The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

Bald heads are fashionable in Paris.
Mollie Trussel is going to take the
veil.
Gambia will he the name of the new
Confederation.
Portsmouth has cat with six legs.
Capital punishment has been abol-
ished in Italy.
A woman in St. Louis has been gar
roting.
Lucy Stone is lecturing on "rooster-
pecked wives"
The use of hair dye caused case OF
Insanity in Indiana.
Marie Antoinette's pocket book sold
in Paris recently for 1890.
A splendid piano is the finest piece
of furniture in the crack club OF Vi
emma.
The Fenians think they see o spec
of war between England and France.
The Pope is going to ask the Catholic
Powers to sustain him.
A colporteur says he could always
find sinners because he tract 'em.-Er.
Midnight oil can be made more val
liable than petroleum.-Lou.D Dem.
An Ohio farmer vas brutally murder
ed for fifty dollars.
The body of sailor, half eaten by
rats. was found in "Dead Mans Lane"
Brooklyn.
A New Haven gambler OH his way to
Boston won 5000 in \ smoking car.
A conscientious Explorer has discover
nearly one thousand drinking saloons in
Chicago.
A treacherous piece of ice in Cleve-
land broke a young lady's nose.
A game of chess for $1,000 is to be
played over the Atlantic cable by Eng
lish and American players.
At a recc.t dinner party in New York
city the guests represented two hundred
millions of dollars.
The Moffatt mansion in New York,
late Fenian headquarters, was recently
sold for 1890
A McIlrath family of seven in Ohio
weigh 1890 pounds, and their aggregate
height is 43 feet 5 inches.
The birthday of Abraham Lincoln
was made legal holiday in New Jer-
sey ut the last session of the Legisla-
ture.
1t costs nineteen-twentieths of the la
boring men of the country the best part
of two weeks wages to buy barrel of
flour.
Horace Greeley thinks there is more
personality and blackguardism in Con-
Cress now than when the "chivalry"
were there.
There is more of feminine beauty as
sembled in Washington this winter than
has ever been known IN the capital be-
fore.
A Minnesota paper says that furs
have mover been so plentiful in that
State and on its northern frontier as the
present year.
New York city has a population OF
81 900 to the square mile, including in
the estimate all its parks and other open
spaces. .z
The Democratic State Central COM
mittee of Pennsylvania has fixed the
second Tuesday of June next for the
meeting of the Convention to nominate
a candidate for Judge of the Supreme
Court. -.....-.-. -r
= The Supreme Court Of Massachusetts,
has decided that bequest to secure the
right Of voting to woman is not legal
charity, and has decreed that the Ave
thousand dollars left by Francis Jackso n
for that purpose shall be divided among
his heirs.
The London Register General says
the change ef temperature during the
late cold snap killed about ass peo-
pie in London. Few froze to death,
but great many died from inability
to resist the effects ofthe exposure.
Twenty years ago the Pacific Mail
s. s. Company began business with q
capital of 500, 200 and two small steam
ers. They have now . feet of thirty
steamships all paid for. and have during
their existence divided over SIC, ,OOO, ,OOO
to the shareholders. *
The Neapolition journals announce
that the great "Cosenza case" will soon
come before the courts. This was q
Bourbonist conspiracy discovered in
1853. Seven hundred persons were ar-
rested, fifty-seveh of whom are about to
be tried. They have already been three
years in prison. .9~ .Es-4 a..- d.
Commodore Charles Stewart has been
seventy years in the American navy,
having entered in 1877, and he 10 still
in the full possession Of his mental fac
uities. The fact is mentioned as an ex-
iception to the rule that age is not al.
ways a disqualification for public ser.
vices.
Says . Chicago letter: Tho lake tun'
incl is new completed, the chamber
having been walled mp and the whole
bore lined and cemented. In . day OF
4 two the link connecting . temporary
j we'll with the with the tunnel propel
I will be finished, and our citizens viii
4 be supplied with pure water. The work
\ on the new water works is progressin 6
satisfactorily, considering the weather
but it will be sometime yet before thu