The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

There are 5000 spiritualists in San
Francisco.
Rome is very much "thinned out" by
the cholera.
Conspicuous badness afflicts the EN-
press Eugene.
There are three students from Japan
at Menson Academy.
A Detroit Judge has decided that
babies are not personal property.
Queen Victoria jumped out of bed to
look at the meteors.
The Senate Of the Fenian Brother
hood have issued another address to the
Irish of America.
Max. must by this time need q clean
shirt, as he shipped all his baggage some
weeks ago.
The school teachers of Philadelphia
are asking councils for an increase Of
salaries.
Two Sunday School teachers fought
in a church in Chicago recently, and
were fined FIVE dollars for it next day.
A Mrs. Anna Drummond has been ar.
rested in Davenport, Iowa, for having
three husbands at the same time.
According to q Frenchman the waters
of the sea pass from one pole to the
other once in every 1O,5O0 years.
On Monday from eight to ten inches
of snow fell in various sections of Maine
and New Hampshire, and two inches at
Boston.
On the Sd of January there will be a
procession of the trade societies in
London which is to occupy ten miles in
length of men marching six abreast.
Members of the "conjugal relation
will please notice that the penalty in
Paris, for selling ones wife, is eight
years hard labor. Better put up with
her.
A mass meeting of workingmen was
held in New York on Monday night to
consider the eight-hour question
Speeches were made and resolutions
passed appropriate to the spirit OF the
meeting.
The summing up Of the case of Rev,
Mr.. Williams, charged with picking the
pocket of lady in a Broadway stage,
few weeks since, took place in New
York on Monday. General Pryor made
an eloquent speech for the defence. The
justice reserved his decision. -
The citizens of several wards in Gin.
cinnati are holding public meetings tc
protest against certain city nuisances
They should have their filth spread uni
formly, rs in Pittsburg, and then il
would not be so perceptible.
A Cincinnati journal says there is
very little chance for convictions inlthe
one hundred and odd liquor cases pre-
sented to the pending court here by the
grand jury. About third of a verdict
was squeezed out of one Of the juries
but there are clearly men in both who
are determined not to agree to yer
dict of guilty, whato' cr tho evidence.
Three children were drowned at Al
ton, ILL.,, few days since while playing
on the surface of pond in the rear of {
school house, which had been frozer
over. Two of the children were boys
and when they broke through the ice
sister of one of them attempted hel
brothers rescue, but lost her life while
end deavoring to save him.
Mrs. j. S. Boster, residing near L;
Crosse, Wis, was killed few days since
in the following horrible manner: She
had gone into her husbands mill to cal
him to tea, and in passing a shaft, which
was making eighty revolutions min
ute, her skirts were caught and she rap
idly whirled around with the shaft
until her limbs were broken and the
blood forced from her ears and nostrils
When the shaft was stopped she was
bruised that she lived but an hour.
A Chicago dispatch says case of dew
ilish cruelty was revealed at the Police
Court day or two since. A stepmother
named Mary Owens, has been detected
in long series of abuses toward hel
stepdaughter, little girl of but seven
years of age. She has been burned,
scalded, whipped, starved and beaten
and during the recent cold weather. she
was confined in an outhouse until her
little limbs were frozen, and she will be
a cripple for life. The woman was held
for trial in bonds for $4,000.
A large amount of whisky, valued at
about SEC, 900, coming from Richmond,
Washington and Philadelphia, was
seized at Baltimore on Monday by
United States revenue officers for evad-
ing the revenue tax.
At the recent Central railroad elec-
ton, LIE Grand Lockwood voted on
s4,6O0,OO of stock; Henry Keep on
50, SOC, 900, and Cornelius Vanderbilt on
81, 5OO, 900, all standing on the books Of
the company in their own names.
Complaints are made in the Boston
papers about the corruptions of the city
fathers. A job contract was recently
made to erect q soldiers memorial on
the Common for s100, 900, since which it
has been discovered that $50, 200 more
have been put into the specifications.
A meeting of the Tammany Society
was held in Tammany Hall, New York,
on Monday evening, to decide in regard
to the sale of the hall. 1t was decided
not to sell the hall by vote of about
100 to so, and it was ordered that the
hall be put in proper repair.
Another Murder In Washington Coan'
y-suppesed Hemieide by Peisoa-
ing Woman Arrested.
The Washington, Pennsylvania, Re
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