The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

!, " sold in England for $4,000, an av-
4 erage of $3.50 per head. The English
E papers say these prices were unusually
E high.
e ACCORDING to the census recently
: taken of Paris, the population of the
e city, exclusive of foreigners travelling,
is 100000.
THE number of cigars consumed in Aus
I TRAIN the year 1865 was 953, 400, ,160 of
native, Il, ,504, ,563 were offoreign produc-
ton.
!, THE coal panic in England is subsid-
, ing, and discoveries of new coal veins
, are reported from Shropshire. >,
THE Park National Bank, at New
York, has lately paid s350,0op for a
couple of lots of land, with frontage
j of fifty-nine feet upon Broadway. The
! lots Join the location of the new Herald
building, and the bank will erect upon
, them a large and costly fire-proof build
ing of marble and iron.
POOR negro, in q dying condition,
was carried through the streets Of Chi
cago for two hours, the other day be-
fore place could be found that would
, take him in When the asylum was
reached, the patient had expired.
THE Illinois State Journal, the leading
radical paper of that State, faunts this
motto at the head of its columns. "The
genuine Republican princlple-Uni-
yersal suffrage, without regard to color.
THE case of Lindsay, the Reverend
person who killed his child because it
wouldn't say its prayers, has been put
over, iii January. Lindsay defends
the kiking, decla ring that it was in the
way of duty.
A woRIDLY-wIsE exhibitor at hte
agricultural fair in Connecticut, divid-
ed a bushel of peaches, entering one
half in his own name, and the other In
the name of gentleman of some promi-
nence in the vicinity. u
THE Carroll, Mississippi, Record, of
the 3Oth ult., says: "We have no crops
Some few weeks ago we had fair pros
pect, but the worms have eaten up the
! leaves, forms and bolls, and have now
commenced ON the stalks. In another
week, if they continue as they have
been doing, they will deyour the crop, |
root and branch, and it will be difficult
for one to tell that such thing as cot |
ton was ever planted in the fields, which,
three weeks ago, were blooming with
the great staple"
On election night at Fremont some
enthusiastic Radical made the remark
that "a negro was as good as Dutch
man." for saying which Teuton struck
him a blow in the face that caused him
to see innumerable stars.
A CLEVELAND local discovered n
foundling at his door the other morning,
accompanied by note desiring the in
| FAINT to be reared as an editor. If the |
| local is vengefully inclined he can edu-
cate it as a night editor. Trained judi
ciously with copy from the telegraph |
offices, il will grow up with beautiful
temper and fascinating hunch.
On Friday afternoon, a jealous hus-
band stood waiting at tho eornHr "f
Market and Tenth streets, in Philadel- |
phia. for the return of his wife, who had |
gone out riding with somebody else.
| The buggy drove up, and the husband
seized his wife and threw her against
pile of bricks, and, seizing an arinful OF
the bricks, began pelting her companion
as he drove OFF. The irate spouse fol-
lowed, and continued this amusement
until the bricks gave out. Then he re-
| turned, and his wife, who was sitting
on the doorstep, waiting for him, greet
ed him with the question, Now, don't
you look pretty" His reply has not
been recorded.
THE sexton of the Louisville, Ken
lucky, Cemetery on Monday night de-
tected two men in the act of robbing n !
grave and fired upon them with
double-barreled gun loaded with buck
shot. One of the body snatchers was
killed and the other so seriously
wounded that he was captured by the
sexton.
A YOUNG man named S. p. Rled
whose home is at Grand Rapids, Mich
mysteriously disappeared from Oswego,
on Tuesday last. He had come to the
latter place to be married TO young
/ lady residing there, and the ceremony
was to have been performed the day
/ after his disappearance. Serious appre-
tensions are entertained by his friends ,
/ for his safety.
THE Providence Or. L. Press COM
plains that parties of fishermen back Of
Fort Adams are fired upon by the sol
diers for sport. In one instance a per-
son who was in a boat anchored near |
the shore, heard soldier say to COM |
rade. "See how near / can come to that
fellow there in the boat and not hit
him; and Just see him jump" And then
he took deliberate aim and fired, the
shot coming uneomfortably near the
boat,
An amusing story is told of Brigham
Youngest daughter, Fannie, who don't
appear to go cent on polygamy. Upon
being strongly pressed TO give herself
TO a wealthy friend and sOn-in-law OF
Brighams both by him and her father,
and on various grounds, she said that II
il was positively necessary, she would
consent on the condition that she should
have as many husbands as her liege lord
had wives. We guess they didn't push
that suit any farther.
Mr.. SAMUEL JEssUP, aged sixty-fve
and rich, died lately in Lincolnshire,
England. He was chiefly noted for the
immense quantity of pills he consumed.
II was proven in trial before the court
that in one year he took over $4,000
; worth of pills. 1t was shown that, be
sides, he had taken 40, 1000 bottles Of diff
ferent mixtures. All this was supplied
to him by one apothecary, whose bill,
presented in court, took up fiftv.hve
closely written columns. He mIst have
made good profit on his bread.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Army and
Nary Journal says the experiments at the
Fortress prove incontestibly what was
uaII knoxn IN uractical naval officers