The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-19
NEWS ITEMS.

managers of the st. Louis fair with a
brace of young bears. BdreS are very
fashionable among the fair in this city
Mai. Anderson, Sheriff of Benton
county, Ark, in pursuing band OF des-
neraaoes, found two of them so much
disposed to resist capture that he shot
them dead.
Gen. Walcutt, Collector of Internal
Revenue at C Columbus, Ohio, seized about
$4,000 worth of fraud whisky yesterday
at the warehouse of Zettlin Il Ryan, In
that city.
st. Louis is arranging for mercan-
tile delegation to San Francisco, ana
invites Cincinnati to unite forces with
her. The total expense of the trip Will
be 1891 per capita.
Diamonds were being continuously re-
ceived at the frontirer towns of tho Cape
of Good Hope, from the up country dis
tricts, and had become staple OF auc-
ton sales.
The marriage robe worn by the Prin-
cess Louisa, of Sweden, at her recent
marriage to the Prince Royal, OF Den
mark, was manufactured at Berlin, and
cost S24 900.
All the Greek Embassies with the ex-
ception of that at Constantinople are
to be abolished. The Greek army is to
be reduced and the navy disarmed.
San Domingo advices to August %
say that the United States steamer Sem
mole did not find the privateer steamer
TELEGRAPH at SANTANA, and was expected
soon at San Domingo.
E. T. Page, of Lunenburg, Mass, is
said to be grandson of Generel Wash
ington's barber at Valley Forge, and
claims to have a razor with which the
Father of his Country was shaved.
The whole indigo produce of Northern
India this year, is estimated by experts
at sc, 900 maunds of 80 pounds. OF this,
Lower Bengalis expected to contribute
10000, Benares and the Doab 80, 900, and
Tirhoot only 10000.
Mr.. Bonner took Dexter over to
Brooklyn last Friday afternoon, and
drove him mile on the Prospect Fair
Grounds in the extraordinary time OF
2:25f. This is the fastest time ever
made to a roadwagon.
Singer, accused of causing the death
of child by unnatural crime, in New
York, has been discharged from custody,
the Coroner's jury having, on medical
testimony, returned verdict of death
by plurO-pneumonia.
The American champion drinker Is
Mrs. Mulligan, who recently testihea IN
New York Police Court that she "wud
dhrink vishkey again lager wild any
man, and carry him to the sashln house
as sober as policeman, so she wud."
The War and Navy Departments have
transferred to the Treasury Depart
ment. the power to contract for the re.
covefy of all vessels, both Confederate
and Federal, which were sunk during
the late war in Southern and other
waters.
A pair of dahlias grown gsther,
blossom to blossom and stem to stem, is
curiosity produced in one of the gar
dens in Oakland, Illinois. Botanists
are astonished at the freak. 1t beats
the Siamess twins.
One of the Nashville papers is re-
sponsible for the story that there exists
In that city societies whose object it is
to perfect young ladies in the art of
dipping" snuff, and concealing the fact
from their gentlemen admirers.
The chicken cholera is now prevail
ing extensively in the neighborhood of
Alexandria, aud all the poultry yards
are, from 1t effects, becoming depopulat-
cd at rapid rate.
A man and two women were arrested
in ST. Louis yesterday for dealing in
"the queer" One of the parties had
nearly $4,000 in possession, consisting of
counterfeit greenback IS, and Jewitt
City National bank, of Connecticut, IS,
The Commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue will, in few days, issue circular
to the Assessors throughout the country
instructing them that all vessels, steam
boats and barges engaged in the carry
ing trade, whether on the sea or rivers
are liable to tax as express carriers.
A great many members of that extra
ordinary Russian sect, the Skoptzi, whC
mutilste themselves "for the Kingdom
OF Heavens sake" have been brought
to trial at Tambow and found guilty
Their sentence consists in the loss of all
civil rights, and Punishment for life 10
Siberia.
1t is understood that Mr.. Macias,
whose name has been prominently con.
hected with the Cuban Junta, sailed
unexpectedly from New York a few
Gays ago: 1t is said he has gone to Cuba
10 meet Cespedes, to obtain new mower
from him to act as envoy in the United
States.
Zuruby Hannum, the keautifr, C;r
cassian girl of Barnum's Museum wa,
exhibiting at Montreal the ether doH
when it became nOised abroad thu,
beautiful Circassian was Dutch ma
tive of the Bowery, in New York, An,
the Montreal populace tore down he
tent and scattered the effects to tn
windst
An old gentleman named Frederic
Bugse, known to be in" easy circun
stances, recently died in Berlin. o
examination cit transpired that th
estate exceeded 500, 900 thaleIs, whic
ne mad beq ueathed as follows: 1,000,0 OF
thalers to his cook, 100000 thalers I
several institutions of public benefi
anu oo,ooo thalers to be divided betwee
his two nephews.