The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-05
CURRENT ITEMS.
PRINCE NAPOLEON is sorely troubled
with carbuncle.

Italian Iheatre, farlS, the TtcciptS "cio
thirteen thousandf.
1T Is estimated that the corn crop OF
Pennsylvania for the present year will
amount to ten million bushels.
EFFORTS are to be made by the Rt
Rev. Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, s. c.,
to get the Rev. J. Mcmahon reprieved.
THE bell of William and Mary's Col
lege is to be recast. 1t has rung every
day since before the revolution.
A SEA wall, for the protection of a
portion of the harbor of San Francisco,
is to be constructed at a cost of $780,
900.
LAST year 409,255 vessels cleared and
entered the ports of Great Britain, and
only one per cent. of this great multi
tude were wrecked.
IT is reported in Court circles that the
Princess Christian princess Helena)
will shortly demand nursery boudoir
A FRENCH firm has offered s6,OOo,OoC
for the privilege of working the lately
discovered guano deposits of Chilli.
A KENTUCKY farmer has this yeaI
raised sixty-two bushels of merchant
able wheat from two baskets of "Ken'
lucky white"
WITHIN ninety days after the surren'
der one of the most distinguished Off
GERS of the Confederate army was run
ming a plantation in conjunction with
an officer of the Federal army of equal
rank.
MOUNT STERLING, KY, has a young
desperate who every now and then
amuses himself by shooting somebody
He has shot some six people during the
year and managed to escape every time
THERE is a workingmen's club house
in Glasgow, where, for twelve and
half cents a month, man can have .
quiet place to smoke his pipe, read al
the principal papers and magazines, ol
vile away an evening with an innocent
game.
THE Cincinnati Gazette says: seen
Butler has a fine presence on the plat
FORM" We are not astonished that those
who find moral beauty in Butler are
charmed with his personal gifts.-Bos
ton Post.
We never heard of his gifts, but he is
noted for his taking way.
THE manager of the Nashville theatre
was perplexed the other night. Th'
stage carpenter took laudanum and tht
low comedian took the cholera. The
play was commenced, however, and
presently somebody started false
alarm of fire, and thus emptied the thea
tire.
An attempt to break the will of Mr.
Allaine, who left three hundred thousand
dollars to his young second wife-who
was also his mistress before his first
wife died-and cut off his children with
one hundred dollars each, though one OF
them is a widow and blind and poor,
has just failed in New York.
A MAN of "a recently welded wo-
man of 81 at Bleussase, France. After
the benediction, the priest, according
to usage, recommended the bride and
groom to increase and multiply, and
they promised to do SO. After mass this
lively pair of patriarchs danced jig in
the public square.
A FRENCHMAN in New Orleans pro-
poses to light all the street lamps of the
city simultaneously by means of an
electromagnetic battery, operated by
clock work. When the sun gets up, the
clock runs down, and the gas is out.
A CORRESPONDENT has read so many
monologues, necrologues, elegies, epi-
taphs, &c, upon the Democratic party,
in the Disunion press, that he inquiries
why the dead party won't keep down
like a decent corpse, and not be pop
ping up all the time like BanquO's
ghost.
THE Erie Dispatch says that Hon. C..
V. Culver, now confined in Jail at Frank
lin, Pa, declines to avail himself Of his
congressional privilege and will meet
his trial the present month. Besides
civil processes innumerable, several in
dictments charging him with false pre-
tences and embeZZlement, are pending
and to be called up at Harrisburg.
THE European governments. since the
exhibition of the superior value of Amer
lean arms made during the recent war,
have become very anious to have them.
American breech-loading rifles have
taken several prizes at competitive ex-
aminations in Europe, and il has Just
been announced that the Russian Gov
ernment has ordered the manufacture
of 100000 breech-lOaders by the Colt
Manufacturing Company, at Hartford.
Az aged German forest-keeper, who
was on the verge of death, has published
q secret curefor the hydrophobia, which
he says he has used with success for the
last fifty years, saving many men and
animals from o horrible death. The
wound must be bathed as quickly as
possible with warm vinegar and water,
and when this has dried, q few drops
of muriatic acid poured upon the wound
will destroy the poison of the saliva and
relieve the patient from danger. This
cure appears in the Leipsic Journal and
We give it as we find it.
OK Friday evening lady called at
Ole of the drug stores in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, for some epson salts. An
inexperienced clerk, in mistake, gave
her some oxalic acid, which is deadly
poison. On Saturday notice appeared
in the evening papers, warning the lady
not TO take it. for if she did il would