The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-04
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The Sultan intends to have his son
educated in Vienna.
The Spanish force in arms on the
Island of Cuba is said to number 1000
men.
1t has cost the country s11 ,000, 900,
thus far, to make its bond and circulat-
ing medium.
The Hudson river steamer Mary Pow
ell, said to be the fastest steamer in the
United States, was lately sold for $780,
600.
Out of the 10000 shopmen in Paris
not more than hundred earn $1,000 a
year, though they work from twelve to
seventeen hours day.
There is said to be an oak tree in the
Holy Land still living that was planted
by Abraham. 1t is to be set up at a
Russian Monastery, in Jerusalem.
The belle of recent ball at New Al
bany, Indiana, was recognized as q
woman who earned her living by beg
giHg at street corner dressed in filthy
rags.
Of two thousand citizens in Indian
apolis who swore off the 1st of January
eleven still resist the allurements of the
flowing bowl. Seven of the eleven are
editors.
Opium that lately sold at 81 IS per
pound, now sells at from $40 to $50. The
consumption of opium in this country is
enormous. Thousands daily use it as a
narcotic.
The New York bricklayers, hotel
walters, house painters, journeymen
tailors, and gas and steam filters are all
preparing for STRIKES" during the
spring or summer months.
The authorities of Cornell University
at Ithaca, N. Y, have dancing at the
college receptions, and five of the cler-
gymen of that place have sent to the
faculty letter of remonstrance.
One of the soldiers who shot Marshal
Ney, in 1915, died on the lst of Japua-
ry, 1869, at the advanced age of ninety
two years, at the poor-house of the city
of Metz.
Worth, the famous dress-maker, or, as
he prefers to be called, dress critic of
Paris, it is said, holds in his portfolio
the l. o. US of nearly every distin-
guished lady in Paris, and u sudden
liquidation of his affairs would carry
dismay into most of the aristocratic
families of thatcapital.
Alaska adviees are to the 9th of Feb
ruary. Two white men, while on o
trading expedition, were killed by Kal-
kee Indians, near Sitka, in revenge for
the death of their friends, shot by sem
tiues at Sitka. The United States
steamer Saginaw, with General Davis
and staff, was about to leave for Kilkee.
The revenue cutter Reliance is still at
Sitka.
The Madison Undiana) Courier says:
"Mr. Oliver Lloyd, of Republican town
ship, this county, in splitting the first
cut of a large cAk tree, one day last
week, found there inclosed four beach
nuts, near the heart of the tree, with
two hundred and fifty years growth of
solid wood over them. They were sound
and sweet"
Phillips aud Parker, two Detroit
HblnOI, anamora1 nF +ba oor,a 1o1r
determined to settle the claim for pre-
fernicnt by fistic meeting, which came
off on Saturday last, in the rear of
Windsor, on the Canadian shore. In
the twenty-first round Phillips threw
up the sponge and his chances for the
lady, whom Parker goes to WOO with q
shaded eye, fisttened nose, and an un-
usually developed head.
John McMiller, young man living
near Clifton, Clark county, Ohio, left
his home Saturday morning, in q sleigh,
and came home at 4 P. NJ, lying dead in
the sleigh, the horses having walked
home of their own accord. From a
bruise on his right eye, and from other
circumstances, foul play was suspected !;
but post mortem examination showed
that his death had resulted from con-
gestion of the brain.
Between twenty and thirty students
of the Northwestern Christian Univer-
sity, in Indiana, were expelled Friday
for insubordination in having cemmem-
grated Wsshilgtonts birthday by alb
senting themselves fiom college without
leave, and passing resolutions which
were supposed to reflect upon the fac
ulty. Quite a number of the partici-
pants apologized to the faculty and were
psrdoned, but the rest, refusing to re-
tract, were expelled.
On Friday night man named David
Blaize, who resides near Gordon, in
Darke county, Ohio, being in that viii
lsge, started for home about 9 o'clock.
He had been running tilt with ben
zine, and it had got the advantage of
him. Nevertheless he thought to reach
home, but unfortunately the poor man
fell by the wayside. He was found on
Saturday morning about one hundred
yards north of Gordon, frozen to death.
His head was lying only about six
| inches from the railroad.
The true reason why the Marquis de
Msustier, who died few days ago of
softenipg of the brain, in Paris, was re-
called from ConstautiHeple in 1866, and
appointed French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, was an intrigue set on foot by
his very fine looking but extremely
jealous wife, who wished to get her hus-
band away from Constsntinopls, where
the Marquis kept a Irregular Rsrem Of
mistresses. The wife enlisted the En-
press on her side by making her believe
that her husband was at heart an Ultra
montane of the first water, and at the
same time she made to Prince Napoleon
representations which induced him to
urge the Emperor to appoint Moustier.