The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-12
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sealiDg" business.
Spring fashions for ladies prescribe
black silk walking suits.
Owen Fawcstt, the Philadelphia COM
edian, was married on March 1.
A Pittsburgh man has paid $50 fol
kissing o young lady in the street.
Calling a man Ku-klux amounts to
$50 worth of libel in Tennessee.
A pair Of Georgia lovers have CORE.
sponded long time by writing on eggs
Victor Emmanuel has seventeen chill,
dren who never saw the royal nursery
Barili, the uncle of Patti, is to marry
Buffalo Lady and go to San Francisco,
The Cardiff giant has consented to
go, as ballast, probably, across the At
lRntic.
Chandler is said to have totally de-
molished Porter. He is an expert in de-
molishing whisky.
Mrs. Grant signed herself isis" in that
remarkable note to Mrs. Corbin. Is she
a Sorcsisi
Henry D'Barger, of Trenton, New Jer-
sey, aged seventy-four, is cutting new
set of teeth.
The Christian Onion suggests to cler-
gymen that editors should be specially
prayed for.
There are thirty murderesses in the
Michigan Penitentiary, many of whom
are said to be positively beautiful"
A man at Lowell, Mass, has made a
provision in his will that he must be
buried in burglar proof safe when he
dies.
A hair from King Theodore's head was
among the "objects of interest" at the
late meeting of the London MICROSCOPE
cal Society.
A noted New York fortune-teller says
that the steamship City of Boston will
be heard from next Thursday.
A monster concert saloon, with reg
iment of pretty waiter girls, is shortly
to be opened on Broadway, New York.
The wife of Hon. John Wentworth, of
Chicago, who recently died in Troy,
New York, left property valued at $780,
900.
Thomas Moore's "Lalls Rookh" has
been converted into ballad for the en-
ter'ainment of the patrons Of Calcutta
theatre.
A Delaware woman is getting di-
vorce because her husband jumped on
the back side af the bed at an alarm Of
burglars.
With a duo regard to the require
ments of Lent, o Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, fisherman caught on the
4th inst. a Goldfish weighing 125 pounds.
A young lady of Quincy, Illinois, lost
her voice recently from the effects of
the sulphur used in making the lights
in the tableaux in which she took part.
The bridegroom of an approaching
nobby wedding in New York has found
the money to pay for $4,000 worth of
diamonds and pearls as a gift to his
bride.
The Crown Princess of Prussia is
again in an interesting condition, and
the Crown Prince refuses to speak to
his father.
An Iowa editor nominates Grant for
President in 1872. The editor will dis
count his expected office and take it
now, if convenient.
A New Jersey grocer, when complain
ed to about selling bad eggs, says: "At
this time of the year the hens are sick,
and often lay bad eggs"
Miss Kate Elder, aged fifteen years
and three months, was recently mar
ried in Adams county, Indiana, to Mr..
James Biddle, aged eighty.one years
and five months.
The Chicago Tribune has been inter-
viewing au Irish resident of that city,
aged 10, who is still hale and happy.
1t is needless to add that he has been
widower for many years.
The coming man at last. In the
Brooklyn Eagle of a recent date we find
the advertisement of n Chinaman who
asks for a situation to do general
in some family.
The Chicago Tomdn's Journal, in its
record of "Woman's Doings," unaccount-
ably omits the doiugs of Misses Thomp
son and Markham on Wabash avenue,
in that city few days ago.
Forty years ago there was such a
10 oh
member of Congress sending home a
package of garden seeds under his
frank, that the offender failed of re-
election.
Amherst college is to admit female
students next session, and already the
rumor is said to have produced an Eek
traordinary Improvement in the person
al appearance" of the male students.
The agent for a patent coffin says in
his circular: "Undertakers who have
used it pronounce it perfect success,
and we ask you to try it, free of charge,
and judge for yourself"
The Boston Journal of Monday says
One of our popular clergymep, in an,
eloquent discourse yesterday forenoon
whether by design or accident his con-
gregatiou could not observation-disclosures
the kingdom of heaven in the city of
Boston.
A telegram received by the Secretary
of the Treasury announces the actual
resumption of specie payments in Texas
and Northern Louisiana, curreucy and
coin being taken for cotton without dis
tinction. A dollar gresnback will now
purchase as much cotton as gold dol
lar.
ADemocrat in Central New York was
so rejoiced at the recent victory of the
party in his town that, in the exnber-
ance of bis joy. he set fire to his cow
house, which demonstration of PARROT.
ism cost him the liTes of COW and her
calf, and over fifty dollars worth of
grain, beside the building.