The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-31
CURRENT ITEMS.

club killed youth in Chicago last
week.
The inventor of the ambrotype, James
A. Cutting, died last week NJ he Wor,
cester Insane Asylum.
There will be no fifteen cent currency
notes issued, bat the ten ccnters will be
retired rs soou rs possible.
Peaches sell at 80 ceats bushel in
Baltimore. The crop was never known
to be so large as it is this season.
Major Cornelius Boyle, long Conted-
crate Provost Marshal ut Manassas, has
land grant of 100000 acres in Mexico,
and is going there to live on it.
John Birely, the oldest shipbuildcr in
the United States, died on Friday in
Philadelphia, aged seventy-ii"e years.
Prof. Whitney, of the California State
Geological corps, reports that by care
full barometrcal observations he found
the height of Mount Hood, in Oregon,
not to exceed 12l0O feet.
The wine crop Of California this year
is estimated at thirty-fve million gal
Ions, and brandy at half a million gal
Ions.
The buildings of the college of the
Holy Cross at Worcester, Mass, are to
be enlarged and improved at cost of
$4,000.
A Cincinnati bankrupt takes into court
there statement of his liabilities,
which foot up $4,000, against which he
shows $3.50 assets.
The Denver Nccs ofth Eth says the
cholera is raging among the Seminolcs.
There are twenty new cases every day.
J. G.. Bennet, Jr., it is said, has sold
his yacht Henrietta for $4,000.
The Worcester SPY demands an abO-
lition of the office of Vice President.
Nine thousand persons in Paris live
by supplying the objects required at or
after funerals.
The Nation says twenty five dollars
will purchase any testimoEcy wante2
in New York.
Farmers in Wisconsin say wheat will
be as low as fifty cents bushcl before
the end Of the year,
The largest income returned in San
Francisco last year was that of Floin2a
Has ward, the owner of Il coal mine. 1t
was Sl62,333.
Mr.. Mardcn, of st. Louis, formerly of
Lacrosse, has three wives in different
sections of the Great West. His present
address is the St. Louis Jail.
During n recent storm the Lightning
struck large elm tree standing in the
yard of Mr.. Asahcl Dorman, at Belcber-
town, Mass, and running from that into
the GIill pond, sent quite number of
fish llfelcss to the top of the water
During the performance of Caste" i'll
New York on Thursday evening, George
Callum, a Lyman, fell from the fly TO
the stage and broke his collar bone, and
it is apprehended, his skull also.
The commission of magistrates which
was appointed by General Schofield to
ascertain whether n negro military Or
ganization existed III Virginia has re-
ported. The report shows that secret
military organization OF formidable
strength does really exist, and is be-
lievcd to extend throughout the State.
The announcement, we are told, creates
alarm among the whites, who have
neither arms nor organization.
\ gay Lothario of Gloucester, Mass,
has got himself into trouble. 4 week
or two ago he was compelled TO marrya
young lady, whose approaching materni-
ty lie was the cause of, but since that
time the similar claims of three other
yOrnG ladies have also been developed,
aud their fathers and big brothers
threaten to shoot him, unless he marries
each and all of them.
1t is currently reported and believed
that 4 man calling himself Crenshaw,
who has been here for nearly twelve
months past teaching ncgr" school,
and the "head-centre' of the Union
League in this county, left for parts nm
known on last Tuesday night, forget
ting to leave behind him about three
hundred dollars belonging TO the
League. We again caution the negroes
against these mean, low white people
who come amongst them pretending TO
he their friends-RodROke Times.
Negroes in the First and Fourth Con
gressioDal Districts of Georgia are out
as candidates for Congress, and have
published addresses to their fcllow-citi-
zens without respect to color. They
claim that the right to vote gives them
the right to hold Office, and as they are
in the majority the whites shall not be
elected by their votes. The candidates
are Conservatives, and are i'll favor of
universal amnesty. The impression pre-
NdllS LhuO ~ Idi Bo hhuibcl vi Whites VIII
vote for these negro candidates in pre-
ference to white ones who can take the
test oath.
A sewer is now in progress of con-
struction in Brooklyn which is said to
be the largest in the United States. 1t
is designed to drain the Eastern Dis
trict, emptying into the East River.
This sewer is y feet by . for distance
of about 2i00 feet. First, plank is laid
on the bottom; then, fountain of stone
81 inches wide; connection every twenty
feet. 1t is then filed in with concrete,
averaging 20 inches thick; the sides are
brought up with four courses of brick;
then covered with an arch of three
courses of brick. The whole is covered
with coating of cement. At Marcy
Avenue the sewer diminishes in size to
five feet.
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RIVER NEWS.