The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-19
CREAM OF THE MAILS.

SlXrY-FIvE divorce cases are pending
in the Indianapolis Superior Court.
THERE are thirty-'ou frui: distileries
in the sixth-revenue division oil Georgia.
A LARGE nuIber Of convicts sre at
work on General Forests farm, near
Memphis.
AN impious wretch robbed the poor
box in ST. Mary's church At Monroe,
| Michigan.
the Charlotte Mich Republican tells
OF girl OF thirteen in that town who
has been married over six months.
SAVANNAH has spent $500 in sewer
age since the dreadful epidemic last year
| and its sanitary condition Is now excel
! lent.
A WILD man Is reported TO be in the
woods in the vicinity of Hoighton lake
Michigan, with terrible long nails and us
| fleet rs deer.
A uANDBILL announcing a negro PIC
mic in Tennessee respectfully requests
gentlemen attending to leave their pistols
md razors At home.
AN Indianapolis paper states that
Frank Leslie lost one hundred thousand
dollars in real estate specuiatIons IN that
city several years ago.
A NEGRO woman, OF Waynesboro.
Georgia, while violently whipping her
child last Tuesday week, burst blood
vessel and died soon aiterward.
4 coLoRED preacher of Blount county,
Alabama, confessed in open church that
tie had buCked against three-card monte,
and that the monte prevailed.
A DEATHS head and crossbones sur
mounting the picture OF double-barrel-
Ell shotgun, adOrns gate in Little Rock,
Ark. together with the legend, "No
tramps Iced apply.
DARIUS WORKMAN, cOlored, was ar
rested in Robertson county, kentucky,
on charge OF bigamy, at A. NJ. on
August 20. He was brought to the couu-
,y-seat, tried and sentenced to the State
prison by one o'clock the same day.
TIE Lexington Ky Press tells how
one Marcus Downing, Jr., recently killed
copper head snake eleven feet four
inches in length, and as big round rs u
herr-keg. Other Kentucky papers re-
proachfully declare that too much Gin
riunati whiskev is used ut Lexington.
MR. GcrrLsIB FISHER, of Fredericks-
burg county, Texas, tad son stolen by
the Comanche,, Indians about twelve years
AGO. Recently he discovered him mar
ricd, and with M Indian family, nor
would he consent To return home until
MS rather agreed TO take the whole tami-
I L..
W. HoLLINGSwoRTH, OF Navestock.
England, recently killed himself IN ut
0! passion On returning home after
mis- lsbors in the harvest field, be found
hI, tea Was not to his liking. He went
AWAY, bidaing his mother Good bye,
and drowned himself in river not very
ar distant. HIS brOther-,n-law tried TO
l!.suade INN from going away, rs he
WAS under the double intlueace OF passion
and drink, but the deceased said ne
would sooner cut his bead oil than return
home.
A TARBoRA IN. c. negro, under a
trial tor larceny, made the following aT-
simcnt in his own defense: mister
ledge, | cl.r fore God | never stole
nothln in my life, cepten pig-.alI vt
.os-kllin' time from my ole mls'us,
when WAS boy, and Mister ledge, |
shall never forgit my punishment She
-,wcd dat pIg-tsil t. my breeches De
| hind. an when company would come she
! would make me come and shake myself
| 80 dat taIl would switch, and Mister
ledge, felt SO mean An got so tired OF
dat pig-tai dat | never stole nothln
sense. OATS fac" lie got three years
in the State prison.
The Macon GA, telegraph states
| that the wife of farmer residing near
| HincsvilIe recently hearing one OF her
| little children cry out, while bringing
! water from the spring hard by, ran 20 Its
-. stance. Blu. imagine her terror NJ
! finding huge rattlesuake twlned around
me Iegs of the child, and with sounding
rattles vainly endeavoring to bite 1t. A
rapid inspection showed that the mons
ter, laws were distended to the utmost
bv the protruding legs Of hslt-gorged
rabbit. OF course 1t was quickly slain and
the child recued from her perllous condi.
ton.
/ The Richmond State SAWS OF the eve.
ming when the liquor registers were
first put upin the saloons: The saloons
were crowded. and everybody who drank
listened eagerly for the debt paving bells
The lager beer glasses have been reduced
in size. 1t Is to be hoped that there Will
be more than corresp ondmg reduction
in the size of the debt.