The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-28

a blank prairie forty days ago. NOW II
has one thousand houses and prices are
enormous.
The Java, on her outward trip from
Boston, made the quickest passage on
record, having reached Queenstown in
six days, twenty-one hours and half.
A malicious correspondent tells of u
young lady at one of the watering places
who has been nineteen" for five sea,
/ sons.
Nine young ladies took the veil last
Wednesday in the Cathedral at Nash
vile. Tennessee, Rt. Rev. Bishop Fee
han officiating.
A gentleman in Connecticut, after
reading 'every article of every number
of the Journal of Commerce" for fifteen
years, has just died.
A dispatch from Toronto states that
arrangements have been made there to
provide residence for Mr.. Jefferson
Davis, who is expected next week.
William H. Bartlett, associate justice
of the Supreme Court o: NeS Hamp-
shire, died at Concord on Monday OF
consumption, aged forty years.
A rat hunt, lasting three days, was
INDUCED in at Homer, ILL.,, last week.
One side produced s45 tails. The other
brought in only 747, and paid for the
supper.
A toll-gate keeper, named Merritt,
died a few days since, near Peru, ILL.,, OF
hydrophobia, having been bitten by his
own dog. The "mad stone" was tried
without avail.
William J. Kirtley, tried at Saratoga
for the murder of J.. Theodore Jones,
of Hudson, n. j., at the Union Hotel at
Saratoga, last August, was found guilty
of manslaughter in the second degree,
on Saturday morning.
DIR. A. Eaton, half brother of Presi-
dent Lincoln, dropped dead at Mum,
fordsville, KY, few days ago, while
mixing medicine for patient.
About three hundred names were pro-
posed for the new hotel in st. Louis,
and that of Paschall was selected, in
honor of deceased editor of that city
Two members of Parliament, return
ing from an electioneering tour, were
mobbed at London, Canada, on Friday
night. The Dominion Parliament is to
meet on November ID.
An old lady announced in court at At
lanta that she "had no COUNSEL" that
"God was her lawyer" "My dear mad
am" replied the judge, "he does not
practice in this court"
Rev. r. Douglas, of Kentucky, has re,
ceived call from the Presbyterian
Church at Lexington, Va, Of which
Stonewall Jackson was formerly an Ell
der.
Rev. j. l.. NJ. Curry, of Alabama, re-
Gently returned from Europe, after hear,
ing DR.. Spurgeon, of London, prononIces
DR.. r. Fuller, of Baltimore, to be super
ior to him as an orator. So says the
Religious Herald
One firm alone in Richmond, during
the month of August, shipped 100000
hounds of tobacco to Northern and for
eign markets. Several other business
houses nearly reached the same 1gure.
A race of one mile for one thousand
dollars was run in Cincinnati on Satur-
day, between two legless men, whose
entire powers of locomotion centered IN
their arms. The winner made the time
in IL minutes and 10 seconds.
The United States Minister at the
Hague writes that the report that for
tune of SIS, 200, 900 had been confirmed
to the relatives and descendants of one
Hans Graft is untrue. The Minister has
received large number of letters from
claimants in America since the report
was published.
Some thieves entered the cellar Of
Mr.. Curtis in Darien, n. Y, last Wed
nesday night and packed up load o.
pork, and other provisions, when they
spied box containing S45O0 in 7-3V'
which had been deposited in the cellar
for safe keeping. They left the pork
and went away with the money!. D.
Two colored men, while excavatinG
ground in Alexandria, Va, near th'
canal basin, last Thursday, exhumed
box containing $67 900 in Alexandri.
corporation notes, together with . will
The testator was, upon inquiry ascer
tanned to have fallen in the battle o
Seven Pines.
! At Haysville, near Perryville, KY, oil
Sunday, Samuel Kenpett was murdered
while on his way from church. William
Wilson is believed to be the assassin
though the shot was fired from an am
bush in cornfeld. Kennel served II
the Federal army, and Wilson accnse'
him of belonging to party of Regu
lators who had threatened to lynch vii
son. .rr. s--s-s-.-- - tsgsg.R
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