The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-10
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

5 Colonel George W. McCook was in
Paris on the 2sth Of January.
George Francis Train writes that he
is becoming more and more o woman
= every hour.
a clerical pedsgogue in Bordeaux has
been! punishing refractory pupils by
, hanging them up by the heels.
Great Bend, Susq quehanua county, Pa,
boasts of having young lady who was
; some days ago relieved of u tape worm
thirty-fss feet long.
Fifteen hundred ladies of Centre
county, Pa, have appended their signs
manual to D petition praying the courts
to grant no more liquor licenses.
An English girl has obtained twenty
FIVE dollars damages from sweetheart
who, while counting her, squeezed her
hand SO hard as to break her finger.
;, A man residing in Pleasant Valley,
Madison county, says the Democrat, who
has recently buried his fourth wife, has
been requested to remain single until
additional cemetery grounds can be pur-
chased.
The black-and-tan General Assembly
Of South Carolina has resolved to take
such measures as will secure free rides
for its members over all railroads in the
State.
Now that the Cuban revolution is
raising the price Of sugar, the New Eng
landers are turning their attention to
the product of the maple trees, and the
papers are urging them to make as mnch
sugar as possible, and to make nicer
article than they ordinarily do. The
sugar season is at hand. o.
Wendell Phillips, in a lecture Satur-
day evening last, said he was far from
despairlng because Grant had not called
to his Cabinet "the great minds of the
country. He said we have had enough
of the great men there, and thanked
God that we had got rid of the whole of
them.
There is much truth in the following
recent "chunk of wisdom" from Punch,
who says: "If you are a wise man you
will treat the world as the moon treats
it, Show it only one side of yourself,
seldom show yourself too much at q
! time, and let what you show be calm,
cool and polished. But look at every
side of the world"
Hon. S. S. Cox, the member Of the
Lower House of Congress from the Sixth
District of New York, aud formerly of
Ohio, is now in Europe for the sake of
his health. His physician eDjoined him
from returning home until the harsh
winter and spring weather of our
climate is over, and until few weeks
more rest in the climate of Southern
France and some pleasant travelling
thereafter shall restore him to his old
health and vigor.
Sitka is the place where the traveller
either gains or loses one day in the
week. A person going eastwardly
around the world, gains the day which
is lost by one who goes to the west, and
Sitka is the point at which the two
reckonings meet. The Russians who
have iourneyed toward it eastward
through Siberia celebrate their accus-
toned Sabbath, while the Californian,
who has reached it by westward jour
new across America, finds he shops shut
and business suspended on his Saturday
1t is said that of all the ladies at the
Inauguration Ball, Mrs. Senator Morgan
wore the finest jewels; but Mrs. John
Morrissey wore the most elegant toilet;
that Mrs. Colfax looked sweetly in pink
satin with a tulle overskirt; that Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe was more noticed
than any other lady present; that the
| laces of Madame ST. Andre were mag
niticent; that Horace Greeley looked
| like a martyr as he escorted his daugh.
ter, through the dancing saloons, ETC.,
etc.
Mr.. David Edgarton, who lives near
Barnesvile, has found stone which
fell upon his farm. The Barnesville
Enterprise says: That tits an erolite there
is not much doubt. 1t is principally min
eral. but has a trace of iron, and is
crystalline in structure, showing a
chemical origin. 1t gives evidence of
having been blistered by heat in its
passage through the air. 1t sank by its
fall several inches into the earth, and
crushed stone upon which 1t fell. IL
lis shaped somewhat like muscle she'll,
is about one foot in circumference, and
two inches through the thickest part
The Commercial List, of Philadelphia,
of Thursday, says: The government
examiner appointed to examine the af-
fairs of the Fourth National Bank,
which suspended on the 23d nit, reports
that it's whole capital stock (S25O, ,OOO)
has disappeared, but depositors will Sc.
cure all their money. The defaulting
cashier vanished on learning that a
warrant was out for his arrest. The
charter of the institution has been pur-
chased by number of Philadelphia
gentlemen, headed by John Austin,
President of the Southwark National
Bank, who subscribed a new capital
and will attempt to reorganize the con-
Germ"
The Circleville Democrat reports the
following remarkable case of surgery
About six weeks ago, Eva Wentworth,
of this city, accidentally cut off the
thumb of her left hand. DR.. Griswold
was called in, and, upon examination of
the wound, concluded to try an expert
ment. He took the severed piece, which b
had lain in a cold room for an hour and
ten minutes, and was apparently dead,
molstened it in warm water, and fasten-
ed 1t to its place. Soon the parts began
to unite, new skin formed, and a new
nail is now growing. When we saw the
thumb, few days ago, it was nearly
well, the girl cOuld nSa IL and thera ia