The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-12
Current News.

nit of Mount Washington and the
neighboriug peaks to the depth of several
inches. The regular season will close
to-day
A SALT LAKE paper, noticing the deal b
of Mormon Bishop, says: He was
thirty-seven years old, and leaves an
interesting family of eleven wives and
forty-seyen children to mourn his death
McCooLE, who recently won a prize
fseht in st. Louis, has challenged Joe
Coburn, who whipped him in Maryland
three years ago, for from 81 900 to s. 900
Coburn accepts the challenge.
THE Boston Herald says it is STATED
that gentleman in Stoneham has oh
tanned evidence establishing his claim to
the great Townley estatein England, val
ued at some fifty millions.
IN Terra Hauta, Indiana, a few dal s
since, the artesian we'll of Mr. Rose, at
the depth Of LIP feet commenced flow
ing oil of the best lubricating qualitE,
causing much excitement.
THE city Of Peoria, Illinois, has eight
-four mills, with daily capacity OF Oh
thousand nine hundred and thirty bar
rels; and ther5 are, in addition, -four
mills connected with several of the dia-
tillerits capable of producing from fift y
to one hundred and fifty barrels lay.
THE degree of D. D. has not been COL
ferred by Harvard college since 1863.
Yale conferred none this year. But
Dartmouth made up for both by creatin
four d. DIS last week.
On Saturday night shooting affray
occurred in a public house in Baltimore,
resulting in the death of Benjamin +.
Jones and the wounding of George Cool,
rich and John Bottz, the latter seriously.
A man named William H. Richardson
gave himself up as the party who fire d
the pistol, claiming to have done so ia
self-defence. The coroner's jury subse-
quently discharged him. The affray
grew out of political excitement t.
Richardson was Radical
TIE Fort Hill farm at Groton, Conn,
which has been owned by the Burrows
family fol 2l5 years, OF since Robe
Burrows fist pu chased 1t Of It's India 1
owners, has Geem recently sold to 6. W.
Hewitt for $500. 1t contains the site of
the royal fortres3 of Sassacus, King Of
the PeQuOts.
TAYLORs saloon in New York, proba.
bly, better know to visitors of that city
than any other, is about to be closed.
The building h. been sold to the Mo
chanlcs Express company.
FULLER, the ler of the Hartford Ma
tioua Bank, VIII vas charged with the
robbery of 10000 worth of bonds be-
longing to Roya Wilcox, merchant Of
that city, was arrested by the latter on a
civil suit on Friday, and released on
$50 900 bail. He was again arrested
during the dJy on criminal suit
brought by the bank, and placed under
$40 ,0C1 bonds 10 appear III the police
court tie following day.
Acknowledgements Frank Boylan has
received instructions from Major a. II.
johnson, Chief Engineer Manassas Gap
raIlIoad, to proceed to StIasburg for the
purpose of running the line Of the Win
chester and StraSburg coDnectlon.-A'er'
audiia Gazette.
ALADY at the Catskill Mountains says
che place seem haunted by strange be-
ings." The vii she says, shrieks dis
mally, or sighs it'll Il mouluful cadence,
through the Mouutala House and among
the slim blancl,s of the trees, the light
plays "a weiIr fashion upon the rocks
abov. ana the llevs below. the ghost
of R, Van u nkle stalks abon5 the
Place md Laa' er-stockiugs is certainly
hvi"j one Of sold fits OF uroiug
AR ,sToN To-, st has found, in Rome,
gen. Il gentle IA Of sixty, named Sig
uer. Columbus he only living descend.
art Z, Chtis,o, er Columbus. He pos
suases many j. resting. relics formerly
belol. ,Gs 10 , ',umbus, among which
are to tine o. paintings of him. He
has witCton = ~ Of Columbus.
FEENcuMA.. named Hoffey residing
at Sanilake, York drank so much
whjsh on Sun " night that he became
alnoS hsl2lts> He, however, was able
to civ, little child of his sufficient of
the arIeut to rouse it's appetite, and
getting ont of d afterwards, the little
one : .ugkt gu found the liquor and
drank freely Of RetuI ming to bed the
child ,1on ate, ,Epired in a tit.
Il digging the foundation Of Il
store in Sarat, a, last week, about ten
feet below the ,,ctace the woFbmen came
to q small iron cannon, three feet long,
with the remains of a wooden carriage
to which it had been fastened by band
II has a bore If nearly ten inches in
diameter and eighs one hundred and
twenty pounds 1t is supposed to have
been stolen fr,m the American army
after Bargoynea surrender, by the Indi-
ans. who carried it hitler and secreted
it where fouud--a feat which the light.
ness of the piece would have rendered
comparatively easy.
THE Philadell hia Gazette describes the
bad habits into which some of the ami
mails NJ that CITY have fallen. The coats