The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-07
HERE AND THERE.
Joe Jefferson is going to England.

The Hon. Gasaway Sprightly is mem.
Der of the Kansas Senate.
The first English edition of Dickens
new novel is 10000 copies.
The people of Connecticut are ex-
pected to fast on Friday, April l5.
A resident of Kentucky is one hun
dred and fifteen years old. He is an
orphan.
1t is reported that Clara Louise Kel-
logg is preparing herself for the histrion-
ic stage.
Some New York capitalists talk of
building theatre for Parepa and her
husband.
Grau has succeeded in engaging Rossi,
the great Italian tragedian, TO play in
this country.
The Rhode Island Legislature has
postponed the prohibitory liquor law to
the next session.
There is a gas company il o New
England town which declares "semi-
animal dividend once in seven years.
D. B. Edwards, who died in Wheelers-
burg, Ohio, on the 10Th ult., laid in his
coffin and tombstone good many years
ago.
Canadian papers say that American
buyers are securing that country for
horses, to be brought to the New York
market.
Kentucky has its champion old man,
"1l5 years of age, aud able to thread
the finest needle in eight different Ian
guages."
The lock of John Wesley's hair de-
posted in the corner stone of an Eng
lisb church, is now said to have been
cut from his wig.
The widow of DR.. Parkman, whom
Webster murdered, has been chosen a
director of the Boston Horticultural
School for Women.
l.. Amadon, of Brattleboro, Vermont,
has Just finished $500 astronomical
clock, whose manufacture has occupied
his odd hours for twelve years.
Eastern papers think that the low
price of gold and the dulluess of busl-
ness will enable a large number OF per-
sons to visit Europe next summer.
Fifty-three brutal men have during
the past twelve months learned that
the Massachusetts, society for the pre-
venton of cruelty to animals was not
organized in vain.
Half the country papers narrated on
April FOOLS day, with much pathos, how
terribly Timothy Hay was mangled by
being caught in hay cutter. It's a
new joke every year.
The Toronto Leader can't see that
Eyre committed any wrong at all. he
waited, it says, "for over five minutes"
for signals of distress from the Oneida,
but saw and heard none!
The Hartford Times. by very slight
typographical error, made a sad blum
der in speaking Of a young woman at a
recent ball who wore "a double shirt
neatly trimmed with narrow satin RIB
bon."
The King of Burmah has offered a
complete collection of the buddhist
Canon to the Government of CeyloD,
and has undertaken to build fire
proof library to receive it at his own
expense.
An English resident of Philadelphia
suggests that the British people and
Englishmen in this country raise fund
for the relief of the widows and or
phans of the men lost by the sinking Of
the Oneida.
Edwin Booth, in his new rendering of
Macbeth" in his theatre in New York,
dispenses with the visible presence of
the ghost of Banquo in the banquet
scene, but "seems to fill the empty chair
by his acting.
The newest style of dressing the hair
is called "the Cleopatra" The hair is
brushed high off of the forehead and
braided low in the neck, surmounted by
large imitation snake, which is colled
around the head.
According to the Paris GdutoiS, mar
rage is arranged between the Archduke
Albert of Austria and the daughter Of
the ex King of Hanover. The Emperor
of Austria has at last given his consent,
which he had for some time withheld.
Let the dentists tremble. Their craft
is in danger. A San Francisco genius
has invented "pneumatic burning en-
giue," which, we are assured. performs
all the modern operations OF modern
dentistry with neatness and dispatch.
The following advice is from New
burg paper: Press on, young man,
though you be poor. We know youth
who, with only his two hands and a
crow-bar, opened jewelry store, and
now he is living in fine stone residence
at Sing Sing.
General Robert L. Lee declined to
avail himself of the privileges of the
floor rendered him by the Virginia
Senate on Monday, saying that the con-
dition of his health was such as to re-
auire him to reach q milder climate as
soon as practicable.
An organization of Juvenile robbers
has been broken up at Altoona, Henry
county, Illinois. They had their regu-
lar passwords, etc., and had accumulated
quite stock of plunder. Their leader
was thirteen years old, and was an insa
table reader of dime novels.
Lawrence Doyle, who has been in the
Maine State prison since May, 1864,
under sentence of death for the murder
of little girl, under peculiarly horri-
BILE circumstances, died on Friday last.
To the last he stoutly maintained his
entire innocence OF the crime.
seyen of the sixteen members Of the
Walker Republican Executive Commit
tee of Virginia have signed paper op-
posing any attempt at union with the
Wells party, as an unprincipled deseI-
tion Of the men and measures which
succeed in the elections of the 9th OF
July last.
A Philadelphia man, crazy as loon,
has applied to the Mayor TO pay him i'm
81 ,OO6, 900. alleged to be now due, t tor
mutual adjustment and satisfaction be-
tween him, the said Philadelphia man,
the Government of the United States,