The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-01
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taxable property Oh Ne" iofh oi's'
South Carolina is TO be the first of the
reconstructed States re-admitted to the
Union. ...
About one thousand children year
are sent to the West from New York.
A Base Ball Association, with capt.
tai stock of $4,000, has been incorpo-
rated In Cleveland.
Clay county, Ind, sends an insane
preacher to the Insane Asylum, for at
attempting to baptiSe child with fire.
The Canadian papers complain at the
amount of poetry sent them to publish
about the death of McGee.
Gipsy fortune tellers are said to have
taken $1,000 from the foolish young
women of Decatur county, Indiana.
A shoemaker named Schaffer drank a
glass of whisky in Fortyille, Ind, the
other day, and fell dead in two minutes.
Mrs. Elizabeth Oskes Smith claims to
be the first white woman that ever as
cended Mount Kathirdin in Maine.
Robert Collyer says when a man gets
married at forty-fve he soon becomes
very sorry that he did not do it before.
Three regiments of militia are to be
raised in Vermont, to drill five days in
the year, and have annual encamp-
ments and general trainings in the old
style. ....a
Austin Henry, of Pleasant Hill, ILL.,,
undertook to pull his son out of bed
Friday morning, when the young man
fired a revolver at his father, and kill
ed him.
The U. S. Court at Cleveland has q
case on trial in bankruptcy where the
liabilities are S2,5OO,000. and the pa
pers, closely written and printed, weigh
At pounds.
Will tea restore the memory A man
in Winthrop, Maine, has been drinking
about a pound week in the confident
belief that this is sovereign remedy
LOT detective memory.
Dubuque has society of "Grass
Widowers." The local paper saysof it !:
"If there should be any unusual devil
try enacted about these times let the
society of ad interim bachelors be look
ed after"
A Southern paper contains an editor
ial apology for "a cursed chirography,
as undecipherable as the hieroglyphics
found upon the sarcophagus Of mum
my of ante-pyramidial sepulture."
An Indiana paper proposes that here
after. instead of saying, "Let us sing
the Doxology," the minister shall say,
"Let us put on our oyerceat, adjust fnrs,
slip on gloves, seize our hats, and be dis
missed"
The Nachitoches Times, of the 18th,
learns by private letter from Grand Gro
teau, La, that cholera is prevailing i'll
the country surrounding that place, and
that freedmen are dying at the rate of
eight or ten day.
There is a young man attending col
lege in Albion, Mich, whose heart is on
his right side. He has been examined
by several of the most noted physicians
of New York and Washington, who all
agree that such is the case. This is the
second case on record of the kind.
A daughter of Mr.. A. J. Putzel, a
yeung man named Mortimer Carr, and
two negroes, were drowned while cross
ing the river at Dew's Landing, Cum
berland county, West Virginia, last
Wednesday night. Nothing is known
of the circumstances of the drowning,
further than that in the darkness the
parties left ane side of the river and
never reached the other.
The "Bowery" in New York takes its
name from "Bowery Hill," so familiar
thirty years ago as among the outskirts
of the city, and which was SO called on
account of being the location of the
five "Bouwerys," or small farms, which
the Dutch West India Company, after
buying all Manhattan Island, reserved
for themselves.
WIN. Sackstroth, resident Of Delhi
township, near Cincinnati, had quar-
rel with his wife aud threatened to
shoot himself. Mrs. Sackstroth said he
couldn't do better, but wished he would
90 out doors to commit the deed so it
| hn
William did; and left his body in the
yard.
The New Orleans Tribune, said to be
the only paper in the United States
owned and edited by negroes, and the
only one thus constructed in the South,
has suspended for want of support. 1t
supported Taliaferro for Governor, and
the native State ticket, and consequent
Ily was deprived of all official patron
age. The Picayane passed high COM
pliment on the ability, skill and integ-
rity of its management.
The Russian Gazette mentions sin
gular mode of robbery on the railway
between Riazan and KoSlowsk. The
depredators prepare q stout pole with
line and grapnel, and await the pass
age of train of open wagons laden
with sacks of wheat. They prefer such
places as have mounting gardients, as
the speed is less. When the carriages
are passing, the depredator throws out
his line and the hook catches q sack,
and by the jerks brings it to the ground,
whence it is easily picked up and car
ried off. Lately the tackle gave way
; and was borne on by the train to the
next station, when the device was dis
covered.
RADIO ALIsM IN THE SoUTH.-When a
rhite man knocks negro down for in.