The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-26
BY MAIL.
"A is failing.

weston Is JdtuH9.
Blind Tom is in st. Paul.
Mark Twain illustrates trip tc
Niagara.
George Alfred Townsend is in New
York.
A relic speculater offers the stump Of
a cigar smoked by Grant for SIS.
Dan. Rice's circus, which was to have
exhibited az St. Louis, is stuck on a
bar in the river above st. Charles. .
A new cattle disease has appeared al
Shrewsbury. The bronchial tubes OF
slaughtered animals are filed with
thread.like worms.
Dispatches from all parts of the west
report the continuance of the intense
heat. From every quarter we have re
ports of fatalities by sun-stroke.
Col. Fitzpatrick killed his wife the
other day in South Carolina, and at.
tended her funeral two days after ards
Several burglars who were attempting
to rob house at the village of Austin,
a suburb of Chicago, were captured by
two ladies, who, in the absence of their
husbands, brought the burglars to terms
with revolvers.
Reports from the tobacco growing re-
gion of Kentucky state that but one
half the crop produced last year will be
raised this year Corn is almost shriy-
led.
A man named Henthorn, employed at
the Belfast Iron Furnace, in Lawrence
County, Ohio, was severely burned by
molten metal falling on him from the
furnace.
A patty from Memphis attempted to
rescue q prisoner from the hands OF a
Sheriff at Pocahontas, Tenn, but were
driven back, with one of their number
wounded.
Bailie Peyton, until now Andy John
sons principal opponent for the U. S.
Seuatorship in Tennessee, has with
drawn from the contest. Andy's pros
poets are rendered much brighter there
by.
A child fifteen months old, son of
Mr.. Zercher, who resides on Fourth
street, Columbus, O., crawled from its
cradle Monday afternoon and drank 4
heavy dose of solution of morphine
-from bottle on the table. The
child died in few minutes.
A policeman in Lawrence, Mass, re-
Gently found two and q half year old
child on a doorstep at two o'clock In
the morning, crying because he could
not get into the house TO go to bed.
The old folks had neglected to count
their brood when they retired, and the
little fellow had been overlooked.
The Cincinnati Times, apropOs of the
approaching match between the Red
Stockings and Haymakers, say that the
down casters" have set their hearts on
beating the country lads" and the
latter in return intend to teach their
opponents the real science of the game.
Some time ago the whole country was
indignant over the dastardly act of per
sons in Michigan who twice girdled all
the trees of a fine large orchard. The
trees are now filled with fruit to an ex-
tent never before known, to the wonder
of the whole community. Many predict
that the real trial of the trees will come
next year.
Hamilps racing days are over, so far
as competition with such oarsmen as
Walter Brown and Henry Coulter, his
more youthful rivals, are concerned.
He did not, in any part of the late
match with Coulter, pull with much
more than half his customary vigor, aud
this was remarked by many, who looked
TO see him maintain at least fOrty-five
strokes to the minute.
General Ames has issued the follow
ing order to commanders of military
posts in Mississippi The Commanding
General directs that you do not obey, in
future, any writ of habeaS corpus issued
by The United States Court and Circuit
Court, or any order made by such
Courts for the release of prisoners in
your custody. Should such writ or or
der be served upon you, report the fact
by telegraph"