The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-27
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

A sprightly citizen of Lebanon, Indi-
ana, weighs $50 pounds only.
The Peoria coopers are on a "strike." )"
They want l6i cents, and get IA.
A San Francisco Judge decides that
corporations may sue and be sued for
libel.
Bloomington, Indiana, has 2500 inhab-
itants and fifty-five professional Hymphs
du pare.
The smallpox prevails among the
negroes at Washington, Mason county,
Kentucky.
A proclamation, declaring martial
law in certain counties of Tennessee,
will be issued in few days.
1t is estimated that twelve hundred
Rochester New York; youths annually
expend S57 500 on billiards.
At the Duke de Morny's diamond sale
oae necklace that contained thirty
three diamonds brought s20,4SO.
That old negro woman is dead again
this time in Gallatin, Tennessee. Her
name was sold Aunt Mace" and her
age 100.
Mrs. Howell, of Live Oak, Florida,
shot and killed a negro, last week, who
attempted to commit an outrage upon
her person.
The year 1865 gave birth to no fewer
than 137 new Paris journals, more than
a hundred of which died in infancy be-
fore the 3lst of December.
The celebrated race-horse, "Kentuc-
ky" has been finally withdrawn from
the turf Mr.. August Belmont, the en-
inent banker of New York, paid SIS, 900
for him.
Mr.. Moore, of Waterville, Maine, has
solid silver, ffteen-ounce brick,
smelted from ore lately discovered in
Garland. Workmen are struggling to
disv over more.
Opium eating is greatly on the in
crease at Terre Haute. A druggist iA-
forms the Journal that his sales of the
article are very much larger than they
were several years ago.
Illinois had, in 1868, lO,7O5 schools;
s24O male and 1O,797 female teachers;
and S26, $50 children enrolled. The re-
ceipts of the school fund for the year
were S6,S96, SO; expenditures, S6,42O,-
5Sl.
An ambitious politician recently made
love to a poor girl in Missouri, the re-
puted heiress to $500, 900 in gold, only
discovering after he had married her
that the whole thing was mistake.
Minnesota farmers are raising fences.
They used cotton wood, gray willow,
white maple, black oak and white plum.
From three to five years are sufficient
to raise living fence, to protect the
fields.
On January lst, 1869, the number of
whaling vessels owned in the United
States was 33-, decrease of four since
January /, lS67. OF these 1873 completed
voyages and arrived in port during the
past year.
Bader & Gross, of Chillicothe, few
days since, slaughtered a sheep, bought
of Henry Renck, which weighed one
hundred and twenty-six pounds net,
and measured five inches through the
ribs.
Mrs. Hawxhurst, of Oyster Bay, Long
Island, having, in a fit OF insanity, an
nounced that as Christ had shed his
blood fof her, it was her duty to shed
her blood for Him, cut her throat. She
died after great suffering.
The northern wing of the Indiana
Hospital for the Insane is now fast ap-
preaching completion. 1t is vast im-
provement over the old portion of the
building, and when the necessary ap-
for its completion shall
have been made, the work will at once
be pushed forward with vigor.
Two cases of conscience" have lately
come to light in Nashville-one of a
thief who stole lot of spoons from a
widow and took them to New York, and
then sent them back by express, and
another of thief who took an overcoat
and could not get half its value. He
also returned his stolen property.
Mrs. Mary A. Warren Qate Groendyke),
obtained her fourth decree of divorce in
Chicago on Friday. She was married
to her last husband June %, 1867, sepa
rated from him October, 1867, and filed
her bill October 80, 1868, alleging ex
treme and repeated cruelty. P. S.
Mrs. Warren was married in Chicago
for the fifth time on Saturday.