The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-10
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS. saa
f Mrs. DEBORAH BEDFORD, Of wayerly,
Pa, aged SO, is the sole survivor Of the
Wyoming massacre.
An unsuccessful attempt was recently
tor of the Norfolk Day Book.
THE Fenian organization in Ireland
, has increased fifty fold in the last three
months. tsa
THE last great "moral idea"-forging
naturalization papers. ~
INSURANCE rates in the oil regions
have gone up out OF sight. t.,,:..S
WHooPNG cough is raging among
the old and young people in some por-
: tions of Connecticut.
The 400, Methodist churches of New
Jersey raised sl5O, 600 for the centenary
! fund. ,-f .a
A Convention of wine-growers met in
San Francisco, Thursday, for the pur-
pose of consulting about what can be
done to obtain reduction of the tax on
California brandy.
There is peat bed on the summit of
Mount Mansfield, at Stowe, Vermont,
two thousand three hundredsand forty
eight feet above the sea level.
The number of persons vaccinated
during the year 1855 in England was
s0s, ,36l, being an increase of 81 $40 upon
the previous year.
An old man named Adams was burned
to death at Hopkinstown, Mass, on Sat-
urday last, by falling on pile of burn
ing brush, while in fainting fit.
The editor of the Montezuma Repub-
licdn has on exhibition musquito's
bladder, containing the souls of twenty
government swindlers, twenty-five
quack doctors, one hundred lawyers,
and the fortunes Of fifteen editors.
The Common Council of Indianapolis
has passed an ordinance giving to r.
B. Cathwood, of New York, and his as
sociates, exclusive franchise for fifty
years, for the construction of water
works to supply the city with water.
The Casco National Bank of Port
land, Me-, was robbed of package
containing 81, 900 in gold, it being sto-
len from the counter. Most OF 1t was IN
double eagles. ............
! It is stated that tho Emperor Alex
j andria has forwarded to his royai h'Sn
ness, the Prince of Wales, an invitation
to assist at the marriage of the Care
with with the Princess Mary Dagmar.
The Vermont Chronicle says that a
new steamer, named the Green Noun
tain, was recently launched at Burling-
ton, from the yard of the Champlain
Transportation Company. She meas
ures 260 feet in length, and 70 feet in
breadth of beam, and Is the finest boat
on the lake.
| A SCALE FACToRY.-The Vermont
Chronicle says that the scale works at
st. Johnsbury employ four hundred and
fifty men, who receive menthly S24 900.
They now manufacture about four
thousand scales, Mt value of 100000.
They are behind their orders, and run
their machinery until nine every
evening. ". .'' VI
An extensive fire in Paris last month
was instantly extinguished by the
bursting of three bottles of sulphuric
ether, the contents of which, mixed
with the atmospheric air, put an end
to the combustion.
The aims house in Portland, Maine,
was destroyed by fire on Friday last,
and three of the inmates were burned to
death.
The well-known house of Wells, Ear
90 & Co., the Overland Mail Company,
the Holiday Mail and Express Compa-
ny, and the Pioneer Stage Company,
of California, have been consolidated.
The consolidation covers over 1900
miles of stage line, in addition to ex-
press business, by sea and by land.
The capital of the company is ten mil
lions of dollars. .
The Union Pacific Railroad is graded
sixty miles beyond Fort Riley, and the
Company has iron for one hundred and
twenty miles of the road. The extern
sion of two hundred and fifty miles west
of Fort Riley will be completed one
year from now. .gI.4- as sE
ANovEL LoAS.-Dr. Amber, of Fau-
quier county, Va, has been furnished
with one thousand sheep, by citizen of
New York, to DC grazed on the doctors
farm for a term of years and then re-
stored to the owner, or the like number
accounted for. The parties in the
meantime, divide equally between them
elves the wool and increase of the
| flock. ..H..
RAILWAYS IN GREAT BRrrAIN.-There
are $4,000 miles railway at work in the
United Kingdom, and the number of
passenger carriages with which they
are worked is about Is, 900, and of wagon
stock upwards of 100000 The value of
this entire rolling stock of carriages
and wagons in the whole country may
be taken ut s135, ,000, 900, and upon this
amount theannualdepreciation amounts
at least to s6, ,250, 900. aH'
The name of George William Curtis
is suggested by several Journals in New
York for the Senatorship made vacant
by the expiration Of the term Of Mr..
Harris. - ..... ..-7....5
A monument to pcrpetuate tho smem- |
ory of Rev. Robert Strawbrige, the
founder of Methodism in Maryland, has
Just been completed in. Mount olivet
Cemetery, Baltimore.
The aggregate production Of wool in
the whole globe is estimated at 1876
OOO, 600 pounds, or pound and q quar-
ter 20 each inhabitant, reckoned at l.