The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

The boys and girls in Northern and
Eastern New England are indulging in
skating.
There are in New Orleans two thou
sand Malays.
There are eleven thousand school dis
tricts in New York State.
The people of North Carolina now
travel almost exclusively in ambulances
war relics.
The Belgian Catholics have presented
his Holiness with 1000 needle guns.
Mont Blanc is styled "a monument to
the fool-hardY."
A little girf of Mineral Point, Wis,
recently lost her life by swallowing hot
coffee.
A Chicago boot and shoe mandatory
consumes annually 40 tons of iron nails
for the bottom of heels.
A negro lady in Pittsburg, Pa, was
safely delivered of four children. Her
husband is as we'll as could be expected.
A boy, sixteen years old, forged a
so, 900 check in New York last week.
Commencing so well he may in time
arrive to the dignity of Ketchum.
The death of an entire family in Co
lumbia. Pa, within two days, from nat
ural causes, is related by a Lancaster
paper.
A girl in male attire robbed Catho-
lie priest in Philadelphia while he was
ministering to the wants of a sick
woman.
The Norwich Conn Bulletin calls the
New York Herald the "only successful
comic paper that this country has ever
Produced
In Great Britain there are 10000
English and 100000 Scotch Masons.
ireland has $4,000; in all the world there
are million and 4 quarter.
Tho President has removed DR.. Hast
ings. brother-in-l of Senator Sum-
ner, from the charge of the Marine
Hospital in San Francisco.
There is now living in Rome, Oneida
county, N. Y, lady "a years of age,
who has son living rs years old, a
grandson 50, great grandson 33 years
old, and great granddaughter less
than three years old.
The First United Presbyterian Synod
of the West has had before it two min
listers for coil smelling" or acting as
mediums in determining the location OF
oil wells. The Synod censures the prac-
ticc.
The official report in the recentlypub-
lished Tax Digest Of Georgia closes
with these words: Comment upon the
sad and lamentable statement of facts
is unnecessary, it being but too true
that almost four-fifths of the entire
wealth of Georgia has either been
destroyed or rendered unproductlve."
Ten thousand Constitutional Amend
ments would not furnish as good a
guarantee" as the expression of good
will and kindness.
A Jersey city servant girl recently
fell from third story window while en-
gagged in washing the windows. Hell
injuries caused death the next day.
Over five thousand freedmen have
been furnished by the Government
transportation to places where they
could secure employment.
By the returns of commissioners and
assessors of taxes, for various counties
of the State of Virginia, it is estimated
that the loss of negroes to the State
since 1860 amounts to two-fifths OF the
entire number.
The Lopdon Times says "that the AL
ALBANIA, bnt for a fragrant breach OF
England's neutrality, could have had no
existence as u Confederate cruiser at
all" True; now for the indemnity.
Mr.. John Chamberlain, timer, OF
Winchester, fell from a ladder, whiler re-
pairing tin spout on the Taylor Hotel,
in Winchester, Saturday before last, and
was prccipitated distance of thirty
feet, his head striking the curb stone,
and causing death in two honrs. lie
was a native of West Virginia, but had
for some time lived in Winchester. Dur
inc the war he was member OF Co. A,
Fifth regiment, Stonewall Brigade, ana
is spoken of as faithful soldier.
Judge B. R. Curtis, of Boston, has
been selected as umpire of the commits
sion; consisting of Messrs. Rose, of Mon
treal, and johnson, of Albany, n. Y, to
arrange indemnities arising under the
settlement of the northwestern bounda-
ry between the American possessions OF
Great Britain and the United States.
The interests of the Hudson's Bay Com
pany are involved in this commission.
The cotton mills of Newburyport, says
the Boston Herald, appear to have done
profitable business during the last
half year. On Tuesday the Bartlett
Mills declared dividend of ten per cent.
on their capital of $3.50, 900, which was q
little over one-half of the earnings of six
months. The James Mill, in the same
time, has earned some % per cent. on
its capital of o quarter of million.
The Globe will pass its dividend, though
it has earned 10 per cent, and since the
break down at the close of the war it
has netted full $4,000. There ought to
be no complaints on the part of the fac
tory owners with these figures before
them.
In Mississippi census has been taken.
In forty-four counties seventeen have
increased their white population 1O,9O6,
and twenty-seven counties decreased
17,7O5. Net decrease in forty-fve coun-
ties, $500. In thirteen counties there
has been an increase of 1903 blacks, and
in thirty-one counties a decrease of So, :