The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-12
CURRENT ITEMS.
The lady teachers of Detroit are on a
strike.

strike.
Duelling RACES fiercely in France.
The Menken intends to be at the great
Exposition.
Mrs. Surratt's ghost pays nightly Wis
its to her house in Washington.
A colored man in New York has aban-
doned his white wife.
New Haven is pronounced by its own
papers the most wicked city on earth.
Personating voters is one of the tricks
of English elections.
A gutter drunkard it is said leads a
temperance revival in Poughkeepsie,
New York.
The Newport Rhode Island Mercury
has list of three hundred and fifty-six
inhabitants of that city who have at
tanned the age of seventy years-being
one in every thirty-five Of the popula-
tion.
Mrs. Harper, of New York, colored
woman, said to be second Anna Dick
inson, has been lecturing at Oberlin,
Ohio, on equal rights.
Judge Grier, one of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
has lost the use of his limbs.
New York city polled almost as many
votes at the last election as the entire
State of Massachusetts-Only four thou
sand less.
The crater of Popocatapetl is big
enough to hold several cities, but it is
not probable that any will be built
there ut present.
A mother and two children living in
Newark, Del, were burned to death, on
Thursday of last week, by the ignition
of coal oil.
Solid mahogany tables, which had
been used by General Washington in
IVA, were sold at auction in Richmond
on Saturday for two dollars and half
apiece.
Cincinnati is to have a new reservoir,
covering fourteen acres, holding 1oO,-
600 900 gallons of water, and costing
81 800 900. Work on it has begun.
"The work of a thousand men for four
years" is the inscription upon tho I'M
mense railroad bridge which has just
been erected across the Susquehannah
River at Havre dc Grace, Md.
Counterfeit coupons of the United
States bonds of 1881 are afloat in Wall
street. The coupons are for Sl5 each,
and are remarkably well executed. The
numbers are rather poorly engraved,
and are larger than the figures on the
genuine coupons.
Miss Anna Z. Dickinson still contin-
ues seriously if not dangerously i'll, at
Rockford, Ill She is now suffering from
congestion of the lungs. She has been
compelled to cancel all her engagements
to lecture in the West.
The King of Dahomey has been hold
ing another grand sacrifice. According
to a letter from Lagos, of October 10, his
Majesty was about to so to war with
the Ashantees, and to propltlatc the
gods he had ordered two hundred men
TO be nut to death. The letter quoted
saws this is the third sacrifice within
the year.
The Paris Monde, the organ of the
'thc Catholics, describes at great length
miracle which recently took place in
that city at No. II Rue Villcdo. A ser
want girl lying at the point ofdeath,
as the story goes, when confessor rub
he'd her eyc-lids with small piece of the
Pope's white flannel shirt. She was on
the instant restored to state OF COM
parative health, and at once demanding
food, ate with great voracity.
On Tuesday morning a boarding.
house in Chicago was entered by bur-
glars, who went through the entire
building, carrying off eighteen pocket
books. tie total contents of which were
only 50.
Seven thousand dollars in gold and
silver were recently found by an old
hunter buried in keg near the Missis-
sippi river. below Wolf Island. The
treasure is supposed to have belonged
| TO some rebel who was killed during
the war.
A dozen young Pittsfeld Mass clerks
had what they called "hunt" on
Thanksgiving day, in which the side
killing the most game was to win
supper. One side brought in red
souirrel and the other side q very do
mcstic looking rabbit. The rabbit side
was declared the winner, and they had
their supper.
According to q recent official state
ment, 'the abandoned infants found in
New York city average four day." OF
400 in a year. This is almost as bad
as the moral city of Lowell, the differ,
ence being that in the latter place most
of those found are dead, while in New
York they are generally in good condi'
tion. and are provided for by the Char.
ity Commission on Blackwelrs Island
The trade in roses, as is well known
is of considerable Importance in France
Rose trees are cultivated in different
parts of the country in open fields, just
as turnips or cabbages. Thus, there art
500, 900 rose trees near Orleans, 3OO,00t
near Metz, 100000 near Augers, 1,5OO,
900 near Lyons, 1900, 900 near Paris ant
10000 in the thirteen communes o
Bre- Comte Robert. The varieties called
Rose-The, the Bourbon and Mousseus'
flourish particularly in the environs o
Paris and Orleans.
During the past ten days there ha
been unusual activity at the Brooklyi
Navy Yard. Orders have been receives
to get eight vessels, the gunboats Penob
scot, Peoria, Gettysburg, Unadilla, Iu
ron, Quinnebaugh and Purveyor, ant
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