The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-15

Aug. Custom Housr FOrgeries, Mem 49,, ooo
pills. -. i'<'V'V'
eepO'' EoTeaH - ~ 90, 900
Govt y p Pond Forgeries 0Gladwin) 100000
~ Tmba1zIamant 1,bio Treasury $4,000
Get Govt Bonds, (Gen. Bristow).. I2OoO0
Hoboken Bounty Frauds. ...--. 3oo 0OU
o. go Taoourar ohio - 100 900
Dec @. Ms Department, ky.--....' iVVoOo
req. 'p pOns For,1 r ,s N Y $50 1000
NAV. Merchants Bank, Washington. l,OVoO oo
By letters from Europe it appears that
forty to fifty guineas insurance were De-
ing paid on the steamer City of Wash
iuGton, over due, and ten guineas to
insure her against capture by the fen'an
fleet
Louis T. Wigfall, the noted ex-senator
from Texas, has arrived in London, He
went from Galveston on vessel, and
was sixty days in making the passage.
Il was for some time question what
had become of him.
The Philadelphia Press, in leading
editorial one day last week, says;
at can be boldly said Of the Colored people
Of the United States that they hare dl'cays
compared hoRorably NTH any other portion
Of oar population"
Mr. Forney must refer to that portion
Of tie population he has recently been
in the habit of associating with. In that
case we admit the truth of the assertion
Judge Abel, of the First District
Court, of New Orleans, decided the civil
rights bill to be unconstitutional and
not binding. The Court argues that the
present Congress is unconstitutionally
cons iuted.
Tho mortality in Charleston for the
eleven months just ended foots up,
whites, $50, blacks, 1903
An attempt was made by unknown
parties in Mempbis last Monday night to
assassinate Col. Hart, the senior editor
of the Daily Commercial He was shot
at twice from the street as he was sit
ting writing at his desk in his office.
Billings says: . could never find the
meaning of the word collide in Web.
ster. But riding one day on the New
York railway / saw it all. 1t was the
attempt of two trains to pass each other
on a single track. If | remember cor
rcctly it was shocking failure"
General Santa Anna, tho old Mexican
leader. arrived in New York Saturday.
He is in the interest of the Liberals. and
is about to give his services to Juarez.
TIL city of Oshkoss, Wisconsin, was
visited by terrible contlagration early
Saturday morning consuming thirty
buildings in the business part of the
town. The total. loss is estimated at
SlO0,coO.
Small Pox is prevailing to some ex-
tent il different portions of South Caro-
lima. In Edgefeld District it is repre-
scented to he on the increase,
A Horse which had been bitten by
doc. died near Cincinnati about week
ago. with malignant hydrophobia, the
brute tearing out large
pieces If IT'S own flesh during the par
oXym~.
The Richmond Times, of the 9Th inst,
saws that the wheat seeded last fall will
Weld not more than third Of crop,
and this is better than was expected
some time ago In some Of the Piedmont
regions, Virginia farmers have ploughed
up their wheat fields and put them in
oats aid corn. A great breat breadth of
corn rs been and will yet be planted.
The Quantity of potatoes planted this
year yili be unusually large. An effort
is also being made TO plant large crop
ot tobacco
\ convention Of railroad Presidents,
Chict Engineers and General Superin-
tcndeuts will be held in Philadelphia
on the It'll of July, for an Interchange of
views in regard TO railroad construction,
management and operation.
Fred Douglass is emphatic in his op.
position TO the proposed constitutional
that was passed through the
House ut Thad. Stevens instance. He
declare, il ga criminal abandonment of
the colpred people of the South to the
tender uercies Of their old masters
Down East they sometimes talk in
very dowcry language when patriotism
i the theme The Houston (Me.) Times
says tn" people of that town are agita-
ted upon the question of new town
hall, and that in the heat of debate one
gentleman urged the measure in order
that the young men of our town may
have - suitable place 10 assemble, and
be SO inibued with the spirit of liberty
and patriotism that every hair of their
heads viii he liberty pole, with the
star spa gled banner floating from itr'
There has been five murders committed
in the State of Illinois during the past
three vceks-two of them the most
atrocious and FLOODED on record.
Ii is asserted that during q recent
storm III Wisconsin the lightning was
seen to ,rike into the lake in the vioin-
ity of Madison, and masses of ice, two
feet in thickness, were hurled hundreds
of feet in the air.
Albany was, for many years, the larg-
est lumber market in the world, but for
the past few years Chicago has become
the centre, over six hundred million feet
having been received there the last
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