The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-03
SPLINTERS.

Miss Bayley, of Louisiana, is called
the prettiest woman in Rome.
Rev. P. G. Wells, colored, has been
appointed u notary public at st. Louis
Gen. Gid. Pillow is conyalesciDg. Pill
lows case was q severe one, OF pneu-
m0nia.
A French inventor has taken out a
patent for stockings with garters at
tached."
A Tennessean has just been sentenced
to twenty -one years Imprisonment for
horse stealing.
Mr.. Burlingame must be having nice
time of it, getting $4,000 gold year
from China for travelling expenses"
An old man in Jacksonville, Illinois,
married his fourth wife last week.
Each of bis four wives were widows.
Fisk has voluntarily withdrawn his
libel suits against the New York 1ri-
bane, and paid the costs to date.
General Robert z. Lee is i'll, and there
fore anable to attend Mr.. Peabody's
funeral in New England.
Daniel Webster's old farm in Frank
lin, Massachusetts,, was sold few days
since, for fifteen thousand dollars.
The real name of Victor Noir, whom
Pierre Bonapsrte killed, was Solomon
Noir, has race being the Hebrew.
An Evansville, Indiana, man named
Warren, was plsyfully scratching the
ear of farmers horse, when the animal
playfully bit off one of his fingers.
George Washington Rogers sued
Luther G, Riggs, of the Meridian
Conn Record, tor $50, coo damages for
SANDER. The court awarded $40.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, author OF
"Gates Aiar," has new novel for the
press entitled "Hedged In" the same
being plea for fallen women who de-
sire to reform.
David Watkins, aged seventy-eight,
and his wife Annie, aged eighty, died IN
Warren, K. /, last week, after fifty.
seven years of happy welded life, land
both possessed one grave"
A Chinese theatrical company in Cal
ifornia have just concluded three
months engagement which covered the
performance of one historic drama in
ninety acts, each act occupying one
evening.
J. H Beadle, Salt Lake Gentle, is
stopping at his fathers HOUSE in Parke
county, Indiana, recovering from the
beating the Saints gave him at Corinne,
and writing book about the Mormons
and their wives.
Miss Susan B. Anthony say she never
heard of SO many men, 10 one place, be.
ing simultaneously affected with sore
throat, as she found at Washington, in
selecting Congressman to speak at her
convention.
The Rev. DR. Osgood says of wine
drinking in Europe: my experience
favors the general impression that the
water is of en- facilitating, and that q
moderate allowance of light wine is
proper, as it is common"
Bitter bee, in England, according to a
recent official analysis, Is now made
largely from sugar intead of form malt,
as is shown by testing the specific gray
ity Of tho different liquors.
An English soldier, who would not
read, was melted to shoot his corporal
by seeing q similar incident in police
gazette. The soldier was hanged. Who
shall say that it would not have been
equally correspondent with justice to
have hanged the publisherf
An experienced member of the Boston
daily press has nearly ready for publ
cation q velume of some five hundred
pages, In which the entire method of
making and issuing newspapers is to be
reeounted. 1t is very spicy, and tells
tho mysteries of Journalism in the most
interesting manner.
\ A blacksmith and his wife, living at
Dobb's Ferry, on the Hudsof, mutually
agreed TO separate, and fancyings for
NAL bill of divorce, drawn up for them
by o justice, sufficient authority, dissolv-
ed partnership. The wife thereupon
married her husbands "young man.
and entertains her whilom lord as q
boarder.
A wraugle has already begun about
the grand ball to be given in New York
to Prince Arthur by General Dix, Mr..
Belmont and other prominent citizens.
The Common Council, it is said, feel
sighted because they have not been
consulted, while the Fenisn wing of the
Tammany Democracy say they do not
like idea Of the Chairman of the Nation
al Democratic Committee dancing at
tendance on son of Queen Victoria.
The House committee on Postoffices
has unanimously agreed to report bill
providing, that, after the first of next
July, ne matter of any kind whatever,
shall pass through the mails free. This
measure, it will be seen, not only strikes
at the frankipg privilege, but at the
free transportation of newspapers and
executive documents. The movement
for the obolition of the franking pri-
vilege is certainly gaining ground.
A private letter received at New York
brings news concerning the loss of the
steamer United Kingdom, which left
that pert early 10 April for Glasgow.
Shs WAS lost iH~ aid ocean. One man
was saved, picked up by sship bound
for Sydney, Australia. He was delifious
for six weeks; when consciousness re-
turned, he gave a disconnected account
of the founderingo of the ship, and died.