The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-24

Fifteen persons, mostly negroes, are
to be tried for murder at the current
term of court In Clarkeounty, Mississip-
pi.
A summer visitor at North Conway
N. H., claims to have caaght twelve
thousand trout during the last three
seasons gE "a U,G "a q
Bishop Payne, Episcopal Bishop q
Africa, has resi- gned and returned to
Virginia, on account of failing health
and overwork. q
General Candy has authorized q vote
by the city of Petersburg, Va, on q pro-
posed loan of $2U0, 900 to improve the
navigation Of the Appomattox river.
The New York correspondent of the
Boston Journal reports that the strikers
in the coal regions are supported by OPP
erations for Corner, in New York, y
A pretended son of the King of Mala-
bar has been sentenced in London TO
thirty days Imprisonment for petty
swindling. BE was on the eveof mar
riage. ,s3SQLGl OK 20
Home, the spiritualist, bossts that he
can elongate himself some two feet by
unseen assistance. This may be called
the Home stretch of Spiritualism. - Chi
cago Republican.
A man living near Fort Edward has
named his infant child william Hem
ry Harrison Brum Bub Bottle Donald
son." The inhuman aud unnatural
savage is still at large.
Three of the Powell Colorado explo-
ring expedition are reported killed by
Indians, after having been fed and set
on their way by them, and having re-
paid this kindness by shooting a asauaw.
The Charleston Coarier's cotton state
ment for the year places the total pro
duct at 1856, ,369 bales. Its estimate, of
the rice crop in South Carolina, Geor-
gia, North Carolina and Louisiana, is
81, ,9l5 tierces.
The Titusville Herald says the petro-
leum production during August was ma
teriaAy enlarged by the finding of new
wells. The stock on hand September I,
as compared with that on August l,
shows an increase of about %, 900 bar.
rels.
The Rochester Union remarks upon
the assessed value of property in the
several counties: k..Let those who com.
plain that New York turns the scale in
the politics of the State bear the fact in
mind that she pays more taxes than all
the rest of the State
Thieves went into cotton field near
Columbus, Ca, one night last week, and
picked five rows, carrying off the pro-
duet. The Savannah Republican thinks
the rogues have struck out o fresh track,
and is almost afraid to publish the item
lest the new fashion of theft should boz
come popular. .r IN 4 s.
Archibald Bales has been sentenced,
in Newport, Indiana, to six menths'
imprisonment and 500 fine for kissing
another mans wife. The local paper
says he "took terrible sick on the same
evening after the sentence was pro-
nounced." No wonder.
Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper
contains a capital cartoon, entitled the
"Slanderer's Vision" in WHICH the ghost
of Lord Byron is represented appearing
TO Mrs. Stowe, who sits, horror-strickeB
and abasbed, while the poet says to her,
ga IAinistering angel shall my sister be
when thou liest bowling"
The Boston Herald contradicts the
statement that certain missing letters,
several years old, found under or be-
hind adrawer in q mail car on the b os-
ton and Albany Railroad, had been
burned by the clerks to cover up their
|car0lessness, andsays they were sent to
their proper address. 'T
John ODonnell, who hanged himself
the other day in Liverpool, left letter
to his wife, saying he hoped she would
meet him in heaven, where there won Id
be "no Mrs. Corkhill or Mrs. Rattersbe
for to drink health to. me, wishing me
ia hell, and libreE enough to stand a
pint of beer to ould nick to stur the
Goals" .-'A~
New fashioned dress. coats are made
with deep velvet collar, and, invariably,
with large gilt buttons of the genuine
l776 STYLE. Lord Stanley scarfs and
low-cut. double breasted vests will be
fcopsidered the genteel thing for city
lswells this Writer. Kid gloves for the
street, opera and concert are worn In
very brilliant colors-yellow, orange,
| lavender and lilac being the popular
shades. >
The four physicians of the Emperor
Napoleon attend twice day In court
carr iages. They receive from twenty
FIVE to thirty letters daily from the va
rious old women Of France, containing
prescriptions and infallible cures for
every ailment those good ladies attrib
nte to His Majesty. 1t would take sew
leral years, to say nothing of the human
lives required, to try the vario as drngs
systems and diets suggested.