The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-21
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

About Sl4 4,5O0, 600 were deposited II
the Massachusetts, Savings Bank las
year.
Henry Ward Beeeher says womei
make the best prayers in his congrega
tion.
DIR. Prime, of the New York Observer
has been badly fea-bitten in Moscow
Camilla Urso gets $4,000 in gold fol
adding six months in California, from
February 1.
Lady Young, wife Of the new Govern
or-general of Canada, is native fine"
South Wales.
Paul de Kock, the licentious novelist
is at deaths door. Recently he com
menced o new serial novel.
Menken's debts, amounting to be-
tween five aud six thousand dollars
have been paid by the Society of French
Dramatists.
Colonel Heintzelman is the ranking
Colonel in the army, and expects to be
made brigadier in place Of Hooker or
Rousseau. e..
Lafayette Burns, o Radical Postmas-
ter at Syracuse, Morgan county, Missou-
ri, is in jail for stealing poor widows
pension check.
The name of the new King of Siam is
Somdetch. Chufa- Chulalongaoragut, and
that of his Prime Minister Kalahomc-
Chho- Phyasrisary- Wongse.
Mr.. James Disraeli, brother of the Ex-
Prime Minister, died of heart disease on
the 23d ult.
The warlike preparations in Prussia.
since the commencement OF
October, have been actively taken in
hand.
The Berlin corporation of merchants
have been informed by NJ. de Lesseps
that the Suez canal will be finished Oc-
tober l, 1869.
The Girard estate, in Philadelphia,
last year yielded an income of S4O5, ,832,
of which S347, ,S76 was expended. The
college received Sl35,6l9.
Correspondence from Warsaw men,
tions that all the soldiers on furlough
have been recalled, and two hundred
reubles are given to all the discharged
men who reinlist.
Instead of the usual parade in Boston
on st. Patrick's day, it is proposed to
have general contribution for the par
pose of erecting home for destitute
Catho lie children in that city.
After a grand banquet in Ottawa, On.
tario, on the 1lth inst, the Canadian
Premier, Sir J. A. Macdonald, predicted
that soon all British America would be
in the Dominion.
A devilish husband and wife, Houston
by name, have been arrested in Du-
buque, Iowa, for procuring o 'beastly
by the forced prostitution of
buelT uiIeeu- ycdI oiu uauS u'SA'
Ellis o. German, Knight of Malta,
has been named by Francis Joseph
guardian of the Chapellc Ronde, of
which he and the Maltese cat arc now
about the only occupants.
Stanton wrote letter in favor of the
election of Morgan asSenatsr from New
York. That finished Morgan. Stanton's
Endorsement was too much for even q
decent Radical to carry.
The Florence journals announce that
Prince Carignau will shortly leave for
where apartments for his use
have already been engaged. He is a
candidate for the Spanish Crown.
Rev. Mr.. Wakefield, of the Universal
ist Church in Owatonna, Minnesota,
was recently presented watch-guard
in which every lady member of his con-
was represented by hair.
professor" Davy, man of culture
and high intellectual attainments, to-
per and a pauper, was taken to the
Jackson County, Missouri, poer-house,
ten days ago, where he died on the 1lth
instant, a victim of intemperance.
General Francis A. Walker, for the
last year Connected with the editorial de-
partment of the Springfield Republican,
goes to Washington at the close of this
week to take charge of the statistical
work in the Revenue Department under
Mr.. Wells.
The stoutest iron plate made has a
thickness Of fifteen inches, and is used
as armor plate. The thinnest plate is
so attenuated that 1900 sheets of it,
laid one over the other, are only one
inch in thickness.
The Brockville Recorder, in Canada, is
republishing Jane Porters Scottish
Chiefs" Thisis about as enterprising as
the Cleveland Herald and few other
papers that are now publishing Charles
Reade's Foul Play"
Chignons are sold in England as high
as 800. The average price is about sl5
or $50. In a recent lawsuit several
hair-dealeIs estimated a woman's head
of hair as worth to them about sixty
cents. A wide margin for profit.
Whittier says that in the name MAUD
Muller" the Muller should he pronounc-
ed so as to rhyme with duller. He adds
that the name is very common one in
some parts of the mountain regions of
New England, and that, although of
Hessian origin, it is known universally
as Muller in Yankee regions where it
abounds.