The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-29
CURRENT ITEMS.
"Kephalagie' is the new name fol
headache.

There is a great demand for real es-
tate of all kinds in New York.
New rich gold mines have been dis
covered in Chill, near Popiapo.
A whale, sixty feet in length, was
recently washed ashore at Roekaway
Beach.
Freemasonry was introduced into this
country in 1870.
There are 336,616 white males of full
age in Indiana.
The census of Chilli, taken in April
and recently published, shows a popu-
lation of 100000.
A college for colored students is about
to be erected in New Albany, Ind.
A new Catholic church is being built
at Seymour, Ind.
There are 62 conventual establish
ments, of both sexes, in Paris.
Most of the clergymen of Norwich,
Connecticut, have signed a circular pro-
testing against funerals on Sunday.
The Boston merchants who disappeared
with $50, ,OCO liabilities last week, left
rs their assets nine pairs of boots and
hoop skirt.
Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois, has
been preaching at Noting Hill, fash
| ionable suburb of London.
General G. w. Schofeld has been ap-
pointed Major in the Forty-first regi-
ment, regular army.
General Logan has declined to preside
at the banquet to Congress, and an in
vitation has been sent to Hon. Hannibal
Hamlin.
ALARGE FEE.-It is said that Char
les O'Conner, of New York, recovered
fee of $4,000 in the Junel will
| case.
The will of Senator Wright, of New
Jersey, was admitted to Probate the
other day. The valuation of the estate
was sworn at Sl,0O0,000.
DR.. Robinson, of Pella, Iowa, was
discovered last week in an attempt to
commit bigamy, and the young men of
the town gave him n coat of tar and
| feathers.
A Janesville, Wisconsin, justice has
decided that man is not liable for the
liquor bills of his wife, on the ground
/ IL In, ,pt nannSsnriaS nf life
A Mr.. Radcliffe, of Wallaceburg, Can
ada West, died last week of exhaustion
resulting from an unmanageable bleed
ing at the nose, lasting over thirty
hours.
England and France combined con-
sumo less paper than this country,
which has only half the population of
the two combined.
From the official records it appears
that during the war $4,000 Federal
prisoners died in the South, and 26,436
Confederate prisoners died i'll the North.
Levi w. Graft, living near Lancaster,
Pa, owns an old English bulls eye
watch. formerly worn by Benjamin
Franklin. The Massachusetts, Historical
Society have offered him $4,000 for it.
Sew enteen thousand stand of arms
Peabody breach-loaders-have been pur-
chased by the Canadian Government for
the volunteers, and are now being dis
tributcd among the different artillery
and cavalry corps.
A fashionable lady at Pittstield, Mass,
wore her new bonnet to church last Sun
day wrong side before, somewhat to the
amusement of the few who knew the
difference None of those rcligiously
inclined noticed the error.
Avery Morgan, the head of one of the
first families of Waterford, Ct, is under
bonds for trial for whipping his wife,
who provoked him TO it by splitting in
his face. Connubial felicity.
A prominent Democrat of Hornells-
Vile, n. Y, pledged himself before cleo
ton, to one of the clergymcn there, that
if the Democrats were defeated he would
attend chuch every Sabbath for two
years. He now declares that che will
stand the punishment like man."
Samuel Register, white, was last week
indicted for murder in the second degree
at Dover, Delaware, for killing VIM.
Pryor. cOlOred. He was sentenced to
pay fine of $1,000, stand on the pillo-
ry one hour, receive sixty lashes, and be
imprisoned for life.
The yield of corn in the Miami Valley
has been remarkably large this season.
The tobacco crop is not as large as it
was last season, but it is ascertained
that is generally of better quality,
and will, it is believed, bring quite as
much money in the market.
The Lecompton Nac Era thinks that
of the ten candidates for the United
States Scnatorship in Kansas, the chan
ces of S. c. Pomeroy are much better
than those of any other man on the
north side of the Kansas river; and the
chances of Honorable Sidney Clark, IF
he would suffer his name to come be-
tore the Legislature" are best on the
south of the river
A New Hampshire correspondent of
the Boston Herald writes:
The town of Dumbarton, in this State,
with population of over one thousand,
has no pauper, no lawyer, no doctor, no
hotel or liquor store, no manut actory of
any description; its town debt is paid,
and with the exceptions of minister
and two women, its inhabitants are all
farmers.
Edward Everett's heirs lately received
a letter addressed TO him by distin-
guished Texan, who had not heard of
his death, begging Mr.. Everett to write
for him eulogy on the Confederate
dead, which he could deliver to audi
enccs at fifty cents head, and so make
a living. The modest man did not de-
sire an address more than two hours
long, "full of chaste imagery, classical
syntatical emphasis