The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-03
Texas has a town named Sand Fly.

Texas has town named Sand Fly.
Peach trees are in bloom in Georgia.
Charles Dickens is going to read in
Paris.
Vepison in Missouri is quoted at four
cents q pound, which certainly is not
dear meat.
Izaak Walton was one eff those gen
tlemen of the old school who did not
spare the rod.
Jenny Lind's eldest daughter is study
ing for the opera,
1t costs almost as much to run the
Ecumenioal as to run Congress.
Chang, the Chinese giant, has Joined
an Ethiopian minstrel troupe.
A single Paris firm has sold 100000
copies Of Traupmann's photograph.
The first saw was in the sea. A fish
carried it about with him.
a new drink is made from the sweet
potato, and is called Aromatica.
A Mexican has an oath Registered"
to shoot Juarez and Romeo.
The next patent issued from the Office
ut Washington will number one hun
dred thousand.
German papers say that emigration
to the United States next summer will
be larger than in any former season.
Boucicault is said to have been
offered 100000 for two hundred and
fifty nights in this country.
Two deaths from congestion of the
brain, produced by intense cold, &C.
CARED in Paris on the l4th inst.
Four hundred new money offices will
be opened by the Postoflice Department
on the lst of July.
The father of Hon. Anson Burlingame.
Joel Burlngamo, Esq, is living in Dun.
ton, Cook county, Illinois.
English papers say that Patli.Caux
will "pay one visit to the United States,
and then retire into private life"
John Folgate, aged lO5, claims to be
the oldest man in Ohio, but Elias Sud-
durth, also of Ohio, claims to be three
years older.
Santa Anna is stumping along through
hisseventy- second year of revolutionary
existence.
Miss Msgdalen Louisa Stockwell is
member of the Freshman class of Mich
igan University.
Henry Ward Bescher says that the
most perfect description of a gentleman
ever written is contained in the thir-
teenth chapter of the first Corinthians.
The fact that the Zutich defaulting
cashier stole as high as $3.50, 900 did not
prevent his sentence to eleven years
Imprisonment. Swiss justice differs
from ours.
Hon Morton McMichael has been
elected President of the Philadelphia
Union League, in place Of Mr.. Horace
Binney, Jr., deceased.
AGeorgia paper corrects an error by
sdSing that the words obnoxious Sena-
tors" should have read "newly elected
Senator'S
A movement has been set on foot in
Spencer county, Illinois, to raise funds
to place monument over the remains
of the mother of Abraham Lincoln.
A family in Wisconsin were rudeIy
awakened few nights ago by the roof
of their barn, which came crashing
against their windows in q violent
storm of wind aud rain.
A constitutional amendment las been
proposed in the Missouri Senate, eI.
empting stockholders in railroads from
individual liability, as now provided to
the amount of their stock.
A member of the Ohio Legislature has
been arrested in Toledo on the charge
of passing fifty dollar counterfeit
Treasury note, and has been bound over
for trial in the sum of $1,000.
The White Mountain Medical Society
of New Hampshire, has adopted by.
law that any member who aavertises
himself by reporting his operations in
newspapers" shall frst be reprimandsd,
aud, for the second offsnse, expelled.
One of the Charleston, South Caro-
lima, military companies will dedicate a
monument in May to the memory Of
their comrades who fell during the re-
bellion, aud General Wade Hampton is
to deliver tie address.
The Detroit Free Press declares that
"Salem has just lost respectable old
lady, whose mother was burned for a
witch during Puritan rule" The old
lady whom "Salem has just lost, must
have been very, very old, if her mother
was "burued for witch during Puri
tan rule"
The New York Tribune says: "Ps-
rental discipline, as it is called, is, in
nine cases out of ten, merely the ebul-
lition of uncontrolled passion. The
father fiogs, not because he would re
form the child, but because fogging is
just then the pleasantess thing for him
to do"
Il 10 related of q centenarian who
died the other day that he learned to
use tobacco at the age of fifty, but
abandoned il at eighty seven, having
discovered that il made his hand q lit
tie unsteady. His nerves improved, be
said, very much after tnat. Our read
ers who have reached the age Of eighty,
seven should bear this fact in mind
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