The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-07
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campaign Hext Summer.
Thiers is writing up the Parliamenta-
ry history of France.
Madame Ratazzi has seventeen novels
on her conscience.
Mr.. Corbin has been unsuccessful in
dyeing his whiskers.
Wendell Phillips is to do the Boston
massacre next March.
A Mormon elder living in Salt Lake
City has buried 148 children.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte is thought to
be "not quite right in his head"
The Boston Post says: "If Mr.. Sumner
were Scipio, he would be scipio
Africanusn
A Texan young women cultivated
seven acres of cotton with her own
hands last year, and sold the crop for
$500.
NJ. Ledru Rollin has led perhaps the
quietest life an exile of note ever passed
in country adjoining his own.
The King of Bavaria has nearly ready
an opera, the libretto of which will be
adopted from one of GGthe's minor COM
edies.
A clergyman, preaching against mar
riage in Wisconsin, has been found to
have nine wives scattered over the
country.
The director and editor of Rocheforts
Marseillaise have been horsewhipped by
q reporter whom they charged with
being police spy.
New York toilette reporters have
taken to criticism. One of them says
'Iu Mrs. LIS pink tulle we recognize
the dress of last winter"
The Pope, in recent sermon at the
American College at Rome, compliment
ed the United States as republic of
intelligence and virtue.
"Mack" says Yates came into the Sen.
ate the other day "looking for all the
world as if he had been fighting tom
cats all night, and had got the worst of
it,"
A European traveller says that it cost
him SIG in Now York to take his family
and baggage to the boat, and that very
much the same service was performed
for him at Paris for $3.50
Goldsmith's comedy, "She Stoops to
Conquer" 10 having a great run at the
st. James Theatre, in London. 1t has
already received more than eighty con-
secutiye representations.
Sir William DenisoD, the brother of
the Speaker of the British House of
Commons, says that eff he wero twenty
five instead of sixty.five years old, he
would emigraIe tomorrow.
Mr.. Glyn, the London banker, being
about to be raised to the peerage, has
elected to be called Baron Wolverton,
from the name of q station on an Eng
lish railway, famous for the pork pies
sold to the passengers.
Mr. Tom Taylor has written n new
historical drama in blank verse, founded
on an episode in the early life of Queen
Elizabeth, entitled "'Twixt Axe and
Crown" 1t was produced at the
Queens Theater, on the 22d ult.
In bis examination, Prince Pierre
Bonaparte was asked how it was that,
when he saw NJ. de Fouveille draw ont
a pistol, he had fred upon NJ. Victor
Noir, who was unarmed. Because he
answered, 81 felt the outrage before l
perceived the danger"
E,,;I;o nll;r;or ,o;d 30 +Lo E,,ooro,
Napoleon, short time since: "Sire, you
must begin to think of having young
men in your Cabinet. You must not
forget that there is to be a Napoleon
the Fourth" The Emperor laughed.
Blondin got stuck six yards from the
landing place while recently crossing
theatre with velocipede oD a tight
rope. The women screamed and fled
from the house, but an attendant las
seed the performer and drew him in
without hurt.
A musician at Monaco casino lately
bought bottle of champagne, and, sit
ting down to the piano, he played the
gayest music and drank his wine until
but single glass remained; into this
he poured a vial of prussic acid, drank
it off, and began a solemn funeral march
which only ended with his death.
The Paris papers have said a good
deal lately about the five sons of NJ.
Buffet. His little daughter, displeased
because no mention was made of her,
asked the reason why. Because, my
little Martha" replied NJ. Buffet, "jour-
nalists are sensible men, and know that
the greatest praise they can give wo.
man is never TO speak of her."
In Quincy, Ill.,, widow of fifty en-
gagged male friend to aid her to cast a
matrimonial net for an old gentleman
of seventy. The affair was a success,
but, after the ceremony was over, the
male friend claimed one thousand dol-
lars for his services. He was offered
five dollars, but refused. Finally the
matter was compromised by the bride
paying the agent fifty dollars.
Mr.. Manton Marble was bern in
Worcester, Mass, November 16, 1885.
The only circumstance worth noting in
his record is the date, which shows that
he was young man of seven or eight
and twenty when he assumed charge of
the World, which Immediately became,
under his management, a powerful jour-
nal. His ancestors on both sides are of
an old Puritan stock. They came over
at an early period, one of them, William
Marble, having taken tho freeman's
oath in Boston, May 3, 1854.
"Eow, gentlemen" said James Fisk,
jr., as he bowed himself out of the
presence of the investigating committee
on the New York gold conspiracies.
New, gentlemen, when you come to
New York, send me your cards, and
come and dine with me, and I'll show
you round and take you to my grand
opera house." "Thanks, Mr.. Fisk, for
your kind Offers" said General Gar
field, "and permit me to express the
conviction that first class actor was
lost to the world when you became the
business manager"