The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-06
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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purposes to begin new era.
March frosts have injured tobacco IN
Kentucky.
Indiana produced 80, ,3S2, 900 bushels of
corn in 1868.
Colorado advertises for one thousand
unmarried women. 49,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and
Vermont will fast on the Sth inst.
The white of An egg given in sweet
ened water is sure cure for the group.
A congregational Club" is to be
added to the social organizations of Bos-
ton.
Farmers should take a lesson from
Wall street brokers, and see that their
stock is well watered. at
The first month of the first Roman
calendar was March, January and Feb
ruary having been added afterward.
A preacher has foand out that the
forbidden fruit" which brought Eve
and her spouse to grief, was tobacco
A distinguished orator asks, "Whsre
the boots are sound, who can, see the
holes in the stockings y
President Pierce's Cabinet was the
only one in the history of the United
States that remained unbroken from the
beginning to the end of the administra-
tion.
A Cincinnati justice has decided that
it is larceny to steal an umbrella, and
committed a man to the workhouse for
ten days for taking another mans um-
brella during a shower.
The Episcopalians of Vermont propose
to erect a monument to the memory of
the late Bishop Hopkins at Burlington,
A monument could not be erected to the
memory of a more worthy Christian and
gentleman.
An enterprising Paris Jew has offered
the family of Lamartine five thousand
francs for the old clothes, the pens, Ink
stand, and other personal property of
the poet, except his books, manuscripts
and valuables.
The other day prisoner was tried at
Independence, Missouri, on an indict-
ment for stealing a pig. The Judge de-
cided that "a hog" was not "a pig" and
as the animal was proven to be "a hog"
the Judge ordered the prisoner to be
discharged.
The Cleveland Herald (Radical) says:
"The Illinois Legislature (RadicaD
must be a nice place, judging from the
fact that when certain member rises
to speak, all the women in the gallery
fly in dismay from the building, while
the Speaker and members listen quietly
to obscenities."
Ayoung convert in the country re-
Gently got up and was making confession
after this sort: 81 have been
very wicked, indeed l have; / have
cheated many persons, very maHy, but l
will restore ur-fold"-when he was in
terrupted by an old lady thus: "Well, |
should think before you confess much
you had better marry Nancy Stebbins,
as you agreed to-
A remarkable instance of longevity is
noted in a New Hampshire paper as oc-
curing in the family Of Mr.. William
and Mrs. Rachel Sprague, of Phipsburg.
The family number twelve-five sons
and seven daughters-whOa are all enjoy
ing good health. The oldest is eighty
one and the youngest tifty-four years.
OF the seyen daughters six are widows.
The question of the genuineness of a
will in a case tried = few days since at
Laconia, n. H., turned on the consisten-
cy of its date with the paper it was
written on. 1t bore the dye of the
Hampshire Paper Company, OF Holyoke,
and J. w. Southworth, of that company,
testifyiDg that the company did not ex-
ist at the alleged date of the will, proved
that document forgery.
Michigan is the State for ladies. The
Senate of that State has passed a bill
providing that if any person shall here
after willfully insult, or willfully and
annoy any female by any OBJ
scene or indecent word or words, act or
acts, such person shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor; and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by imprison-
nent in the county Jail not more than
six months, or by fine not exceeding
800.
The Cedar Rapids Times claims the
championship for young girl "sweet
sixteen" of Linn county, Iowa, as fol-
lows For six weeks in tie coldest
weather of last winter, during the sick
ness of her father and mother, she at
tended carefully and well, forty-eight
head of sheep, eight head of horses,
twelve head of cattle and two calves,
besides milking three cows, driving the
cattle one-guarter of mile every day
to water, cleaning the horses stable,
doing the hOuse-work, and taking care
of her sick parents.
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