The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-01
HERE AND THERE.


give change in silver.
Savannah fishermen mourn the end of
an Improbable shad season.
A marshal and three negroes killed
was the result of Texas sociality ball
The colored militia of Charleston, S.
c.. hold midnight parades, and fight
nobly.
Potter county, Pennsylvania, has not
granted q license to sell liquor for nine
teen years.
The Miner says that "Alizona would
be Gods country, if the devil had the
Apaches"
Here and there in California a store
keeper announces that he will here
after gre ceive greenbacks at par.
A record of the acts Of the Ecumenical
Council is to be published in six mag
niticent folio volumes.
An advertiser in the Boston Journal
for 81 small house in the suburbs, late
ly received one hundred and eighty
three replies.
Bishop Simpson opposed late suppers
on the ground that "nine out Of ten
ministers who eat after preaching die
early"
In India the entire Bible has been
rendered into fifty.o one different dia.
Tects, and portions of it into twenty
five.
A Chicago policeman came very near
pegging out, on Friday, bv eating some
poisoned meat prepared for dogs.
Boston is to have IFS next musical
jubilee in the skating rink, to inveigle
the people into the belief that it is
really to be big thing on ice.
The planters are Offering $50 month
and everything found, but this is no in
ducement to the crowd of idle negroes
who swarm in every Southern town.
Casabianca-not the boy who "stood
on the burning deck"-has been arrest
ed in New Orleans as a wholesale dealer
in spurious mouey.
There are now living in Maine, IN
good health, FIVE brothers named Lam
BERT aged respectively ninety-six,
nineiy-two, eighty seven, eighty-one
aud seveaty-nine years.
The Boston Adrerti8er says that the
State COnstables have been on the
watch, night and day, for gambling
houses. Divided into reliefs, they have
guarded every spst where danger exist.
ed, following every attempt at re-
newal Of the business, if with no more
than q pine table and pair of benches,
by seizure and contisCatiOn. As n
consequence, public gambling houses
exist no longer Ia Boston.
A few days since, while Mr.. VIM.
Bartlett, member of the House of
Delegates, from Elizabeth City county,
Va, was on visit home, he succeeded
in bsgging one of the largest American
influence Of leaden pill, at least in
Virginia. This magnificent bird meas
ured eight feet three inches from tip to
zip of its wings, and was in height four
feet nine inches. Mr.. Bartlett thinks it
is the largest ever killed in America. II
was certainly the largest one ever
killed by him, and eight of very respect
able Dimensions have fallen victims to
his skill as marksman.
A planter near New Orleans finding
that he used up plows faster than he
could afford to replace them-a sOme-
what paIadexical condition in agricul-
tural economy-determin to turn
Yankee for once and invent something
to meet his wants lie has done so.
His invention consists in covering
plows of any kind with thin plate of
steel on their turning faces and land
sides in such q manner that it can be
easily taken off and replaced. Plows
that formerly wore off rapidly at the
point may now have thsir lives indef-
nitely prolonged by putting on a new
face. They are made in New Orleans,
and the South now proposes to rejoice
in release from absolute dependence on
the North for plaws.
According to the Calvert (Texas) En-
ferpri8e, the main street OF that place
after nightfall is a perfect paudemo-
mum. 1t says: within the past week
several Calvert gambling houses have
thrown opcu their doors to the women
of tho town, who, nothing 10th, have
taken advantage of the now liberty &C.
corded to visit these hells daily and
nightly, mostly in state of intoxica-
ton, and the ear of the passer-by is
saluted by foul -mouthcd oaths and OBJ
scene jests proceeding from female lips.
We are told by those whose curiosity
has induced them to enter these earthly
bells that some of the women sit at the
tables, deal the various games, and use
their wies TO induce men to risk their
money; others make them a place of
resort to procure victims to their nefa
riou5 trades, or to while away the time,
drinking, cursing, blackguarding and
outraging every sense of decency. lfI
our city authorities are too weak to put
, stop TO these shameful proceedings,
et them call in the aid of the citizens
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