The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-25

when we reached Washington Hall Dor
ner. So accustomed had we become TO
trimming and stumbling ever the IRON
suouting which crosses the sidewalk
hat we could not but observe the m
movement recently made, by which the
amounting has been placed on a level with
the payement. 1t was some time before
we could believe that the ohstructi"n
had been removed and that we were
reallyup o our feet, and naturally turned
back and took a glance at the spot IN
order to be certain of the fact before we
communicated it to our readers. Inc
announcement that the improvement mas
actually been made will no doubt be
glorious news for the hundreds OF pc
Ssstrians who have from time to tim
stumbled and fallen over the impedi-
ment. However, we do not think it pos
sible for any of our citizens to pass that
way without being puzzled to walk with
out faltering of stumbling, as almost
everybody has become accustomed to an
abrupt introduction to the pavement in
that locality. For the benefit of those
who walk in that direction without fall
ing down, we have deemed it but proper
TO note the long needed Improvement.
SMITH, THE MISUNDERSTANDING as IL
NAV seem, John Smith, who shot his wife,
in North Wheeling, on Saturday, as yet
manifests no anxiety about hiscondition,
but remains as stolid and indifferent as
to his fate as he appeared when first ar
rested. He takes his meals regularly,
~copyerses rather freely, and sleeps as
soundly as he could do if he was confined
OIL a charge OF petty larceny instead OF
the terrible crime of wife murder. 1t is
said he at times affects to be insane, n
epdeayors to convince visitors OF his
madness by his frequent screams and
foolish talk. Persons who were well &C
uuainted with the prisoner-men who
have worked with him during the past
vear-assert that they never thought
him "a be the least deranged, as he was
o,w.rs 20 +ional aud sensible as any per-
son oor,d NO In olden times insanity
was q crime. I'm, in latter times crime
appears to be insanity. a.
Smith has concluded to take ,"
of the latter-day version.
THE Wool MARKET.-The wool mar
ket has not as yet been fairly opened.
Growers are busy clipping, and buyers
and spectators are busy making thier
calculations. 1t is estimated that the
amount of wool grown this year in the
country will be about one hundred mil
lion pounds, which will be largely in OK
cess of last years crop, which surpassed
any formey year in the wool trade. If
the estimates made of the stock of cotton
in the States are at all accurate, the ef-
feet will be felt on wool, and many of
our best judges confidently predict that
the old time prices will prevail. At the
present time buyers offer but fifty cents
per pound, while the growers are dis
posed to hold off and await an advance.
ARRESTED. Noah Zane, a returned
Confederate soldier, was last evening ar
rested by the United States Marshal,
upon a capias issued by the United
States Court at it session in this city in
1881. He was placed in Jail for future
reference.
We understand that the United States
Marshal has written to Judge Jackson
for Instructions as to how he (the Mar
shal) should proceed in the cases of the
returning mel from the South who were
indicted here for treason against the
United States. As the returning men
have in their possession either a parole
or documents showing that they have
taken the amnesty oath, the question as
to the right to arrest and confine them is
one upon which lawyers disagree.
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