The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-10-31

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The town tax of Danbury, Conn, is
only two rnias on. the dollar. I I" -
n Boston is Growing over jack knife
with 36 blades.
The Pacific Railway has already sight,
ed the Rocky Mountains.
l.. 1t is proposed to make the Colorado
River navigable 600 miles.
The Alabama negroes take q week
from work to vote e-7noble race nA
Greenwich, Conn, is to have ANEW
town hall costing S25, 900.
Mobile received about 14,000 bales OF
new cotton last month. = q L.tE y r.
Alexander, the rebel Castle Thunder
jailor, is now a sailor before the mast
Two pounds of eaustic soda in cis-
terra of bad smelling water will soon
purify it.
The Illinois. Methodist preachers are
taking very decided ground against the
tax divorce laws of that State.
The people of Bsbway, n. j., have
voted against having a public park,
by majority of $40 enlightened bar
barians.
Burton Craig, the author of the Sc
cession ordinance of North Carolina,
has been pardoned by the President.
A woman of respectable standing in
New London, CT, cowhided her son in
the public streets of that city the other
day. &
San Francisco is about to have gem
eral Labor Exchange, citizen Of that
place having given $4,000 to endow
such an institution.
The Stoningten Bank in, Connecticut
is to be wound up and its charter sur
rendered. Application has been made
for the appointment of receiver.
A barrel of skulls and thigh-bo has
been found at No. 127 East 22d street,
New York, probably left there by some
medical students. 7t I
The Memphis Bulletin calls Mr..
Bowles, of the Tennessee Legislature,
"the Pan-Tennessee-prod oducist." They
deal in hard names in that State.
A Pittsfield pastor astonished his au-
dience last Sunday by remarking that
most of his people were asleep-part of
them in the house of God, and the rest
at home. S. 81
Jerome lost $4,000 on the race of
Kentucky against time. John Hunter
on Wall street.
A blacksmith at Jeanville. Pa, has
fallen heir to an estate in England esti-
mated Mt more than Sl,OO0,OOO. How
many Of these estates there are!
A man in Grass Valley, CAL, bet q
dose of salts on the recent election, and
swallowed the stakes in front of Odd
Fellows Hall in the presence of an ad-
miring audience.
The original log-book of the steamer
Fulton, kept on her first voyage across
the Atlantic, in 1919, is in thepossession
of Capt. c. H. Townsend, ofNew Haven.
1t is in excellent preservation.
New Brunswick papers are becoming
alarmed at the continued and apparent
ly increasing emigration to the United
States. 1t was claimed that the confed-
Grafton would stop this, but it has not.
An elm tree was cut down last week
in Geauga county, Ohio, which was 795
years old. 1t weighed 10000 pounds,
was over four feet in diameter, and
made 1000 feet of inch boards, clear
stuff.
A wholesale dealer Of Baltimore has
been fined for distributing cards in
Georgetown, d. G.. 1t was held that
such distribution was violation of the
law regarding "drummers."
A lively convict in an Indiana Jail
rushed out of the door of his cell as it
was opened to let in his supper, turned
the key on the jailor, and bade a hasty
adieu to that vicinity.
There is n drawing OH exhibition in
Boston, executed by q silk weaver in
who, with his body paralyzed
below his neck, learned to draw with
skill, holding the pencil in
his outh.
The Burning Star" in the constella-
tion, Corona, has attracted much at
tention from astronomers. The extra
ordinary changes in its apparent size
aud condition leave but little doubt that
it is really world on fire. ,'.GJL