The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-09
SPLINTERs.

Turnips are likely to fail in Georgia,
The colored population of Iowa is
$500.
Wilmington, North Carolina, has a
ghost.
Good Templars are increasing in
Georgia.
Rain has improved the North Caro-
lima tobacco crop.
Five French cities erect Lamartine
monuments.
Anna Dickinson denies that she re-
fused to marry Chinaman.
The heir to the Austrian throne is the
best juvenile fiddler in Vienna.
A Farmers Club has been organized
in Murfreesboro', Tenn.
A lady near Memphis a few days since
gave birth to five boys.
A European immigration agency has
been established in Vicksburg.
James Gilmer, a noted horse-thief,
has been lodged in Jail at Purdy, Tenn.
Farmes in some portions of Texas pay
rs cents in specie per hundred for cot
ton picking.
Governor Walker, thirty-seven, is the
youngest Governor the Old Dominion
ever had.
There is a Horse-thief Association in
Muscatine county, Iowa. 1t hold
meetin ong Saturday.
Settlers are pouring into Kansas, from
the Eastern and Middle States, in an
unprecedented manner.
One DR.. Plough is trying to organize
Marine Industrial Exhibition for the
Southwest, at Memphis.
The salary wasted by the New York
Times people upon Bigelow, it is said,
was $3.50 week.
4 Senator Wilson will snivel for the
"loyap cause two or three times in Texas
before the election.
A Mayor has Just been elected by the
people of Norfolk, Virginia. General
Candy was the only voter.
The Lelands are said to have made
100000 by the hotel business at Sara
toga the past season.
1t was DR.. Larry who had the extra
ordinary happiness of bandaging Euge-
MES ankle when she splintered it.
Gideon NJ. Dawson, who,. in 1918,
started the first newspaper at Saratoga,
New York, died few days ago.
A survey of the southern slope of
Lookout Mountain, in search Of iron,
coal and petroleum is to be made.
A contract for free turnpike from
Portsmouth to Haverhfll, Scioto coun-
ty, is to be let on Thursday.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad is running regular trains to
Burlingame, Usage county, Kansas.
A colony of bees has established itself
in one of the small towers of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church at &enia.
Lille Mcdonald, of Jeffersonville,
Indiana, is ten years old, and weig hs
one hundred and twenty-four pounds.
A fox hunting association was organ
lied at Washington City on Saturday,
called the Potomac Fox-hunting Club.
At the annual school meeting held re-
Gently at Adrian, Michigan, a resolu
tion against teaching Greek and Latin
was voted down.
Johnson Vaughn killed three deer at
two shots, in the western portion OF
Williamson county, Tennessee, the
other day.
A lady in Charleston, South Carolina,
recently gave birth to twins, with an
interval of fifteen days between the two
births.
All that is left of the Century Plant,
the recent sensation of Chicago and
Milwaukee, is on its way back to Roch-
ester, New York.
DR.. Burnet, of Georgetown, Ala, acci-
dentally shot negro girl in his parlor
few days ago, killing her instantly.
William Staples, residing on Poplar
Creek in Boone county, East Tennessee,
has lost within one month, 427 hogs
from cholera.
The castor oil manufactured in Con-
zales, Texas, and shipped out Of tae
State is already establishing the compa-
ny reputation abroad.
Lowndes county, Ala, is certainly in
a bad fix. Some robbers, the other
night, took every dollar in the treasury.
No clew has been had to them.
Thousands of negroes are making
contracts in Louisiana, for another year,
and by the 1st of January every one
worth having will be engaged.
The census of Iowa has been taken
eighteen times since 1886, when it was
part of Wisconsin Territory, and its
population was 1851. 1t is now ,043,-
l2i.
A man named Weaver recently left
his family in Boyd county, Kentucky,
and took off the wife, children and fur.
niture of neighber named Patrick.
A pack of dogs killed forty of flock
of sheep near Roscoe, Coshocton county,
a few nights ago, and left forty so in
jured that it was thought they would
die.
Schuyler Colfax got into fight in the
African Methodist Church at Hawkins
vile, Georgia, by reason of having
foared his face in order to pass for a
white man.
Robert Bruce is to have a monument
at BannockbuTn, the scene of one of his
personal difficulties some years ago.
A negro whom Governor Bullock, of
Georgia, pardoaed out of the peniten-
tiary, and proclaimed about in his tAir.
teen official journals at a very heavy
expense, has been convicted of hog.
stealing in Savannah.
The Canada Scotch oats, which have
been planted this year for the first time
in Jackson county, No, yield we'll, and