The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-27

TaE celebrated Sanci diamond is said
to have been purchased by a firm of Lon
don jewellers for Sir Jamsetjee Jeieebhoy
of Bombay, for 100000 This historical
stone was last i'll tho possession of the
Demidot family.
IT turns ont that Jules Gerard was not
drowned, but assassinated hy his guide
and native followers Prince Holm,
eldest son of Mehemcd Pasha, himself n
greater lion,killer, has sent 100000 to
savage virtue Of the chase
TEE Roman Catholic church in Poland
has sustained severe loss by the death
of Monsignor Leon Przyluski. Archbish-
op of Posen and Cresen. This venerable
prelate, whose uumberles5 acts OF piety
and charity greatly endeared him To all
classes i'm Poland, was born in 1893, and
was appointed to the archhishopship in
l545.
"JERKED beef has been formally tried
in the Sanitary Court of London, and DIR.
Letheby delivered Judgment on the 18th.
The Doctor said he had carefully eXam-
ined the beef and fonnd that all the fat
il contained was rancid, but with regard
to the lean portion of the meat, he had
eaten some Of it himself, aud ho cOnsid-
cred it was perfectly wholesome as hu-
man food.
A sfSaULAR phenomenon in the shape
of a lake Of wafer has made its appear
ance in Center county, Pa, about three
miles from small place called Horn
town, on the HuhleEabnrg road, covering
about one hundred acres of land, and va
rying In depth according to the irregu-
larities of the ground, from ten to thirty
ioet-some say fifty feet
The Paris correspondent Of She Lon
don Post writes: The Partisan despotic
rulers of fashion have solemnly decreed
that the female dress of the empire SHALL
bs brought into full fashion this summer
Already the shops aud saloirs of the more
advanced in modes discover the queer
| looking little ban-hat bonnets vi the
days Of Napoleon L., and there are dresses
to be seen with very, very low waists,
! which will reveal more than We have
seen Of the ladies for many years in so
| Ciety."
NUMEROUS farms are being sold iD Sui
Hvan county, Missouri, at the low price
of FIVE to ten dollars per acre. The puF-
| cbasers are from Eastern States
DE-. W P PARR, recently Surgeon in
charge of Camp Butler. Ohio. has six
| thousand acres of land in Tensas Parish,
La, willed TO him by Thomas J. Buck,
rebel prisoner Of war, upon " hom ne AT
| tended for about year, aud who died
recently at Camp B1tler
GEy PALMER the eommandant of Ken
tucky. has ordered that hereafter no
more guerTillas shall be executed pub
| licly Hereafter all persons sentenced
to death will be executed privately
ONE OF the prisoners charged with be-
ing concerned IN the assassination plot,
has attempted to kill himself b. knock
ing out his brains against the walls of
the apartment in which be is confined
he failed to accomplish bis purpose, how-
| ever, and was 80 secured that be cannot
make similar attempt. He was badly
cut about the head. and lost large quan-
tity of blood, but is not seriously injured
It is said that this prisoner is the one
who was arrested at 3urTatts house, and
who gave his name as Payne
/ FHE Deputy Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has decided that no income tax
| can be assessed upon any person to whom
such income accrued. where such person
died before the first day Of May, 1865
But this decision does not authorize the
refunding of any income taxes hereto
fore assessed aud paid.