The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-04
PERSON Al.

ANNA DicKEssoN is sojourning IL
Edinburgh.
CHARLES A. DANA, editor Of the New
York Sun, is q steadfast Swedenborglan
Iris recorded IN an Eastern paper
that on the lst of January General
Whiskycocktailski was temporarily SUI
perseded by General Swearcft.
A CINCINNATI juror, who was locked
up some thirteen days, has sued the
Sheriff for $1,000 damages.
THERE are ten men TO one woman In
southern Cslifornis. Female servants
there receive $40 per month.
Forty prominent citizens of Lexlng-
ton, XIV, have been indicted for playing
cards. They are all married men.
FIFTEEN years were consumed and
$500 expended IN deciding the owner
ship of yoke of oxen, in Oregon.
THERE is strong pressure brought to
bear on the President 10 secure the ap-
pointment of female Commissioner 10
Paris, and Mrs. Esther A. Caldwell Is
suggested as we'll fitted tor the of1ce.
She had experience in the Womens
Building, and Is warmly recommended
by those who had OCCASION to be brought
IN contact with her during the Exhlo!-
ton.
BLUE JEANS WILLIAMS, like q great
many other peop.e, is much more liberal
with his advice than his money. he re-
fused, the other day, to give TO some ladies'
who were soliciting aid for the poor, say
ing: "Why don't you leave OH dressing
10 such fine clothes2 Then you'd have
more money to help The poor, and
wouldn't need 10 come begging OF other
people"
IT has been announced that the Rev
DR.. Seymour, Bishop elect of Springfield,
ILL.,, will shortly marry Miss Susan Tying
Coke, a cousin of the Rev. Stephen >.
Tying, Jr., rector of the Church of the
Holy Trinity, New York.
FANNY DAvENPoRT's nose is said to
have been permanently disfgured; but
it's better nose even at that than most
persons can boast Of. We propose to
stick to Miss Davenport until she loses
her entire countenance. - Rochester
Chronicle.
TIE following is from the "Mstters
Matrimonial" column of the Indianapolis
People: "Miss Lou Dlpple, who has
been with the firm OF Adams, Msnsur u
Co, tor the last five years, will sever
her connection with that firm on January
7, and enter into firm where she Will
be half sole proprietor. She will be
married to George Schickendants. Both
parties are well.known to the South
Side. Mag Joy and success attend them,
The new dress recently introduced by
Worth is called "the empress" 1t is the
princesse dress with difference, viz 1t
is not caught up in boutfsnt drapery, but
hangs in graceful folds from the waist to
the loot. The front OF the skirt Is quite
short enough to show the deliberately
dressed feet, while the back forms long,
fiat, squaIe-cornered train.
MIS-. HAYES captured" Mr.. a. o..
Riddle, the noyelist.lawyer OF Washing
ton, by eIcusing his appearance ut the
White House, one swelterIng hot day las.
summer in Il buster, linen pants ana slip
pers, assuring him that in such weather
the most comfortable way Of dressing
wss the most proper. A pretty little
story is also told o! how his comrades IL
the Twenty third Ohio concocted huge
joke and sent n gswky country lad, one
Jim Saunders, up to Colonel Hayes tent
to see "the woman whose business it was
to mend the soldiers clothes" Mrs.
Hayes had just arrived in camp AT the
time, and when the simple 81 ldler went
to her, accepted his commission, executed
the repairs ind won the mems hearts
while unconsciously spelling their joke