The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-14
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Brazil anticipates this year the
largest harvest Of coffee ever gathered.
Brigham Young is reputed, to have
large amounts Of cash on deposit in
New York. sa >'F
Nitro-glycerins was discovered in
1S47 By an Indian chemist pamed Som
brero. ..-. -.
During 1867, one person in ten in
Brooklyn was under arrest; in New
York, one in twenty-four.
8 conductor on the Dayton and Mich
igan Railroad, named Milton K. Decius,
was run over and instantly killed at
Detroit on Tuesday last.
On Sunday night last woman named
Mrs. Dimott, living in Newbern, n. c.,
met horrible death by burning, the
result ofa kerosene lamp explosion.
An inventive genius in Newark, n.
j., has recently produced "a steam
man." complete in all its parts, which
is capable of drawing quite heavy
load at the rate of twenty miles an
hour.
The Chicago papers record case of
heartless cruelty" unparalleled. A
mother was detected in having left her
infant child upon a railroad track to be
killed, in order thus to rid herself of the
responsibility of its care.
On Tuesday last, a lady residing in
Cleveland, Ohio, was arraigned and
fined s. and costs for severely "cowhid-
ing" a school teacher who had insulted
one Of her children. The teacher was
compelled to take refuge in a house to
escape the fury of his assailant.
Mr.. swaney, editor of the Mariposa
(Cal.) Gazette, has been indicted by o
G. ihd Jury for the murder of James w.
Seal an old and prominent citizen of
Mariposa. The crime as is alleged,
was prompted by the wife of the de-
ceased. "Prusic-acid" was discovered
in the remains by physician who held
u post-mOrtem examination.
Some astonished lumbermen in On
tario, Canada, report having seen, few
days ago, a stream of fire about twenty
feet in length, which seemed to be shoot
ing diaganolly toward the earth, until
within one hundred feet of it, when it
gradually commenced to rise, aud short
ly after exploded with noise resem-
bling u, cannon shot, and was followed
by heavy rumbling noise like thunder.
A story is told in the French papers
of merry pyrotechnist, who, finding he
was about to die, caused his workmen
to make q number of candles, which
would burn a short way as usual, and
then burst into brilliant corruscations.
Those candles were given to the priests,
who, at the funeral, were to sing Gre
gorian chants around the corpse; and
while engaged in this solemn act the
works went off to the great conster-
nation of the ecclesiastics.
The last time Prince Albert Edward
was in Paris he bought diamonds and
bracelets worth about fifty thousand
francs, and presented them to a good
looking member of the "social evil"
He then, before paying, spent the even
ing in playing baccarat, and lost every
franc he had with him. The jeweler
wanted his money the next morning,
aud would have sued the Prince and
siezed the jewels in the hands of the
corrotte, but for the inteIposition of
a broker named LetOrt, who advanced
the money and saved the heir of Britor's
throne from arrest. .
The Arizona Miner says that recently,
the savages, to the number of twenty
five or thirty, were in Williamson Val
ley, and opened the grave of a man
named jenkins, whom they had pre-
viously murdered, took out the body,
cut the heart and lights out, and mutt
lated the body and limbs in a shocking
manner. AS pieces of the flesh had
been cut off, and as Indian tracks were
plenty around the well, it is Of the opin-
ion that the wretches threw pieces of
flesh inte the we'll. What horrible
brutes these Indians are may be infer
red from this inhuman act of theirs.