChicago preacher has been pointing
out "The Way to He'll" A wicked CO.
temporary adds: "Persons desiring a
complete guide to Chicago should pur-
chase the sermon"
Kossuth, following in the footsteps of
Garibaldi and Mazzini, has written to
the republican leaders of Spain, suppli-
eating them not to lose the opportunity
of proclaimiog republic.
The clergy costs the United States
S12, 100000 annually; the criminals, S4O,-
600, 600; the lawyers, S7O,OOO,OOO; rum,
5000, 100000!
A hairless squirrel has been caught in
Natchez. Its skin is soft and smooth,
and evidently never had any hair upon
it.
Tula is the Sheffield of Russia, and
there is in Moscow painting of the
Sacrifice of Isaac" in which the knife
held by Abraham is marked "Tula."
Postmaster General Randall is pre-
pairing report for Congress, in which
he will advocate tho union of the post
Office and telegraph. To that end he is
collecting facts, figures and arguments.
Old Jerome, the ex-King of Westpha-
liza, and father of Plon-Plon and the
Princess Mathilda Demidoff, it has re-
Gently been ascertained, died of an over
dose of laudanum administered to him
by an unskillful physician.
At the conclusion of George Francis
TIain's speech to the New York Fenians,
on Friday night, he called upon some
one in the audience to sing ireland
Shall be Free" which was done, the
entire audience joining in the chorus,
and duriHg the singing Mr.. Train fa-
vored the company with a dance upon
the platform, in harmony with the
music.
Ling .sian-man is q Chinese bandit,
who is now expiating his crime in box
so ingeniously arranged that he can
neither sit, lie nor stand, while his
head and hands protrude. In that po-
sition he will be allowed to make him
self as comfortable as circumstances
will permit until he starves to dath.
A Paris writer on popular science
makes out that the people of the
United States are growing to physical
resemblance Of the Indians. Abbe Bras
seur de Bourbourg asserts in his works
Ou hueIlS JuO puySlCdl tIel IdOTal CudI-
acteristics of tho people of European or
igin, who have made their homes in the
North, have become like the Iriquois,
while those of the South have become
like the Cherokee.
One of the Pennsylvania Senators
proposed curious plan of nominating
a candidate for United States Senator
one which was not adopted, however
1t was that each of the seventy-nine
Republican members of the House and
the Speaker of the Senate be allowed to
name a candidate, making eighty can,
dates in all. He then proposed that each
of the ssventy-nine members erase one
name, and that the name remaining be
considered the nomination and receive
the Republican support.
characteristics of Great Cities.
London possesses-relatively to the
other capitals-the greatest number o.
engineers, letters of carriages on hire
printers, booksellers and cooks, usurers
collectors of curiosities, and amateurs
of paintings abound most at Amster
dam. st. Petersburg takes precedence
for coachmen; at Brussels are to be found
the most BOYS who smoke; at Naples the