The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-17
CURRENT ITEMS.
Garroting prevails in Detroit.

Seward has had second interview
with Thad. Stevens.
The profits of the London Times last
year were S250,000. Rf
The triehina has reappeared in Ger
many.
The crime of placing distractions on
railways has become so common in Ire
land rs almost to cause q panic.
Maryland presents balance sheet Of
wealth with which few States can com
pare.
The new bridge across the Ohio, at
Cincinnati, was predicted forty-seven
years ago.
The volcano at Hawaii was prodig-
iously active at last accounts.
There are five Radicals seeking the
U. S. Senatorship in Illinois.
A correspondent writing from Paris
says there is odoubt but that the En-
peror Napoleon is strong believer in
MOuefn Spltltualisiu.
The Washington correspondent of
the n. Y. Commercial Advertiser insists
that better understanding is being
effected between the President and GER
tain influential Republicans.
Nearly the whole female population
of Marseilles wear false hair. ..
A Dubuque merchant was severely
fiogged in his store by an actor he had
offended.
A Western man, speaking Of the Pa
cific railroad, says it one of the "funni-
est coincidents in the world, that al
most every alternate section of land, on
either side of the road, belongs to some
member of Congress
The Russian telegraph line is grow
ing in length, passing throug painless
wastes and deserts, through vast re-
gions where the human voice was never
heard before, to bring the civilized ends
of the earth together.
The extraordinary member elect OF
the British Parliament, who has neith-
er legs nor arms, is said to be an able
and finished speaker.
Congress has sharp eye to business.
If it makes a law for the assembling OF
the Fortieth on the 4th of March. all but
the new members will getseveral thous-
and dollars on the average-somc more,
some less-extra mileage for journeys
never performed.
Those radicals, who expect to see
President Johnson "down upon his
marrow-bones," are more llikely to find
him down upon theirs.
TIE LUTHERAN SYNoD.-Aspecial con-
vention of delegates from fifteen Ortho-
dox Lutheran Synods in the United
States and Canada met at Recding. Pa,
on Wednesday evening. Over one hun
dred delegates were present. Tho OBJ
icct of the convention was the consid-
Grafton Of propositions for n basis OF
nnion between the various Orthodox
Lutheran Synods III this country.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
at Valpariso on the night of November
Sth, but caused no damage.
The President says he is just asguilty
of the charges OF the completely i'll the
assassination plot as of other charges
and no more.
Two river thieves effected an entrance
on A steamer in New York harbor on
Sunday night, and after robblnG the
boat, suspended its only occupant, Dir.
Cornwall, to n beam, just allowing his
toes to touch the floor. Mr.. Cornwall
was discovered the next morning and
cut down before life was extinct.
Mr.. Home, the spiritualist, is said to
have challenged the medium md'Jre tai
to compete with sN in flying through
the air distance of two miles, the win
ncr to give the stakes to any charity he
thinks tit. Mr.. Addison has accepted
the challenge for an early date, and the
present odds are two to three in his
favor.
Last summer circular was published,
signed by Bryson Tyson, offering to OBJ
tain mail contracts for Southern men,
he standing forth and making the re-
quired oath, and receiving from the III
commission upon the face of the con-
tracts. With most this passed as n
hoax. The fact is, this person is now
receiving pay from the Postoiiice De-
partment on contracts thus obtained.
This is the best method yet put in prac-
tice in any department to avoid the test
oath.
An interesting experiment was lately
tried on q cholera patient by French
doctor. The patient had grown blue
and cold, and was falling rapidly into a
collapse, when the doctor injected into
the veins of the patient at the fold of
the arm about twelve ounces of water
at n Temperature of 100 degrees Fahren-
heit. The man soon grew warmer, his
pulse became perceptible, he showed
unmistakable signs of returning life,
and, in fact, sixteen hours after the op-
Grafton, in the morning, he sat up in
bed and asked for drink. He went on
Improving, passed through the phases
of an ordinary convalesence from chol-
era, and got we'll.
SOUTHERN NEWS.