The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-06
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Governor Oelesby, Of Illinois is sicl
Clarkson Stanfeld, o well-know
psinter, died in England May FL I
Twenty inches of snow fell at Centra
City, Colorado, on the 18th of May.
One clothing firm in Boston did
business Of over q, ,oo0, 900 last year.
An immense peach crop is expecte
in Delaware, perhaps two millions q
baskets. = 90 p - b. -
,Lucius Manlius Sergeant, a well
known author, died at West Roxbury
Massachusetts,, on Sunday, aged 81.
The Republican caucus at Albany
nominated VIM. r. Wheeler for Presi
dent Of the Constitutional Convention
The income returns in Indiana 70
1866 show falling off of seventy pc
cent. from the year before.
Thirty-five Thousand herring wer
taken at one haul from q canal lock a.
Delaware City, one day last week.
There is pig in Connecticut with al
elephants trunk and single eye in th'
centre of its forehead. 81
The City Council cf Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, has voted to extend the hos
pitalities of the city to the President OF
his trip to Boston.
The Saratoga races commence Wed
nesday, August z, and $11 300 in prizes
will be distributed to the winning
horses. ~ Esa@ E@3 If
The Canadians are pretty we'll pre-
pared for any invasion of their border
having 5000 British. troops distributed
at various points, besides their volun'
teer force.
Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts,
has vetoed the bill annexing Roxbury
to Boston, on the ground that the peo
pie Of the two cities should first have 6
voice in the matter.
A man named Bible has just been sen
fenced to a three year term in the West
ern Pennsylvania penitentiary for steal
ing a watch and coats His good name
couldn't save him.
The official count of the votes fol
Governor Of New Hampshire, cast al
the last election, shows a majority Of
3,0l6 for General Hartman. Much
money was staked on 5000.
The prisoners in the Ohio Peniten,
tiary had plotted to break from the
chapel in body, on Sunday, after ser.
vice, and escape. The Warden got
wind of it, however, and the convicts
were not permitted to leave their cells.
Prof. s. F. B. Morse, the venerable in
ventor of the telegraph, is now resid-
ing with his family at Paris. His health
is good, and he is busily engaged upon
history of the telegraph, and receives
visitors but one afternoon in the week
In Chicago, on Friday, Thomas Duffy
and John Maher, workmen employed in
Doyle's brewery, quarreled, and Doyle
struck the other upon the head with q
carpenters adze, fracturing his skull so
severely as to leave little hope of his
recovery.
An Omaha dispatch says Governor
Hunt, of Colorado, has asked authority
to organize mounted volunteers for a
campaign against the Indians. Three
hundred friendly Utes, he says, will join
the expedition, with permission of the
Government. t
A few days ago two brothers named
Busky, peddlers, were robbed by par
ty of highwaymen, near Royal Oak,
on the Pontiac road, in Michigan, and,
after the robbery, one of the brothers
having made some remark offensive to
the thieves, they shot and killed him.
A cooperative furniture factory, with
capital of two million dollars, and
employing six hundred men, most of
whom are stockholders, has gone into
operation at Cincinnati. Three other
furniture factories have been run on
this system for from one to three years,
and with good success.
A San Francisco pawnbroker, who
two and half years ago was robbed of
three thousand dollars worth of dia-
monds, has recently been gladdened in
heart by the recovery of his property,
and the knowledge that the thief, in
attempting to escape, was killed by
jumping down steep precipice,
A Fort Laramie dispatch says the
Southern Chcyennes have crossed the
South Platte, going north. They at
tackled Pole Creek Station, thirty-six
miles west of Sedgewick, one hundred
strong, and drove off four mules. One
Indian was killed, General Anger, with
is on his way to this
post. ~ FF -" - ~
The we'll known Dutch painter Jo-
seph Isralis, somelof whose works adorn
the collections of New York connois-
seurs, has obtained q medal at the Ex-
position. This honor is the greater, as
France has reserved to herself more
than half of the sixty-seyeI prizes
awarded, leaving only Thirty to be dis
tributed stnong fourteen countries,
In blacksmith shop in Auburn, Illi-
nois, the other day, man named Thax-
ton stabbed one named Hurst in the
bowels, causing his death almost in
The murderer was arrested,
and ordered to be committed for trial.
On the way to Jail, the officers allowed
their prisoner to stop at mis- house for a
few minutes. While there he ate a
hearty supper, and then deliberately
disemboweled himself with table
knife,
The great fire in Petroleum Center, on
Sunday, originated in Jacob Taylors
house, which 10 believed to have been
set on fire by incendiaries. Twenty.
nine buildings were consumed, among
them the United States Hotel, the largest
in the place. The losses amounted to
from forty to sixty thousand dollars,