The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-20
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A company Of Americans are manu-,
featuring condensed milk at Zurich.
A huge lion, escaped from manage
rie, is said to be travelling around In
diana.
Broad street in Philadelphia, is des-
tined to be the finest street in any
American city.
Six inches of snow fell on Sunday last
at Chicago, and the sleighing is excel
lent.
There are 3,774 large breweries in the
towns of Prussia and 1859 in the vii
lagos. ...... r..
A severe shock of An earthquake was
felt at Dalles and other points in Ore
gon ON the oath ult.
Beunos Ayres raises annually about
one hundred pounds more wool than the
United States.
Tho State government of Ohio re-
quires for its annual support only 81 on
the 81, 900 valuation.
Nearly 100000 bushels of wheat, in
Guiding wheat reduced to flour, have
been shipped from Minnesota during
the past season.
There are $40 churches in Moscow,
and all the bells rung at one time on
the occasion of the royal marriage. The
changing was fearful.
The Union Pacific Railroad is just
completed to the 10th mile post. In
April it will be finished $50 miles west
Of Lawrence.
The chief of police in Toronto, Can
ada. has demanded an increase of force
on account, it is said, of apprehended
riots owing to the high price of provis-
ions.
1t is stated that Mr.. Demas Barnes.
one of the Brooklyn Congressman elect,
has been indicted by the grand jury on
a charge of using money too freely in
securing his election.
The ship-yards of st. Johns are all
closed, and the ship carpenters are dis
charged. A difficulty has arisen i'll con-
sequence of demand for higher wages.
A burglar was captured at one of the
factories at Patterson, n. j., on Satur-
day. by a dog-a full-blooded Cuban
bloodhound. The dog nearly tore his
leg off.
James fellow, an insolvent debtor, is
in iail at Boston in default of $4,000,
to await trial for secreting his account
books, and $4,000 in money from his
assignees.
1t is stated that over one million
pounds domestic wool were sold in the
Boston market last week. Manutac-
turers are now willing to purchase freely
at prices which they would not pay a
fortnight since.
Last wear the amount contributed to
the charities of Boston by the Legisla-
ture and private parties amounted to
Sl5,000,00 much more than the contri-
buttons in New York.
The Leavenworth, Kansas, COnsGra-
tire, one of the most radical of Radical
papers, emphatically declares that ''the
Republican party of Lcavenworth Is
dead
The Supervisors of Jefferson county,
Wis, have increased the bounty on
wolves, which have become numerous
and troublesome, to SIS for each old
one, and half that amount for Young
ones.
There are at present in Ireland about
10000 British troops-about the same
number as was stationed there in lS4s,
The majority of these are in the south
ern part of the island.
Within the past five years the private
bequests and donations to American In
stitutions amounted to S7,OOO,OOO, OF
which S2,OOOOOO were contributed dur
Ing the past year. Who says we are
given to the Almighty Dollar"
The Agricultural Bureau at Washing
ton has expended $4,000 during the
past year, and apparently to little pur-
pose, rs the monthly reports are gener-
ally unsatisfactory. There is bill be-
fore the House to remodel It.
What has been a satisfactory expert
ment in London for five years past
underground railroads-will probably
soon be tried in New York, as the State
Senate Railroad committee have agreed
to report a bill in favor of these lines.
Two bills have been introduced in the
House for the construction of Govern
ment telegraph line from Washington
to Boston, via New Haven, Hartford
and Spring field. The line is to be un.
der the control of the POstotfice Depart
ment. and the rates are not to exceed
half a cent word.
The Bolivar (Polk county, Mo- SeHti-
rel, radical paper, says there is not
within the limits of that fourishing
town "a single respectable place OF
worship, her citizens entirely ignoring
this mark OF civilization" 1t may be
added that the entire vote of that
''fiourishing town is radical.
Bishop Colenso in his recent visitation
to the coast of Africa, was not uniform.
ly we'll received. At a small town
called Veralam, the rector had the altar
furniture removed, leaving nothing but
a deal table, soap box, and one chair
on which he seated himself, and then
fastened the altar railing. When the
Bishop appeared, the incumbent read
him protest against the right TO Epis-
copal administration.
While the "wimmin" and the "nig'
gers, are "agitating7 the "right' Of
suffrage, the young men should not be
idle. Where is the power derived from
says "man" of ten years shall not vote
and that man of twenty-one years