The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-30
News Items,

dressed and apparently well-to'do people
from the North, going forth to batteries
and battlefields, and to all the various
| objects of interest which invite the
| STRANGER. who, for the first time, has
come TO "see Richmond" Relics are in
Great demand; fair ladies soil their
hands with the dirty roots of flowers or
weeds dug from some noted spot IN the
| country, and one gentleman-perhaps
many more-carried away valise filled
with bricks from the Libby Prison
Ina Virginia Council last week negro
te,timony offered under the Civil Rights
bill was rejected on the ground that it is
| in conflict with State laws.
On Friday last the United States Dis
trict Court refused an injunction against
Baltimore City Street railway Tor nav
|! ing refused to carry negro passenger.
The petitioner claimed to be lawyer
from Boston.
A bloody riot recently occurred in
Quincy, Florida, occasioned by an at
tempt of a body of negroes to rescue a
black man who had been arrested and
placed in Jail. The marshal of the town
The income returns at Boston for 1865,
are generally smaller than for the year
before, but there are some large ones.
| One man, who was government con-
tractor during the war, returns over
100000.
Speaking of crops in the Northwest,
| the st Joseph (MO.) Union, of Friday,
saws: We learn from persons who have
travelled through this section, that the
crops of grain looked well, and that
MANY of the farmers have got through
planting corn, larger crop of which
will be raised this year than ever before
A number of young Germans engaged
in commercial pursuits are now com.
PEELED to leave London, having received
orders to join the Prussiau and Saxon
armies If they do not obey the sum
mons they lose rights of citizenship, and
any property they mag inherit is for.
| feited
II IL estimated that the cotton crop Of
| Louisiana Will be about one third Of the
| crop of 1861 In the Red river country,
and the other overfowcd districts,
|
Red river levoes have given way and the
NatchitOcaes down.
The President has approved the hill
! TO prevent and punish kidnapping, 1t
entails fue net exceeding five thou
sand dollars, or imprisonment for term
| not exceeding five years, or both. OF any
person convicted Of kidnapping any
other person for the purpose Of selling
him into Involuntary servLudyi any
vessel carry ing such person away for the
same PURPOSE is forfeit to the United
St9tes, and the master or owner subject
to the above pUDishments.
! Aspe.ial Washington dispatch to the
Boston Post says: "a pTomilent and
very Intelligent gentleman of The IDte-
ror Department, who has been journey
ing through Indiana and Michigan
during the past two weeks on Oflicia!
business reports that there is u reaction
10 political sentiment in those States.
He was surprised to fud 50 g:cat una
nimity in favor of tho President"
Sixty-six white men, confined in Jail
in Mobile, made q desperate effort to
escape on last Monday night. They
seized the jailor rs ne was giving them
water and locked him mp. The alarm
was given, aud he police arrived in tine
tn prevent any escapes.
J at g. meeting OF che students OF The
Miami University, Ohio, for the purpose
eff cectng a speaker 70 deliver bo IN
uual address, Hon George r. p" " as
chosen hy q vote At me hundred ana
e;,tv .,,Ioir-r twenty Although the
Faculty are most fWouSiT radical, and
| have frequently pgost .tuttG their lectures
| 10 political purposes, still: the students
! are not 90 b. made ICr>riyres
Dexter the swindlirg cotton agent
at Mobile. has been fined 5250,000 It
was proven at the trial that he swiudled
the Government out of 1925 bales, and
also that he received $500 to use his
influence 60 procure appointments to
certain offices.
A United States detective officer, bay-
ing "a prisoner in custody passed through
Jersey City on Wednesday evening, en-
roUt. for Washington at place known
rs the Six Corners, beyond Railway, the
prisoner managed to leap from the train
WHO iluUtI iull hHduNdN- uC tIdlu
was stopped aud backed up, but as the
fugitive could not be found it was sup.
posed he had made good his escape
Friday morning the dead body of the
man, whose name could not be ascertain
ed, WAS found lying by the track and
vas removed to Railway for the purpose
of holding an inquest.
A man named Jerry LutS, recently
sent challenge to fight duel to a Cap.
tain Walton, in PittsbuTg Walton Is
steamboat captain and had Lutz en-
ployed as bar-keeper on his boat For
mis- conduct on the part of Lutz, be was
put ashore. Hence the challenge Wal
ton decided not to fight and had Lutz
arrested and bound over to keep the
peace.
The cholera is increasing in Liverpool.
1t seems to have spread from the infected
steamer Helvetia. Three more patients
aud the surgeon of the vessel have died
and several more are sick.
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Election Returns.
Richie, majority for ratification 407
Preston, $500 59I
Mpruar 100