The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-30

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palace cars.
The reputation of the burdensoms
State debts accumulated by carpet-bap
rule is now under serious consideration
in the South.
A New Haven lawyer has obtained
an injunction to prevent his next doc,
nelghbor from having . wake"
johnson, the defaulting New York
sub.treasury clerk, is said to be epjoylnp
his otium cum $l85, 1000 in the West
Indies.
Mr.. w. D Keith. late city editor oI
the Troy Whig has inherited from his
father, recently deceased in England
about $4,000.
The Grand Duke Alexis is promoted
from the naval service to q Major
Generally in the Russian army.
They are making paper of mire grass
in Georgia, but in limited quantities.
The swamp palmetto ia also used for the
oohS Poi PoeS'
Wholesale dry goods dealers in At
lanta boast that trade is at least thirty
three per cent better this than last sea.
son at the same time.
One day Mrs. Partington heard the
minister say there would be q nave IN
the new church, she observed that
"she knew who the party was"
The name grass widow" is of French
origin. 1t is derived from the French
grace" and originally meant widow
by courtesy.
The driver OF grocery cart, who let
a basket Of eggs fall, says that truth
squashed to earth may get up and git,
but he'll be darned if eggs will"
Henry j Foster, the cashier Of the
National Bank OF Brooklyn, New York,
it is alleged, is defaulter for $4,000.
Mr.. Fosters friends made good $4,000
Of the amount.
Judge Ball, of the county court OF
Loudoun county. Virginia. has appoint.
ed Edgar Littleton, Esq, clerk OF that
court, in the place OF Mr.. Fox deceased.
At the close of q recent sermon by
Bishop Becker, in Newark, Del, four
Methodists renounced their faith and
joined the Catholic Church.
Hon. John P. Hale, of Dover, New
Haven, has not been out Of his room
since the 5th ultimo. when he rode to
the polls and voted for Grant.
A Cleveland (Ohio) paper thinks that
the evil in Louisiana is a want OF
schools and churches. Our opinion is,
that it is a want OF penitentiaries and
hangmen.
1t is announced that successful ex-
periments in silk-worm culture have
been made at Beaufort, S. c., and that
the experimenter is coming north to
seek encouragement Tor enlarged opera
tiops.
Henry Meiggs, the Peruvian Jim
Fisk, Vanderbilt and Drew combined,
recently presented President Balta's g
wife with $l5O,000 upon her birthday,
while that lady's daughter received on
the same anniversary q check fol
$4,000.
The Vermont Legislature has paased
sensible act, Furnishing with fine
any person who points fire arms at an
other person 10 sport If any injury
results, the facetious sportsman is LA
BILE to imprisonment for two years.
A friend of ours is getting a model
skatinp suit made. The pantaloons
are to be provided with springs and up
bolstered. He does not want to break
the ice up and spoil other peoples fun'
A Danbury gentleman ate two mince
pies before retiring Sunday night, and
about two o'clock the next morning
was picked up by eleven baId'headed
angels and pushed through. ten yards o'
lead pipe.
Mr.. George Pearce, Of Sterling. Con-
necticut, while out cunning, on Tues
day, December II, in the town OF west
Greenwich, killed . vii cat weighing
twenty-one pounds. TWAS savage as a
tiger, and died game.
A gentleman who has just taken up
his residepce in Philadelphia describes
it as a city where "a family can buy
two fried oysters and cents worth o'
kindling wood" But gentleman who
tried St. Louis, says the only difference
between it and Philadelphia is that one
| of the fried oysters and half the KID.
ding weod would be pocketed by tne
dealer who would alterwsrd solemniy
swear that they were lost by the boy 10