The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-10
Cur Current News.


State by majority of 1,500-a gain OF
nearly 900 since the last Presidential
election. 'h eN = o'
Doctor BUFFERS reception In Cincln-
natl on Friday was rather frigid. The
men were not fervent enough to cheer
him and the ladies were too busily ,en-
gagged hiding their spoons to pay aim
any attention. aI5
THE Government has commenced TO
issue rations again to the freedmen IN
Alexandria, Virginia. Hon. Chester ID.
Hubbard should be at his post to look
after the interests of his wards.
JUDGE ARTHUR, of the Ninth judicial
District for the State of Kentucky, has
Just delivered an opinion in relation to
the "Act of Congress transferring pros
ecutions in the State Courts against ex-
Federal officers and soldiers, for acts
committed in the service of the United
States, to the Federal Courts. He held
said law to be unconstitutional.
MIR. ED. NICHOLS, of Mud Creek,
Wisconsin, had a pleasant interview
with mad buck the other day. Pass
ing through a forest in that vicinity,
Mr.. N. was confronted and attacked by
the infuriated animal. Fortunately the
man was accompanied by a powerful
dog, and the two joined forces in repell'
ing the enemy. The set to is said to have
been charming. One moment the deer
was uppermost, next the man, and then
the dog would have "the top situation.s h
After long and serious engagement the
buck was brought to terms, but the allied
forces were sadly cut to pieces. MT
Nichols was denaded of all his clothing
save his skin, while his canine partner
was bald-headed for considerable distance
down the back. Proceeding homeward
through by-ways and across lots, Mr.
N. got his wife to dress him while he
dressed about two hundred pounds OF
venison, the proceeds of his pleasant
exercise.
On Wednesday last, the wife of Rob
ert Simms, farm laborer, living near
Adrian, Michigan, took her four children
into a barn, cut all their throats with o
razor, and afterward cut her own throat
with the same instrument. The woman
and three of the children are dead. The
fourth child, it is thought, cannot re-
cover.
HER saddle. colored majesty, Queen
Emma, is the recipient of public honors
at San Francisco. Her bay ness is said
to be much gratifed at the attentions
bestowed upon her.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Louisville tc
VIZ WY -~"I""s' ~~JS'
On Saturday evening, near Seymour
two rnen Dissked jumped into the Ad
ans express car attached to the trair
hence to Indianapolis, threatened the
life of the messenger, broke open the
way safe, took several thousand dollar:
therefrom, pitched the through safe out
OF the car. but neglected to get the key
and by the usual signs they caused the
train to be checked up and then started
The engineer, being apprised of some
difficulty, ran the train back, When the
through safe was recovered with the con
tents unharmed There is no clue to the
robbers.
THREE skeletons were discovered on
Tuesday week by some laborers who
were sxcsvatiDg for a cellar on lO4th
street, New York. A severe struggle
occurred near this spot, during the revo
lutionary war, between some British and
American troops, and it is believed that
the remains are. of soldiers who fell al
that time.
AUGUSTUS N DICKENS, brother of the
celebrated novelist, Charles Dickens
died in Chicago on Thursday, the 4th
inst.
IT is reported from Bucharest that
a FreHchman named Poltin had arrived
in that city TO exhibit two elephants, q
male and female, the same which were
shown in Paris few years since. These
animals have killed their keeper in a
singular manner. The male seized him
with his trunk and threw him into the
air; the female caught him as lie fell
and threw him back again, and this
game at ball was continued for q quarter
of an hour. When assistance arrived il
was too late; every bone in the poor fel
lou's hnlV WaS brokan
Pen PICTURE OF JOHN BRIGHT AT THE
GREAT REFORM Meeting Photographic
of Mr. Bright are not uncommon in
America, and there is a lithograph oI
him somewhere in your Office, neither
of which is quite like him, and some o
the photographs are abominable carl
catnres. The face is all resolution, the
monument feature the eyes, which alone
answered the eyes and voices and hearts
that appealed to him, and which light
ND q countenance not otherwise hand
some, with singular beauty. Forehead
is broad and overhangs the eyes; hail
gray, straight and thick, lower half oi
the face too long, but still keeps the
character of firmness in the strong line!
of theehin and the peryerse curve of The
tightly closed lips. which are little
like Thackeray's but thinner. Altogeth
er, a massive, impressive face, MOI
wanting in sternness, plainly accus
toned to look on other faces not friendly
capable, on occasion of anger, of ;
blazing wrath which has scorched other
than Mr.. Lowe with its white heat. A.