The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-30
HERE AND THERE.

"A Washington youth ented his lTf1
bscause his father didn't like his intend
q.
PENNSYLVANIA has pedagogueninety.
six years old. He is one of the Old
Masters.
The ouack doctors in Chicago arc
getting "Hail Columbia" in the courts
for distributing filthy documents.
A man Just returned from Alaska,
says tha. he lived there thirteen months
and was not once asked for the loan OF
dollar.
Wilmington darkies are determined
| TO sit in the dress circle. In Washing
ton they occupy the private boxes.
A clerk in the Treasury Department
has been dismissed for lending money
to his brother clerks at usurious rates.
The Massachusetts, Legislature Is
having battle over q bill TO allow
mothers to be guardians Of their own
children.
A San Francisco printer has sued the
Typographical Union for libel in post
ing him as a rat after he had left the
society.
Texas daI kies believe DE-. Mary Walk
er disguised "cadnipper' OF living
subjects for dissection, and avoid her
after dark, accordingly. .
The Providence Herald announces
that Miss Anna Dickinson will shortly
be led to the altar by a well known
literary gentleman. Whether Tor matrl-
mony or sacrifice is not stated. .s
The Boston .4drertiser declars that "no
city (Boston) officer can be active IN q
warfare upon gambling houses aud
houses of ill-fame, without losing his
office at the end of the year"
In an account of ball in Hartford,
the Times, of that city,. mentioned q
young lad y who wore "a double shirt
neatly trimmed with narrow satin riO-
bon."
A man died in Trenton, n. j., the
other day who refused TO allow his
pantaloons to be removed during his
sicknes. After his death the Innings
were found to contain over $4,000.
A California paper chronicles with
satisfaction the fact that the State
Senate has rejected bill to create a
Democratic Vaccinstor-G General Of the
Chinese at $40 head-or arm.
Gilmore, of jubilee fame, intends soon
to perform another deed of dreadful
note. He is gong to get up AZ the
club" of the universe second monster
concert, which in all particulars shall be
still more moustrous than the former
one.
Miss Angie King, who was so much
talked about, a year ago, in connection
with the GAINESVILLE Postoffice, has been
appointed Librarian of the Young Mems
Association of the same city. 1t IS TO
be hoped that Miss X. finds the AsSocla-
tion of Young Men agreeable.
Twelve thousand dollars was last
Thursday paid down to Mr.. Fechters
financial agents i'll New York, to Gloss
an engagement with the actor to appear
for four weeks at the Academy of Music
in that city, beginning on the 25th OF
next month. He will then present his
entire list of characters in Succession.
+ The tive crowning clements of the
prosperity of the Northwest are rail
roads and immigration. In regard to
the latter, VIM. b. Ogden estimates that
450, 900 emigrants who annually go to
the Northwest carry there S9,OOO,OOO in
money, most of which they spend with
in six months.
Fulton and Livingston held patent
for the entire right for navigation by
steam of all the rivers in tie United
States up to 1916. The grant was over
thrown by one II. NJ. Sbreve, and in
April, 15l7, he was honored with grand
dinner in Louisville in consideration or
his trump.
A forthcoming life of Tom Paine will
endeavor to clear him from the charge
of atheism. His will reads thus: "The
last will and testament of me, Thomas
Paine. Reposing confidence in my
Creator, God, and in no other being, for
| know of no other, nor believe In any
other, | Thomas Paine, of the State OF
New York, anthor of the work entitled
Common Sense" &c.