The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-26
CURRENT ITEMS.

There will be 19i acres of glass used
in the Paris Exposition building. q
Sweden is now bitten by mania for
military glory. ID.
A Baltimore oyster merchant is build
ing $500, 900 house.
Quilp says culture and respectability
are the Cog and Magog of Massachu-
setts. -s...-
The town of Waterford, near Troy,
rejoices in two ghosts.
sTwo-thirds of the editorial force of
the New York dailies live in Brooklyn.
Over 5000 people have visited the
Crystal Palace since the opening.
1t is said that another prize fight, be-
tween White and Bolster, will shortly
take place.
Steps have been taken for the con-
struction of National Park at Wash
ington. -..F- .. M
John Morrissey has given $1,000 to a
New York church.
The members of the Vermont Legisla-
ture are in future to receive So per day
for their services.
There is a prospect of conflict be-
tween the journeyman printers of Chi
cago and the publishers. .
Mr.. George Miller, one of the defend
ers of Baltimore in 1914, died at Han
over, Pa, last Sunday.
The people of the British colony of
Victoria are represented as clamorous
for annexation to the United States.
Setting the police on watch for me-
teoric showers, in all the principal
cities, is supposed to have prevented
their appearance.
The Denver (Colorado) News reports
fearful state of things in Salt Lake
City, the Gentiles not daring to leave
their houses at night for fear of assassi-
nation.
Halls Journal of Health expresses the
opinion that buckwheat cakes contain
more nourishment for less money than
any other article of food.
Captain Henry w. Patterson, 4th
United States Infantry, was married on
the 25th ultimo to Miss Louisa G. Daw-
son, daughter of Hon. John l.. Dawson,
of Pennsylvania.
Vessuvius, which has, for the last
month, been throwing up sheets of flame
and smoke, has now subsidized into a
state which the Italian papers describe
as "a dormant tranquility"
Deer in large numbers are being killed
in the forest above Ottawa, c. W., by
American hunters, and sent to the New
York market. The Canada papers are
urging that means be adopted to stop
the work.
Brooklyn claims to have the most bru-
tai murders, the most exciting elections,
the richest rows, the biggest blunder-
heads in office, the poorest newspapers
and the greatest amount of extreme in
cident possible.
1t appears from recent experiments,
conducted by the London Pneumatic
Company, that one hundred and twenty
tons of goods can be sent through their
eighteen miles of tubes every hour, at q
cost less than one penny ton per mile.
Mrs. Isaac Taylor, who died recently
at Racine, Wisconsin, by her will, after
making numerous bequests to her rela-
tives and friends, left S65, 900 to Racine
College, $1,000 to Nashota Seminary; in
Wakesha county, and the residue of her
property to trustees to found an orphan
asylum for the orphans of Racine county,
to be named in honor of her husband.
| The amount will be from S130, 900 TO
| Sl50,O00.
The grand project of drawing off the
waters of Lake Tahoe, on the top of the
Sierra Nevadas, through California
about two hundred miles, to San Fran
cisco, supplying that city, and others
on the route, with pure water, and fur
nishing water-power for mills and
mines, is arousing alarm and opposition
in Nevada. The waters of the lake now
come down this side of the mountain
into the latter State, and her lawyers
say California has no right to steal them
and carry them off towards the Pacific
| Ocean.
Mr.. Tallcott, of Chicago, with his
wife, celebrated their silver wedding
last week in a novel manner. They
gave q dinner to the battle-scarred
crippled, maimedand helples veterans al
the Soldiers Home, about $50 in nun.
ber; also to the children of the Orphan
! ASYLUM and to the inmates of the Home
of the Fricndless, nearly 100 children
Each of the three dinners was elegantly
served in the building of the respective
| institutions.
The Chicago Times is publishing the
press notices of its recent jump into
Republicanism. We hope it will not
overlook the following from the Rich
mond Examiner:
The Chicago Times thinks to restore
the Democratic party by adopting the
negro suffrage platform. Whenever we
get our stomachs ready for that dose
we will take it from the Radicals in
preference to the Democrats. We pre-
fer regular doctor any day to quack
or one who has just set up business.
The Albany Journal publishes official
election returns from every county in
the State except New York and Kings,
with the reported vote in those coun-
ties The result is as follows:
For Governor-Fenton, 366, ,437; Hof-
man, 352, 2,425. Majority for Fenton,
14,049.
For Lieutenant Governor-WoodfOrd,
365, ,955; Pruyn, 359,l16.
The total vote is less by 1900 than
it was in 1864.
SCANDAL in England has received a
choice bit of encouragement by the
elopement of a clergyman's daughter
with her fathers groom, from the neigh
borhood of Faringdon. in Berkshire. 1t
appears that the Ilady was the only
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