The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-29
CURRENT ITEMS.

L ney nave HylDS SluirTcls III NdillCI-
MIA.
Chicago thinks it can beat the world
in jackasses.
A man has been fined in Detroit for
kicking dog.
Pekin is going to have an American
college.
A women in Manchester, Ohio, died
from swallowing corn worm.
Three young men of Harrisburg have
been bound over for stealing umbrellas.
The last new gun invented in Paris
sends out 5000 balls per minute.
Government detectives are in Mon
treal hooking up evidence against Sur
raft.
Ex-President Baez, of San Domingo,
is visiting Secretary Seward.
An Egyptian Temple is to be one of
the attractions of the Paris Exhibition.
The "Black Crook" has turned the
corner of its Tooth representation in New
York.
The inventor of the necdle-gun has
presented the King of Prussia with 4
much more murderous weapon.
Stephen II. Phillips, formerly citi-
zen of Boston, has been appointed At
torney General of the Kingdom OF Ha
wall.
a bushy head of hair saved the life of
q man who fell from q house i'll Spring
field and struck upon his head.
Gen. Rosccraus is said to be making
a pile" in California by his skill and en-
terprise as Il mining engineer.
The Elkhorn, Wisconsin, bank rob-
bers, who stole SleO,O0O thirteen months
ago, have been jerked up at Ell Paso,
New Mexico.
Hon. James Semplc, formerly L. S.
Senator from Illinois, and afterwards
L. s. Minister TO Bogota. died on last
Count De Bsthemy, the new French
Minister, arrived at Washington on
Saturday night. Yesterday he had an
interview with Montholon.
Mr.. Alderman Phillips, late Lord
Mayor of London, is the first Jewish
municipal functionary who has been
knighted i'll England.
Large numbers of unemployed men
in Australia are asking the United
States Consul for free passage to this
country.
The customs demands last week ut
san Francisco were Sl07 500, and the
total since January lst, S7,l7l 800.
a photographer at Rutland, VT, is the
first one to take pictures on marble, n
work which requires both good artist
and fine marble.
Sir Frederick Bruce had all his spoons
stolen Saturday night. Ben Butler left
Washington very early the next morn
ing.
The Governor of Arizona has gone to
San Francisco to obtain from Generals
Mcdowell and Halleck protection for
the people of Arizona against the hos
tile Indians.
The Grand Trunk Railway Company
of Canada have offered to bind them
selves in the sum of 100000 with the
Treasury Department at Washington
for permission to have personal goods
shipped over their road, pass the Sus-
pension Bridge without examination.
A subscription has been started In
Quebec for the sufferers by the late col
liery explosions in England. Up to
this time London has subscribed f21 600
tor the sufferers by the Quebec fire.
An English jury has decided that
when a man who is smoking in n rail-
road car refuses to remove his cigar at
the request of his fellow passengers,
they have the right to knock it out OF
his mouth.
The Troy Uhig states that the measles
has been raging in that city to an un-
precedented extent for several weeks
past, but the disease is now somewhat
abating. One physician has been call
ed in over three hundred eases. but has
had the good fortune TO lose but one or
two patients. There has been nearly
one hundred thousand cases In Troy
with in the month.
A destructive fire at Havana, Ill.,, on
the 23d, destroyed eighteen stores-a
loss of 100000. The principal suffer
ers were Langford Il Krebaum, dry
GOOD and clothing, and Glover " Hoar
inghurst, drugs and family groceries.
Warrants have been issued by the
municipal courts of Boston yesterday
against the proprietors of the Revere
fremont and other principal hotels OF
that city for violations of the Massachu-
setts liquor law.
A very close race has taken place be-
tween the clipper ship Omar Pasha'
built in Aberdeen, and the True Briton,
bu;lt OH the Thames, from Melbourne
to London. Both vessels left Sandridge
p;er ON the same day-the True Britain
having about two hundred passengers
on board-and they both ,arrtved al
London, after q race OF lo,oVo miles,
within an hour of each other, the Omar
Pasba being the winner. The passage
was ACCOMPLISHED in 10 days.
The London Saturday Rerie'r, on the
Mexican question, remarks that 1T Is
difficult to see how the Americans can
now stop. 1t would make them ridlcu'
lous if they allowed their intervention
in favor of Juarez to come to nothing
and it must como to nothing, unless
they filst give. Juarez his capital by
making the Emperor abdicate, and tner