The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-15

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Gen. VIM. s. Hillyer, q former mem.
Der of Gen. Grants staff, is said to be
engaged in writing the life Of the late
Secretary Rawlins.
1t is said that Disraeli, has as q writer
and speaker, "sn Oriental love of cheap
literary fnery and vein of turgid YER
bosity.p -
Delano's last decision is that lottery
or policy venders must take out licenses,
their managers or hackers to give bond
for each yender.
East Tennessee, it now appears, voted
against the new Constitution, but the
majority for it in the State is over sixty
thousand. .
In various parts of the country clubs
are said to be forming to oppose the in
come tax and to defeat candidates for
Congress who favor its continuance.
The Belgians are held up to ridicule
in France because they wish to reform
the French language. They propose,
among other things, to drop the letter h.
An Irishman sent to the, Wisconsin
State Prison was asked what trade he
preferred to learn. He said that if it
was the same to them, he preferred to
be a sailor.
A Washington correspondent writes
that the largest lobby now there is that
bent on procuring land grants for beg
carly railroads"
General Butler thinks he has got on
the trail of these Washington corre-
spondents who have been for some time
past manufacturing bogus Cuban news.
New York has an opium eater, aged
one hundred and four years, who is in
excellent health, goes to church regu-
larly, and 'can drink laudanum with
out feeling any ill effects"
Mrs. Gladstone is said to be always
in the ladies' gallery of the British
House ofCommons when any important
question is debated, watching her hus-
bands proceedings.
One who was growing blind cheer
fully said: II am going into the dark,
but / mean to see all can before get
there" 1t was brave in him not to let
the future shadow the present.
The accounts of Jack Reignold's exc
cution in several of the New York pa
pers are appropriately headed, Hang
ing not played out" thus removing
from New York that slur at least.
A Massachusetts, paper wants to know
whether the legislation of that State
cannot be reinforced by an enactment
whereby in the milk business "a quart
measure shall hold two pints."
Miss Garrett, lady physician, has
lately been appointed member of the
medical staff of the East London Hos
pital. Her appointment is the first re-.
cognitien by medical authorities there
of lady doctors.
A New Orleans man, one B. r. War
ner, sues for divorce from his wife on
the ground that she is so addicted to
the use of morphine that she is useless
to him as wife, helpmate or companion
Hon. T. A. R. Nelson is a candidate
for Supreme Court Judge from the East
Division of Tennessee. The election is
to be held en- the first Thursday (the
4th day) of August, and two Judges
from each of the three divisions of the
State are to be elected.
In Nevada, recently, the people met
and resolved that the Indian of poetry
and romance is not the Indian in fact
the latter being possessed of every at.
tribute Of beastly depravity aud fe'
rocity.
A French man once hired a room in
Paris on condition that the servant
would wake him up every morning at
daybreak, and tell him the day of the
week, the state of the weather, and
under what form of government he was
living.
AGeorgia man makes an earnest call
for the establishment Of o Southern
temperance publishing house, to issue
temperance books which will not at the
same time make the Southern children
believe that their fathers were traitors
and rebels.
The trustees of the Franklin Fund in
Boston, having found it impracticable
to make loans upon the exact terms
prescribed by Franklin's will, recon-
mend that loans of small sums be made
to young mechanics, to be secured by
mortgage on houses intended fer their
occupation.
The people living on the Kennebec
river, in Maine, are singularly unfortu-
nate. They were obliged TO abandon
ship building, which was once their
most prosperous business, and took up
cotton manufacturing. Failing in that,
they went with great enthusiasm into
the ice-cutting business this winter,
and have so entirely overdope il, they
are certain TO be heavy losers in the end.
Forty-two years ago, says the Ash
land, Ohio, Times, young girl, now the
wife of Mr.. Joseph Bectal, residing in
this place, bought a fish Of Joseph
Charles, of Milton township. It wac
served for breakfast, and Mrs. Bectal,
on eating Of the fish, got bone in her
threat about the size OF an ordinary
sewing needle, and an inch in length.
Physicians at the time expressed their
opinion as to the great danger in sub
mitting to surgical operation, when
abe refused TO have it undertaken, and
suffered on with the bone in her throat
uutil Wednesday last, when, in fit Of
coughing, the bone became locsened and
fiew out Of her mouth, to her great joy
and relief, After IN affection Of forty,
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