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


ON tr;oI with the law of Congress, and
tn that extent, by the 9th Article OF the
limited States Constitution, invalid
On Wednesday morning in Baltimore
a young man named Webb committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
heart. He left letter evidently VIII
ten lust before his death assigning as a
cause for the deed that he could get no
respectable employment.
The hail storm on Tuesday night did
great damage to window glass in the
northern portion of Baltimore. On the
north side of some of the churches there
was scarcely pane of glass lett I'M
broken. A large portion of the glass
broken was of very expensive quanty.
The Courts in Virginia Lave very lit
tie mercy on horse thieves. 1t appears
that Jonathan Huges, of Rockbridge
has been sent to the penitentiary for
nineteen years for horse stealing. In
Henrico county, also, James K. Shus
maker, convicted of a similar ofense,
was sentenced for nineteen years and
eight months.
Tie Richmond Times speaking of the
acts Of hummer Butler" gives him the
following consolation:
After the skillful whitewashing of
Catalina by Louis Napoleon in his life OF
Cesar, the elaborate defence of Nero
and Calligula by Thomas De Quincy,
and the complete vindication OF Judas
Iscariot by a German philosopher, we
think there is strong probability OF
somebody's making, one of these days, a
"Wkted sepulchre" at least of Butler s
reputation.
A very respectable woman Of Union
| City, Indiana, who has been a very
strong Republican in her feelings, came
to the polls and offered to vote, which,
of course, was refused when she replied.
very indignantly, Just as | thought
| niggers before women
The am cunt of suffering among the
destitute people OF Alabama is not gen
orally known. Many of the people have
only been saved from actual starvation
bv the efforts of some of the prominent
men of the State. A loan of so 900 has
been effected among the merchants of
Montgomery, and other cities are DObly
responding to the call fer aid AS many
as three hundred women have been seen
around the Court House on days when
ratiOns were expected to be issued Most
of them walked from fifteen TO twenty
miles, and it must indeed, be a case OF
Of great suffering that could cause ten
der females to undertake such q journey,
alone and on foot.
A Young man named Bluford drowned
himself at Portsmouth, Va, on account
of not receiving sufficient amount Of
affection from young lady. When the
Young lady was informed OF his death
She rook on dreadfullY, " bat it was too
late Young ladies take warming aud
if yuu would avoid the crime of murder
do not trile with your lovers affections.
Ga Monday night last, while the DARK
les III Richmond were holding d revival
meeting, and many We're seeking dc
Lor'," "a pistol was fired through the
NlhhbNs tue b1!I passing 81 my III d. ~
do no damage II created great conster-
nation, and tor 4 time the salvation Of
their seals was forgotten
That was not III empty remark of the
uid woman from tie cuUutry, who. while
On visit 10 hor city daughter >A0 a
waterfall ior the 6rst time. What DO
you call that great stuffed bag, Mary J"
q" hai : + waterfall Ma WATERFALL
It Looks more liE3 land slide "
audCcw Johnson says the restoration
Of the UGion is the first business IN or
der The Radicals tell as they will see
about it in 1870 We think the people
are with tle President Let those who
come after Us take care Of themselves
we viii finish mp the business OF re
storing the Union
The steamer Washington living was
seized at Norfolk several days ago by
tie United States Marshal ia cause of
contracs with the United States govern
ment, and also hbelled by other parties
Tor debts incurred in that city During
Ehursda" the government claim,
amountiCg 20 eleven hundred dollars
was paid by her owners, and shortly af-
forwards she was cut loose from her
mooriDgs and started down the river.
A telegram 10 this effect was sent to
Major General Miles, commanding the
district who issued instructions for
steamer +" starr in pursuit as soon as she
appeared in sight. The pursuing cam.
er failed TO intercept her. and she pro-
c'eG,d To sen, having been fired at three
times from the fort. and received several
volleys Of mn'ketry
A Gypsy fortune teller in Nor.
fork. Virginia. recently euchered
Mrs. Simmons ont of abcut two
hundred dollars by promising that for
that amount she would disclose to Mrs.
S where 900 were buried in her own
lot When the dupe went TO tie house
OF Che Gypsy to receive the infrrma-
ton the fortune teller had left.
The Governor % Georgia has received
from tho Ladies Southern Relief society
of Baltimore, two hundred barrels. con.
tai..lg flour. meal and bacon. for dis.
I.C"lion among thc truiy poor suffering
white people, especially the women and
children 10 c1c.s Ills distribution be
has .-ss received Tie SUI: IS Two thous-
and dollars