The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-12

that city, which claims that tho war De
ing over, no distinction should be maze
between the departed heroes OF Opposite
sides. : 81 A
A military commission has ~peen con
yened, by order of Lieut.. Generai SraIe,
and is now in session at Norfolk, loI .no
purpose of ascertaining and lnvestiga,
ting the causes Which led to the recent
riot in that city, on the occasion OIL 'tne
recent colored procession in honor OF
the passage of the civil rights Dill a
number of witnesses have already been
examined, and it is presumed the e'i'
dence will be quite lengthy. :.
Recently, near Albany, a youth o.
eighty-fve years, eloped Win 18th
creature aged seventy-hVe year, ,iI;es
were married, and leave large ian i
The keystone Oil Works, at Plt5seurg'
With fonr hundred barrels OF rehdeo OIL
were consumed by fire, Monday l =
The screw press mill Of the Hazard
nioded Monday afternoon killing four
workmen. their bodies being literally
torn to pieces. The. wood adjoining
caught on fire, and two acres were
burned. -yrH5t
II is said by those we'll informed in the
mode of raising cattle, that the largest
OK in the Union belongs tn farmer IN
Illinois 1t weighs four Thousand
pounds. ...nl5 ~
A Fenian panic is reported at Owen
Sound Canada, in consequence Oh
story about seven Fenian war vesseis
being seen in Georgian bay volunteers
| from the interior towns were sent Tor, the
citizens turned ont, and the entire popu-
lation paraded the streets until they
found out they had been hoaxed
De Witt G.. Williams has been con,
victed in Jefferson county, Tennessee, OF
.'treason against the State of Tennessee,
| in aiding and abetting the late rebel
lion" and sentenced to fourteen years In
the State penitentiary.
A man, in Wisconsin, few days ago,
hung himself, because his daughters ex-
perenced religion.
Generals Beauregard and Adams have
gone to Europe to negotiate the jackson
railroad bonds. President johnson has
modified their parole to go and return.
A lady, OCCUPANT of house in Brook
lyn being about to evacuate the prem
iSes. placed a notice in the window
"This house to let; inquire within" She
leased the building to no less than six
different persons, receiving month g
rent i'm advance, and then suddenly dis
appeared.
| A stranger, looking for u restaurant
on Fulton street, New York, the other
dav, was referred to a corset shop near
by. by a wag, who told him he could get
! something there Ito stay his stomach. "
Bv decree of the Admiralty Court
| in London, England, the pirate ship
| Gibraltar, or Sumter, once the property
| of theConfederate Government,was given
ND to the United States on the 18th OF
last April. #ia..
A verdant Michigan boy" aged fifty
eight. got .'hornswaggled" out of sever
al snperfluous greenbacks by a design
ing female in Buffalo the other day The
name of this verdant youth is Ehenezer
Miller.
A mouse was caught some months
since in Tye River Warehouse, Nelson
county, Virginia, which is a decided
usWs naturae. He sings like bird. OF
rath r. variety of birds, for sometimes
he cl irps like a sparrow, then like a
cana,y bird, and often like young
chick en- in distress He does not sing
continuously, but at intervals during
the day, and more especially at night
fall. si-
Two men named Under were poisoned
| last week, near New Albany, Ind, by
eating wild parsley. The superstition is
that they took the poison for angelica
root and had eaten of it freely. ..
A Wisconsin dress maker has fallen
heir to 100000.
A Miss Griffith, aged seventeen, re-.
siding in Indiana recently eloped with
| a full FLOODED negro who worked for her
father The father discovering her alb
seuce by means of the telegraph had the
parti, = arrested before the marital rites
were celebrated. Mr. Griffith is an
origiI,,l abolitionist, and for some time
past treated the negro in every way as
an. equal, so that we do not think him
much to be pitied.
A young man named Waters recently
attempted to commit suicide by cutting
his throat with. a razor, in prison at
Greenville, Ohio; He had been arrested
for larceny, and Grieving that his repu-
tation was lost and dreading to meet his
friends he attempted to take his life.
Nearly all the claimants of the cotton
seized 10y the Government at Savannah
have commenced suits in the United
States District Conrt, against Simeon
Draper, Cotton Agent, for the recovery
of the value of the cotton. The suits
number one hundred and twenty two,
and ~trong array of counsel has been
retain, Il for the plaintiffs, among whom
are James T. Brady, w. NJ. Evarts, and
others of equal ability
A Republican in Maine, who had serv-
ed ont his time of thirty days in the
Augusta jail, was asked when he came
out how he liked it. Il had bully
time" said he. There were seventy
six inmates of the Jail, and not id
Democ.at amongst the lot
John A. Phillip s, Surgeon General of
the State of Pennsylvania, handed in his
resigna ton on the 9th ult., as by the
muster out Of State troops his services
were DO longer necessary. 1t was accept
ed by Governor Curtain, and DR.. Phil
lips was relieved from duty
WsnaeIl Phillips Dis,rustfuI.
Mr. nbill;no concluded bio snaanb at