The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-01

a MISS heDecc2 LAYER, uSiuS al
Martinsville, Ohio, gave birth to child
on Sunday night, cut its throat, hid it
and Immediately afterwards confessed
the deed.
A MAN aged forty-fve and woman
aged eighteen, were married in Detroit
some time since, and after living to
gether twenty-four hours the woman
left him, and he now sues for divorce
The courtship, marriage, welded life
and the commencement of suit Tor Oil
vorce all took place within week.
MARCUS SIMPSON, a merchant doing
business in Chicago, was arrested few
days ag charged with enticing his par!'
ner into room and by threats, COM
pelling him to sign papers, acknowl-
edging an indebtedness of thirty-thou'
sand dollars.
PROF. PLAyFAIR, at the meeting OF
the British Association, stated that OF
the Riddings Colliery there was fur
mace 40 OF. so: years old, the walls OF
which he found to be lined with pum-
bago, three or four inches thick, which
he attributed to the operation of the
heat on the iron, but could not fully ex-
plain the mystery.
4 REMARKABLE CAsE.-A young wo-
man, who presented the most remarka-
BILE instance on record of the disease
hydrocephalus, has recently died in New
York. Her head was tliirty-seven inches
in circumference, and twenty-seyen
over the vortex, from one ear to the
other, while her body was little more
than skeleton. Her mother had stead
fastly refused the most tempting offers
of money, Mr.. Barnum offering S25, 900,
to have her afflicted child exhibited to
the public, and now refuses on any
terms to have the remains preserved in
the interest of science.
THE PRECIOUS METALs.-For the cur
rent year, 1866, the aggregate gold and
silver product of the United States is
estimated from $4,000, 600 to 100000
900. The details of the largest estimates
are, that California will produce S25,-
OOO,OOO, Montana S1S,000,000, Nevada
s16,OOO,OO0, Idaho sl7,O0O,OO0, Oregon
SS,0O0,0 900, Colorado S17,OOO,OOO, and
various other sources $4,000, ,OOO-total
Sl06, 6,0OO, 600.
IT is announced in England that an
extensive business is carried on there in
hunting up portraits for Americans, in
order to make galleries Of ancestors.
An American agent recently in London
explained that his business was to "col-
lect ancestors and that he had been
quite successful, having picked up many
good portraits, and that with proper
to costume and age, and some
little heraldc additions, he had match
ed suitable husbands and wives for two
or three generations, and had exported
several very well assorted families,
which, being provided with full creden-
tials, were most filially adopted, and
that he was continuing his highly re-
researches"
THE loss by the burningof the Bridge
port Furniture Company's mandatory,
Monday night, will amount to about
the sum of 100000. The following COM
panies lose as follows: 1Etna, $1,000;
$1,000; Phoenix, $4,000;
CITY, 81, SOCIAL of Hartford; Norwich,
- 900; Massasoit, $1,000; Springfield
Fire Co., S2,5O0-of Springfield, Mass;
North American, $1,000; International,
Il 900; Harmony, 81 900; Security, 8, $40;
Home, $4,000: Metropolitan, $1,000; Ion-
kers, $500; Commonwealth, Sl,OOO-all
of New York, Peoples, of Worcester,
81 900; Roger Williams, $1,000; Nara
gansett, S2,O00-all of Providence, K. l.;
New London Co., New London, Sl,6OO.
Total, $4,000.
THE New Bedford Standard says
that letter has been received in Dart
mouth, dated Bay of Islands the 25th
of August, stating that Captain Alfred
Coffin. late of the Alabama of Nam
tucket, was i'm jail Mt Tahiti in July,
on charge of murder. The Alabama
was lost some two years ago at Chat
ham Islands, and Captain Coffin was
taken to sydney, where he remained
some time, until Captain Perkins, Of
ship Hermon of that port, took him ont
of charity as mate for trip TO San
Francisco, to help him on his way
home. On the passage, Coffin muir
dercd Captain Perkins and threw his
body overheard. The Hermon was
condemned.
Ir Is hardly three years since the
completion of the present furnace OF
the Morgan Company. Nine. months
from the time it went into blast-the
c company declared dividend of one
hundred per cent, and in two months
thereafter farther dividend of one
hundred and twenty-five per cent. in
stock TO its proprietors; making a div
idcnd of two hundred and twenty-five
per cent. in less than one year-the
product during the year being 1000
gross tons of pig iron. The success
which has attended the working of this
furnace is typical of any enterprise
conducted by men of means and prac-
teal ideas.-NarqHette (hich.J Journal.
TRAGEDY IN LEXINGTON, LIZ. "A
WEMTiiY AND PROMINENT CITIZEN
hnuf seven O'clock on We'd