The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-27
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Boston theatre.
There were six burglaries in Troy on
Saturday night.
Bishop ,MGill, Of Richmond. is about
to visit Rome.
DDickens has been reading his works in
Ireland with great success.
The Indiana Central Insurance Com
pany, of Lafayette, has failed.
A German woman named Hersman
was founddead in her bed at Detroit.
Eleven thousand persons have asked
to be appointed Registers in Bankrupt
cy.
The Baptist General Association of
Virginia will meet in Lynchburg on the
9th of June. ......
A street railway company has been
organized at Portsmouth, Va, and all
the capital stock taken.
Judge Chas. N. Prosnan, of the Su-
preme Court of Nevada, died at San
Jose, California, on Tuesday. -
Anuinber of Republicans in Ohio have
united to secnre the gubernatorial NOM
ination of Gen. Garfield. ..s- s...
1t is said that in England four-ifths
of the telegraph operators and two
thirds of the liquor-sellers are women.
The first through freight car from
Boston arrived ut Council Bluffs, Iowa,
not long since, after journey oft Selve
days.
A Canada judge occupied thirteen
hours in charging jury lately. Their
verdict was rendered in five minutes.
A small boat crossing the James riv-
er at Claremont, Virginia, capsized on
Monday, and six ladies and one man
were drowned. .3E:-s.S
General Howard says there are $4,000
colored schools in the South, one half
Of which are supported by the freed
men.
Mrs. Baxter Haines, Of Charles City
county, Va, committed suicide few
nights since by shooting herself through
the head. .a..
At all election for Mayor in Hunts
Vile, Ala, recently, the negro vote as
sisted to defeat the agent of the Freed
mems Bureau. ...r..
1t is estimated that not less than one
hundred and forty aristocratic weddings
will take place in New York during the
next ten days.
Henry Hess and Jacob CRUDE had a
fight in saloon in Dayton, on Monday,
in which the latter had his under lip
completely torn off. Hess was arrested.
The Anti-cruelty Society of New York
have caused the arrest of q Jewish
butcher for cutting the throat OF an
animal used in the celebration OF the
Passover.
In Cleveland, on Tuesday morning,
Isadore Ailringer, keeping grocery,
was found dead in his store, which had
been broken open and robbed OF some
$500.
Rev. Mr.. Cramer, brother-in-law OF
General Grant, who served as chaplain
during the war, will 60 to Europe i'll
May, to enter upon his duties rs consul
at Leipsic.
1t is estimated that upwards of l,2OO
men, over 1000 boats, and $4,000 traps,
and at least capital of $50, 900, is en-
ployed in the lobster business in the
New England States.
A newspaper correspondent says that
Chicago employs 1900 trade drummers,
Boston 5000, and New York 5000. 9th
er cities are supposed to make mp a
round number of 10000.
Francis Pic, accused Of murder, and
William Truitt, one o. gang OF rail-
road thieves, beat the jailOr almost to
death, vt Lafayette, Indiana, on Friday
night, and escaped from the jail.
General Swayne, commanding the
sub-district of Alabama, has issued an
order amending the apprentice laws,
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law, and abolishing chain-gangs.
John Titus, a boy tel years old, acci-
dentally stepped into a den of rattle
snakes the other day, near Villa Ridge,
sixteen miles from Cairo, Illinois, and
was bitten so that he died in twenty
four hours.
The Rockingham, (ya.) Register an
nounces that the tide of immigration is
setting in that direction, and says that
new faces can be met every day on the
streets and highways of that place.
1t is stated that Mr.. Seward has de-
clined the latest propositions made by
the English Government in relation to
the Alabama claims, and the whole mat
ter now rests where it was in the begin
ming.
Capt. J. NJ. Brook, Professor at the
Virginia Military Institute, has been
presented with splendid gold medal
by the King of Prussia, as testimonial
Of the appreciation by the royal donor
of his high scientific attainments.
Mr.. Nun, q merchant in Gholson,
Mississippi, was murdered while asleep
in his store, on the night of the 18th
by q blow on the head with o hammer.
The murderer took about 81 100 in mon
ey from the store and escaped.
Chaplain Thomas j. Taylor, a well
known citizen of Aurora, Indiana, COM
mitted suicide last week by taking
strychnine, which he obtained from q
druggist, under the pretense that he
wanted TO kill some dogs who had been
molesting his sheep,
~ A colored individual, named Asa, was
elected one of the Commissioners of
Plymouth, North Carolina. at an cleo
ton held there recently. He says he
will oppose the arming of negroes, for
fear they might shoot a negro, acci-
dentally, instead of white man.
! A correspondent of the New York
Times writing FROM Beaufort, S. c., says
xhot tba oto oodard of yirtue amOnp the