The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-05
CURRENT ITEMS.

Chicago has genuine ghost.
Michigan is dissatisfied with her crops.
Polly Haskins, of Camden, O., is 115
years old.
A New York circus company has sail
ed for Paris. .y
All the English railways want money.
There were 470 deaths in New York
last week. "
Business is said to be brisk in Gin
cinnati.
The prohibitionists threaten to make
IN ice-clad oath.
Thereis pervading dread ofa great
war in Europe.
The Roberts and Gleason wings of
the Fenians have agreed to disagree.
The dews of divine grace are said to
be falling plentifully in Bristol, Rhode
Island. A~
The tax per capita in Boston is S34;
in New York S22; in Philadelphia sll.
Four disconsolate young women COM
mitted suicide in Brooklyn, n. Y, last
week.
Miss Clarke recovered 5000 in o
San Francisco court for breach of prom
ise.
A respected druggist in Columbus, O.,
hung himself to his bed post while re-
ligiously crazy. =.
An American female in England walk
ed eight hundred miles in as many con-
] secutive hours.
Fearful cold and heavy snow storms
prevailed in Utah and Colorado during
March.
Jerome misapplied his premium for
gentlemanly conduct. 1t oughtto have
been offered to Congress. .
A few more annexations would in
crease the population of Prussia to a
hundred and twenty millions.
Four of the police detective force of
Brooklyn have been arrested, charged
with being in collusion with thieves.
The gentleman who jumped out of
hotel window in Philadelphia and kill
ed himself, was impelled by whiskey.
Steamboats, have commenced running
regular trips on Lake Erie, and naviga-
tion is considered fairly opened.
A man committed suicide in San
Francisco, leaving a note saying he was
not insane, but had Concluded to pass
in his checks"
The size of farms is growing small in
California. Formerly the average was
1905 acres; now it is 300 acres.
The New York Herald says the Sem
ate's reflections of such nominations as
Couch, Blair and Slocum is an insult to
the whole country.
A drunken man in Mobile snoozed on
q railway track between the rails, and
a train of cars passed over him, only
barking him little.
The Longworth Wine House, in Gin
cinnati, offers premiums to the amount
of $500 for the best wine grape 'Of the
country.
One hundred million feet of logs have
been cut on the st. Croix river and its
tributaries during the past winter-the
largest cut ever made there.
The Massachusetts State prison is
crowded with six hundred inmates, and
new wing, to contain two hundred
cells, is to be at once commenced.
The thieves of Madrid make such ex-
tensive use of the sewers in obtaining
an entrance into houses that q subter-
ranean police force has been organized.
Eight or nine years ago tho Coshoc-
ton county Treasury was robbed of S2O,-
900 by unknown thieves. Recent de-
velopments have led to the arrest of
Ketcham, County Treasurer at the time,
on the charge Of embezzling the said
amount.
The President has sent to the Senate
list of 2, 500 pardoned rebels, with the
names of the persons ON whose recon-
mendation the pardOns were granted.
The relentless rebel hater, Jack Hamil-
ton, of Texas, stands sponsor for near
ly four hundred of the reconstructed
crowd,
A Radical newspaper concern i'll Gin
cinnati designates Charles Summers
style of oratory as the "thus saith the
Lord" style. Whatever the style may
be, the orations which Sumner delivers
remind one forcibly of aspeech which
was once listened to by one Balaam.-l
Chicago Times.
A dispatch from San Francisco states
that the trial of the new railroad con-
structor was complete success. The
machine levels the track, lays ties, de-
posits rails and nails them in their
places. 1t is estimated that twenty
men can do as much work day rs two
hundred without the aid of the con-
structor.
Mr.. b. n. Brown, eighty-four years
old. and y resident of Dayton for the
last thirty years, is undergoing the pro-
cess of voluntary starvation. Accord
ing to the. Journal, of that city, he and
his family assert that he has taken no
food since the 2sth of February. He
feels no pain from his long fast: and
asserts that he has no appetite. He is
reduced to a skeleton, expects death,
and is satisfied with the expectation;
but believes that guardian angels"
have, by some spiritual essence, pro-
tracted his life.
Miss Selma Eller, Of Beck's Station,
Hamilton county, Ind, was bitten on
the finger by rabid dog some two
months ago. Last week symptoms OF
hydrephobia appeared, and the disease
was rapidly approaching the crisis,
when one of the doctors in attendance
determined to try bromide of POTASH