The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-23

al San Francisco. ...
7 Rhode Island isinterror about a snake
fourteen feet long, sand to hr peramhuIat-
ing abot in that State.
There is a town in Georgia where
they shave the heads Of al VIII" are
found drunk in the street
Louisville claims to have more first
class musical talent than Cincinnati, -.
Louis and Chicago combined.
The Hartford Railroad Company are
changing the end doors of thel car TO
side doors, with platform ~
Boston's amusement now l. seeing the
menagerie elephants splash ahont the
frog pond on the Common
! Elizabeth Magarts, col"rrd woman,
/ died in Albany, New York, last week.
! in the l0Sth wear of her agr.
In an action against an editor for
libel, an Illinois jury has awarded the
+ plaintiff three-qnartcrS Of a cent
, Daniel Mcfarland ha~ hccn elected
treasurer OF the Washington irving
Literary Association of New York.
4 military post is be established on
the American boundary, ne.tr the set
tied part of the Winnepeg territory.
During the past wear, ending June
LIST. 2S,07O adults and l3lj children
have visited Bunker Hill Monument
They propose in New York to com
memoratc the deceased novelist hy
erecting a Dickens Drinking Foun-
4 tgin.
Bath. Maine, is clam"ring for free
. lighthouses. The citizens claim that
they have endured The empty name long
enough.
Murat IIalstead, of the cincinnati
Commerciai, is to take passage on the
Cambria for Europe, where Lr will spend
three months.
Making of all wills should he lett 10
women, in order TO avoid expensive llti-
CATION There Is no such tlriu" H. dis
putting their willis .
Queen Isabella has notified loui> Ma
poleon that she hasahdicaicd Lie throne
of Spain in favor ~ tie Prince of
ASturas, her boy.
The total sum raised 10y the Free
Church of Scotland for missions, from
! 1913 to 1869, amounts I" nc,iiv five
millions Of dollars.
The Merchandising (Paj D,"'"rcd.
in politics Us well as name, announces
a. it candidate for sharitl. Prot. John
ston. colored man.
The Boston branch of the Society for
the Prevention Of Cruelty Ia Animals
! objects to the introduction Of patent
switches on horse railways.
The New, York TFjaDe calls the
anvil chorus and artillery accompani
ment, at the Beethoven Festival there,
the quintesscnce Of Slam-hang.
At the st. Louis annual tobacco far
last week leo hogsheads We're entered
for competition. The first premium
hogshead sold for S4Oj per pound.
A farmer in Vevay, Indiana, raises all
the materials of clothing on his farm,
and with the exception OF shoes, hi. /
whole outfit is of home manufacture.
AGcorgia Judge has had to request
I the lawyers not To eat peanuts III his !
court a. the noise Of cracking and |
munching disturIs the course of ius-
tice
Alta jumping match in Binghamron,
! New York. one of the competitors /
Jumped l. feet and 10, inches. which is |
said to hc the biggest Jump on
/ record
/ The London Canada pruitentary
! has female inmate oi twcnty-seven
wears standing. She entered there in
her girIhood, and is now wrinklcd old
woman.
, The British ironclad navy comprises
fortv-,evem vessels, VARYING in size from
the Agin-court, OF 662l ton, and twenty
eight gurs, to the Wiper 81 - tons
and two guns.
. 1t has taken Boston nine and half
months to import 10000 boxes of lem
ons, 10000 boxes OF oranges, 2j0WO
packages of figs and lS2hm boxes and
casks of raisins
The MethodistS of Gold Spring, y
Y. on the Hudson. have recently erect
ed new church ediice dedicated last
week under the name of Grant Meiho-
dist Episcopal Church.
There are two annovam,rs that have
existed probably from the foundation OF
the world which no ~y.trm "t laws
seems adequate 10 >hort-weight
bread and watcred milk.
4 Mrs. Cook, of Wilimgiori. Con
nccticut. was kept alive thir;r -fonr days
without food by morphine injected into
her veins, and at the time OF her death
she had not wasted away much.
An attempt to embody' the principle
of eumulatc voting into the constitution
of the Protestant Episcopal Church IN
the Pittsburgh Diocese WAS defeated in
the convention last week hv decided
majority. "
4 man of thrly-Seyrn Years died IN
the hospital of ST Loui-, Paris, in raw,
inc madness, brought on hy the bite oi
! cat His symptoms wcr" similar to
those of q man suffering IRON hydro
phobia.