The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-21
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The receipts Of internal revenue on
Saturday were 81 $4,000.

The receipts Of internal revenue on
Saturday were sl,673,OoO.
Nine hundred and eighty.two emf
grants passed through Columbus, Ohio,
last week
Rev. Mr.. Owen, of Newark, N. j., who
was reported to have died from the ef-
! fects of wound received at the fire at
Rockaway. Long IslaLd, is alive and un-
injured.
At Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday night,
a boy, while playing with gun, shot
his sister, little girl of five years, car
rying away part of her head, and caus-
ing her death instantly.
A prominent leader in the woman's
rights movement in the Northwest,
named Anna Josephine Wilkowsky, OBJ
tanned decree of divorce from her hus-
band, at Chicago, on Saturday, on the
ground of adultery.
A heavy storm passed over Peoria,
Chillicothe and Hale, Illinois, on Friday
afternoon, Houses, trees. fences, &c,
were blown down in considerable num-
bers, involving heavy damage. No lives
are reported lost. -.
A Government contractor in Paris
sent 10000 francs as gift to the police
for their services in the riots, and the
following night every window in his
palatial residence was smashed.
Out of public life as in public life,
Secretary Seward adheres to his idea of
manifest destiny" and territorial an
nexation. "If," said he in his Sacra-
mento speech, "you are for the country,
and the whole country, TO its utmost
borders, am with you in that. If You
are for preserving what we have, and
adding to it whatever may be properly,
annexed, am with you. But if there
are any who are not for adding what
ever God has designed to be part and
parcel of the Republic, | am not with
him."
Mrs. Emilia C. Villaverde, of New
York, embroidered and forwarded to the
patriot army of Cuba three silk flags,
neither of which reached its destination.
The first was lost, the second was cap
tured by the Spaniards in the Bay of
Nipe, in May last, aud the third was
seized among General Golcoura's effects
IN the late expedition. Mrs. Villaverde
WI ote to the United States Marshal Bar
low requesting its return, whichrequest
the latter Immediately and gracefully
complied with.
Tulare Valley, in California, is famous
for its fine productions. A local paper
says: "We have long boasted of having
the largest tree in the world, live one
of the Wdshingtonia Gigantica species,
measuring over forty-two feet in diam
eter, and would turn out over 1900, 600
feet of lumber without cutting away
the limbs; and fallen one, partly de-
cayed, that according to the best calcu.
laton would have measured fifty odd
feet, when green. In addition to this,
we now claim to have the largest oak
tree in the State, measuring three feet
from the ground, and twenty eight and
one half feet in circumference"
A citizen of Bennington, Vermont, re-
Gently found in an old newspaper an aft
davit made by Captain Jonas Galus ha,
of that place, in 1907 and 1903. Refer
ring to the battle Of Bennington in III,
he testified: II was ordered with the
entire company under my command by
Colonel Moses Robinson to march to
said battle ground, and marched in ODE
dience to said order at the head of my
company. l recollect at the time of the
Bennington battle soldier came up to
Colonel Nathan Stone and said, 81 have
no gun, what shall do 7" Stone said,
"Stand by me a few minutes and you
shall have one" The man obeyed, and
in a short time Stone drew up and fired
at Hessian. As the Hessian fell, Stone
said to his comrade, run and get your
gun" Aud the man obeyed."