The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

Diarrhea and choleraic diseases al
very prevalent at New Albany, Ind.
Judge ]. S. Yerger, an eminent cit
zen of Mississippi, died at vieksbur
last Saturday.
There were two hundred visitors
the Rockbridge (Va.) Alum Springs o
the 18th inst.
A new cotton factory, the first eve
built in the State, has just been con
pleted at Rockford, Illinois.
The bill abolishing Imprisonment fo
debt has passed the Senate of France
and is now a law of the Empire. q
The Nashville Banner has a Cheerful
wood cut of coffin occupying tn
width of three columns.
The steamer Quaker City, from NeS
York, with the passengers to the Hol,
Land on board, has arrived at Mai
seilles. rr~
The city authorities at Nashville hav,
made arrangements to open schools 70
colored children in September next.
The Governor General of Canada say
the petitions for the relief of Fathe
Mcmahon will receive his immediate at
tentiOn.
Mears & Bates shingle mill and lum
Der yard, in Chicago, was destroyed b!
fire on Sunday night. Loss 100000; in
surance $4,000.
Very rich gold discoveries have beer
made by the MormOns on Green River
Brigham Yonng is fitting out parties fol
the mines.
The Geological Garden in Frankfort.
on-the- Main contains nine hundred and
animals, representing two
and ninety-eight different
kinds.
A young man named Carlos Blache
from Columbus, o., was shot and seri
ously wounded in a house of prostitu'
tion in Chicago, on Sunday night.
A curiosity seeker at the Paris Expo,
sition has found some Danish artillery
of the middle of the eighteenth century
and among it several breech-loaders.
A gentleman near Peoria, H., has
five thousand grapevines, which it is
estimated will produce fifty bunches OF
grapes, weighing pound apiece.
The United States Consul at Fayal
on the 9th ult., writes that a volcano is
in full eruption in the sea, about nine
miles westward of the Island of Terceira
Daniel Frederick Brakeman is living
in Cattaraugus county, New York, hav'
ing attained the age of one hundred
aud seven years, with all his faculties
vigorous.
In the New York Constitutional Con.
vention an amendment to the suffrage
clause of the Constitution, giving wo,
men the right to vote was lost by TWEEN.
ty to fifty-one. R
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in ser.
mon delivered last Sunday, said that
more public men of eminence had start
ed from the business Of type-setting
than probably from any other occupa-
ton.
Brownlow denies that Blount county,
East Tennessee has been disfran"hi0Od'
Ha al~;-.s onaU Une county will go for
him. A good reason for allowing the
people the privilege of voting.
A new channel was formed in the
river at Peru, Iowa, on the
5th inst, by the action of the current
through narrow neck Of land and
the route by twenty miles.
The Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued an order to the supervising in
,pector at New York to put down the
dangerous practice of steamboat racing
now reported tn be common practice
On the Hudson river.
The point is taken out of large
lmount of savage denunciation of the
President for pardoning Mr.. Toombs, of
Georgia, by the fact that Toombs has
not been pardoned, and has not asked
to be.
In London paper is advertised Tor
sale "a manuscript copy of the Holy
Bible, written in a neat, legible hand,
by an old gentleman between his seven
tieth and eightieth year, and now to be
of for the benefit of his
family"
Robert R. Pennall was killed by q
freedman named Gary, at Shreveport,
the other day. The parties
had quarreled about a dog, and Pennall
struck Gary. Two hours afterward the
latter obtained pistol and shot him.
Late advices from Vera Cruz state
that the body of Maximilian will be de.
livered to the Austrian legation. The
remains are now on the way to Vera
Cruz. There is no tru>h in the report
that the foreign consuls had been mo,
Tested in Mexico.
General Slckles announces the names
of Registers appointed for the various
precincts in North and
South Carolina, but fixes no time to be
gin registration. Each board consist.
of one colored and two white persons
residents of the precincts for which
they are appointed. . tas s-r-g
A destructive fire on Sunday in tn,
Memphis Navy-yard, destroyed Cow
den & Co.'s tobacco factory, and Chris
tian g. Co.'s warehouse, together witt
800 bales of cotton and 5000 barrels O
salt. Total. loss s150, 900; Insured 70
$65, 900, principally in Northern offices
The fire was the work of incendiarie:
About three hundred and fifty me-
are employed during the summer alon
the line Of the Hudson river, gettin
out ice and loading the boats which ar
TO take it to New York: During the si
hottest weeks of summer that city cor
sumes every week something ike twelv
thousand tons asa .~'
The heirs of Solomon Ingraham ar
to meet in New York on July 24th t
make final arrangements to get posse.