The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-12
CURRENT ITEMS.

Land is offered to settlers near jack
sonville, Fla, at fifty cents an acre.
Senator James Guthrie, who has been
seriously i'll in Louisville, is now able
to ride out daily zz1s
Three persons were present at tenn
perance meeting, called recently at
Tensas parish, Louisiana. .,s.T .,
Four geologists were lost for . day
and night in the woods near New Al
bany, Indiana last week. u
An indiyidualin Brooklyn, New York,
turned his two little ichildren out OF
doors in the storm last Sunday night.
1t is stated that boxes of common
house flies have been exported to New
Zealand by the English settlers to ex;
terminate the native New Zealand
blue bottle.
In Brooklyn, New York, few days
since, family of eight persons was
discovered all sick in bed with fever,
without a morsel of food or sufficient
clothing. rr',
Four American prima donnas are now
singing in Europe-Patti, ,Kellogg, Laura
Harris and Jenny Van Zandt. The last
named lady is the daughter of Signor
Blitz, of Philadelphia. 3J-
The proportion of unmarried mon in
the journalistic profession in this coun-
try is said to be larger than in any 9TH
or profession. An exchange thinks it is
because the newspaper men Haven't
time to attend to such matters" which
is perhaps partly the truth.
A couple from the countryiput up at
the Bay State House, in Worcester,
Mass, on Saturday, and upon going to
bed blew out the gas jet. They were
found insensible in the morning, and
their lives were saved with difficulty.
The propeller Georgia, for the posses
sion of which the United States has
been suing Jacob Thompson, Mt Hamil-
ton, Canada, was on Tuesday turned
over to the former by the decision OF
the court, and the bill against Thomp-
son was dismissed with costs.
Two veteran printers-Charles Nc
Dewitt and Thurlow Weed-met Satur-
day evening at New York for the first
time in fifty years. In 1916 they were
journeymen together. Mr.. McDevitt
was compositor and Mr.. Weed press
man upon the first tracts published by
the American Tract Society. 3
To show the fertility of French pens,
it is stated that NJ. Champfeury has
published forty volumes. NJ. Capefque
one hundred octave volumes, NJ. Ellie
Berthet fifty novels, and NJ. Brisebarre
seventy-eight plays. Quality, of course,
is to great extent sacrificed to qantity.
The Pail Mall asette'regards the ar
rest Of Jem Mace as foreshadowing the
end of prize fighting, pathetically ad-
ding: "Never more shall we pore upon
the delicious jargon about 'bread-bas-
kets' and Kissing traps or of the
from the smelling bottle or raise q mouse
upon the larboard pepper"
A specimen of clerical amenities is
afforded by the following letter written
by Archdeacon Dennison to the editor
of a London paper r.rs.
"Sir: The Dean of Ripon has descend.
cd to Misrepresentation and abuse, and
to even ribaldry.
"Under these circumstances l take
my leave of him.
~ am sorry for the Dean, bat con-
gratulate the church upon this exhi-
bition and proof of anti-sacramental
weakness" - s.''
Kit Carson is thus described by o cor.
respondent: Five feet six in his stock.
ings, deep-chested and squarely set,
with the slightest stoop of the should.
ers; feet and hands small, an oval face,
very young looking for it's ffty-eight
years Of care; light blue eyes, gentle as
woman's and clear as boys, the
mouth we'll cut, but with straight lines
around the corners, and the appearance
of having been made from harder ma
terial than the rest of the face; the nose
not remarkable, but the brow broad,
rounding and smooth, with thoroughly
Saxon hair falling to his shoulders, and
looking little thin on top and stresked
with threads of silver; q moustache of
the same color was the only hair on his
face. He wore his brigadier generals
uniform in careless, half-Indian way
that looked very comfortable.