The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-05

vert the idea which is prevalent at the
East, that there is a large surplus OF
grain at the West held back for higher
prices.
The Chicago Board of Public Works
announce that the lake tunnel will not
be ready for use for three months on ac-
count of other work to be done on 1t.
A tumor weighing three and half
pounds was taken from the face of a
child seven months old in Philadelphia
on Thursday. and was found to contain
the imperfectly developed form of a
male infant.
Fully 5000 German Catholics were
recently in q torchlight procession at
St. Louis, celebrating the silver ami
versary of Archbishop Hendricks con-
secration rs Bishop. He has filled this
position for 25 years.
At the office of the Bureau of Mines
is exhibited mass of gold of the weight
of one hundred and twenty pounds av-
ordupois, from Colorado. 1t is four
fifths pure gold, of fineness equal to
SI7 the ounce. and onc-tifth silver. The
whole value is about S35,OOO at the
Assay Office.
Two members of the Vermont Lcgis-
lature have refused to take their extra
nav voted by the General Assembly.
They are both young men, and as they
GROW older they'll know how to put up
with such hardships better than they do
now.
There are from one to seven abandoned
infants found in New York almost every
day. When these little unfortunates
mass under. the care of the Commission
ers of Public Charities and Correction
they are given to woman (hired at the
city's oxpensc), VINO o"rEi." tn@'"
AImshonse on Blackwelps Island. In
the Almshouse there are three wards set
apart for the reception and nursing OF
these infants.
The great ocean yacht race from New
York to the Isle of Wight, for purse of
800 600. is to come off on the llth OF
December. The yachts which are to
compete for the prize are the Henrietta,
yesta and Flcctwing. James Gordon
Bennett, Jr., the owner ofthe Henrietta,
accompanies his yacht on the OCCASION
Lady Emma, the famous trotting
mare, died on Thursday morning from
paralysis. Lady Emma was the proper
ty of Mr.. Pettce, and was highly priced
by that gentleman, $4,000 having been
refused for her on one occasion. She
was finely bred, being by DR.. Richs
Jupiter, dam by Abdallah: Lady Emma
was twelve years old, and was III Hiram
Woodrutf's stable at the time OF her
death.-N. !. Herald.
In Chicago, recently, a Mrs. Sullivan
died. Her husband, a drunkard, who
was absent from the House at the time,
being informed of his wife's death, re-
turned in an intoxicated condition, and
entering the room where the body lay,
struck it several blows, accompanying
fhem with terrible oaths. He then re-
turned to his debauch, making no pro-
vision for the interment of the body,
which remained in the house until re-
moved by the police.
The editor of the Cynthiana (ky.)
Ners, in making an appeal to his sub
scribers who are in arrears to pay up,
says: "We hope they will settle with
out delay. Not that we need the mon
ey-oh, no! Our ink is given to us, we
steal our paper, and we win our print
ers' wages at seven up So it costs
us nothing to carry on business. New
ertheless, as a matter of accommodation,
and to ease their consciences, we Will
take what they owe us, if they will
send it in Immediately.
During the prevalence of the cholera
in Louisville last summer, it was very
fatal in locality within radius OF six
hundred yards from the corner of Tenth
and Green streets, about seventeen
deaths occurring within forty-eight
hours. The sickness was attributed to
the bad grading of Tenth street by the
CITY. which caused an overflow into the
wards of the residents near by. Mr..
George Brumback, who lost his wife
and daughter by cholera, has therefore
sued the city for SIS, 900 damages, alleg-
ING that their deaths were the results of
municipal negligence, since the fatality
would not have occurred had the grad
ing been properly executed.
A singular trial commenced in Chica-
90 on Monday. Jane Cole and Richard
Doyle were arraigned for perjury. 1t
appears that Mr.. Cole left home on bu-
siness couple of months ago, to be alb
sent four weeks. As soon as he was
gone his wife, Jane Cole, applied for a
divorce on the ground Of desertlon, and
produced Doyle as witness. The di-
vorce was granted, and when Cole re-
turned he found his wife married to
DOYLE. He now prosecutes both Tor
perjury and conspiracy.
The Denver Daily Eers says: at
costs here about twelve hundred dol
lars per week to run daily newspaper.
The voting population of Denver is
about twelve hundred. Ofthese about
ltwo-thirds take and pay for a daily pa.
per-, 1t is a fact too well known to IRE
quire any argument to prove, that there
is scarcely daily paper in the Union
whose subscription rates cover the cost
of the blank paper upon which it ii
printed. Did the Ners depend upon it
subscription for support, it could moi
live week. To meet current expenses
the advertising patrons must make III