Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The New York railroads are using steel rails.

The New York railroads are using steel rails
cotton factory at Macon, Georgia, is turning
out ninety six thousand yards of sheeting q day.
Major General Thomas has written history OF the
Army of the Cumberland.
The Lexington Hotel lin Lexington, Va) has been
sold to Mr.. e. A. White for s32OOO.
The new island in the Grecian archipelago has as
sumed the shape of crescent, and apparently part
| Of the crater OF an enormous volcano.
An envoy of Stephens who has arrived in New
York from Ireland, pronounces the reported escape
of that person false.
The Dakotah and Washington hotels, at st.
Paul, Minnesota, destroyed by fire on Wednes-
day night. nE.r
Arrangements are being made for speedy re-
| opening OF the government land Offices in all the
| Southern states.
Mr.. H. W. Barksdale, an old and highly esteemed
| citizen of Campbell, died at his residence near
Lynchburg, Thursday morning. .ltI
VIM. Barton, shoe maker in Autauga, county,
Alabama was found dead few days ago, with
eight bullet wounds in the breast and neck
married woman named Mahala Garvin was
found frozen to death Sunday morning by the
side of the road near the almshouse in Taunton.
At an auction sale at convent near Paris, eight
hundred pounds of hair shorn from the heads of
Young girls who have taken the veil since 1910,
brought $1,000.
were taken from their beds in Milan, Mo-, and hing
They subsequently proved TO be innocent men-one
of whom was an Ohio soldier.
The citizens of Rockingham county, Virginia,
held large meeting at lIarrisonburg on Monday
last in support of the President. 1t well atten
ded and resolutions were adopted endorsing the
Presidents policy and sustaining his recent veto.
John Mccartney, young man living in LacOnia,
y. H., in going down from room in the hotel at
that place Monday night accidentally walked
of from the piazza on the second floor, and was IN
stantly killed.
\ lawyer in Maine recently moved for new trial
the ground that the verdict was against the law
and the evidence, and that the jury were unduly
Influenced blythe great beauty Of the female plain
tiF."
The recent failure in Providence for about mil.
lion dollars was that of an extensive cotton
featuring house having on hand a large amount OF
cotton purchased at high prices, and also a heavy
stock of manufactured goods.
sportsman near MOnroeve, Ohio, was so in
tenty watching for a muskrat TO come out of his
hole, while standing on the railroad track the other
day, that he did not heed the whistle of an APP
preaching train, and was run over. One of his legs
had TO be amputated.
One of the New York detective has received a
note in which the writer said he could put the Of
cer in the way of recovering the bonds stolen last
week from Mr. Lord. The condition asked was an
equal division with the nformer of the 100000 re-
ward.
Among the late arrivals at Havana is Robert
Toombs of Georgia, who has been negotiating for
the purchase of sugar estate; but it is said he
could not raise the necessary amount of funds
TOombs is reported as intending to settle in Mexico
soon as he is convinced that MaXimilians throne
is on a firm basis.
At a newspaper Office in Sydney, Australia, is a
tablet informing visitors that the editor cannot be
spoken to unless paid for his time. Persons desir-
ing audience are invited to buy a ticket of adms-
sion at the door of the waiting rOom-One hour cos
ting ten shngs; half an hour six shillngs; fifteen
minutes, three shillings.
Three citizens of crawford county, Tennessee,
who were en- route for Texas, were recently muir.
dered in the ChOctow Nation by two negro servants
by whom they were accompanied. The bloody deed
was committed while the victims slept The MUIR
derers secured considerable money. No arrest have
been yet made.
1t must have struck every observer, the underwri
tiers particularly, how much greater the danger of
and damage by fire is sure to become on falling
market. Stocks of all kinds are at decline, and
fires are numerous in all parts of the country. So
much does the eagerness of men DESTROYS of selling
out to their insurers imperil the interests of neigh
bors not quite anxious in the direction, that
in several places in the West, ViglaRce Committees
have been organized by the citizens.