The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

/ THE receipts of the Southern 'Hote
- bar, ST. Louis, for the six months end
ing October 1st, were $4,000. The wa,
II ter rates for that period amounted tt
d S2,512.
FIVE officers of the japanese navy ar,
+ now in New York, having come to thi.
s country for the purpose of studying the
t language, customs, and army and navy
q systems of the United States. .'
d Mr.. LOWE, the adapter of the screw
V propeller in its present form, was ruI
: over by loaded wagon and killed, in
] London, on tire 18th ult. l. vE
: One hundred and cighty-seven bills
t were introduced in the Vermont Lesis.
: lature during the first two weeks of tho
| 1 session. -s..- -s7.,4.
e THE Salisbury q. c. prison property
: was sold by the United States govern.
ment on the 1st instant, to Mr.. H. D., ii
Helper, for the sum of 500. -
/, THE wife of General Wool is recover.
ing from her late illness, and her return
to health is confidently looked for.
ONE of the conditions of the Austro-
Italian peace is that Austria shall re-
store the art treasures of Venice.
A FULL regiment of Fenians, in rcgi-
mentals, with green facing, are soon to
parade in Cincinnati.
4
A MAN in Davenport, England, has
: been sentenced to fourteen days i'm
! prisonment for kissing Il woman against
her will.
AT Columbus, Ohio, recently, 4 man
was murdered by rival who waylaid
linn OH his return from visit to his in
tended. --s
f IT is proposed to hold an industrial
exhibition in Leeds, England, in 1868,
and f54,000 have already been subscrib-
ed for the purpose.
THE work of restoring the Cathedral
Of Nortre Dame, which was begun
twenty years ago, is almost completed.
THE new city building at Portland,
Maine, will be finished before New Year.
The cost of the building is estimated
at S150,000. COW s--it>
! Is. p,rppoSr. the oldest ma" ~
i'NNH 80 died last week, aged S9.
He had lived on the same farm for Al
years. -
GOV. THoCKMoRToS, of Texas, an
nounccs that eleven men and women
haze Just been released from captivity
among the Indians. %"
IL the Molde-Walladrin Principai-
ties all the crops npon which the peas
antry depend for their sustenance have
failed!
TIE English aud French governments
are to interfere in the dispute between
Spain and the South American Repub-
lies.
THE people,of Victoria, Fancourer's
Island, have petitioned the Queen to
annex themselves to the United States.
Gov. WORTH, of North Carolina, has
issued his proclamation setting apart
Thursday, the 2gth of November, as a
day of prayer ana Thanksgiving.
Gov. WARD, of New Jersey, has ap-,
pointed Thursday, November, 29th, as
thanksgiving day.
Benz. PARRY was tried in the Toronto
court on Monday for completely i'll the
! Fenian invasion. He was mere boy OF
fifteen, and was acquitted. -.
JULIA DEAN HAYNE has secured a di-
vorce at Salt Lake. The divorce was
granted in the summer, by the Probate
Court, but t'withoat hearing from Mir.
Havne. After he was heard from, the
: former decree was confirmed.
Nor long since IN Amsterdam mer-
chant, after lavishing fortune on fur
niturc and paintings, caused the floor of
one of his apartments to be LAID with
Spanish dollars set OH edge. nr
An Augusta (Ga.) correspondent of The
Louisville Comia'professes to have made
!, an accurate calculation that the present
number of working hands in the cotton
States-the laboring force actually
ayailablc-does not exceed 45O,OO0.
a SECTION of Il redwood tree from Cal
: iforn;a has been received at the Depart
ment of the Interior, intended for the
Paris Exposition. The piece is about
eight feet in diameter, and about two
and half inches in thickness, and is
finished off with u smooth surface.
SOME pious soul in Baltimore wrote to
Parepa advising her to give up singing
!, and turn her attention to religion, re.
l minding her that an opera troupe nau
, been sent 10 perdition via the Evening
Star.
Ir is said the expenses of the Erie
+ county New York; poor house have i'll,
creased in ten years from $4,000 tG
l 100000. In the forthcoming report ol
the committee, it is shown that foI
! ! last wear $1,000 was paid for tea. the
amount procured for this modest little
: sum being the trife of 2,20O pounds
l 5000 was invested in whisky and CT:
= gars; and against the item oysters anu
, beefAtongues,n is set down $50.
AT Fayette, No., last week, Silas ID
: Perry, lad of Is, was attacked by
!, wildcat while shooting partridges, but
he succeeded in throwing it upon th'
ground, when it was caught at by hi
dog, and, to escape from him, the AM
nal sprang into tree, where the DO.
n shot him before he had chance Il
h make another leap. 5J
i SIXTY years ago there was hardly
craft larger than an Indian CANOE OF
i the great Western lakes. In ls4l tn
T, lake trade amounted to s65,OOo,0oo, il
4 1851 to $500, ,oO0, 900, in 1861 to $3.50, ,oo0,
5 600; and it bids fair in ISL to reach th'
enormous sum of Sl,000,OOO,OO0.
c. pr,bord p.Ss which the Paclfi