The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-22
BY MAIL.

into Minnesota this year.
Chicago is going to celebrate the sue
cessful laying of the French cable.
The President will not return to
Washington until the middle of next
week.
The Minnesota Republican State Con-
vention is called to meet at st. Paul on
Thursday, the 9th OF September.
The report of the Commissioner OF
the Land Office, just received. shows
that in Minnesota IS, ,534,l llS acres OF
public land are yet in possession OF the
| Government.
The Government of the Dominion has
decided to release Father McMahon
from confinement in the provincial PEN
itenuary. No refereHce was made to
the Imperial authority.
The present low price of lumber aud
shingles has rendered it necessary for
the manufacturers of those articles at
Green Bay to reduce the wages of their
hands twenty five per cent. F..
A portion of the rebel archives remov-
ed from Richmond when Lee reireated,
and since concealed in North Carolina,
has been brought to New York and
placed in the hands of two Confederate
officers, who are preparing it for publ.
cation.
Bonds to the amount of S243, 900 have
been issued to the East Tennessee Uni
versity, and the University will obtain
from this source S400, 900. 1t was orig
iDally donation by the General Gov
ernment to Tennessee for an agricultu-
raj college.
At Crestline, Ohio, yesterday a little
son of X. d. Campbell, aged four years,
was drowned by falling into an open
cistern. He had bsen in the wabrr but
a short time when discovered, and all
efforts to resuscitate him failed.
"Pork and Beans-Boston style"-
under the new prohibitOry LAWS one
bean on half an oyster cracker, zwei
lager, two Bourbon punches or a couple
of brandy cocktails.
The Lafayette Courier says there is a
horse in Northern Illinois, six years old,
owner and trainer, which can pace a
mile in two minutes and twelve seconds.
A woman being enjoined to try the
effects of kindness upon her husband,
aud being told that it would heap Goals
of fire on his head, replied that she had
"tried beiling water, and it didn't do a
bit of good"
The children in Windhan county,
Connecticut, are put to work vixen quite
Young, and it appears by the report of
the Committee on Education that the
average school attendance in that coun-
ty is less than five per cent.
\ Frenchman, Monsieur Blum, has
adapted to his vrlocipede pair OF sails,
and in fair wind skins along like
a terrestrial nautilus. at rate exceed
ing the greatest speed hitherto attained
with the ordinary vehicle propelled by
the feet.
A man named George Bowling, who
formerly lived in Perryville, Kentucky,
was caught at HarrOdseurg on Saturday
night last, by body of regulators, and
taken few miles from tewn and hung.
He was charged with horse stealing und
counterfeiting.
The Union League, of New York, we've
so delighted with Governor Walker, of
Virginia, that they rendered him din
uer, which he very sensibly declined.
That organization having contributed
money to secure his defeat, he had no
disposition to partake of its hash and
hOminy.
\ scull race between John Blew and
one Saunders, for two hundred and fifty
dollars, took place on Sunday at Hobo
ken, and resulted in victory for Blew,
who made the five miles in forty-eight
aud a half minutes. Saunders was first
at the goal, but lost by foul in not
turning the buoy and running into
Blew on the home stretch.
At Brighton, near Alton, Illinois,
Saturday night, John Creager shot and
instantly killed the wife of Gotleib
Oertle, a wealthy German farmer. Crea-
ger had been at work for Oertle, but
had been discharged. Sunday night he
returned under the influence of liquor,
and shot Mrs. Oertle without any provo
cation,