The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-24
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ssven miles of violin strings ViOfa'0u
: at the Boston Jubilee
Can Frapcisco's largest income is
: Claus sprsckle's, sl1S,sS3.
Wheat is being harvested in Georgia.
ord there is beautiful yield.
Cbampaque is now manufactured In
ReIpium for nineteen cents Dottie'
? The sale of the Duke of HamIltons nn
stnd, nineteen horses, brought sSo'oVO'
3 Noarly one-kalf the literary papers OF
Paris are set up by female compoSi'orS'
r Several buildings were burned at
Monroe, La, on Sunday night LOSS
$4,000.
John H. Surratt is Baltimore com'
mission merchant.
Sir Samuel Baker starts on his Mic
expedition July lst.
Portland contains a colored maR aged
los, who fought under TOussaint Lou
venture.
WIN. H. Hanley, an artist of celebrity,
died in Boston, on Saturday, OF con-
sumption.
A man in London follows the occupa
ton of professional introdneer," and
makes money by it.
A correspondent suggests that Boston,
heretofore the Hub" shall hereafter
be known as the "Jub."
A bold woman in New York says that
"Female Suffering" is a more important
subject for discussion than Female Suf-
frage."
The oiled wood of the seats of new
church at Yorkville, New York, ruined
silk dresses enough, last Sunday, to pay
of the debt on the building.
The Boston advertiser says that when
that "hundred anvil chorus" was
played it seemed "that our ears had
been filled with the oil of vitriol."
Col. John. F. Cheek, Clerk of Dear
born county, Indiana, died on Monday
afternoon. He has held many offices of
honor and pref, and was agallant and
meritorious officer in the late war.
James Riley, who forged note signed
CrIstsd OrO, on the Chemical National
Bank of New York, for 500, 900, was ar
rested at Omaha Monday night by de-
ctlVe Sheridan, who left with him for
Chicago.
Johnny Burns, legless, who sits and
distributes ''pi" at the Government
Office, in Washington, was wheeled
into the foremsn's office Monday, and
rendered his resignation, declaring he
would work no longer with the negro
Douglass.
The Fort Smith (Arkansas) Herald of
the 18th reports the killing of q girl
named Marquet, aged seventeen, resid-
| ing near the State line, by five ChOctaw
Indians, who escaped to their nation.
| The girl had interfered to save her
mother, whom the Indians were threat
ening to kill, when they shot her
through the head.
The Wilmington (Illinois) Independent,
edited by Mr.. Steele, says: "A printer
last week proposed to go into partner
ship with us. His name is Doolittle.a
The firm name would sound very bad
either way you put it-'Steal and Do
Little or DO Little and Steal We
can't jine. One of us weuld soon be in
the poorhoHse, and the other in the
penitentiary."
The Mobile Tribune says: "The Reg
istsr is slightly mistaken in saying that
Yerger is regarded as a martyr to the
Lost Cause 1t happens that he aban-
doned the cause before it was quite lost
and songht refuge with the Yankees in
Vicksburg. We feel sorry for any man
in Yerger's present unhappy condition,
but it is our duty to the South TO say
that he is not one of her representative
men,"
Hon. John A. Cock, of louisville,
Stark county, Ohio, died on Sunday last,
of apoplexy. On the impauneling of
the Grand Jury at the present term of
the Court, Judge Cock being a member,
was appointed foreman. He had long
been identified with the Democratic
party, was Associate Judge of the Com
mon Pleas Court of Jefferson county un-
der the old judicial organization of the
State, and was a member of the House
of Representatives in 1867, and was a
prominent candidate for that office at
the time of his death. During the war
of the rebellion he was Paymaster in
the army, and was stationed at Cincin-
natl. His age was sixty-eight.