The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-14
PERSONAL.

JEFF. Davis is sixty-three years old.
A Memphis paper threatensto write to
Mrs. Greeley about Horace's flirtations.
Mr.. Shaw Josh Billings) resides in
Fifth avenue, New York, in sumptuous
style.
Amos J. Cummings, managing editor
Of the New York Sun, according to a
biographical sketch, was q compositor
in the Cleveland Plain Dealer office in
1855.
Cyrus w. Field has purchased one,
third OF the stock Of the New York
Evening Mail.
Tennie C. Claflin says that she is
twenty-six years old, and is treated by
her family as if sire was only five.
There is a young lady in Camden,
New Jersey, studying Latin. She has
beau. He asked her what sic transit
gloria mundi meant. She translated it:
Come and see me on Monday night. "
He went and had a good time. The
old folks were out.
Joseph II. DAILY, one OF the youngest
judges on the New York bench, is a
brother Of Augustus DAILY, manager OF
the Fifth avenue theatre, and author OF
Under the Gaslight."
One of the wealthiest bankers in
Chicago is charged with stealing the gas
belonging to another man by tapping
his pipe on the wrong side OF the meter.
Miss Midy Morgan of the New York
Times will spend the summer at Col.
Norris country seat at Scasdale. She
will keep stud OF some forty horses
or more. What for?
William J. Brooks, a Washington
broker, went to see his betrothed, Miss
Burke, a clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment, Saturday night. She rebuked
him for being under the influence OF
liquor, when he said he would rid him
selfof this world troubles, and shot
himself, falling dead at her feet.
George R. Campbell, a young Scotch
man, who had been for some time an
occupant Of the Philadelphia aims
house, recently fell heir to his deceased
uncle's estate, worth $4,000, and has
gone to Edinburgh to secure the prop
erty.
Mathew Wostneusky, a Bohemian,
who kept lager beer saloon on South
Canal street, Chicago, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head
in COZ Sc iuence Of recent police order
closing bar rooms on Sundays.
Suits to the amount OF over two mil
lion dollars are about to be entered on
the dockets Of the English courts against
Louis Napoleon, Esq, by some Of the
Frenchmen who were exled from their
native country in 1851 by his decree,
and are now resident in England Able
counsel have been engaged, and the
process will be watched with general
interest.
The Detroit Free Press says: Greeley
would make far better run than Grant
or any other man in the Republican
party. He has wonderful elements Of
popularity. He would give the Democ-
racy hard fight, and would only be
beaten because Of his extreme 'protec-
tive tariff notions. This, and the ten.
dency he has to tell everybody what
they shall eat, drink, wear and do for a
living, would defeat him; but other
wise he is candidate to be dreaded" "
The Count Minckiewiez, who made
love 10 Miss Carrie Lester, the niece Of
Professor Tyler, of.Amherst College,
and who went to Europe last February
to get mis- credentials, is living in large
stone building in Belgium, with official
gentlemen to wait upon his outgoing
and incoming. The Count, in short, is
in Jail for an old offense not wholly dis
connected from swindling; and Miss
Lester, whose love was so unworthily
directed, has, it is said, become convinc-
ed Of her mistake.
Alderman Conan, at the tombs, last
week, committed for trial young man
named Edward H. Noyes, son o. a rich
Pine street broker. He was charged by
Stetson, OF the Aston House, with hav-
ing run up a bill there last April, rep
resenting himself as an attache Of the
Joint High Commission. Subsequently
he went to Europe, and commenced suit
against the steamship company for al
legged loss Of his baggage, which was in
fact, detained at the Astor House. He
returned to New York, lately, and put
up at the st. James Hotel, representing
himself as Motleys private secretary,
by means of which he run up a large
account with the proprietors.
A MaSdalen's Death.