The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-11
GENERAL ITEM MS.

DR.. Paul Schoeppe last week Will
drew his former claim under the will of
Miss Steiuecke, whom he wss accused
Of poisoning. and filed in the Orphans
Court at Baltimore petition praying a
revocation OF the probate o. that will,
and that letters of administration shall
be granted to him as her husband.
The fret boat o. Peter the Great,
which is looked upon by the Russisns
as the progenitor Of the Rnssian feet,
has been brought from the Moscow
Exhibition to its former resting place
by the fort Of IS. Peter and Paul, with
ceremonies similar to those which &C.
companied its transport to Moscow
come time since.
General Francis A. Walker, OF the
Census Bureau, has arrived home in
North Brook6eld, Massachusetts,,
where he intends to stay some time for
the benefit Of his health. He has heen
offered the Professorship of the Shef
field Scientific School OF Yale College.
to succeed Professor Gilman, who goes
TO San Francisco as President OF the CAL
iiornia State University.
Amelia Caxton, an orphan girl nine
years old, passed through Kansas City,
Missouri, Saturday evening, all alone
and paying her own bills on her way to
Denver, near which her grandfather
and grandmother reside. She had
come from Reading, Pennsylvania, and
carried letter from the Mayor OF that
city asking all whom it might concern
to protect her on her way.
Benjamin D. Emerson, who died at
Jamaica Plain, near B oston, on the
lst inst, left most Of his estate Of $3.50,
600 in requests to religious and ednca-
tional institutions, inclulng 100000
to Dartmouth college. He was a
graduate OF Dartmouth. Tor MANY years
school teacher in New Hampshire and,
with his brother, published Emerson's 8
Arithmetic.
A Central Park camel mi.took for
native desert iCod the autumnal f)"ers
and grasses adorning the hat Of Miss
Richardson, a young Boston lady at
New York. last Wednesday, and while
her attention was naturally turned 10
the baby elephant, innOcently lifted in
the air the hat and it's accompanying
chignon. The lady shrieked, while the
gentle camel, accustomed to the mirage,
and express ng Ne surprise at his de-
lusion, calmly spst out the fair, false
forage.
A New Orleans sportsman, determin.
ing to emigrate TO Mexico, where he
hoped to find some game, made all
preparations and was ready to go, but
wanted a dog. He wrote careful
description OF the ideal dog, instruc'ing
friend at Louisville to forward him
one After long and weary visiting.
and many repeated inquiries at freight
and express Offices, box was at last
delivered to him. 1t was opened with
great ceremony. His friend, having
sought in vain for the ideal in dog
fish, had inclosed HIM a beautiful
Italian grey hound in plaster of Paris.
Stokes, the tsker-off Of Fisk, and
Foster. the car-hook murderer, occupy
cells upon the same floor, and within
twenty feet OF each other at the Tombs
in New York. A correspondent
writes: Two men now srrcken in
wears, and both crushed by mis'or une,
now visit the prison several times
week. Esch has a son imprisoned for
murder. One Of these men il the
father o. Foster; the other is the father
OF Stokes. What a spectacle to see
these old men meeting in The corr der
each in search oi blood stained
child |"