The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-23

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4 gAMAN-RsriSG shark, weighing 900
Il lbs.; was caught of Point Shirley, in
Boston harbor, on Monday. IN =
4 Ar Berea Ohio, train ran into the
car which had been specially assigned
to General Butler and his wife and
daughter; they were thrown violently
upon the floor, but received no serious
injuries. rst -3.-s IgJ a-.
DIR. MARK SWEENEY, of Dublin, was
brought up in custody of Police eOnsta-
BILE 126 b, who charged him with having
assaulted him abont O'Clock in the
morning in Nassau street. 1t appeared
that DR.. Sweeney was walking home
with his, wife, and the policeman act
1 ing under the orders recently given 10
the metropolitan force with respect 10
unfortunates, were looking curiously at
him and his wife, at which he was irri-
tated. A policeman darted out of a
laneway and canght him by the shoul-
der and his wife by the breast, and asked
him what business he had to be going
with that young woman ut that hour of
the night; he then struck the policeman,
and told him to begone; saying that the
lady was his wife. DIR. Sweeney had s
fine of f1 to pay for the assault.
A SHEPHERD, named M'Kelvey, has
been murdered on the Glenveigh
Hills, Donegal. His head was beaten in
with stones, and the ground where the
body was found bore marks as if severe
struggle had taken place. As vet no
cause can be assigned for the barbarous
deed, nor has any clue to the murderer
been discovered.
,DCDLIN city, with population of
260,0 900, lost only f1067 last year by the
dishonesty of domestic servants, while
prostitutes carried off f9242, of which
sum the police recovered about fl6OO.
The police took charge of the property
of drunkards during the year to the
amount of f13,1S7, and returned il all.
The e-number of fires in Dublin last year
was 46, involving loss of f36,25l.
On the Sd, Mr.. John Holmes, traveller,
Almondbury, near Huddersield, met
his death in dreadful manner. About
half-past Z o'clock he was seated near
the fire, when his daughter was leaving
the house, and he said he was not well,
but refused TO allow her to stay and at
tend to him. In half an hour after
wards when his wife, who is an invalid,
came down stairs, she found him lying
dead in front of the fire-grate, with his
head, close to the bars, and his body
partly on the fender. He had dapparent
| ly been seized with fit, fallen against
the fire-gratc, and, being perfectly help
less, was burned to death. The deceased
was 81 years of age.
On Sunday night last canal boat in
Newark, n. j., sunk at the wharf, and
the wife and son of the Captain were
drowned.
! During the insurrection ut Palermo, a
woman and her two children were
| thrown into n fiery furnace by the in
surgcnts and burned to death.
Patti appeared at the opening of the
! Italian opera house at Paris, as 'Amina."
She was almost sm0tbered with flowers.
Gen. Neal Dow was present at the
meeting of the Social Science in Man
chester, England, and attempted to
make temperance speech, but was
hoOted down.
! A WICKED but pretty little chamber
maid stole n lady's jewels at the st.
James Hotel in New York, valued at
| $1,000. She cried ,dreadfully when n
detective discovered them i'll her palpi- !
tatinS coTset, "a s.ss.-.s.-
ANOTHER Illinois parson has lately
keloped with q widow, leaving his wife
and children desolate. During the war
he was very "1oyaP-to neighbor's
wife. s.a -..s.
AMID great pomp and enthusiasm the
Princess Dagmar, the affianced of the !
| lCzarovitch, made her entry into st. !
Petersburg, and the following day en- |
braecd the Greek faith.
IN life of fifty years q man makes
upwards of 5000, ,000, 900 Of respiratiOns,
drawing through his lungs nearly l7O
tons weight of air, and discharging
nearly 20 tons weight of carbonic acid. |
A ST..LoUIs sharper lately raised the
wind by entering "a brother" Mt one of
the schools and paying tuition fee of
fifteen dollars out of spurious check, |
receiving in change thirty-fve good
dollars.
A TERRIBLE calamity has occurred in
the Red Sea--the foundering of the In
dian steamship Bhima, i'll consequence
of collision with another vessel called .
the NADIA. The vessel began to sink i'm
mediately after the accident, and, hor-
rible to relate, out of l01 passengers
only % were saved.
A BALTIMORE family has just met .
with bereavement of q most trying
character A little daughter OF IL years
died of scarlet fever. and her two sisters,
aged Il and ~, returned from the grave
only to be attacked by the same disease,
and the next morning both their spirits
had departed, while two other sisters
are dangerously i'll.
A. NJ. PERRoT, Frenchman, has dis
covered three terribly destructive en-
gines-the first, q three-barrelled air
gun firing 900 bullets per minute, the
bullets dropping from hopper, with
ont intermission, into the gun; the
second is similar, but mounted on
wheels; and the third is a steam To-
comOtive,3 discharging 2 lb. weight of
proiectiles per second, and capable of
killing l72, 500 men in 81 hours, if but .
one man was killed in every hundred .
shots discharged.
Il California Chinaman cannot tes-
tify against, a white man or negro.
A SOUTHERN paper says that during
the war thousands of Union soldiers .
were killed through information given
to the rebels by negro spies.
IL row between two women at .
Washington, one called the other "a
Yillainous copperhead treasury clerk 1
woman" Forney held her bonnet.
AYoUNG gent in Arkansas, in attempt
! ing to scare a young lady friend by
crawling into her room a Ia ghost, was
nearly burned to death by bucket Of
| hot water. ..