The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-13


missioned by Governor Peirpont, of Vir-
ginia, notary public for Norfolk city
and county. 'as& aa..
Hiram Thomas, man seventy years
old, living in Bracken county, Kentuc-
ky, has been sentenced to be hung in
August for numbering his. wife.
A considerable number of turtles are
now captured on the coast of Florida,
and taken via Savannah or Charleston,
to tie New York market.
The negroes in Alabama arc very
hostile to Judge Dick Busteed, and
would not allow him to BE invited to a
seat in their convention.
Ninety-nine one thousand dollar
bonds We're recently reported missing
from the Treasury Department. No
clue to the mystery has been discover
cd. ,s- 90.
The Brownlow men in Tennessee de-
clare that if they are defeated at the
polls they will not give up the State
Government. These are your 'law and
order" citizens!
John Antrim, st. Louis merchant,
it is said, has fallen heir to half the
estates of the late Earl of Antrim, in
Ireland, valued at seven millions ster-
ling. .-..
New Orleans had an entertainment at
which a fountain of iced claret wine
jetted from the centre of the parquet
during the performance, served out to
the audience in silver goblets.
The Fredericksburg Herald says that
the first new potatoes of the season
were eaten by the editor of that paper
on the 3d,-and, what is encouraging,
were grown in his own garden.
Three robbers attacked the cashier Of
the Planters Bank of Nashville, Satur-
day afternoon, ga gged, tied and rob-
bed him. One of them has been arres-
ted and part of the money recovered.
The finest cherries ever seen are sell
ling in the Norfolk market at from 2 to
3 cents per quart. Strawberries to 10
cents por quart. Now POTATOES begin to
come in freely-S5 per barrel. ~. XII.
In case before the United States Dis
trict Court at Charleston, Judge Bryan
has decided that the telegraph company
is bound to exhibit private messages
in evidence when required, kilograms
not being within the class of privileged
communications.
Governor Wells is decidedly dissatis-
fed with his removal from office by
General Sheridan, and writes letter
to the President, in which he charges
that Sheridan's action was dictated by
personal malice, and that of the five
Levee Commissioners appointed by
Sheridan, three were eX-rcbels, and one
a British subject. ..H
The Richmond Wing estimates that
the number Of white persons disfran-
chised in Virginia by the reconstruction
acts will exceed ten thousand! 1t fur
theI thinks that at least ten Thousand
more will fail to register from dissatis-
faction, disgust, or Indifference. 1t
futher says that the "white Radicals"
claim great many more than thirteen
thousand votes.
The workmen engaged in disinterring
the Federal dead, buried around this
place, were somewhat surprised last
week ut unearthing what was supposed
to be the body ola citizen with rope
tied around bisncck. The interment is
supposed to have been made at peri
od anterior to the late war.-U'dshingtoR
(N. CO. Ipder.
We regret to learn that a great deal
of wheat, which has been so promising
heretofore, has rusted within the last
few days, though We are not fully ad-
vised as to the amount Of injury it has
received. The wheat heads generally
in this section Of the State are small,
but nevertheless were promising until
the fatal rust came as blight destroy
ing the fond hopes of many of our agri-
ulturalists.-Fred. Herald.
John A. sarten, of fWarrensburg Mo-,
who was soldier in the Federal army
during the war, was wounded by ball
which penetrated to his lungs. Ere
uuently since he has cOughed mp blood.
During an unusual fit of coughing on
of last week, the ball was
dislodged from the lungs by being
coughed up. Since then he has been re-
lieved, and hopes are entertained of his
final recovery.
The friends Of JEFF. Davis are about
to make formal application to the Pre-
sident for his pardon although Davis
positively refuses to apply for it him.
self. A number of signatures have been
obtained to the petitions, and some per-
sons have refused their names. Cover
nor Worth, of North Carolina, writes
that he does not see why Davis should
refuse to ask pardon, but at the same
time he favors granting him one. Gov
ernor Pierpont, Of Virginia, was asked
TO sign the petition, and he replied as
70 lows: 81 ask for pardon for no man
who will not AK il for himself"
On the evacuation ofAtlanta several
thousand shells were shipped to Angus
ia, where they remained, at the close Of
the war, aud were afterward purchased
by Mr.. Malone, from the United States
Ordnance Department, for the purpose
of being used in castings. 1t was
thought that all had been unloaded.
Last Saturday afternoon, however, as
the workmeu were preparing for a
large casting, some of the shells were
being melted in the furnace, when sud-
denly a powerful explosion took place,
and breaking in fragments
in the upper portion of the furnace.
Some twenty or more workmen were
around the furnace at the
very moment of the explosion, but for
all escaped without even .
scrxteh.--Au0Nsta Chronicle.