Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-20

They have ripe Strawberries in Macon, Georgia.
The smallpox is reported as very bad in Mobile.
= The New Orleans Pic0yune gives notice of novel
telegraph invention, in which no electricity Is used.
The Pennsylvania Legislators get twenty dollars
a day
\ man in Illinois inherts from relative in Scot
land iorty-ivc millions of dollars.
! In Minnesota the snow is from two to three feet
deep.
The Boston Courier is hereafter to be called the
Boston Evening COMMERCIAL
There are said TO he no Irish among the Mormons
paddy will not polygamatc.
The Mobile (Ala.) Register has nominated Gen
eral Grant as a candidate for President in 1868.
J. p. A. Merit Of New Orleans, was robbed of
Sll6OOO in Texas, last month.
Brigadier-Genera Robert II. Anderson is chief of
the police force of Savannah
The rcnforcements reaching Mexico from Europe
during last week in December numbered 1900
General Hooker lies at his residence in New York
completely paralyzed being unable to read or write.
William Sprague, the Rhode Island Senator, and
his brother, AmiSa Spraguc employ six thousand
hands at their manufacturing establishment.
Government agents have been appointed to inspect
battle military prisoners &C., and established
national cemeteries i'll the South.
Tie printers Of the Mobile Times have donated
S1O TO the relief of the family of Stonewall Jack.
son.
William n Hewitt, of Petersburg, Virginia. was
swinded ont of 1920 in Baltimore last Tuesday
night by 4 confidence man."
La Cr0uica, the Spanish organ confirms the re-
ported suicide OF Admiral Paraga after the capture
Of the Spanish gunbOat under his command by the
Chlians.
Adviccs from Gaudaloupe ria Bermuda, report the
cltn a
deaths being l3l per day. in population of 10000.
The Independence Beige has a rumor from the
Tuilercs that Louis Napoleon is far from sharing
the appreciation expressed by the leading French
journals of President Johnson's message
Washington letters tell of Senator Summers ganc-
ing at the galleries for the approving smiles of the
ladies.
Carpenters are getting SIC per hour for repairing
damages to the boats injured by the ice at st.
Louis.
4 broker whose lour-in-hand team was the pride
OF Central Park, has gone to eternal smash-and
Texas.
Gen. Beauregard is busy with the New Orleans,
jackson and Great Northern railroad. of which he
is superintendent.
The trial of Gonzales, for the murder of Senior Ote
TO, is progressing in New York. The testimony is
strongly against the prisoner
The United States revenue from cotton in Calves
ton during TIE lasJ lOuT lnOutlS AMOUNTED 10 SOol
900.
Edward Ketchum, the great forgeB is now safely
lodged in Sing Sing prison, where he is learning the
shoemakers trade.
Two young men, calling themselves sons of En-
President Tyler, are at school at CaTlssake, in the
Duchy OF Baden.
Captain Rufus Choatc formerly of the End Massa-
chuSetts regiment, and only son of the late Hon.
Rufus Choatc, died in Dorchester Massachusetts, on
Tuesday.
Major-Geu. Sheridan, commanding Department
of the Gulf has ordered the Quartenmasters Depart
ment at NewOreans, La, to supply the poor Of that
city with wood.
The Inauguration of monument to General Lyon,
who fell early in the took place last Thursday
at Jefferson, Missouri. Governor Fletcher General
Sherman, and others, made culogistic speeches.
An earthquake was felt at Vera Cruz on the Sd, at
600 p. NJ, but no damage done The effect in
the interior of Mexico, however was more serious,
and in Or2aha, MaItrada, and other places, con-
siderable damage and loss of life was reported.
Mrs. Douglas, widow of the late Senator Douglas
is to he married the Both instant to Brevct
Brigerdcr- General Williams, A. \. General United
States Army, who is now ON duty at the War Depart
mcnt.
Winans a Brothers, of Baltimore have taken
very large contract with the Eus,aIf Government
for building cars and locomotives. twill be rcmcm-
bcrcd that they were the builders Of the Moscow and
~. Pctclsbu%h Railroad.
The finding and sentence of the Court Martial at
Nashville. Tennessee in the case of the four mur
derrs of VIM. llefeman, has been approved. They
are TO he publicly hanged mt near that city, On
Friday, January Goth. All of the condemned were
government employees.