The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-30
CURRENT ITEMS.

NEAkLl dll tno EuSllsH Cotton mitn
are running full time, consuming quite
as much cotton as they did prior to
1860.
| THE editor of the Shenandoah, (Va.)
Herald is in ecstacies over the plentiful
supply of corn, potatoes and buckwheat
in old Shenandoah.
THE agent of the Freedmen's Bureau
at Lexington, Va, has been bound over
to keep the peace on suit brought by
free negro.
GEN. WOOD says, in writing from
Brazil, that the young ladies on being
introduced to a stranger, insist upon
being embraced, 'heart thrObbing
against heart"
A LETTER from Buenos Ayres, says the
wool clip in that country will probably
exceed that of last year. 1t is estima-
ted at four million arrobas, 100, 900
pounds, and will be worth twelve
millions of silver dollars.
THE plan of the Hungarian Gonstitu-
ton proposed by the Committee of Fif-
teen, of the Diet, has been declared by
the Austrian Government TO be inadmis-
sible.
: GENERAL SHERMAN is reported to be
hurrying troops further west to prevent
what the Colorado News predicts will
be. "a long and serious war;" Several
posts in the Territyrry have beed cap
tured and robbed of large numbers of
stock but we hear of no massacre of
settlers-proof, it would seem, that the
present war, as far as we have been
told, originated in famine and not in
rage. That the Indians have been
gathering large numbers of arms of late
years, may be true, and justify the worst
apprehensions.
DIsTILLERY REGULATIoN.-The Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue has is
sued circular forbidding in distilleries
the old practice of separating the low
and high wines by allowing them to run
and separate through open tubes, plac-
ed near the outlet of the STILL, or worm,
and prescribing the use of a glass YES
sci, whsch shall be connected with and
made a part of the the piges or appa-
ratus connecting the outlet of the still
with the rec ceiving cistern. The new
apparatus must be in use by the 18th of
November next, after which the old
practice will not be allowed.
The piano-violin, which is to be ex-
hibited next year, is in shape like an
ordinary piano-forte, with an extra box.
The player performs as usual, but no
sooner does his fingers touch the keys
than the violin is heard in unison with
the piano-forte. Inside the box is a
violin, and four large bows run across
the strings and compel them to sound
the notes. The bows move up and
pependicularly, each in its turn, and
sound each note, which is made by the
touches of the piano-forte. 1t is said to
be an American invention.
g ENORMOUS RECEIPTS FROM INTERNAL
REvENUE.-The receipts from the in
ternal revenue sources exclusively, up
to. the 18th, amount to S1l5,500, 900,
which is in excess of 81 ,OOO, 900 per diem,
from the beginning of the present fiscal
year, the 1st of July. 1t is believed that
the income from this source will reach
to nearly the same figures as those of
last year, which will be largely in cX-
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quired, leaving heavy surplus to be
appropriated to the liquidation of the
national debt.
A TURTLE SToRY.-The 1st of March
last Mr.. Chris. Becham, who kept the
Washington saloon in this city, pro-
cured n turtle from the Embarrass river,
for the purpose of serving his custom
ers with dish of turtle soup. He
placed il in box and set il in lum-
Der room for safe keeping until he got
ready to kill it; but for some cause he
postponed the execution of his purpose
until he forgot all about the turtle.
He ultimately sold ont the saloon, and
left the city for some other place. The
new proprictors, knowing nothing about
the turtle being on the premises, and
not having occasion to disturb the
box containing it, his turtlcship was
permitted to remain in his prison until
last Saturday, when it was found alive
and kicking. 1t is now demonstrated
that a turtle will live seven months
t,s,1, h,,r ,t-ith
of any kind to subsist on. How much
longer he would have.lived we cannot
say, as Frog. Ballard thought he de-
served a meal after so long fast, and
gave him large quantity of bread,
which he devoured greedily.-ChGrles-
ton Ill.) Courier. as
THE GOLD EXCITEMENT IN GEORGIA.
The Athens (Ga.) Wdtchmaa says: "In
the upper counties the gold excitement
continues unabated-indeed, seems to
he increasing. 1t is confined chiefly,
we believe, to Hall, Lumpkin, Dawson
and White connties. In Lumpkin and
Hall sales of celebrated mines have
been made at high figures. Among the
recent sales in the latter county, that of
the "Glade Mine" has attracted much
attention, as it is believed to be very
rich. 1t is believed there are other rich
mines in the same neighborhood. We
were lately show specimens of gold
found on an adjoining tract, which are
certainly very rich, and we learn that,
from the signs, it is believed to be
abundant.
BISHOP BARAGA, Of Marquette, who
was in attendance upon the late Roman
Catholic Council, at Baltimore, is one
of the most venerable prelates Of his
church in this country. He has passed
the allotted "three score years and ten" T"
and spent almost half n century among
the Indians, of whom he has baptized
over twenty-five thousand.
ACCORDING to the Louisville Journal,