The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-13
CURRENT ITEMS.

members.
A colored clergyman of Brooklyn
has been arrested for carrying sword
cane.
A thirty pound cabbage is being ex-
hibited in Belfast, Maine.
At present rates the Internal Revenue
will approximate $500, 600, 600 this cur
rent fiscal year.
The aggregate income of the working
classes of Great Britain is s., ,191 SOC, 900.
Admiral Farragut's Mobile prize mon
ey is $4,000.
Gen. Rosecrans has bought a small
piece of mining land in Texas.
A burly negro in the employ Of DIR.
Hall, of Concord, N. H., has been ar
rested for an outrage upon An adopted
daughter of his employer.
The Italian opera artists in London
get S35 900 month, and the orchestra
S400 night. ...
The loss of tonnage by marine disas-
ters last month is set down at S2,5O0-
600, excluding charges.
Forney "spits" at Maryland-scolds
at little Delaware, and blackguards
New York City.
The factories of Killingly, Ct, absorb
over one-half of 1856 children between
the ages of and Is.
The editor of the Louisville Demo-
crat would rather die in Chicago than
live there.
An absent-minded man, on falling
into river, sank twice before he recol-
lected that he could swim.
1t is proposed to erect at San Fran
cisco stupendous sea wall, the estima-
ted cost of which is S22 ,00O,O 900.
Since the reduction in rate for the
dispatches over the Atlantic cable there
has been a large increase of business.
A prominent church member in Wa
terville, VT, lately worked in his pota-
to garden all Sunday, thinking it was
Saturday.
At Princess Anne, Va, few days
ago, a rabid dog bit thirteen dogs, a boy
and COW, and the consequence was
general slaughter of the dogs in the
neighborhood.
New Hampshire papers announce the
death of William Burr, Esq., of Dover,
the veteran editor and publisher of the
Morning Star, an organ of the Free-will
Baptist denomination.
Considerable excitement was mani
tested in Memphis Saturday, over the
arrest of the Chief of Police and his
principal detective, on charge of levy
ing black mail.
Maggie Hunter, a two year old and q
Lexington filly, has been sold by its
Nashville owner to Captain Thomas
Moore, of Kentucky, for the round sum
of $4,000. 1t is stated that this filly
has made the fastest time for one mile
ever made in America by two year olds,
averaging ages from January.
1t is stated that Admiral Farragut's
family were originally Spanish, and that
his granfather emigrated to this coun-
try about the time of the revolution,
and settled near Norfolk, Va.
George wilkins Kendall, writing from
Paris to the New Orleans Picayune, says
that numerous American agents are on
that side of the water, picking up the
best theatrical and equestrian talent for
the United States that money can pro-
cure.
Both houses Of the Cherokee Legisla-
ture have elected VIM. P. Ross Chief of
the Cherokee Nation, in place Of the late
John Ross. He delivered an inaugural
in which he paid tribute to his prede-
cessor, and urged them to initiate his
virtues; congratulated the nation on the
return of peace and the treaty OF the
10Th of July; recommended the adoption
of the amendments required by the
treaty, the repeal of the cOnfiscation
laws, and the granting of the right of
way to the Pacific road, and census of
the nation. He discussed also the con-
ditiou of the public schools, and the
granting of indemnity for losses of the
war.
The Treasury Department have dis
covered that counterfsits of 500 notes of
the First National Bank of Boston, the
500 notes of the First National Bank of
Cincinnati, and the 500 notes of the
National Central Bank of New York, are
in circulation. The counterfeits of the
latter named notes are pronounced ex-
cellent, the engraving being first-class,
and the general appearance good. The
only difference known to exist is in the
letter "T," in the word maintain" near
the female figure on the right hand side
of the face of the note, that letter being
imperfect in the counterfeit issue.
The English bench lately decided at
Westminster that it was o principle Of
common law that o counselor, in ques-
tioning witness, should address him
in ordinary tones, and In language of
respect, such as is employed by one gem
tleman in conversation with another
that such lawyer had no right to ques-
tion the private business or moral char
acter of witness, any more than it is
apparent that they absolutely affect his
reliability, or touch the case in hand
and that q witness is not bound to an
swer questions put to him in an insult
ing or annoying manner.
There is farm in Colorado eighteen
miles long by twelve wide, which pas
lures 5000 head of cattle and 5000
sheen, and last year yielded 5000
worth of grain. 1t is worked by Mexi
can laborers, who are fed and managed
by officers like an army.
A few days ago young man residing
at Fayetteville, Onondaga county, of
strong muscular frame, dislocated his
lower jaw in the act of gaping. A doc