The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-17
CURRENT ITEMS.

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5000 white scalps this season.
NJ. Blot, the French cook, has taught
an ex-President how to cook. Mr.. Mil
lard Fillmore and Miss Fillmore were
among his pupils in Buffalo, n. Y.
San Francisco has received forty mil
lion dollars in treasure within nine
months.
The national debt has been reduced
two hundred and fifteen million dollars
within the past fifteen months.
The Oregonidn estimates the yield of
the salmon fishery on the Pacific coast,
during the last season, at thirty thou
sand barrels.
The Sultan of Turkey is building him
self a magnificent palace on the Bos-
phorous, with immense lighthouses at
tached, which alone will cost 100000.
A census has recently been taken of
the canine species inhabiting Paris.
The city possesses 4O,9s7 dogs, $4,000 of
81, .,1, ,.lt-
This gives an average of one dog to
every forty persons.
There is great revival in Hebron,
Conn. Awealthy manufacturer stopped
his mill and used all his teams to carry
his help three times day to meeting.
The bill making habitual drunken
ness sufficient cause for divorce has
passed the Vermont Legislature, 13 to
II, with an amendment that the drunk
enness must be of two years duration
previous to the finding of the libel.
A Radical female school teacher, Bof
Ebensburg, Cambria county, Pa, on
Tuesday last whipped child Of Mr..
John Blair until it was hardly able to
stand, because the little fellow wouldn't
sit beside darkey. Miss Eliza Jones
should be sent to Congress OF the Massa-
chusetts Legislature.
I A Western paper thus notices mar
riage: "Spliced-on the 9Th, at the
residence of the old cock, Sal Chowder
to Dobyn Darnit. May their mug OF
happiness be filled to the tip, and the
glim of their merriness never be
doused."
The fisheries of Massachusetts, employ
1874 vessels, 1863 men, and capital
amounting to S9,7l3,535. The yearly
value of the product is estimated al
Sl2, 154,235.
: A Southern paper makes the singular
statement that some eighty or ninety
negroes, stolen during the war, have
recently landed at Tappahannock, to
be taken care of by their former owners
About one hundred aud fifty in all have
been landed at different places on the
RappahannOck.
Mr.. Samuel Horton, of Derby Centre
Vermont, has in his house q monthly
rose tree, which stands six feet eight
inches high, and whose branches cover
seven feet in width. 1t has one sprout
which is four feet eight and half inch
es long. This sprout has grown to this
length in five weeks and two days, and
, has upon it three full blown roses and
!, twenty-three buds.
The ladies of Waukegan, Illinois, hit
upon novel plan to 'raise the wind" to
repair their cemetery ground. nTues.
day evening they held a levee in the
largest hall in town, and made arrange
ments to receive telegraphic dispatches
of the elections from all the States
They also provided oysters and other
Injuries. An entrance fee of twenty.
FIVE cents was charged to all corners.
A CHILD IN A LIoN's DRN.-Two
clergymen in Nottingham, England, re
Gently called the attention of the mag
istrates to an exhibition in that town
, A number of lions were confined in a
cage, and at intervals through the day
child was put into the cage to perform
with them. The child was about three
years old, and such proceeding was
r considered contrary to public decency
, and humanity. The bench concurreG
: in condemning such an entertainment
: and advised the proprietor OF the exhi.
I bition to discontinue it. The Mayor o.
Leicester followed the example Of tn,
2 Nottingham magistrates, and forbade
the exhibition of the child in the den.
The new great seal of the State o
Ohio is described as follows:
A round seal, two and half inches in
diameter. having upon the margin the
words. "The Great Seal of the State II
: Ohio . within anescutcheon containing
: as devices in the left foreground, bun
{ die of seventeen arrows, and ON tn,
9 right side of TIE ARROWS q sheaf o
wheat, both upright, and in the back
ground range of mountains, owe
e which appears rising sun; from tn
:, base of the mountain a river is repre-
: sented, flowing towards the right fore
q ground; under the shield label con
: tanning the words, 'Imperism in Lape
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