The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

The oyster trade Of Boston now em-
ploys fifty or sixty vessels, against two
or three in 1880.
The salt springs at Onondaga, New
York, produced 7,O92, ,24O barrels Of salt
last year.
The Italian patriot, Mazzinni, con-
tributes political article to the next
atlantic Monthly. -.
Evening lectures to the prisoners are
now given in the Massachusetts, State
prison.
There is Protestant congregation OF
300 persons, and six schools of 22O chill
drcn, at Jerusalem.
Gerrit Smith has sent draft for
s., 600 to DR.. S. c. Howe, of Boston, in
aid of the funds for the Cretans.
Charles w. Poulson, of Wilmington,
Del, whom it was supposed perished in
the flames at the burning of the steamer
Fashion, was saved.
John Bright. OF England, has been
elected an honorary member of the New
England Society of New York.
A bloody riot occurred at Pernambuco
lately between the Brazilians and Por-
tuguese, in which 100 of the former and
80 of the latter were killed.
The value of the barrels, tin cans and
other packages containing petroleum
sent to Europe last year, is estimated
at Sl0,000,00O.
Nine distilleries and eight hundred
barrels of whisky have been seized in
Brooklyn by the revenue authorities
since Thursday.
The only beverage at General Grants
reception last week was iced lemonade.
He won't have snch acrowd at his house
aext time.
There are go children in the Indus
trial School at Rochester, New York,
who, during the past year, made 529
garments, at a cost Of over Sll7.
Joshua Converse, Of Woburn, Mass,
will be 100 years old on the Goth. His
townspeople are going to give him a
birthday dinner.
4 woman in Lawrence, Mass, has
sued that city for $4,000, for the kill
ing of her husband by sky-rocket.
The operative Plasterers' Society Of
New York, including many employers,
have voted that eight hours shall con-
stitute days work after the first Mon
day in April next. ,.s
Ira Van Verburg, Pennsylvania,
recently deceased, has left his property,
valued at $4,000, to his betrothed, who
is to take possession when she is twen-
ty-one years Of age. .'-i.
1t is believed that the emigration to
America from Ireland and the Continent,
the coming spring and summer, will be
the greatest on record.
The railroads between Boston aud
Chicago have agreed to lay down the
produce of the latter city at Boston at
as low rates as it is sent to New York.
The carrying of the mails between
Norfolk, Philadelphia and New York, by
the Annamessex route, has been author
lied by the Postmaster General.
James Farnham's sister was married,
in Williamsburg, New York, one night
last week. During the festivities James
asked lady to dance with him. She
refused, and next morning he blew out
his brains.
DR.. Cumming, the millenial nuisance,
has just leased new house for ten years,
and fixes the date of the grand winding
up at some time this year. Yes, and he
took lease of the ground on which his
chapel stands for ninety-nine years in
the spring Of 1853.
The Commissioners of Pilots have for
hidden the participation of any Of the
pilots Of View York harbor in the pro-
posed race across the Atlantic between
pilot boats, and therefore the match be-
tween ths J. ID. Jones and Hope No. l
for $4,000 has been broken off.-Ner
York Herald, Jan. Is. 81
A lad who had been engaged in yend-
ing newspapers, named George Mack,
endeavofed to sell his papers on satur-
day by crying out, in an excited man
near, Extra extrai death Of General
Grautr' in order 30 attract purchasers,
and indicating thereby that the papers
contained some very important news:
A citizen, who had been duped, caused
the arrest of the lad Alderman Shoe
maker, on hearing the evidence, held
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