The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-04

| lnere Is not tOll-SaIe IN all SWltZ-
erland. The roads are fine, and belong
to the Government.
An Iowa exchange predicts an early
winter because wild geese have already
commenced their migration southwark.
The freedmen of the Fourth Georgia
District, proclaim their determination
to vote for none but negro candidates
Judge Towle, of the County Court at
Williamson, North Carolina, recently
gave decision allowing celored jurors.
A divorce is limited at between the
Princess Alice of Hesse, Victoria's daugh-
ter, and her husband, who is said to be
brutal in his treatment.
They are getting up new sensational
drama in New York which will outstrip
the Black Crook. All the nymphs arc
to be dressed in cobwebs.
st. Louis is looming up. 1t has 2S0
miles of streets, 73 miles of sewers, go
miles of water pipes, SO miles of gas
main pipes. and 36 miles of street rail-
road
An immigration society is being or
ganized in Nashville by the Germans.
They hope to induce their countrymen
to settle in Tennessee.
The gross earnings of the Kansas
branch of the Union Pacific Railroad for
the month of July amount TO S190, 900.
The length Of the road operated is 235
miles.
A Boston lady at the mountains hay-
ing decided to return by the middle of
September, has began to send her lug
gage in instalments. She will accom-
pany the last car load herself.
ga Hartford author is engaged on a
history of woman's progress from the
earliest ages, to he entitled "From the
Fig Leaf to the Crinoline.' A compre-
hensiTe subject sure.
The ties of the Pacific railroad, in
Kansas, are transported long distance,
and cost, when laid down, about one
dollar each. No good coal is at hand
and fuel is carried two hundred miles
from the eastward.
In Atlanta, on the 9Th, woman gave
birth to child in a water closet, and
after cutting its throat threw 1t into the
vault. She was arrested, but her re-
covery IS doubtful.
An English photographer is reported
to have invented machine by which
fifty photographs of one person or OBJ
iect car be taken simultaneously. AS
yet this discovery is not very extensive
ly applied, but the photographs takrn
are said to be excellent
A desperate fight terminated the
pleasures of an excursion party from
Bridgeport to Jasper. Alabama. A dis
pute commenced on the train, and when
at the end of the journey a general
fight with pistols took place. Seven or
eight of the party We're wounded, one
fatally.
A Dayton man concooted new ad-
vertising scheme the other day. He
sent silk balloon several hundred feet
into the air, when patent fuse ex-
ploded large bagful of circulars, and
they came futtering down to all parts
of the city.
A telegram from Punta Rosa, of the
Goth, says the steamer Narva had CON-
menced paying out the caole to Key
West, when it was discovered that two
men had died of yellow fever, and the
question of cutting and buoying the
cable, and running ont to sea until the
epidemic had ahated, was under con-
sideratiOn.
Our minister at the Court of Berlin,
Mr.. Bancroft, is being treated with un-
exampled courtesy. On Wednesday, in
company with Count Won Bismark, he
dined at the royalresidence in Potsdam,
enioyed three hours conversation with
His Majesty, and was afterwards driven
back to Berlin in the royal csoch, ac-
eompanied by the King himself-a dis
tincuished mark of respect.
A serious riot took place at Montreal
on the occasion of nominating men,
bers for Parliament. Thomas Darcy
MCGEE was hooted from the stand and
prevented from speaking. The militia
~ were called out; Who charged upon
the mob, and the casualties are re-
ported as being severe. The candidates
had all 10 be guarded TO their homes by
two squadrons of troops.
At the Episcopal convention held at
Chicago last week it was resolved that
the deputies representing this diocese
in the next general convention be in
structed to procure by general canon
law, with suitable qualifications, a pro-
hibition of the use Of the marriage ser
vice of the church in Eases where either
marty contemplating marriage shall
have been previously divorced by civil
law, on grounds otheit than that Of adul-
terry; and also procur rule of duty to
be followed by cle,gymen whose ser.
vices are thus appli,d for in ascertain
ing the facts bearint upon such prohi-
bition,