The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-26
HERE AND THERE.

Cotton spectators have sunk S30O,'
600 in Columbus, Georgia, this season
Northern capitalists are prospecting
in Selma, Alabama, for proftable In
vestments.
Long Island coroner's juries censuIe
men who get run over on the railroads
The professional jurymen of Chicago
rejoice that the convention Is not going
to overthrow their craft.
A Louisville drayman says he hits his
horse with stake because he can't hit
him with a whole dray at once.
The last of Washington's field hands
has died again; this time in st. Louis.
OF course he was los years old and all
his faculties unimpared.
A girl was married in Sioux City, less
than a year ago, at the age of fifteen
years, and she is now the mother OF
three plump, healthy children-all girls.
A fashionable clergyman in Chicago
warns the sinners of his congregation,
that if they don't repent they will 60 to
the place of eternal uDeasiness.
a woman with "a special telegram
from heaven" almost broke up q church
service in New York On Sunday. The
minister declared the wires to be down
between New York and that place.
Josh Billings says: "Before I'would
preach the gospel, as some ministers are
obliged to, fer 450 dolls. year, l
would get living as Nebudkennezzer
did. and let the congregashen 20 to
grass too"
A letter from Minnesota says that
"notes and due bills out there are being
written on parchment, to prevent them
from wearing out by carrying, as that
is all they are good for; they can't be
collected"
The late Tom Corwin, of Ohio, used
to say that Governor Ritner, of Penn
sylvania, told him that he intended, in
his first message, to recommend the ex-
clusion from the State of Yankee ped
dlers, because they sold nutmegs "made
out of white pine and bass wood, which
is good for nothing, for you know, and
everybody knows, that the right kind
of nutmegs are made out of sassafrax." "
Americans, do you know what "the
Cuvckanickpuks, Yakutskylitmiks, Sa-
kiatskylitmiks, Ankachagamuks, and
Mekutonecutzocoorts" arei They are
your fellow-citizens, and live in Alaska,
upon the Observation-Disclosures, Noc0-
tachigut, Kuyuyukuk, Conneeovah,
Jnalachlut and Golsova- Richka rivers.
Women's tights seem to be making
way in England. Mr.. Jacob Bright, Sir
Charles Dixie and Mr.. Eastwick, three
gallant knights, have assumed the
championship of the cause, and have
introduced Parliamentary bill to 're-
move the electoral disabilities Of
women"
4 man in Louisville, for whom there
was letter containing sum Of money
from his mother, was asked at the post
office, as means of Identification, to
give his mothers name. He was unable
10 do so, and stated as the reason that
she had been away from home so long"
Bsmarck's son came honestly by his
dueling propensities. His father, while
student at Gottingen, fought upward
of twenty ducls during his first thee
terms. They were with the rapier, and
ended with thesimple drawing of blood,
which, of course, was not usually fatal.
The individual that got up the Car
diff giant promises to get up "hum-
bug" soon, to which the giant will be
only "wooden nutmeg" lie says he
did intend to get up the "mother' of
the giant, made of plaster of paris,
iron and bone, and to have it appear
that she had killed herself while de-
Tending herself against a large ser
pent.n