The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-05
HERE AND THERE.


Coldwater, Michigan, has three ladies
who are studying law. o..
Ohio has twenty Ave different female
suffrage associations.
The British Government discourages
tobacco cslture in Ireland. .s
Kate Field is said to have earned
about $4,000 by lectuling last season.
Colonel MIME, the rife inventor, has
been lately locking through the Spring
field ArmOry. =,
Napoleon calls TIE AZ, 900 schoolmas-
ters in his Empire, "the pacific army of
France"
The Canadian exodus for 1870 has be-
gun. Large number. of emigrants are
Ileaving for the United States.
Thirty thousand natives are said to
have ptr,shed from cholera in Zanzibar,
during six weeks, last year.
Prince Alfred has enjoyed the expert
ence of tie rest of the world, and had
his pocket picked of $500 in India.
TIE first Methodist Church in Russia
has just been erected at Fultopea, on
the Black Sea. Ithas twenty-one mem
| bsrs. ~
A shock of an earthquake, sufficiently
severe TO displace furniture, was felt iB
the Godavary district, Madras, India,
on January 10.
| non.rossroo y, JuashI,,r,a nf wilson
sin, says that reduced expenditure and
taxation is the universal demand, and
that the demand must and will be met.
It was Judge knight, of st. Louis,
who admitted the pioneer female law
yer, Miss Lemml Blrkelow, to the bar
in that city. Through night to Light"
The King of Prussia has abolished a
loDgstanding Hanoverian law, which
forbade the opening of theatres on the
eve of Sundays and Jete days.
Baltimore declares that it won't have
any church spires near its monuments
TO divide interest and beauty with the
columns standing now so grand in their
solitude and stateliness.
| he DduBeI, hdiuej W Hy says IuaI
the majority of the dry and fancy
goods dealers in that city have entered
into AL agreement to purchase no goods
of runners for year.
1t is said that the great Chinese phil
osopher Confucius, was divorced after
four years of married life, "tnat be
might have more time for study and
the p rformance Of his pnb!ic duties"
Eliphalet Williams. President of the
Northampton, Mass, National Bank,
had dinner given him last Thursday,
in honor of the completion of his nine
tieth year. He attends regularly to his
duties as President.
A maiden lady, ninety-three years old,
appeared as defendant in Nassachu.
sets Court, few days ago, and when
it was decided that she must pay a
servant Sll SO, claimed as wages due,
seemed not at all disconnected.
Massachusetts proposes to make the
number of her State Senators thirty
nine, 10 serve three years, and her Rep
resentalives three hundred and forty,
to serve two years. At present she has
| forty Senators and two hundred and
forty Representatives..
The British Government has purchased
fer distribution, paying the author five
hundred dollars, u novel, called "The
Brides Mission" written in IIindostanee
and ca lcuated to promote the cause of
| female education in India.
Charles Hugo, of the editorial staff Of
the Rdppel, has been condemned to six
months Imprisonment and fine of 5000
fiancs. The managing editor of the
same paper was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment aud fine of 2OG0
francs for violation Of the press law.
Two Maine boys, thirtecn and eleven
years of age, saved their fathers life
when a tree fell and crushed him to the
earth, by digging a trench under him.
They knew he could not live until they
came back, should they run tor assist
ance, and the tree was too heavy for
them to lift with levers.
Here is an opportunity for the asscr-
tion of wOmeu'S rights. A National Bee
Keepers Convention is called to be held
at indianapolis on the 10Th and llth of
Angus, aud certainly there could not
possibly be any objection to allowing a
woman, the Queen Bee OF the Couven-
ton, to preside over it. ..
An Indiana paper reports that q
young lady in that State was recently
| licensed TO marry two gentlemen, and
adds that she made only one happy.
The paper does not state which one that
was, but the Boston Adrertiser suggests
that it must have been the one she did
not marry. r.
Vast numbers of petitions pour into
Congress against the renewal of the in
come tax. The New York Tribune in
urging its abolition says it does so in
the interest of the public conscience as
well as the public revenues. "If it be
not very soon done away WITH" recent
ly said q tax collector, eve shall become
nation ofliars."
The San Francisco -4ltd notes with
pleasure the fact that the influence of
the Pacific railroad, which was at first
adverse to the interests OF the Pacific
coast, carrying away more than it
brought, IS now actively in its favor.
The first effect was 10 bring only look
ers-on into California, to familiarize
people with its climate, resources and
capabilities. Now the State is receiv-
ing numbers Of actual settlers.
The 'pedespeed" is the name of the
latest Yankee notion for the purpose Of
increasing mans natural speed. 1t con-
sists Of two wheels, fourteen or fifteen
inches in diameter, by means of stir
rup like contrivance, and to these who
understand it. possesses all the capabili-
ties of the skate. To use it requires
slsll acquired only by practice, but
wien acquired there is skating the year
roUnd--sO says the inventor. a-il
Next comes Ex-Hon. John n. Reagan,
Ex-P Postmaster General of the Exon
federacy, asking to be heard, aud his
statement is that be has not written or
published any letter at any time ap-
proving of Radicalism in all its parts