The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-01
state aud Other Items.

RAID ON BUTFAIO, WEST NIRGINH.-
The ~. Pleasant Register says, we learn
that band of rebel thieves entered
tar town of Buffalo, on Friday night
last. and robbed the store of Mr.. Daniel
Carr. OF some two Or SIX hundred dollars
worth If goods, conSsing Of shirts,
pants vests, dire wcrs, boots, shoes, blank
els. hats, caps, and stockings. These
.couulyris are supposed TO have retreat
I'd into j1cl >on county. e..
IuL -,nr paper says that several oil
crmuaui,> have been organized in Cabell
county. and that boring has commenced
ON GuE@n river.
IpNlu AZ OIL HUNTER An irrever-
en- yuragraphiat says, that it is rel ted
OF Jonah, that when he took up quarters
ia .ltr whales belly, he wrote home to
Lii, iatl... 10 come down Immediately, as
hc uld discovered splendid opening for
th,oil business. The next day he tele-
.rrarhcJ the old gentleman as follows:
"l=thrl don't come. I'm badly sucked
b.. Ilury Of OIL but no market" This
- "a. .il,. oj.fst-0l account historians
GIVE uSoG the oil business.
! COMPANY with capital Of $500, 900,
has been organized to bore for oil OH
Wheeling creek and Short creek The
company is composed largely of Balti-
more capi.aliSts-men OF both means
and energy.
BuFI>G operations will commence Oh
the john Eall farm at Bolton, next
w-cA Another company is forming,
which ,,iH also commence soon i'll that
.....l,.rbood. Biologists and pros
prctoy, pronounce that first class oil
rcwion. Indications" are said to be
abaula>t and almost conclusive.
\ CASE e astonishing Juvenile de-
plavity has inst been developed in Lou
isvill". ~. Caroline Miller, girl thir-
teen years old deliberately poisoned her
iaihar With arsenic after having made
,,a unsuccessful attempt to kill him with
rrt l.pI.,a, The principal ingredient of
which WAS phosphorus. The only excuse
she made was that she thought she might
have q better home and less work to do
IT her father was dead.
GrNrrAL. GRANT, in conversation at
Washington, it is said, freely stated the
orarnd for Rosecrans' removal from the
d,parimaut of tho Missouri. He said: Il
ordered him to transfer his troops to
Thomas. after sherman had started for
savannah. He could have done it in
r!..," ajys he spent thirty at it, There
vs. uo u,r ,ipi for the delay; there had
been NO s,lious campaigning Ill his de-
p1rimyr,i. and the talk of an enemy then
Laugrrou, Vas prapostcrous. So l or
d-rcd his removal.
\ YotNU lady. an orphan, living and
teaching school in huntington county,
PA ,,gr ago received letter from
Nira;n.a. f,LS her brother, who was
soldier "a the Union army, had been
killed ia battle. She fastened to the
South. secured his romaius, had them
i,er..t homo AID buried. Ever since,
alone +. tive world and in sadness, she
has mnurugd her dead kinsman A week
400 Size lived letter from Anderson
viNc from her brother, who is alive and
IN >ourr Such j. ,ho romance and the
rralnyu vat
Tnr boston ,owirsays Joseph Bent,
the Portuguese convicted OF murder and
scutra..a .r D. Banged, was committed.
80 thrs..u, . isou on Friday noon. The
rrr-,d,.nt warrant committing the death
>,;trn., ,o imprisonment for life, reach
ea The url tu. n hour or two previous
r. thar G,.t for the execution. Upon
the i..i ID "a, Communication being an
un,n,,a 10 him, the prisoner refused to
,r.cp, e.. insisting that he would not GO
~ prison. PICKERING death Ivy hanging
~ inuIisuumrut for lie.
IN relation to WA. Red, who murder
GA hi, father ~ Concord \. H., the other
doI. il T., stated that some three weeks
400 tl,, murderer took $50 from his
fathers pocket and ahsented himself
from home to.. two weeks. Very soon at-
ter committing the homicide he de-
,nandcd Of his mother between 500 and
300. which nc understood was i'll the
-bense and which for her own safety, she
sIonsehfed'to give him, she being crippled