The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-02
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little girl.
Carlotta Patti begins to sing again in
New York April 6.
A woman in Hudson, New York, has
been arrested $50 times.
Horace Greeley is in trouble in Detroit
for pounding dusky female.
The New York milk dealers have ap'
propriately convened at Croton Fails
1t costs a Connecticut school-ma'sm
S430 to knock out pupils eye with her
ruler.
A New Yorker committed suicide be-
cause his wife failed to supper: him IN
proper style.
Miss Ida L. Greeley, q daughter of Fl.
G., is writing Tropical Sketches" ior
the Tribune.
Canned frogs legs is the crop which
Maine man will cultivate in his-new
South Carolina swamp.
An autograph letter of Charles Lamb,
about Blake, the artist, was sold re-
Gently in London for $3.50.
"No gentlemen admitted without
trowsers on" is the notice posted on the
doors of bathrooms in South America. g.
Philadelphia sailors who get drunk
and fall into the river are tied together
and hoisted aboard by a block and
tackle.
A Pennsylvanis white girl, who mar
ried negro a few months ago, now
wants divorce, darkies are getting 30
common.
Amatoricide is the latest word coined
by the murderers of the English (and
Latin language. 1t tcomes from Boston.
The latest reports are that the grain
fields throughout the middle and north
ern parts of California are very prom
ising.
The King of Bavaria lately gave a
dinner to fourteen hundred poor people
in Munich, and engaged twelve hotels
for their accommodation.
One of the passengers on the wrecked
steamer Golden City has sued the Pa
cific Mail Steamship Company for $50, :
600 damages, for the privatiors he en-
dured
Prisoners in the Chicago Jail COM
plain that, when lyiRg in their coils at
night, they can feel the building trem-
BILE and hear the cracking of the walls,
A Vermonter has had his head, one
arm, both legs and several ribs broken
during the past year, by as many accl-
dents. He consoles himself that there
is't muck of him left to fracture.
Rip Van Wrinkle, as played at Wash
ington, shows SCHNEIDER" chained to a
sapling when Rip begins hisn When
he wakes, the tree is mighty oak, and
Schneider's skeleton hangs from the
branches.
The "Fat Contributor" was atCynthi.
aua, Kentucky, the other day, and one
of the papers abused him and his lee
ture. The adipose author says the rea'
son of the attack is that he got drunk
with the editor of the opposition paper.
The New York Express says: Boston
is determined not TO be behind New
York in any particular. She has po-
lice officer who picked lady's pocket
of watch while, in the line of his duty,
he assisted her to seatin Music Hall"
A petition is now in circulation IN
one of the wards of Cincinnati which
will soon be presented to the Board of
Education, asking the expulsion of a
school trustee on the ground of ha-
bitual drunkenness. This member
takes an active part in the anti-Bible
movement.
A Michigan boy who was short time
since sent to the State Reform School,
was discharged on account of good con-
duct, and upsn his return home found
his father and mother both drunk and
engaged in fierce quarrel. He inter
fered, was pretty severely pummeled,
and was turned out of doors. On Fri
day he applied to the officers of the in
stitution for readmissioD.
Pat. Kelley and Grundy Bryant, of
Cairo, on the 14th inst began CAM
paign against the ducks in the lakes of
Ballard county, Kentucky, and, within
nine days from that date, had killed
sixty.nine dozen-82S-and returned
them to their agent, who sold them in
Cairo for SlS075. Beside the ducks
they killed some other game which is
not taken into account.
A good repartee of John Bright is re-
ported. Some little time ago the Presi.
dent of the Board of Trade was dining
with a well known citizen of Manches
ter, and the conversation turned on the
subject of the growth and development
of America. IL should like" said the
host, who is an enthusiastic admirer of
the Great Republic, "to come back fifty
years after my death to see what a fine
country America had become" l be-
lieve you would be glad of any excuse
to come back" said Mr. Bright.
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