The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-24

duced a Connecticut woman to eat q
bushel of roast oysters.
Brigham Young has recently issued
an order preventing anybody IN Salt
Lake from gambling.
a tobacconist in Kansas City threw
five hundred pounds of snuff into the
river rather than TO stamp 1T.
"Msrion Harland" lives in a neat,
attractive, wooden house in the most
aristoeratic quarter of the city of New
ark, Nj.
Over 100000 men are out of employ
ment In New York City. The numerous
stores for rent in the most desirable
quarters indicate the general stagnation
of trade.
A Maine man, now in Minnesota, has
written home that be is confident thata
man will freeze sooner on the prairie of
Minnesota, with the mercury at the
same point, than in Maine.
The people are anxious to know what
are the functions Of those five Brigadier
Generals whom Grant has got boarding
with him, at a cost toT'tbe country OF
seven thousand dollars a year each.
Charles II. Wynne, a we'll known cit
izen of Richmond, Virginia, and for
some time after the war publisher OF
the Times newspaper in that city, died
on Friday night, aged 81 years.
The Printers Typographical Union of
Philadelphia have admitted to member
ship a lady who is now engaged in
studying the profession in that city,
and who supports herself by doing COM
positor's work in her spare time.
Nearly all the cigar makers of New
York city are on q strike, owing to the
proposed reduction of three dollars per
thousand. The employers claim the
reduction necessary in order to enable
them to compete with the importers of
foreign cigars.
A father and son, named O'Donnell,
have been committed for trial in New
York, the fermer charged with attempt
ed rape on the sons wife, and the son
with beating her and driving her from
home on the facts being made known to
him.
The Massachusetts, House of Repre-
sentatives on Friday, by a twO-thirds
vote, passed to be engrossed bill to al
low husbands and wives to be witnesses
for or against each other, both in civil
and criminal suits.
An Indiana lawyer recently charged
O client ten dollars for collecting nine
dollars, but said he would not press him
to pay the other dollar for few days,
ifit would be more convenient for him
to let it stand.
The Wilmington (Del.) Commercial de-
cries premature croaking in regard to
the peach crop, and says that never was
the prospect for a good yield in Della
ware and the adjoining counties of
Maryland more cheerful than now.
General Batter shonld be looking
after the Massachusetts, Ku-Klux. Rapes,
murders, robberies, are thick enough
here, if scattered through the Southern
States, to place half a dozen of them
under military government, according
to the Radical theory.-BOston Post.
A brother at Kingston, New York,
after lengthy exhortation at a revival
meeting, raised his voice and said: 81
omitted to say that if any one desires to
SCENE at any time, lean always be
be found at the store of -, in Kings
ton, where all kinds of dry goods can
be obtained at reasonable prices"
A NICE QUEsTIoN.-The husband of
the ex-Queen of Spain is not such a
nenentity as he has been set down for.
On the ground that his wife is no longer
a queen, he has laid claim in Paris
court to the entire control of their joint
property. Isabella insists that she is
still a queen, and objects to resign the
control of her immense wealth.
A forthcoming life of Tom Paine will
endeavor to clear him from the charge
of atheism. His will reads thus: "The
last will and testament of me, Thomas
Paine. Reposing confidence in my Gre.
ator, God, and in no other being, for l
know of no other, nor believe in any
other, /, Thomas Paine, of the State of
New York, author of the work entitled
Common Sense" &c.
The Milwaukee Sentinel publishes an
address, five columns in length, lately
made by Mr.. John T. Smith, before the
Wisconsin State Historical Society, on
Rev, Eleazer Williams. He gives his
testimony as to the personal appearance
and character of the man, and concludes
that he was the crown prince of modern
imposters, whose own dupes finally
voted him bore, and abandoned him
to obscurity and want.
A New York correspondent of the ST.
Louis Republican says: 81 was riding
in an omnibus the other day when some
Adolphus, with his hair parted in the
middle, reached up his fare, and upon
his thin little arm was heavy band
bracelet, Shertly noticed he had an
other upon his other arm; and since
then a party dining at an opposite table
at Delmonico's displayed the same orna'
ments upon the wrists of three gentle.
men,"
The San Francisco Bulletin says that
several cases Of native champagne, sent
some weeks ago by a wine merchant in
that city to Chicago, were returned
with the statement that the condition
of the wine would ipjure its sale. One
of the bottles was examined and q NUN
Der of crystals were discovered resting
in the wine. These were analyzed and
discovered to be argols, or crystals o.
tartar, the effect OF the extreme cold
upon the champagne. Several bottle.
were then placed in high temperature
some 160 degrees, until the frozen tar
tar was dissolved through the heat
The wine was again tasted after it had
cooled and found to be excellent, tht
freezing and heating process it had pass
ed through having the same effect a.
age, and giving young wine the flsvor
of a veteran champagne.
Nor THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY,"-