The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-27

ItWelve years, cOmmltted suicide neal
Centre, Ala, on the 5th Inst,
Mayor Heath, of New Orleans, has de
cided that theaters are not compelled t.
sell tickets to negroes.
The colored people in portions of the
South, especially in New Orleans, are
protesting against female suffrage.
The freedmen Of North Carolina are
doing we'll. There are few complaints
of violations Of contracts.
Files, the ringleader of the Mobile
riot, has been sent to Fort Gaines by the
military authorities.
There were dispatched from Cumber.
land, Maryland, during the last week,
l36 boats, laden with 1890 tons of coal
General Steedman has discovered some
facts about whisky with money in it,
at New Orleans, and has closed nearly
all the distilleries inthe city.
. Last week the board of aldermen of
New Orleans adopted an ordinance ap-
propriating $4,000 for the maintenance
of schools fof cOlored children.
An order was issued by direction of
Major Gen. Pope, deposing the present
Mayor and Chief of Police of Mobile,
and appointing Gustavus Horton Mayor,
and Colonel Dimon, Chief of Police.
The Rev. John w. Beckwith, Rector
of Trinity Church, New Orleans, has
been unanimously elected Bishop of the
Diocese of Georgia, by the Protestant
Episcopal Convention, now in session
in Macon.
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A New Orleans paper says-"The Chi
cago RepublicaRAcalls the next Worlds
Fair in that city."-Er.
Chicago is hardly "high enough up"
to accommodate the next world
AROther Er.
A New Orleans letter says the recent
decision in the New Orleans Courts,
that debts incurred for the purchase of
slaves before the war are null, involves
nearly 100000, 900 in Louisiana alone.
The Masonic fraternity at Norfolk
lave inaugurated movement to raise
Money to assist the needy people of the
South. Two hundred and fifty dollars
Was raised, and committee appointed
t, solicit further subscriptions.
The President will leave Washington
OIL the 1st of June, for Raleigh; where
the ceremony of laying the corner stone
of monument ever the remains of his
father, will take place on the Tuesday
following.
A st. Louis lover, last Thursday, hav-
ing been refused the hand Of his sweet
heart, threw her mother on the floor
and gave her sound tirashing, and
then took her big brother into an adj
Joining stable and beat him badly with
strap. =. ......s-
The wheat about Lynchburg is be-
ginning to head out finely, and bids
fair not to belle the early promise of
magnificent crop. With favorable
weather, the harvest will be commenced
in the next twenty-five days. and on
some farms few days earlier.
The Christianburg Southeast states
that an attempt was lately made by the
Red Stripes Of Carroll county to waylay
and outrage Captain w. Cloud, who
was enrolling officer for that county
during the war. He happened to take
q way home different from the one along
which they were stationed, and es-
capped being murdered.
Our city was few days ago filled
with very strange literary bipeds, all of
whom were loud i'm their avowed con-
servatism, and gushing with sympathy
for the South and for Mr.. Davis. Never
was it our fortune to meet with men
who seemed more bitterly hostile to
Radicalism, or who were more amicably
disposed, and yet these very same men,
having returned to the North, are filling
their papers with the most extravagant
and injurious Misrepresentation of the
people by whom they were feasted and
tertained.-Richmond Times.
A gold medal will be awarded for the
first time at the approaching commence
ment of the University of Virginia to
that member of the Mathematical class,
who shall have distinguished himself
most in solving the original mathemati-
cal problems submitted as exercises to
the class during the session and at the
final examination. This is a new fea-
ture in the Mathematical School of the
University, and was introduced by
Prof. Venable, who has founded this
prize BY, contributing forty dollars a
wear for four years for the purpose
Charlottesville Chronicle.
We saw the fat baby yesterday after
noon. He is bully. The child, Samuel
Bishop, was born in surry county, in
the year l562, and is now in his fifth
year, and will weigh considerably over
two hundred pounds. He measures
more than forty inches around his waist !
and his arms and legs are larger than
those of a full grown man. His head is
enormous, and is covered by heavy
suit of long black hair. He does not
walk much, and manages to shuttle over
the floor by the use Of his hands and |
feet. His health is good, and he seems
to be sprightly in mind, but so far has
not had any attention paid to his edu-
cation. He is with his mother-his
father having died some time since. A !
part Of last year Mrs. Bishop had him |
on exhibition at ,BarnuR's Museum, in |
New York; and she speaks of again tax
ing him on. She is a poor woman; as
IL takes all her time to attend to her |
child, it is necessary for her to do some
thing for the support Of both.-Peters- |
bsss I~der.