The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-21
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volumes.
Numbers of ex-rebel soldiers are en-
listing in the regular army.
The people of Syracuse, New York,
are thinking of an opera house.
People in Quebec are subscribing for
the destitute Labrador fishermen.
The Belgium Catholics have given
two thousand needle guns to- the
Pope.
The New England colleges are hold
ing convention Mt Williamstown.
Lima is styled the city of fine churches
and fair ladies'.
The Government has not sold, and
will not sell any of its iron-clad YES
sells.
There have been four thousand cases
and one thousand seven hundred deaths
from cholera thus far in Cincinnati.
The great Suspension Bridge at Gin
cinnati win be completed on the first of
December.
The retreat of party of lawless
characters in Saint Louis has just been
discovered in Il sewer of that city.
During the past year there have been
one hundred and fifty-twO stabbing
cases in Kentucky.
General Rosser, of Confederate caval-
ry notoriety, has gone into commission
house in New York city.
The New York Tribune estimates the
expenses of both sexes who attend the
.2G0 balls of the season in that city at
S. l25,000.
There are forty new wells now going
down on Pithole Creek, and prepara-
tions are being made for sinking twenty
more.
The cotton croRof Tennessee is re-
ported at one-half the average; but
the grain crop in East Tennessee is said
to he much better than usual.
Revrrdy Johnson's opinion on the
cotton tax is exciting great attention in
the South. a case is to be made up for
the United States Circuit Court i'll
Wilcox County, Ala.
The Ottawa Field Battery are send
ing in their guns and equipments to
Quebec. to be Immediately replaced by
guns of heavier calibre and new equip
| mcnts.
Great quantities of war material con-
tinue to arrive at Montreal and are now
being landed. The wharves are covered
with cartridges, brass cannon, &c.
Two American gentlemen have been
grossly insulted in Turkey on their way to
Thihit, and robbed of about $4,000. Mr..
II. w. Cook, of Illinois, was one of the
gentlemen, and Mr.. Henry Stanley the
other.
A youth Of nineteen and woman of
fifty-thrce were married recently, in
Wayne county, New York, and very soon
after the youth disappeared with SlOO,
which his wife gave to start him In bu-
siness. and he has not been heard of
since.
SAYS the Cincinnati Commercial: "If
being in Congress will make John Nor
rissey better or more useful man,
which We doubt, because it is not Il
school in which the virtues and moral
tiles of lite are largely cultivated, we
are in favor of his admission.
The mineral springs at Gettysburg
are quite sensation in Pennsylvania,
and promise to become ere long objects
of national interest The sick, the
lame. the halt, and the blind, are
thrOnging to these springs or carrying
away the waters To different parts of
the country.
4 dispatch from Charleston, of the
18th, says: "a freedman, known by
the name of Horace Greeley, and who
has been confined in the Jail in this city
fer the recent murder of Mr.. Rhctt,
managed to make his escape from con-
linement ut an early hour yesterday
morning"
There are now thirteen steam packet
companies running steamers between
Europe and the United States. These
steamers make about four hundred and
twenty round trips every year, and the
gross revenue they yield is about four
millions sterling.
\ San Francisco correspondent writes
that the stuff which is vcndcd in our
Atlantic cities as California wine bears
no resemblance TO the pure and white
Juice of the California grape. There
are only one or two genuine agencies in
the Atlantic States for the sale Of Cali
fornia wines.
John Bright says that half the lad
in England is in the possession of fewer
than one hundred and fifty men. Scot
land is in the possession of not more
than ten or twelve men, and the monop-
oily of land in the United Kingdom is
growing closer daily.
A quartz mining company in Plumas
county, California, pay one of their
hands $500 month. He has some
secret by which he makes dope"
which he mixes with the quartz in the
!, battery and saves One-third more gold
than by any other process. The company
pay him to keep his mouth closed.
4 dandified cockney entered Presby-
terian Church in Louisville on Sunday,
and began "hooraing" and applauding
the good points in the sermon. He was
admonished 10 keep silence, and seemed
surprised, as he thought he was follow
ing one of the "customs of the people"
A lady was arrested in Dunleith, ILL.,,
for wearing "bloomers." She was from
the East, stranger in the city, and her
manners were unexceptionable, but the
Dnnleithers could not tolerate such q
spectacle in their city, and the unfortu-
nate lady was dragged before magis-