The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
GERMAN farmers pickle their hay,
packing it down in salt.
Two thousand yards of oil cloth are
made every day at Winthrop, Me.
Navy officers don't like the idea of
having to wear a "swallow tail coat"
A LITTER of four puppies without ears
OF tails, has been produced in South
Carolina.
FOURTEEN prisoners were lately
burned to death in q Toulon prison.
ONO has about 1000 prisoners in her
State prison-30 females.
ETHE weeks record of crime in Chicago
las been rampant, ranging all the way
from petit larceny to murder.
A MAN in Paris has recovered 400
francs from woman for breach Of prom
ss of marriage.
The Chicago driving park is to be
abandoned and horse racing ended IN
that city.
THREE murder trials are on the dock.
ct of one county court in Indiana.
THE "great accommodation railway
track in Broadway, n. Y, truly is
looked upon as nuisance.
DURING the past fiscal year $4,000, 900
We're transmitted from one part OF the
country to another through the money
order offices.
THE cod fishing is good in the North
Pacific. Three vessels at San Francisco,
last week, landed 127 900 fish.
VICTOR EMANUEL has the largest en-
erald In tho world. 1t is six inches
long, four broad and three thick.
A NEW YORK miliner has just paid
S95, 900 cash for place on the Fifth av-
enue for business purposes.
THERE are more building of factories,
stores and dwellings in Newburyport,
Mass, now, than at any time for 40
years.
SEVENTEEN of the signers of the Dec
laration of Independence, including
both Adamses and Mr.. Jefferson, were
of Welsh descent.
THE journals of Brest state that on
the 18th and 18th inst, not one death
occurred in that town, out of popula-
tion of 10000, n circumstance unknown
for more than 90 years.
THE other day, gentleman living
about five miles from Danbury, Con-
necticut, went to that town with his
horse and buggy, and went home afoot,
having forgotten he had ridden in.
Mrs. LEAR and her three daughters,
who live in Fulton county, Ind, were
poisoned the other day, by eating Sibe-
rean crab apples, cooked in a copper
kettle. One of the daughters is dead,
and the other is not expected to live.
THE gun trade in Birmingham, Eng
land, is in bad condition, and, accord
ing to the Post of that city, buyers are
coming to this country for supplies.
THE immense Rocking Rock" in
Durham, New Hampshire, was levered
o,,t ofsits positfon by some rascals, and
one or the wonders or the worId was
thus deslr royed. asgs ~
OWING to the influx Of the cent coin
age upon the currency, cents in pay
ment of postage are now refused at the
Kingston, &C. W. Postoffice, the banks
refusing to take them from the Post
master.
The foundation of the new observa-
tory for Princeton College is nearly
completed, and it is hoped soon to erect
the main building. The telescope, it is
said, will be the largest in the country.
CURING fresh beef is about to he COM
menced in Indianola, Texas, by newly
organized company, and belief is ex-
pressed that ultimately the business
will become of considerable magnitude.
SEVERAL new oil wells have been
struck lately at Petroli, c. w. An ef-
fort is being made to get to the foreign
market by the Great Western Railway,
extending branch line TO that place.
A LOT of beef cattle passed through
Lynchburg last Friday, for Alexandria,
one of which weighed 4,4O0 pounds,
another 1920, another 400, another
$500, while there were several which
went largely over 5000.
UP to October 31st, inclusive, the
postal money system has realized
a net profit of ninety dollars to the gov
ernment. 1t now promises to become a
profitable branch Of the postal business.
ONE wagon of powder train, con-
tanning 5000 pounds Of powder, blew up
near Green River, Utah, on the 10th ult.
A hub was the largest piece of wood
found after the explosion, and three of
the five yoke of oxen attached were
torn into small bits, and only one foot,
a joint of finger and piece of the skull
of the driver remained.
PRENTICE, of the Louisville Journal,
is reported to be improving in health.
The North River Bridge, on the Qnin-
cy & Palmyra Railroad, fell as a pas
senger train was passing over 1T on
Thursday last, and the engineer, fire.
man and four or five other persons were
killed and several badly injured.
THE Louisville Journal says: ''The
papers of Cincinnati are silent as to
cholera prevailing to.an alarming ex-
tent in the city, but a correspondent of
the Democrat says the mortality for the
last week has been great, and in the
healthiest part Of that city and amongst
the better classes, and that hundreds
of people are leaving the city in conse-
quence.'
THERE is farm in Colorado, ls miles
long by u wide, which pastures 5000