The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09

were all played together, which, If
did not heighten the effect, hid th
defects. .aa .s fro'-g
THE owners of the omnibus lines Q
Gottenburg, Sweden, some time sine
provided each of their vehicles with
water reservoir, from which the passen
gers can quench their thirst. They hav
now extended their courtesy by pro
viding each traveller with newspape
giving the latest intelligence, and whicl
he can read while in the omnibus.
THE Revenue Commissioners estimat
that over 100000 gallons of distille'
spirits, a9,OOO,OOO gallons Of fermente'
liquors, 100000 gallons of imports'
liquors are annually consumed in thi
country, costing $516, 900, 900. The Gov
ernment revenue derived from tn
liquor business is estimated ut S46,727
256 annually. ~ n y AZ. is.G IN
A NEGRO of the Ottawa House, Mon
treal, absconded the other day, taking
with him from ten to fourteen thoasant
dollars in borrowed money, seven hun
dred dollars in jewelry, and eight hun
dred dollars in clothing. He was tracet
into Vermont by one of his creditors
but the sharp thief's wife had taken an'
other track with all the plunder in hel
possession.
IL the little mining town of Birch
Vile, Bridgeport township, California
where the entire taxable property does
not amount to 100000, the incomes last
year amounted to STAG, los. The mum
Der of persons having this income viii
not reach fifty. This is an average. o.
over 81, ,800itO the man. There are si1
incomes of over 10000, and two ovel
$4,000. The largest income is S42,510
the second S2a, 100. This is splendid
showing for town where, the people
are. devoted almost entirely to placer
mining.
MIR. CHAs. n. TRIP died recently in
New Orleans. He, had a fondness fol
travel and adventure, and for mineralo,
gy. He discovered the oil deposits al
Innisfallen, California, but failing to in
terest capitalists, he went South, and
was supposed to. be dead. He was en-
gagged in examining the mineral resourc.
es of Louisiana and Texas, had
perfected his arrangements with Gorth1-
ern capitalists, and was vas haT aSfdii discovered,
op the weaiIh wa.,II The New Orleans papers,
witea wren reason, consider his death "a serl-
ous calamity to the South"
CURE FOR HOG CHoLERA.-We have
been informed by an Illinois farmer of
large experience that he has for years
past raised and fattcned many hogs, and
never lost one from cholera. He uses,
asa cure OF preventive, stone coal, which,
in small quantities, he throws into his
pens. The hogs eat it without any mix
ture freely. ..t
A YOUNG Louisville clerk induced a
respectable Hoosier girl to run away
from her home and go to Louisville
where lie promised to marry her. He
kept her at boarding house for two or
three days and finally made dishonora-
BILE proposals to her. She got him into
the parlor, locked the door, and cow
hided him within an inch of his life,
whereat the people said Good for the
Hoosier girl" .H-..
THE Boston Journal says that letter
was recently received at the office OF
that paper from Mississippi, complain
inc that the Journal did not reach its
subscribers in that State. The writer
says:
Our mail and post office arrangements
are mt perfectly loose ends; no post
master-and if one is found who can
and will take the oath, such are the feel
ings of the people generally against
him that no one dares to let him
room to keep the Office in, and his life
even is threatened if he attempts to
take charge of the mails. Only those
who are Southren can have anything
to do with the mails. Our letters con
tanning money fail to reach tlieir desti'
nation, and we have found our letters
containing drafts opened.