The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-08
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


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,.wspaper thief is in Jail in Evans
Vile awaiting trial.
Several new German books have been
dedicated to Mrs. Lincoln.
The Mormons are making porcelain,
and with great success.
Wisconsin proposes TO abolish the
grand jury system.
Queen Victoria still wears the deepest
mourning.
Three concise rules for velocipeae rid
} ers: straddle, paddle, skedaddie.
San Francisco juries refuse to mulct
newspapers in damages for libel.
Portraits of Secretary Fish's children
are said to be sardines-little fishes done
in oil.
King John of Saxony now wants to
turn lecturer on literary subjects.
The "can. can" is prohibited in Rich
mond by proclamation OF the Mayor.
A man with three ears has been seen
on the streets of Baltimore. One of the
three was between his teeth.
Ducks eggs are declared by a PhiIa-
deIpbia doctor to be positive cure foE
palpitation of the heart. Quackery!
Minister Hale, it is rumored, had Gun
usual privileges" in the palace Of Queen
Isabella. The "u9usual" is reassuring.
The Providence Methodist Conference
has resolved 10 admit no man to men,
bership who uses tobacco, except for
medical purposes.
Bengal is a nice place to live in. It
has sixty-seven public holidays annual
ly, besides Sundays.
LaConia, New Hampshire, was recent
ly astonished by shower of small fish
during rain storm.
General Simon Bolivar Buckner has
gone into the life insurance agency
business at New Orleans.
white man recently took out Ii
ceuse in Wilmington, North Carolina,
to marry white woman.
Michigan City is in Indiana, Kansas
City is in Missouri and Virginia City lis
IN Nevada and Montana.
Four hundred clerks are to be "re-
treuched" ont of the Washington de-
partments this month.
In Indiana groom of sixty has just
; married girl of eighteen, and to make
, matters even he has had his life insured
for $4,000.
An Iowa paper reports the hoop-pole
crop ripe, aud that it is harvesting in
good condition. The frost did not in
jure it,.
Henry A. Wise is very poor. The
Irish Literary Association of Memphis,
Tennessee, recently presented him with
seven Hundred dollars.
| Some New York clergymen are to bel
prosecuted for not complying with the
law in regard to making returns for
marriages.
The New York papers think Collector
Grinnell and Surveyor Cornell are
knells for the New York Custom House
employees.
A blade out in the Western wilds
writes home: "The report of my mar
riage is groundless, and shall continue
to live on the European plan"
The Pail Mall Gazette says of Mr.. John.
sons farewell address: at is very long,
but by no means worth rcprinting, either
i'll whole or in part"
When Guizot was boy, an old gypsy
woman prophesied that he would live
to be over one hundred years old. The
prediction bids fair to be fulfilled.
A Toledo paper mentions a young In
dian there who considers himself in full
dress when he has red flannel string
around his neck.
Some of our cotempsraries get up such
serious first of April jokes that they are
now having hard work in explaining
where the joke was.
A MissOuTian when drunk murdered a |
friend He then locked himself in a
barn to avoid capture, killed one of his
pursuers, and was shot dead.
There are bogus conductors" out
West, who, anticipating the real indi-
viduals, go through the trains in advance
of them, and collect the fares.
One Lord Mayor of London, although
famous for his gastronomy, denounced
luncheon altogether, saying, 81 consider
luncheon an insult to breakfast and an
injury to dinner.
A paper in Chicago, recording the
sale of pews in new church, calmly
catalogues "No. 1876" as knocked down
"to Dr. f. NJ. Hale, the abortionist. at
the extraordinary low sam of $500.
Queen Victoria will, this year, visit
Switzerland again, and make also 4
trip to Sicily and Greece. She will.
however, keep away from Florence and
Rome, and go by steamer from Genoa
To Palermo.
A travellers summary of Texas THE
, best women and the mesnest men, more
sickness and less health, more corn
bread aud less corn, more negroes and
less labor, more pretty ladies with little
teet and no calves to match, than any
!. State Ia the Union"
E Borie, it is said, suffers from severe
e nervous complaint, and thus blends
= physical with his already known men.
tai incapacity for his place in the NAVY
5 Department. He will probably resign
e as soon as he gets back, out of the sala.
|, ~, the money he contributed to Grants
house. In the meanwhile Porter. who
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