The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-06
CURRENT ITEMS
secretary stanton is nearly well.

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| Secretary Stanton is nearly well.
Isaac Newton, Commissioner Of Agri-
culture, is reported quite i'll.
Edwin Booth had q great ovation in
Providence last Friday night. ra ~
Mr.. eBeeebers novel will der called
Norwood, or Village Life in New Eng
land n M gnfW92 D9j5119i9J
There are four hundred. and eighty
nine scholars at tie Presbyterian Sun
day schools in Richmond. s,t4
lin the late election in Michigan,
Judge Graves, of the Supreme Court,
received a majority of 24,o9l.
Edmund Frasier, q negro boy thirteen
years old shot his father, in Clarendon,
South Carolina the other day. ;
i David B. Baker, Esq, OF Wilmington,
N. G., has been appointed Iregister6 IN
bankruptcy for that congressional dis
trict. .,:LU s8T pTbt% ftsT ,
Alfred Hoyt, farmer living neal
Dundas, Minnesota, killed Josiah Stan
ford, neighbor, with an AK on Tues
day. t.fT- H4I HIT
The New Orleans board ,lofg nnder-
writers have appropriated two thou
sand dollars for the relief Of the country
parishes of Louisiana. y 30 3l4- -
The Swedish man-of-war Geffe has
come to New York for the purpose OF
further instructing her seamen in the
art of practical seamanshipy ~
The new bridge on the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad, at Bridgeport,
was completed, and the first train cross
ed ppoa II on supdsy evening. Ssa
sThe Stockholders of the Isnpsylvania
railroad, on Tuesday, voted to increase
tbs eapitalstock 10000 shares in accord
ance with the recent act of the Legisla-
ture. ~ sst, q" 'a-'..
The Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago Railroad depot at Cloverdale,
Ind. was robbed of considerable
amount of money and yaluables, and
burned by thieves, on Saturday night
last.
A correspondent Of the Montreal
Gazette writing from Madoc, says the
gold fever is rapidly extending, and it
is estimated that one thousand men are
engaged in the search for gold IN the
township of Madoc alone.
White residents of Washington, who
neglected to report themselves when
the registration of voters was in pro-
gress, have jnst become anxious to get
their names upon the voting list, and as
the registering officers refuse to reopen
the books, suit has been commenced to
compel them to do so.
The editor of the Claremont Eagle Of
fers thousand dollars for the inven-
ti0n Of what he terms sensible set of
horse-shoes-light, neatly finished steel
shoes, that can be readily taken off by
the owner of the horse or groom, just
as he does the harness, When occasion
requires.
Aquantity of photographic plates, in
tended for striking off one dollar and
five dollar notes, on the Peoples Ma
tional Bank of Jackson, Michigan, and
a number of counterfeit notes printed
from the same, have been seized at
Port jarvis. Clement and Ida Herring
were arrested on suspicion of using the
plates and selling the bogus money.
An old resident of ofBirmingham, Mich
igan; named Alton, was in his house,
near the window, on Saturday night
last, cOnversing with some of his
friends and relatives, when some one
approached the house and fired the con-
tents of a shot gun through the glass
and into his body. The injuries sus-
tained by the unfortunate man were
sufficient to cause almost instant
death. ...... ..lFr
In the matter of u name for tue new
national ice-house, the New York Tri-
bune suggests, "at once i'll recognition
of the most valued inhabitants of this
western Greenland, and as cOmpli-
ment to the great nation which does rs
the honor to pocket our money, that
Governor Stewards hard bargain be
known as Walrussia."
On Sunday night, at Baiubridge, Ind,
the safe of Adams Express and Rail-
road Co., was blown open, and robbed
of small amount of money. On Sat
urday night the same party went out in
the country O few miles from Balm
bridge to farmhouse, placed pistol
at the head of the farmer, and compell
ed him to tell where his money was.
They obtained 500, tied the old man
and decamped.
The Providence (R. L. Press says that
Lady arrived In that city, last week,
from Fall river, in quest of young
daughter who she said bad been enticed
off by Sam Sharpley's minstrels. OF.
Ger Hammond accompanied her to the
hall where they were playing, and the
girl was found in the gallery and taken
in charge by her mother.
The engineer Of a saw-mill in Mime
sofa, which was burned a few nights
since, was awakened about midnight
by the roaring of the flames, and dis.
covered that his retreat was cut off by
the fire. His ouly hope of life was to
run some ten or twelve feet through the
burning mass. He wrapped blanket
round his head, and protected the other
parts of his body as we'll as he was
able, and started, but blinded by the
smoke and flames, he fell amid the burn-
ing timbers three times before he es-
capped from his cruel prison.
Chas. Bash and Herbert Rogers are
the names Of the men who were killed
by the boiler explosion in Touring
mill at Dubuque, Iowa, q few days since.
Nine others were seriously wounded.
Many incidents and hair breadth escapes
occurred at the time of the explosion.
One man was actually blown fifty feet
into the air and lodged in . hay NOV
short distance off, escaping unhurt.
The tail of q horse was blown ont by the