The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-13

| Captain DAVID hinkleyJ ol bisSAtS'
Maine, died on Friday, aged lc2 years
He voted for Washington for President,
and remembered General Arnold's expe-
ditioS up the Kenebec river.
The st. Louis Democrat says tnat
some of the most respectable gentlemen
of that city have lately been theV victims
of the blackmailing operations OF Ger
tain females whom they had scarcely
ever seen. HEi fC.a y
At Kelly's Island capacious BUCK
eye the other day ate twenty7three
pounds of grapes in a day, while a
Young lady from Cleveland consumed
thirty-two lunches at e single repast.
Pinkerton's Chicago detective agency
has been in operation fifteen years, IN
which time it has recovered SS,OOo,oVo
worth of property. 1t employs l4o per-
sons, and the records of its investiga-
tions cover $4,000 large manuscript
pages.
The coal trade of Pennsylvania in
creases largely each year. 1t is stated
that five hundred and fifty Thousand
tons more of anthracite coal have been
sent to market this year than during the
corresponding period of last year.
Mr.. G. L. Barrett, said to have been
the shrewdest householder in Connti-
cut, is dead. He had never tasted intoxi'
eating liquor or tobacco, had never
travelled by steam except once III
steamboat. and lived all his life in the
same house. ~ ..l.. Cd /
An oyster famine is imminent in Eu-
rope. The ravenous maws of Londoners
and Parisians have encouraged such
vandalism by oyster fisheries, that near
| ly all the discovered saltwater beds
upon which these moluces have been
wont to repose have been invaded and
ravisbed.
The 'Temperanos Platform reports the
proceedings by a Grand Lodge of Good
Templars, which decided that the regu-
lar use of opium as stimulant, produ-
cling intoxicatiOu, was not a violation
of the pledge, and holding only that In
such case "care should be taken"
Mr.. Peabody is having honor done to
him in all parts of England. 1t has
been determined to erect a statue to him
at Liverpool, aud over fifteen thousand
dollars have already been subscribed.
Mr.. Story is to execute the work, and it
il said that NJ. Peabody will give sit
tiugs in Rome, and it is expected that
the statue, which is to be in bronze, will
be ready within eighteen days. ~ ?
James II. Sweetser, of Goffstown, N.
H., was sentenced to six months in the
House of Correction at Boston, Friday,
for stealing pair of suspendcrs. He
put in as defense that he was mehi-
Der of the Methodist Church in good
standing, and sometimes wasn't very
we'll.
In England. wo rkingmen IS movement
to secure representation in Parliament,
are announced in several quarters.
Among others the workingmen of Nor
wich, 10000 strong, who are made vo-
ters by, the new Reform bill, are deter
mined to send one Of their own class to
Parliament, and are organizing with
this view.
A great fire took place at Aleppo, III
Syria, few weeks ago, which destroy
ed six hundred shops and houses, and
rendered five thousand families penni.
less. The total loss is S500,000. Dur.
ing the progress of the fire the mrezzi6s
remained on the towers chanting their
prayers as though nothing had happen
ed, and while calling upon God TO help
them, moved not q muscle to helr them
selves.
A Vienna newspaper states that q
secret society exists in that city, one Of
whose laws is that each member must
tread upon every lady's train which he
meets i'm the street with such force as
to produce a considerable rent in the
dress" Ee is then to apologize Iiro-
fusely, but if the lady drags him into
court, the society payst the damages.
An editor in Illinois having engaged
new reporter, received the following
as his first effort: We are informed
that the getleman hoo stood on his head
under a spile driver for the purpOs OF
havin tite pair of butes druv on,
shortly acterward found himself in
Chiny, perfectly naked without cent
in his pocket. He rites that it is bis
;ntenshun NV returning home by the
way NV the Paris Exposition. (