The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

The map of the world is undergoing
remarkable changes.
Colorado wishes Prof. Agassiz to come
there and explore and lecture.
Madame Celeste travelled eighteen
thousand miles in fifty-nine days.
A New jersey farmer was fined 81, 900
for poisoning eight cattle.
Many of the English railroads are
not paying their working expenses.
A woman in Kansas has worn her
last hat seven years.
England desires anything rather than
trouble with the United States.
The philosopher of the drab overcoat
is losing his influence with the party.
The population of Iowa swelled co.
600 by immigration last year.
The Philadelphians are putting their
mouths in trim for early strawberries.
The negroes of Detroit wish to sit
with white children in the public
schools.
Mrs. Stanton advises women to refuse
to pay taxes until they are allowed to
vote.
The "Thuuderer" was disgusted with
the President because he gave an audi |
entc to Fenians.
The Agricultural Bureau reports the
wheat crop generally looking well
throughout the country.
The robins down east In some places
hop with three feet ofsnOw under them,
but they are hopeful. ..-.
1t is contemplated to erect 125 pub
lie drinking fountains in New York |
City the coming summer.
In recent sermon H. W. B. alluded
to the "flagraut venality" of New York
Radical legislation.
Aman in Quebec has petitioned for
the removal of mass of rock which
threatens to fall and crush his dwell
ing. r.rs s.
In the good old times of specie New
York firm made $4,000 in six years,
selling coffee and cakes for six cents.
An Ohio editor had new shirt collar
presented him and he is now waiting
for some one to give him shirt.
"Can you tell me, sir, how to find
the SheriA7s of1icef' "Yes, sir; every |
time you earn five dollars spend ten"
League Island has been accepted fin
ally by the Government as site for a
navy-yard and depot for iron-clads.
Ulrich, the great counterfeiter, said he
paid New York detectives $4,000 as
"hush money!" Thereby "hangs u
tale"
Swinging round the circle" The
Democrats elected all their candidates |
at the late city election in Circleville,
Ohio. /
A man near Chambersburg, Pa, sold
his wife the other day to n pcddler for
$17, and executed regular bill of sale
for the goods. -Es
An cnterprising young man of Mar
tinsville, Ind, committed forgeries on
his father-in-law to the amount of S40,-
400 and then sloped.
We no longer hear about the necessi-
ty of the last dollar being given to sup
port the Government. People are not
so fond of taxation as they were.
They have trees growing in New York
from California seed, which in one or
two Thousand years, will be large
enough to shelter an army--if it be not
too numerous. ..,..s
The Middletown, Conn, Sentinel and
Witness says it is believed that more
than three hundred thousand dollars
were brought into that State and used
to buy votes for Hawley.
Russian America can supply Califor-
mia with the finest timber in the world
and California was aware of this fact
when its entire press hoped the treaty
would be ratified.
An inmate of the Starke county In
firmery, girl, deaf, dumb and imbecile,
named Moonshower, was burned to
death, by her clothes taking fire. few
days ago.
A woman in Ohio became excited
with reference to poor horse trade her
husband had made, and in o passionate
alteration struck him severe blow on
the side of his neck with an axe.
Three Hartford, Comm ministers pay
tax upon S174,709-Rev. DR.. George
H. Clard, S97, ,975; Rev. DR.. Jonathan
Brace, S49,375; and Rev. DIR. Horace
Bushnell, 81 ,359.
One of the arguments offered by |
Maine papers for the proposed Piscata-
onis Railroad is, that there is hard
wood enough on the route to "make
all the spools and other wooden notions |
required for the whole country"
A Coroner's jury, Investigating the
case of DIR. Henry A. Howe, who was
found dead, supposed to be murdered,
in a house of ill-fame at Holyoke,
Massachusetts,, a few days since, report
that he died OF congestion OF the brain,
produced by excessive drinking and in
diligence.
Nye, Williamson & Co.'S Touring |
mill; w. Fl. Clark & Co.'s foundry, and
seven adjacent buildings, in Pomeroy,
Ohio, were burned on Thursday night.
Loss estimated at one hundred thousand
dollars. .a
In payment of wager on the town
election in Woonsocket, Mr.. Fletcher
was wheeled through the principal
street of that place on wheelbarrow,
the other day, by Mr.. Horace Pierce.
| The cornet band went before and big |
and little boys followed in great |
crowd.
On the 18th ult., a little boy, son of
William Turner, cattle dealer, of
Claughton, near Garslang, England,
was playing in the house, and whilst
running across the floor, with table
knife in his mouth, he fell. The knife |