The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-27
CURRENT ITEMS.
A church in Trent on has husband
milk festival.

W thC diio PoDAsA0A'
Michigan Chandler is after female
brokers with sharp stick.
A Canadian divine asserts that ST..
Patrick was not Catholic.
The cotton crop of Egypt this year is
estimated at 800, 1000.
An English Court decides that an lille
eitimate child is not liable for the sup
port of his mother.
The amiable King of Dahomey, to pro-
pitiate fortune, recently sacrificed two
hundred men to the genii.
The Canadian expenditures for mill
tary purposes since the 1st of January
last, are over 81, 100000.
Snails, one of the principal Partisan
delicacies, are said to have almost sup
planted frogs in that market.
The imperial court of Riom, France,
has just decided that the epithet "fe-
male" applied to a woman constituted
an insult.
The temperance movement is making
great headway in st. Louis. A new
hall, to cost $4,000, is about to be COM
menced.
Since the opening of the season, 49,
254 hogs have been packed at the vari-
Gus establishments in Indianapolis.
The hog cholera is prevailing in vari-
GUS sections of Indiana. In Warrack
county most of the farmers have lost
their entire stock by this disease.
The cattle plague in Holland is in
creasing. In the week ending oath of
November 3,257 head of cattle were at
tackled, against 1885 in the previous
week.
An Idaho letter says the business of
counterfeiting gold dust is carried on
to serious extent, and the authorities
of the Territory have been called on to
suppress it.
A shooting affray occurred at Ogden,
Kansas, last Friday. The city marshal
was shot dead by a soldier of the 9TH
United States cavalry, and two sol
diers ofthe 9TH shot in return by the CIT
Zcns.
The Fenians of Cambridge have en-
gagged the City Hall for the purpose OF
celebrating a grand Fenian victory
which they expect soon to hear OF per
Atlantic cable.
Dubuque was enlivened grecently by
the spectacle of a young lady admins
tering a public cowhiding to former
lover Cause unknown.
The abandoned infants in New York
number seven day. An exchange says
the number of abandoned adults is
larger.
The Government secret service divi-
sion has made large haul of counter
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quantity of counterfeit currency was
found in their possession.
The Salt Lake Telegraph adduces the
history of the "Saints" to show that per-
secution has only added to the vital
principle of Mormonism, and that the
people of Utah are bound to live and
flourish in spite of all enemies.
A petition is in circulation in Chicago
and soon will be throughout the whole
State, urging the Illinois Legislature to
abolish all distinctions in political
rights grounded on race or color.
A diminutive specimen of the genus
homo in Evansville, Indiana, weighing
"a pounds, has just taken unto himself
a wife weighing upwards of 200 pounds.
whose maiden name is Fanny Francis
Ophelia Ragsdale.
A father out west kicked his daugh-
ter's lover into the street, and the lover
revenged himself by causing stick of
wood filled with gunpowder to be plac-
ed in the old gentlemans stove-effect
to be imagined.
The Ross Winan's cigar shop has re-
turned from q short cruise, during
which she encountered very heavy
weather, but, although the sea was very
heavy, she steamed through 1t at the
rate of sixteen knots an hour.
Judge Washburne recently instructed
a grand jury of Appleton, Wis, that all
gift enterprises were in violation of the
Constitution and laws of the State,
and the sale of tickets must be sup
pressed.
"Republics are created by the virtue,
public spirit and intelligence of the cit
izens. They fall when the wise are
banished from the public councils, be-
cause they dare to be honest, and the
profligates are rewarded because they
flatter the people in order to betray
them"
Henry knause, residing in Hamburg,
Berks county, Pa, set gun-trap in his
smoke house for the benefit of some
thieves who had stolen his meat. He
forgot that he had set the trap, and was
the first one to open the door of the
smoke house, when the gun was dis
charged, and he was almost instantly
killed.
1t is calculated that if the earth were
cannon ball, shot at the sun from its
present distance, with the velocity it
now travels, and the moment of explo-
sion telegraphed to the sun, they would
get the telegram there in about FIVE
minutes, and see the earth coming in
eight minutes, and would have nearly
two months to prepare for the blow,
which they would receive about fifteen
years before they heard the original ex-
plosion.
A veteran conductor was recently
made Superintendent on Western rail-
road, who had seen twenty-four years
of constant service. During this long
period he has scarcely missed day,
and as his daily journeys were 220 miles
for a chief part of the time, he calcu-