The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

Trunk railway have been arrested for
carelessness in making returns.
TwENTY-THREE of the British African
slave squadron have died in eleven
months. Promotion must be rapid in
that station.
LAST week child was found on the
doorsteps of Il colored man in Rich
mond, with $40 in money and stock of
cloth lg for two years.
ANTHONY WILLIAMS, his wife and two
beautiful daughters We're recently muir
dered at Rome. Ga, by two negroes.
I Object. lust and money.
Two brothers, twins, quarreled
about a horse. near MIysville, Ken
tucky, the other day, and one of them
killed the other. 5Y1y YSET
DILLON, the actor, cancelled his en-
gagement in Nashville, through fear of
cholera, and manager has sued him
for $1,000. .
II one-half of what is said about
''The Black Crook" now being per-
formed i'll New York, he true. it should
be suppressed by the authorities.
TIE Scandinavian question, is
looming up in Europe, TO distract The
people and puzzle the diplomats. 1t
will probably follow the . Eastern
question"
SIR Isaac NEWTON is said to have
worn in his inger-ring loadstone
weighing three grains, and capable of
sustaining over two hundred and fifty
times its own weight.
DIsTILLERs PAYING HEAVY DAMAGE.
Eli Bohnn, distiller at Newtown, Long
Island. has settled with the Government
by paying SlO9,Co0, and Roe & Thofter,
same place, $1,000. Both establishments
had been seized.
ARTEMUs WARP boaststliat his family
is descended from the Puritins, who
nobly fed from land of dispitism to a
land of freedim, where they could not
only enjoy their own religion, but pre-
vent anybody else from enjoyin' his.
CAPTAIN BIDpLE, an old cavalry Off
Ger, living in Mooretown, Canada, blew
his head off with an ounce ball upon
hearing of the failure of the Bank of
Upper Canada. He had 5000 invested
in it.
JUDGE SUATrER AND c. W. HOWARD,
of California, own dairy farm which
occupies twenty-five miles of the sea
coast, running from the city of San /.
Francisco, and embracing altogether
IL 600 acres.
WANT of suitable supply of water
caused the immense loss by fire in
Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Monday !
evening. Two hundred mechanics are
thrown out of work by it, besides losing
all their tools, which were valued at
about SO each man.
PROFESSOR WoETHEN, State Geologist |
of Illinois, in his report just published
on the geological survey of the State,
indorses the assertion Of Lyell, that this |
continent has been inhabited by men
for ut least 3OO,0OO years.
PROF. A. WooD, with a party of
gentlemen, lately assembled Mount Hood,
in Oregon. His report establishes the
fact that Mount Hood is really vol
cano, and that it is the highest noun
tain in the United States, being II 900
feet.
A Long RAILwAY.-Thc railway be-
tween Calcutta and Bombay is about
one thousand miles long, and is travers-
| ed by trains in about four days. The
only through traffic ut present consists
of mails and cargo. European pasSen-
gers cannot travel the entire distance on
account of the heat.
/ An express train carried twenty mil
lions of thalcrs, which form the war
indemnity Austria must pay Prussia.
Tie whole amount was paid i'll silver.
/ 1t was loaded by the ton, and took
twenty men six days to count it. Ten
clerks, twelve tcilers, and thirtysiX
/ gcndarmes accompanied the train.
astonish rent payers in American cities
/ to he informed that i'll the incest and
healthicst parts uf London, hand
( some thrcC-Story and basement. or eight
roomcd houses, i'll perfect order, can he
rented ut from $3.50 to $500 per annum.
! HIGH-PRICED PIETY.-It is announced
in the Boston journals that a pew in
church in that city was sold recently
for $500. 1t is quite evident that the
poor do not worship in that church, nor
/ are most people of ordinary means able
10 buy the right of admission to its
pews.
FoRD's THEATRE-Its interior having
been thoroughly fireproof, and new
front put in-will now be occupied for
medical and statistical purposes. The
/ first and second stories will be used for
| the Pension Bureau. and the third story
for the Army and Medical Museum.
A MAN in Hartford forgot where he put
sl20, 600 worth of United States bonds,
and first class robbery was suspected.
Police and telegraph were put in opera
tien, but finally he remembered he had
| left it in q store, where it was found.
Mr.. PEABODY is now probably worth
$4,000, 900 or sl5, ,oOO, 900, for the increase
of his property during the past six years
has been considerable. Fortune has not
smiled on him in vain, for seldom has SO
bountiful giver been numbered among
men.
! MEssRs THEIRS, Guizot, Victor Hugo,
Lamartine, Cousin, George Sands, and
other illustrious writer's, are actually
engaged in writing upon Paris book
| in which each of them will contribute
chapter. The book will appear at the
French Exposition as fresh monument
of French genius and talent.
SARAH DoNELsoN, Of Red Bluff, Cali
fornia, is plucky woman. She recent
| L. b,I , f;ght with five armed Indians,