The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-18
CURRENT ITEMS.
The Alps supply Paris with ice.

The Alps supply Paris with ice.
Gov. Morton is able to take horseback
rides
Schamyl's beard is half yard long,
and white as snow.
/ 1t is proposed to license houses OF
prostitution in New York.
The women of New York believe Ed
win Booth an actual Hamlet.
Wisconsin sold over three million dol
lars worth of butter last year.
The editor of the Oswego Palladium
thinks he has discovered worms in pork.
A hat worn by Napoleon at Egrace,
brought 1820f at recent sale.
On Thursday the Susquehanna river
at Harrisburg was filled with floating
ice.
John Morrissey pays three soldiers
life-pensions-provided they will neith-
er drink nor gamble.
Prince Peter Bonaparte has entered
the Italian service with the rank Of
General.
"The Staff of Life" is the title of pa
per in London representing the baking
interest.
VIM. Pollock, of Pitts6eld, Mass,
whose death has been announced, leaves
fortune Of one or two millions of dol
lars.
A splendid meteor, of red color,
about the size of a ball from q Roman
candle, was seen at Poughkeepsie, New
York, Tuesday evening.
The number of arrests made in the
city of New York, for the year ending
November 1st, was ,63S.
1t is stated that the commander-in-
chief of Canada reports that it is imprac-
ticable to fortify the city of Montreal,
except at a very heavy cost.
A wicked scandal is circulating that
the Empress Carlotta is feigning mad
ness for the purpose of giving Max a
pretext for returning home.
The Colorado Legislature organized
on Wednesday. The majority, it is said,
favor the admission of Colorado as a
State.
On the 18th instant fourteen cars,
laden with ingot copper from Lake Su-
perior, and valued at $4,000 each, left
Chicago for the East
A dispatch frem Leavenworth says
that the shipments of gold from Denver
for the week ending December 4th was
$4,000.
Secretary Stanton has presented the
colored Episcopalians of Washington
with brick to build a church. The val
ue of the gift is over 900.
Mrs. Anne Drummond has been ar
rested in Davenport, Iowa, for bigamy,
or rather for trigamy. She confesses to
three husbands.
A letter from Arizona says that hard
fighting had taken place between the
soldiers and the Indians at Fort Mo.
have, in which the soldiers were COM
PEELED 10 use artillery.
Wendell Phillips is out in this weeks
Anti-Slavery Standard in favor of Fred.
Douglass as United States Senator from
New York, in place of Hon. Ira Harris.
In the stomach ola COW killed at
Salisbury, Pennsylvania, last week, was
found carpenters scratch-awl, which
disappeared about year ago.
A genius of Jackson, Michigan, has
had patented reversible boot and shoe
heels, the merit of which is that they
may be changed so that they will wear
evenly. One pair of them is to wear a
lifetime.
Hon. John Hogan, member of Con-
cress from st. Louis, has commenced an
action against the Chicago Tribune for
libel, laying his damages at 5000.
This makes s725,OOO now pending
against that paper on similar suits.
In many places in Western New York
the snow is over two feet deep. Rail
| road travel is much delayed. The We'll
land canal in Canada is frozen over.
Thursday was the coolest day of the
season in New York city.
Henry Morrill,, of England, has turned
over to the United States Government
E4OO sterling, which remained in his
hand when the rebellion was sup
pressed, belonging to the Confederate
States. Mr.. Morris is liberal of other
peoples money.
While an immense audience was as
sembled in the Griswold Opera House,
at Troy, New York, on Thursday night,
witnessing a series of tableaux, the
building caught fire in the saloon be-
low the han. A great rush was made
for the doors by the audience, and sew
eral persons were slightly injured in the
tumult. The flames were soon extin-
guished without much damage to the
building.
Considerable excitement has been oc-
casioned the last few days in the vicini-
ty of Belair, Nd, in consequence of the
appearance of several mad dogs, and
several have been killed. Great excite
ment prevails in the lower part of that
county on account of the discovery of
"gold diggings" on Swan creek. Sew
eral farms on that stream have been
leased by some gentlemen from New
York. The "pure stuff" was shown to
several persons in Belair on Tuesday
last.
The French government has recently
brought 10000 barrels of -four, and 500
barrels of beef and pork in this market
for its troops in Mexico, with considera-
BILE grain to feed the horses in use by
them, and in such need are these sup
plies that steamers have been char
tered to transport them to Vera Cruz.
The English Government offers re-