The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-22
JoHx M1Aos BORIS, of Virginia, has
accepted the imitation extended to Him
by the baltimore City Council to de,
liver an Grafton on the Fourth of July.

liver an oratlon on the f0urtn oI July.
THE Charleston Courier of the 10th
inst, notices the appearance of the first
blossom of the cotton plant, from tract
of 200 acres. Cotton has also commenc'
ed to blossom in Georgia.
TIE wheat crop in Georgia is harvest
ed and turns out better than was fearea'
lint ia nv no means excellent. The har-
rest in Alabama is fair average.
THE debt of Georgia, at the beginning
of The war, was s2,777,75O, and due on
coupons March LIST, $3.50, making the
total idebtedness 1894 200. Bonds au-
thorized by the last legislature, $,oOo,
600. making total Indebtedness Oh
S6 Ia 800. The resources of the State
outside of taxable property is S6,Nl ,5S%.
Confederate debt repudiated by the
State, $19,035,776.
RECEIPTS for liquor licences in New
York and Brooklyn, now amount to
81 100000.
THE freedmen of Augusta, Ca have
elected delegates to State Convention
who in a public meeting denounced the
bureau as mischievous, and we're ar
rested by the bureau agent for thus
speaking their minds. -
ONE Charles s. Dunlop got himself
into jail the other day, at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, for going through the country and
poisoning the mouths of horses. then
suddenly appearing as "horse doctor"
and Offering to cure them.
| THE San Francisco comic paper comes
out for the Fenians in this wise:
Pat wears the green upon his breast, .a
The shamrock in his hat i .
And when he thinksof Irelands woes,
His heart goes pity Pat'
| A Philadelphia clergyman, in the
course of a serman, recently, remarked:
"You need not clasp your hands so
feryently in prayer that you can't get
them open when the contribution box
comes around
RECENT advices from all sections OF
this State authorize the announcement
that the wheat crop now being harvested,
though short as to quantity, will prove
superior in quality to the crop of any
previous year since the beginning of the
late war and we consider it altogether
probable it will command price salts
factory even to farmers themselves.
Richmond Times.
JUDGE DRUMMoND, in Chicago, directs
the grand jury to investigate the facts
relating to the recent Fenian raid, and
counsels them to give their attention
mainly to the leading spirits, who have
inveigled the unthinking and Ignorant
into so grave a misdemeanor The
neutrality laws, he vigorously charges
must be enforced.
| A CONDUCTOR has been fined $500 In
Buffalo, N. Y, for ejecting man from
car because he refused to give his seat
to a woman. The court held that ladies
or those who wish to be considered such
are legally entitled to no more privilege!
in public conveyances than men, ant
that when the latter pay Tor seats, the!
have a perfect right to occupy them 81
long as they behave themselves ~
The following important paragraph
has been added to the circular, of The
Treasury Department, dated on the lSti
instant. relative to the payment Of trans
fers aud the redemption of fractiopa
currency:
Packages containing cancelled notes
bonds. OF other obligations OF the gov
ernmept for transportation by express
to the Treasury Department, i'll addition
to the preceedipg directions, must b,
plainly marked on the outside wrapper
by parties sending such packages can
celled obligations This is required be
cause the price of transportation OF can
celled obligations Is less than the plloe
of those not cancelled