The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-03

yeysburg, Ohio, has fallen heir 10 an
estate i'll New Jersey OF SiO,OOO.
The San Francisco Alta California
looks forward to next spring and sum-
mer as q season of unexampled activi-
ty and speculation in the real estate
market.
During the past year there were sol
fires in the United States, each involv-
ing loss of over $4,000. Total loss by
these fires S66, 900 against S43, $780,
OOO for the previous year, when there
were only 354 of such fires.
A catamount weighing % pounds was
lately killed in Belchertown, Hamp-
shire county, Massachusetts; and at
Shaftbury, VT, George Fisher was NOR
tally wounded by panther, which he
had shot, but had failed to hit him III
vital part.
The North American Indians believe
that an eclipse is an attempt of great
fish to swallow the moon. About as
sensible as Boutwells apprehension
that ten States will swallow twenty
six.
The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce
advocates the construction of Il rail-
road to connect the important cities OF
Soochow and Hangchow. This road is
regarded as the first link in n railway
system to be introduced throughout the
empire.
A spiritualist says the moving power
of man is spirit which is "prodigiously
prolific in powerfully absorbent and
profound combinations of matter into
wierd, fantastic and Heterogeneous
shapes of materialistic evaporation"
Great Britain contains 2S5 persons to
the square mile; Italy, 225; France, loo;
Prussia, l79; Austria, l55; Spain, "a;
Turkey, 10; the United States, II; Rus
sian Empire 9; Russian Europe 32, and
Brazil 5. The eight European countries
named are said to contain over 27O, ,0OO,-
900 Inhabitants.
The President is said to have confer
red with the Judges of the Supreme
Court in reference to the positions as
sumed by Congress toward the South
ern States. When he announced to
Commissioner Weatherly, from South
Carolina, that the Supreme Court would
declare the amendment unconstltutlon-
al, lie thought he spoke advisedly.
E. Totten, Esq, counsel for Mr.. Rul-
man, had writs issued to-day against
the several committees who engaged
him to furnish the supper given on the
occasion of the welcoming of Congress
to Washington. The contract was for
So, 900; none of which has been paid.
Calhoun NJ. Deringer, Assessor of In
ternal Revenue of the Second District
of Pennsylvania, appointed few weeks
since, has been arrested, charged with
attempting to extort money from a
whisky distiller by making seizure of
his premises and then agreeing 10 set
tie the matter for n thousand dollars.
The case excites much interest.
"In the lower House of Congress there
are also nine delegates from territories,
who deliberate but do not vote."-4l-
mdRac.
And some two hundred from so-called
-Lynohburg Repablicdn.
A murder was committed in Thomp-
son street, New York, on Saturday eve
ming, by o uegro-the victim being q
German journeyman shoemaker. The
affair is wrapped in mystery, as none
but the assassin and victim were pres
ent, and the latter died without being
able to give the particulars. So far no
arrests have been made, although the
detectives are on the search.
The Eremdenblatt, Of Venice, has the
following extraordinary statement -
At Rechnitz, in Hungary, q man has
committed horrible act through super
stition. He has successfully assassina-
ted four children, and eaten their hearts
raw, believing that he would become
invisible when he had done the same
TO seven. The crime was discovered
before he,had time to arrive at the end of
his atrocity, and the man is in custody.
We learn that it is not true that Ben
Wade refused to march behind the e1-
rebel men in gray, who composed the
escort in New Orleans to the congress
sional excursion party, unless they
would severally take and subscribe to
the iron-clad test oath. 1t Is not true
either, that the imam in gray" who
attempted to assassinate" old uncle
Ben. in this city was one Of the COM
mittee of arrangements to receive the
Senator and his Radical friends.-Bash-
ingtoH Rep.
A manufactory for making printers
type of vulcanized India rubber, has
been started at DalstoD, England. This
new kind of type is said to be quickly
made, and to be fully equal in quality
and durability to the common type, the
cost price being only one-third of the
latter. It offers the advantage OF less
weight o. compared with metal type,