The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-10-30
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terday at Mobile.
The failure of Robert L. Taylor, q
shipping merchant in New York, excites
much surprise in business circles.
The indianapolis Herald says the po'
tatoe crop in that section turns ont
much better than was anticipated.
Miss Maggie Mitchell is just now
travelling in Scotland. She is expected
home about the first of next month.
No change is made as yet in the Erie
direction, although it is possible some
of the Boston directors may go out to
make room for Vanderbilt, Bunker and
Schell. ....
A man was buried in Portsmouth, n
H., on Saturday, who had kept his
gravestone and coffin in his garret fol-
twenty years. He was ninety years oi
age.
Johnson is the name of the man OF
giant intellect at Pittsburg, who fast
ened bristles to the tail of rat and sold
the reconstructed animal for squirrel.
A conference of the colored preachers
and members of the Methodist Church,
within the bounds of the Memphis con-
ference district, will be held in Jackson
on the Goth of November.
George Francis Train has spoken or
written on nearly every popular sub
iect of the day, except training up
children in the way they should go
"ffty BETTER" on four aces.
The Yazoo Banner announces that
Dan. Woodbridge, conservative negro,
will be q candidate for Congress in that
district. Hope he will be elected.
The number of students in the Michi-
gan University is larger than that OF
any similar institution in the country.
There are five hundred in the low school
alone.
A gentleman living near the railroad,
between Jackson and Vicksburg, found
three of his finest mules, on the morn
Ing of the 9th ult., shot dead in his pas
tuTe. Such wanton outrages are of fire.
quent occurrence in that region.
The New York Citi:en says that ian
enterprising manager proposes to con-
solidate all the theatrical companies i'll
the country into one troupe, and play
Beecher's Norwood" He expects even
then that some of the performers would
have to sustain double parts"
General Apathy" publishes card in
which he disclaims most pointedly hav-
ing had anything to do with the recent
Ohio election. He pleads an alibi. He
was not in the State during the progress
of the canvass or on the day of election.
The new law in Connecticut against
salesmen entering that State is enforced
most vigorously. No manufacturer,
merchant or corporation can send a clerk
there without taking out State license
of a hundred dollars, and aseparate one
of from twenty five to fifty dollars for
each town or city visited.
At London dinner table, Mr. Hep
worth Dixon's accounts of MormOnism
and spiritualism in America were allud-
ed to, when DR.. J. P. Thompson, ofNew
York, who was present, retorted, very
Justly, that Utah was sort of Botany
Bay of christian Europe, and that Nor
monism lives by immigration from Eng
land. His English listeners were fair
ly discounted.
A little son of the Rev. Geo. Fellows,
of Milwaukee, had his leg crushed by
the cars last week, and while he was in.
sensible the leg was amputated. The
next morning he complained that his
toes ached, and wanted to know ifsome-
thing couldn't be done for them, and
was told he had no toes on that leg; but
he could not believe it until raised in
bed TO see for himself.
NJ. R. Wagner has just composed
comic opera which it will take six hours
to perform, entitled the Menestrels. 1t
was to have been played at the court of
Bavaria on the evening of the Kings
marriage, but it seems that King Louis
III will have mercy on his bride, and has
signified his intention of not hearing
the Menestrels till after the first quar-
ter of the honeymoon,
Base ball has at last taken a sensible
turn. The base ballists Of Lafayette,
Indiana, challenged the members Of the
Young Mems Christian Association to
saw nine cords of wood for the Ladies'
Benevolent Society of that city, and the
President of the Young Mems Christian
Association, Mr.. Perrin, accepts the
challenge, and as soon as the prelim-
inaries can be settled the work will
commence.
On Tuesday morning a child of Mrs.
Schemell, Of Perry Township, Indiana,
was burned to death. The mother and
child were out in the field working.
The mother sent the child to the house
to make afire. A few minutes after the
child went to the house cries were
heard. The mother ran to the house
when she found her child burned to
death. She caught FIRE while kindling
the fire.
por.ToFs ashes is one of the