Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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Three women were drowned Sunday night by
this upsetting OF boat on the East River, N Y.
is believed that some forty persons persisted
| by the burning Of the steamer Governor Troup,
in the Savannah River a few days since, while en-
| route with cargo of cotton and passengers from
Augusta to Savannah.
| The country is likely to hear OF Numerous fires
| like that at Nashville, within the next few weeks,
| including terrible destruction of Government
property. The Quartermaster's Reports are being
| demanded. Fires strike such 3 clear balance.
In Nevada City, Montana, flour rose one day
recently IRON go to Sl2O per hundred pounds
number of miners, deeming 1t an imposition,
| formed club, seized what they required, and
paid for 1t at the rate of $50 per hundred pounds
over mill on in specie being the, assets of the
| State Banks. which had been secured ut Augusta
| by Gen. Wilson, by order of Gen. Thomas, has
reached Nashville.
While in ,eorgll, General Ned McCook ordered
| the extensive prison stockade and graveyard at
Andersonville TO be inclosed by fence and the
book containing list of n Imes and description
| TO he kept for the Information of relatives and
friends, there being over fourteen thousand Fed.
| eral dead at this noted place.
A practice exists among beggars in London to
keep their children from growing by feeding them
with gin, so as to insure always having a baby
| 70 attract compassion. In one case a child four
years old was 80 stunted ss not t. appear more
than twelve months old
The New York Herald estimates that its war
correspondence during the past four years has
cost nearly half a million dollars.
Two acres of oil territory, on which a we'll Is
being sunk in Hancock county, West Virginia,
was sold 10 an Eastern company, a few days
since, for the enormous price OF $3.50 600.
The number Of letters which are now received
| at the Dead Letter Onice IN Washington, sent
there under the new Jaw which makes the pre-
payment OF postage compulsory, amounts to
more than fifteen thousand week.
The Boston Commonwealth says that Mr.. +. B.
Sanborn, OF Concord, the We lknOwl friend and
correspondent oil John Brown, is now in Rich.
mond, and in possession of facilities which will
enab him % procure from the archives OF that
State valuable letters and other documents
throwing much light upon the expedition Of Cap.
tain Brown 10 Virginia, with additional facts per
tanning to his last days.
A new fashion is reported from Paris. 1t is
a novel kind of trimming composed of rows Of
sequins, sewed all along the seams, which make
an incessant tnkling. 1t appears 10 have been
devised by the artist Vi the demi'mOnde.
A daring robbery was committed at Nashville
last week. Two men went into u banking house,
knocked the teller do xn, stamped upon hun until
he waS insensi1e, and then tried TO break into
the safe. Failing 10 this, they gathered eight
made of.
A man named SGnnor, living near Douglas,
Illinois, was recently tried and acquitted for kill
ing prov ost marshal, who was endeavorinR to
break into his hOu.e at night GA Sunday night
last Sauner was murdered in his own house by
some person, as yet unknown.
A Nashville paper talks in The following stra n
of matters in that city: Probably no city In the
count has such motley population a. Nash.
Vile at the present time. The city is overrun
with paroled rebels discharged government EN-.
pl wees and thieves The penitentiary is filled
to OVERLOOKING, and Recorder Shane is doing a
heavy business every morning in the way of
collecting taxes from evil dCers. Thieves ply
their vocation every night, and laugh al the en-.
deayor of the police TO ferret them out.
A movement il on foot, headed by their leader
in the late insurrecton, TO Sc ;ure large trac; of
land IN this country for nearly twenty thousand
PO'es who were eXpatiated for their recent efforts
to throw oil the Russian yoke.
Presentations are getting common. The cap.
tain OF a canal boat out West has Just been pre-.
sented with a service Of five years in the peni.
Tertiary, in consideration OF the distinguished
ability with which he plundered passenger and
then kicked him overheard.
The students of the University of Naples, four
hundred in number, prepared an address TO the
government Of the United States on the assas.
snation of President Lincoln, and conveyed it
in procession to the American consulate IN the
town.
The Prince Of Wales made speech lately at
the Merchant Tai!ors' dinner in behalf of poor
clergy. IL was q commonplace, though kindly
little address; yet 1t was received with as many
cheers as il it possessed the eOquence of an ora.
ton of Ocmostheues, and later in the evening
the Archbishop of Canterbury assured the Prince
that the words which he had spoken that night
in advocating the tause Of the institution would
moisten many an eye with the tear of gratitude,
and would ill many a heart with thankfulness."
Recently at Drogheda, Ireland, an old soldier
named Mcdaniel married lady seventy -four
years old. Mcdaniel is her fifth husband and
has several grandchildren. II appesrl that her
previous husbands, for the most part, were sol.
diers also; and each upon his death bed recon-
mended one Of his companions in arms TO his
spouse as her next husband, q suggestion which
she invariably acted upon, even in the present
instance.