The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

Robert Morris, the colored lawyer, is
talked of for Mayor of Chelsea, Massa-
chusetts.
1t is estimated that Minnesota will
this year produce sixteen million bush
els of wheat.
No white person is allowed to own
land in Liberia or become citizen of
the republic.
A gingham factory has been estab-
lished in North Carolina.
The Legislature of Mississippi proposes
to endow an orphan asylum through
o lottery.
Colorado has taken the start of all the
Territories in establishing good COM
mon school system.
The Richmond Examiner urges the es-
tablishment of q southern publishing
house, and wants it located in Rich
mond.
General Tilson, now Mt Savannah, has
been authorized to adjust all claims to
the abandoned coast lands of Georgia
and South Carolina.
A home for destitute and superannua-
ted Catholic clergymen is to be estab-
lished in Ellington, Connecticut.
During the past year one cotton fac
tory in Augusta, Georgia, has turned
out six million four hundred thousand
yards of cloth.
Two hundred thousand dollars in gold
were received in Galveston last week,
direct from New York, to be invested in
cotton.
Negro soldiers are declared entitled
to the extra bounty under the act of
July Is, 1866. That was what Congress
passed the law for.
A party of drunken soldiers assaulted
and beat a policeman in Petersburg on
Saturday, while he was taking another
soldier to Jail for misconduct on the
street.
Brick Pomeroy says that ninc-tcnths
of the children born of negro women in
the South, during the last six months,
say "keow," "heow to ten" "narthing,"
and 81 guess So"
Harry Beers, of Painted Post, Stcuben
county, n. Y, on wager OF 500 to $50,
sawed five cords of seasoned hickory
wood in little over nine hours, on
Tuesday last.
A bride in Evansville, Ind, while
the marriage ceremony was being per-
formed, dropped to the floor in fit,
from the effects tight lacing. At last
accounts her life was despaired of.
The Ncp York Times says the South
ern States are in the Union in ono sense
and out of the Union i'll another. This
reads like the editor was out of his
senses altogether.
Nearly two hundred million of the
national debt has been paid off this
year in spite of internal political
laundering.
A married lady of Detroit sold her rag
bag on Tuesday for one dollar, and af-
terwards remembered that she had
deposited the sum of $50 i'll it for safe
keeping.
The Raleigh Sentinel learns that the
rice crop of the Cape Fear is almost an
entire failure. Before the war, the rice
crop of that region was annually about
2l5OOO bushels. The present year it
will not, we are told, go beyond 10000
bushels.
4 man in Lcwisburg, Prcbblc county,
Ohio, having died of dclirium trcmcns,
his wife brought suit for damages
against two of the men of whom he had
been accustomed to buy liquor. The
county Court awarded her $500 from one
of the men and $500 from the other.
There was a grand petroleum barbc-
cue at Melrose, Nacogdochcs county,
Texas, Il few days ago. The object was
to rejoice over the "indications,' and in
cite general interest on the subject
among the people. There was much
specch-making, much eating of beef and
mutton, much dancing.
The Marshall (Tcxas) Flag gives the
the names of two negroes, employed on
the plantation of Mr.. Scott, of Harrison
county, who picked nearly five hundred
pounds of cotton in ten hours. The crop
| .,nnnt hn had i'm that section.
The freedmen of Macon sounty, Ala,
one of the best cotton growing districts
in the South, recently held meeting
and passed resolutions discountenanc-
ing idlers and loafers, and cOndemning
all violations of contracts between white
men and themselves.
On the farm of David Graham, Esq,
near Max's Meadows, in Wythe county,
has recently been discovered mine of
yellow oxide of zinc. A Northern geol-
ogist says that this mine contains moro
zinc ore than can be found in every
Northern State combined, and Mr.. Gra-
ham informs the Wythville Dispdtch
that over one hundred tons of the ore
can bo picked up on the surface of the
ground.
A couple of lovers appeared in one of
the churches at st. Louis to be married,
last week, when young female arose
in tho audience and forbade the bans,
declaring that the man was engaged to
her. The clergyman refused to go on with
the ceremony, and justice of the peace
| had to be called in to tie the knot.
Nearly all the Governors of the North
ern States have now concurrei with the
President in recommending the observ-
ance of the Doth inst, as a day of thanks
giving and prayer. This is about the
only thing in which they concur with
him.
In an old Southern Patriot and Com
mercial advertiser, published in Charles
ton in 1915, is letter from General
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