The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

States.
The project of bridging the Missis-
sippi at st. Louis has been abandoned
London sends out no mail and has no
postal delivery on Sunday.
The Chicago water pipes are choked
up with small fishes in all stages of de-
composition.
A. NJ. Chichester shot a grey eagle
near Leesburg, last week, measuring
six feet across its wings.
THE fashionable women of Paris have
organized a conspiracy against Grin
oline.
NEARLY twenty thousand boxes OF
eggs, containing one hundred dozen
each. have been sent from Maine to Bos-
ton this year.
THE Cincinnati detectives have clear
up $4,000 mystery, by finding the
money in the possession of a dishonest
clerk who aYowed that he had been
robbed.
A COMIC paper has printed a carica-
ture representing the other planets
looking with jealous eyes upon this
world, because it has got cable, while
they have none.
AT Richmond, KY, the other day,
more than twenty men and boys enga-
gcd in street fight, and were ali blaz-
ing away with pistols at once. A lively
town!
Two desperadoes recently attacked a
Brooklyn express-man, while on his
way home at night, and bound his legs,
threw him out of his wagon, and de-
decamped with the whole establishment.
Loss $500.
A coron er's jury in England, lately re
turned verdict against railway COM
pany for the fatal effects produced on
an in yalid by the screeching OF their
locomotives.
The st. Louis Dispatch has nevis of
the safe arrival at Omaha of two
miners fleets, one of sixteen, and the
other of seven boats. The aggregate
amount of geld dust was over $500,
COO.
The Sons of Temperance, at their ses
sion at indianapolis, last week, decid-
ed to admit negroes to membcrship-al-
lowing them to organize divisions OF
their own, or join the white divisions,
at their option.
The Boston 4dreriiSer says: People
who have passed the last two or three
nirhts on the roofs of their houses
with opera glasses and sheet-iron um'
brellas, are somewhat ill-tempered by
daylight. The most conspicuous stars
have been found Oh the manly breasts OF
our policemen.
A child, aged five years, died at Brad
we'll Bucks, England, of hydrophobia
recently. At the inquest it transpired
that, in order to cure tho child, the dog
,s.i IA. 1...d w.. 1,i1iUd ....d bs.aiSu oOi..,
time, was dug up, piece OF its Gvel
cnt off, frizzled, and given TO the child
1t is proposed that there shall be al
international contest for Beauty ut thC
coming Paris Exhibition. Are the
American ladies ready for the challenge
European ladies have signiiicd their
willingness to compete for the belt pro
vided no American ladies put in thcil
claims"
Derby is the first town in Vermont
to erect monument to her soldiers. II
was dedicated on the 31st ult., when
the orator of the day in one of his clos.
ing remarks quoted from General Sedg-
wick's famous order, put the Vermont
ers ahead-keep the column closed up
A negro boy named John Green, lf
years of age, has been sentenced by the
Sussex Court, Delaware, to be hung on
the 18th of December, for the murder of
another negro boy on the 10th of Sep
tcmber.
The news from India gets worse and
worse. From the latest reports it would
seem that something like 100000 of
people have died of famine on the shore
of the Bay of Bengal. 1t is too fearful
and painful a subject to dwell on.
The new champion golden billiard cu6
of Connecticut is five feet in length and
made in three sections, one Of rosewood
and two of maple. The rosewood is en-
circled by bands of gold, and on an in
laid piece of pearl is engraved the word
champion" The butt is plated with
pearl, on which is inscribed the State
motto and coat of arms. 1t cost 800.
The tournament for its possession has
already begun at Hartford.
1t was reported in Washington on
Friday that n Georgian who is there
seeking pardon was so anxious to have
an interview with the President that he
offered five hundred dollars to see him
for ten minutes. A leading lobbyman
at once offered to so arrange it that Mr
Johnson could be seen, but ascertained
that the Georgian rds blind.
The journeymen bakers of London
held meeting recently to consider how
best they might be relieved from the
exhausting work which they now per-
form. The meeting was chiefly remark
able for the speech of Mr.. Wright, q
master baker, who strongly counseled
the men to strike. 'Fancy London
without bread for forty-eight hours"
said he.
A New York letter says that John
Morrissey's old opponent, John c.
Heenan, is seen upon the streets, and
his imposing physique attracts much at
tention. He is said to have amassed a
fortune, and lives quite at ease. So far
from being in the last stage ofconsump-
ton, he is larger and stronger and
healthier, apparently, than he ever was
before. 1t is said that he is training
again, but this time for Congress.
There is sn interesting suit pending
in New York. Some time since, Levi
Lincoln obtained divorce from his wife
Abby on the ground that before the