The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-31

An Indian haf-breed, DC dougntoh'
Indiana, recently snticed q young
clerk into the woods, under promise OF
showing him q copper vein with large
mass exploded, and then murdered him.
The clerk had considerable money on
his person at the time of the murder.
SURF is about being instituted against
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
for damages incurred by the falling OF
the platform at Johnstown, Pa, on the
1ath Of September.
GENERAL SHERMAN held an Indian
council ut Fort Dodge on the 7th inst
He gave the Indians eight days to bring
in the three white women they have,
and If they did not return them with
out presents, it would be war. The
Indians then started home to have
council among themselves.
SIR CURTIS MIRANDAR LAMPsoN,
created q baronet in England for his
services in the Atlantic Telegraph en-
terprise, is q native of Vermont. His
early life was passed in the hunting and
fishing grounds of Canada and the
Hudson's Bay territory. He was mar
ried in Vermont, and in 1921 went ia
England, where he became permanently
settled, taking the oath of allegiance In
1S4s, and engaging in the Hudson's Bay
fur trade.
THE management ofthe Atlantic Tele-
graph Company are busily engaged in
the thorough reconstruction Of the tele.
graph lines running through the
swamps of Newfoundland, and expect
to have one line in perfect readiness for
use by the first of November next, In
addition to this, it is in contemplation
to put up second wire, to run BY a
distinct route from the old one.
LAST May young girl named Miss
Greene disappeared from Peru, Maine,
and was not heard of until last Satur-
day, when two men stumbled over her
mouldering body, as it lay hidden be-
meath a rock. 1t was mere skeleton
in clothes, all the flesh had disappeared,
and from the grinning skull the light
hair streamed hither and thither in the
wind. Her family identified the remains
by the clothes and shoes, which were
we'll preserved, and by her reticule,
books, cape, etc. 1t appears that she
purchased corrosive sublimate, and went
to lonely place to die, but the cause
of the suicide is not revealed.
IT is said thisthe expenditure of two
dollars and s-half would probably have
saved tho Evening Star and the lives Of
her passengers; the assertion being
based on tho theory that tho sheave III
which the rudder chain worked was
cheap one, not guarded with iron, and
that therefore the chain clipped out and
the vessel became unmanageable.
THE Pail Mall Gazette gives o table
Of statistics, reported by the Society
for the rescue Of young women from
lives of crime and shame, showing that
out of fivo hundred and thirty-eight
cases of young girls relieved by its off.
GERS, tQTc6 uuuuEcu auu olAty 1.-TWO hou
been seduced before they were sixteeI
years of age, and one hundred and six
before they were twelve years of age.
PEOPLE from the rural districts report
an unusual phenomenon. The forests
seem to have fallen prematurely into
the sere and yellow, and the trees art
as bare and leafess as they usually art
month from this time. There has
been no frost of any consequence, ant
the untimely fall Of the leaf puzzles
even those most profoundly versed il
woodcraft.
THE Portland Argus says "appearan
ces of the great fire are fast disappear
ing. Several hundred buildings have
been erected, or are in process o
erection in the burnt district, and j
presents one Of the most busy scenes
imaginable. One more season will SCI
Portland we'll constructed.