The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-06
CURRENT ITEMS.
Short dresses now rsip,l in Broad wa,

from CINCINNATI.
About ene-third of those who die in
Paris are buried ut the public expense
There are 3S6,6l6 white males of full
age in Indiana.
A sharp merchant in Maine was lately
sold in the purchase of lot of ShaDgg.
hal roosters for turkeys.
The New York ladies are in futter
of excitement at the supposed coming OF
the Emperor of Brazil.
So soon as the reorganization OF the
army is completed, Gen. Grant conteniV
plates an extended visit to Europe.
Navigation on the Missouri river is
closed down to st. Joseph. The Missis
sippi river is closed north of Keokuk.
A darkey residing on Washington Az
enue, Albany, eloped with. white
woman. The lady is respectfully con-
nected.
A Mr.. Radcliffe, of Wallaceburgh, c.
w., died last week Of exhaustion, re-
sultinc from an unmanageable bleeding
at the nose, lasting over thirty hours.
Among the articles to be sent from
California to the great Exposition in
Paris, are native wines, borax, sulpher,
petroleum, and many beautiful speci-
mems of gold.
1t is said that the Passamaquody
tribe of Indians, in Maine, is now de-
creasing at the rate of 20 per cent. eve
ry year.
At Providence, lately, a man won
wager of $50 by jumping from the. mast
of vessel into the water.
1t is understood that the Boston CITY
Council will send in petition to the
next Legislature for the passage of a
bill prohibiting the use of fire crackers
OH all holiday occasions.
They had a "metcoric shower ut
Little Falls. Some graceless scamps
got it up with sky rockets. 1t was duly
and profound observations
made upon It,
1t is noticed that large decrease OF
infant mortality i'll San Francisco fol-
lowed an order from the local authori-
ties abolishing swill milk.
The report of Adjutant General Cowan
shows that Ohio furnished 10000
troops, of all arms and terms of service,
during the war, being 5000 in excess OF
all calls, and that number to her credit
Oh the next war.
Mrs. Evcrhcart, soldiers widow,
residing near Terre EIaute, has, during
the present season, with the aid of her
little daughter, chopped fifty cords OF
wood on contract for the purchase OF
a small house and lot.
bingham Young says that the Gov
,rnment of the United States do not in
tend that certain prophecies about
polygamy shall be fulfilled, but the
Lord Almighty means they shall.
4 well-known New York bank officer
took laudanum last week, and when the
drug asserted itself, confessed himself
an cmbezzler of S1O0,GO0. A stomach
pump saved his life, and his friends
made the deficit good.
On Monday night last Mrs. Hattie b.
Hurd, of Havervill6, Mass, was so Sc
rously frightened by the fall of win
dow curtain that she was thrown
into spasms, which resulted in her
death.
The President of Peru has taken Il
method of insuring his reelection, novel
in n Republic. He has arrested thelop-
posing candidates and sent them out OF
the country, thereby preventing their
accession to the chair, even if they
should he elected.
Mr.. Leonard Jerome, the millionaire
sportsman of New York, has undcrta-
ken, as his last exploit, for heavy
wager, standing on the bare backs of
two horses, to drive four-in-hand around
Jerome Park. The feat will be at
tempted in few days, and eXcitcs
much interest. ....
Venetia, just acquired by Italy from
Austria, is one of the richest provinces
of all Europa country which, though
it formed only one-scvcnth of the terri
tory of Austria, yielded onetourth Of
her entire rereuue! This is big slice ut
one cut of King Victor Emanuel's
sword.
The number Of marriages in the city
Yesterday was unusually large. The
first three days of the week, 1ifty-cisht
certificates were issued at the Office OF
the City Registrar, and of this number
were issued on Wednesday,
and twenty-five of the latter were made
out in the forenOon.-BOstOn Commercial,
Dec. |.
A down east paper has n story of an
cat, which found 4 mouse
caught in cellar one night, and she
took the trap in her mouth and carried
it to the bedside of the mistress of the
house putting it down there, she com.
menced and continued to new until the
slcepcrS awokc and helped the cat to
the mouse.
The statement of the deposit and
coinage at the United States Mint al
Philadelphia places the gold deposits at
two million nine hundred and sixty
one hundred and sixty-three
dollars and ninety three. cents, and the
silver deposits and purchases ut fifty
five thousand three hundred and seven.
teen dollars and seventy cents. Total
three million fifteen thousand fouI
hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty.
three cents. The total number OF
pieces executed was four million foul
hundred and ninety-tive thousand, val
ued at two and quarter millions o.
dollars. g.-..
A bill has been prepared, and will bC
presented in the House at an early day
to suspend the official functions pend
ing the trial !of any civic officer
against whom articles of Impeachment
shall be found. This measure is strictly
Constitutional, and is intended to sup
ply the alleged omission in the i'm