The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-31
News Items.

The Lexington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial writes "The
negroes are positive and growing NUS
ance about Lexington The Fr.,..t..'~t, =
| Bureau is unable Ia "enefol tue ihie aho
vicious cnJoIcu population l"1 may
49,. IL down as a fixed and lmnutable
fact that an eX.slave viii work-'cheR he
is Obliged to
Two of the witnesses who were before
the Grand Jury that indicted Jet. Davis
published letter relating tho circum
stances under which they became wit
ness They say:
We went most unwilliugly, in obedi
ence to a preremptOfy order OF the court,
served upon us by the United States
Marshal. We declined to dRs,Ca many
questions propounded to US by the Grand
Jury, on the ground that If the crime of
treason has been conmitted, the dnsWers
to those questions arouid tend to crin,inate
, ourselves equally with Mr.. Daris; and We
were surprised to find our names pub
lished at the foot of the indictment, irf
! the list of witnesses upon whose testi-
inony the Indictment was found"
A letter from Washington to the New
York Herald, referring to the expected
| trial of Jefferson Davis, says:
"MrDavis will be prepared at the June
term of court to be held in Rich mond,
and will insist upon an immediate trial,
or being released upon his own recog-
nizance, or upon bail He will also be
prepared TO give bail in any amount
demanded by the government, to the
extent of five or ten millions of dollars
An exchange paper says that house
flies may be effectualIy destroyed without
! the use of poison Take half spoonful
OF black pepper in powder, one teaspoon
full of brown sugar, and one teaspoonful
of cream; mix them well together, and
place them in a room on plate, where
the flies are troublesome, and they will
very soon disappear
The colored man Nash, whose alleged
| affidavit in regard to the burning of
Columbia, South Carolina, by order of
! Wade Hampton, was furnished the New
York Tribune, and reproduced in many
of the papers, has been before magis-
! trste and declared, under oath, that he
ID ade no such affidavit He saws he sim
ply had some conversation with person
who questioned him, but made no
answer that would justify any such
statement. He was aware of an t.xplo-
sion beforehand at the depot, but no'Ihing
more.
Another heavy case of embezzlement
was name public in New York on SaGur-
day. Louis A. Colin, late a clerk in the
banking house of Duncan, Sherman &
Co., is charged by one of the firm, ,dr.
Macintosh, with ENLIGHTENMENT of
money, railway bonds and other securi-
ties to the amount of $4,000. Colin,
the alleged defsulter, is native of
Prussia, and is thirty-fve years OF age.
He was committed.
A severe hail storm passed over por.
lions OF Perry and Mnskingum counties,
Ohio, last Sunday. doing an immense
amount of damage. In many places the
fruit and leaves we've almost entirely
stripped from the trees. -.-s
Two young girls aged respectively
fifteen aud sixteen, recently ran off from
their homes in Cleveland, and brought
up as ballet dancers in vsrieties in st.
LOUIS. There they were discovered by
S Sneir parents, and taken back to their
., crazy woman to pel,urious,
''insy man, an officer of the church,