The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-10

Boston now has $50 sparrows, the pres
ent family of twenty-seven pairs let
loose there last summer.
In the Offenbach repertoire, "La
Grande Duchesse" has been succeeded
by LIE Grand Lama
Fisk, Jr., contemplating another op-
cratic venture, Max Maretzek has gone
to Europe as his agent.
ALondon publisher of indecent prints
has been convicted and sentenced to
twelve months imprisonment with hard
labor.
In the Christian City of Boston q
man has been compelled to pawn his
family Bible to obtain food for his fam
lily.
Chinese San Franciscans are invest
ing largely in real estate, and bought
forty. FIVE thousand dollars worth in
January.
They have for skating at Paris an
"aristocratic $50 admission pond" in the
Bois de Bologne. Americans are the
chief skaters.
Secretary Robson is to deliver the
address before the Literary Society at
Princeton College at the next Com
mencement.
The Baltimore Sun expresses the opin-
ion that the Fifteenth Amendment
will be everywhere peacefully acquiesc-
ed in. .
At Carson, Nevada, the demand for the
new Mint dollar pieces is very great, over
one thousand having been purchased fer
pocket pieces.
The new Constitution of Tennnessee
prohibits from holding office all who
"deny the being of God, or a future
state of rewards and punishments."
A California paper says the Japanese
"will win universal respect by sort OF
heathenish habit they have Of minding
their own business"
Virginia received S47 1000 from its
oyster tax last year, against 500, l32 in
the preceding year. General Schoiield
medifed the tax.
An aspirant after the vacant position
sf executioner in London rests his
claims upon the circumstance that he
"has had much experience in killing
pigs"
Mr.. John G. Whittier is to write his
recollections of the late George d. Prem.
tice, to be incorporated in the volume of
Mr.. Prentice's poems, to be prepared by
his son.
A London firm of photographers has
purchased small steam yacht, and will
soon sail for Egypt, to photograph the
principal objects of interest in the land
of the Pharaohs.
Illinois has a young lady of seventeen,
bearing the name of Flora Mills. She
is bHrglaress, aud as reward for
opening up a new field of labor for
women, is to enjoy five years visit to
the penitentiary.
Governor Alcorn offers taveling ex-
penses, houses, provisions and sgricul-
tural implements to all who will emf
CRATE to Mississippi, has advances to be
reimbursed out of the first years crops.
1t is remarkable, since the late cold
spell, that those January grasshoppers
have ceased chirping in the newspapers,
whilst the crocuses, dandelions, chick
weed, &c, have all gone out in the
cold.
The chief argument at political meet
ings in the present Connecticut cam
paigu, is said to be upon the important
question as to how much the respective
candidates for Governor can drink with
out getting drunk.
Four gold medals, found near ancient
Tarsus, are to be placed in the Imperial
Library, Paris. Three of these medals
were struck in the honor of Alexander
the Great, and one in honor of Alexander
Severns.
The most famous ruin in England just
now, is the young Duke Of Hamilton,
who has squsndered futune of two
hundred thousand dollars year, and
has contracted ,or mere properly expend-
ed, debts to the amount Of half mil
lion more.
The Turkish army is said to number
one hundred aud sixty thousand troops
Of the line, and ninety Thousand con-
tingents from the province. The navy
consists of sixty six steam, and sixty
three sailing vessels, including, in the
fermer, four iron-clads.
The managers of the San Francisco
Fire Department have deemed il neces.
sary to publish card denying a charge
of "partislity" in extinguishing fires in
buildings insured and leaving uninsured
property to burn.
Kit Burns, the present famous man Of
Water street, New York, is said to have
a voice "like the filing of saw" and
when the laughs, resembles the agony
of door-hinge in want of oil.
The beautiful Msrchioness of Hast
ings, whose reprobate husband died q
wear ago,-her statue in the character
of Grief now being in position on his
grave,-is to marry Sir George Chet-
wypd, the present month.
Belle Boyd is on her way from San
Francisco to Martinsburg, West Va,
where her mother resides. She 10 i'll in
body and mind, and adestitute. About
six weeks since she was discharged
from the asylum - Steckkon, Califor-