The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

suspension OrluSe.
There were thirty-nine suicides in
Connecticut in one year.
New York is undecided about cele-
brating the Fourth of July :
Capon Springs will be open for Wis.,
itors on the lst of June.
The Chevalier Wyckoff writes Risto-
ri's English speeches.
Senator Sumner is about to build a
$50, 900 house in Washington.
The cotton crops of Boen Bay, for
1867, is valued at f19,000,0O0.
The farmers in Maine are beginning
to plant under the exercise of faith. "
A factory in Trenton, N. j., last year,
made III, ,32O, 900 paper bags.
Poughkeepsie is excited over skeie-
ton with a beautiful set of teeth, found
in the woods.
In a ravine, in the town of Worthing-
ton, Mass, there is pile of snow one
hundred feet deep.
Frank B. Fisher, an ex-of1icer Of the
army, committed suicide in a faro bank
in New York. s.r... ...sr
Sing-Sing prison, New York, is now
full to ,304 males and 400
females-fou more males than there are
separate cells.
Ketchum will be liberated. All the
eminent men in New York are testifying
to the excellence of his disposition, and
the beauty of his moral character.
Mr.. Sumner has written ont, and will
shortly publish, his three hours speech
made in the Senate executive session, in
| favor of the Russian-American pur-
chase.
RSixteen liquor cases were disposed of
queerly in Pittsfeld. When the cases
were called it was discovered that the
warrants had all been stolen. The de-
PENDANTS walked off with flying colors.
G. Hickman, Secretary ofthe expolded
Soldiers Orphans Home" humbug, has
been arrested and and held to bail in
Columbus. He denied all knowledge
of the swindling character Of the scheme.
Rev. Henry W. Bellows, wife, daugh-
ter and son, sailed from New York, on
Saturday, for years absence in Eu-
rope. His society continues his salary,
and furnished him with purse of
$4,000.
The list of Registers in Bankruptcy
for Ohio has been completed and for
warded to the Judges of District Courts.
| When the nominations are confirmed by
the Judges, the names of the appOintees
will be published.
A clergyman in Gillad, Connecticut,
who was required to dissolve his pasto-
rial relations with church, states that
the whole difficulty originated in his
spelling the word Saviour" without
the "u," as the more modern ortho-
graphy.
Late advices from Arizona state that
the town of Tubac has been twice at
tackled by Indians, who have driven off
all the stock, and the place has been
abandoned by the whites. The Mowry
silver mine had also been attacked, but
the savages were repulsed.
In Clinton county, Iowa, last Thurs
day, a man named Mattoon fatally stab
bed young man named Ray. The lat
ter had been meeting Mattoon's daugh
ter by stealth, after having been for
bidder the house by the "cruel parent"
and was killed during one of the stolen
interviews.
lady applied at the Portland,
Maine, police-oflice on Monday, in
search of a lost cat, for which she Of
fered 81, 900 reward. She brought the
animal from England, and thought a
great deal of it. The cat had on when
lost, gold necklace worth about forty
dollars, which may account for its dis
appearances. }s A@., ""
In April last the Orphans Home in
Brooklin, Massachusetts,, was destroyed
by fire, and Mrs. Agnes Legget, the
matron. generally known as "Sister An
tony" was suspected of having set it on
fire in order to obtain an insurance of
$4,000 on her furniture. She disappear
ed for a time, but returned and sur
rendered last Tuesday and will nnder-
60 trial. -.ra. .ssr..E.
A man in New York who was reported
to be shot by pistol in his own hand
while laboring under temporary aberra-
ton of mind, the result of jealousy,
made statement on his death-bed that
he was first shot by a doctor whom he
caught in room with his wife. The
doctor had enticed his wife from him
and had fitted up room for her against
his will. Remonstrance against such
conduct was in vain, and in moment
of mental excitement he rushed into
the room where he discovered his truant
wife, and during a fierce struggle he
heard the report of pistol and diseov-
cred he was shot. RetreatiDg to his
own room the unfortunate man leaped
out of a window and while lying on
the pavement swallowed quantity Of
vitrol which he had in his pocket.
The Ristori farewell in New York was
highly impressive. The Tragedienne
exhibited an unmistakabls feeling ofre-
gret at leaving America. At the close
of the performance, she verbally ex-
pressed her emotions in the following
valedictory: E#tt u
Ladies' and Gentlemen: This is the
first moment of profound sorrow have
known in this country. To bid adieu to
New York, the birthplace of my success
Ito say farewell to the United States,
that have received me every where with
open arms-awakens emotions too deep
for any words my poor tongue can utter.
Nv visit to America is the grand event
of my life-grand in its hardihood, but
grander still in it's triumphs. Your en-
thusiasm, your munificence, your good
ness, shall remember, long and CRATE
fully remember, till memory decays and
my heart ceases to throb, Adieu."