The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-10
CURRENT ITEMS.
Hartford has seen a brilliant meteor

Geo. Washington stood six feet three
in his stockings.
"Time is money" only when it passes
New York wants ten new public
schools.
They talk about municipal reform"
in New York.
At Salt Lake City balls are opened
with prayer.
San Francisco is going to have a
$250,0 market house. o.. on. ---.-.
Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois, has declined
to pardon Molly Tussel.
A quack doctor in Michigan killed
woman with morphine and lauda-
woman who escaped from q Jail
in Chicago was found secreted in a
sewer. .
The State debt of Wisconsin averages
twenty or thirty dollars for every elec-
tor in the State.
Numerous newspaper publishers on
the first of january omitted to put the
figure in place of the old 6.
The Providence railroad carried
more than two million passengers last
year without injury to any one on its
cars.
A woman in Michigan met her death
by jumping from train of cars while
they were running at the rate of forty
miles per hour.
Ladies will be glad to know that it is
not true that the hair for chignons is
procured from the corpses of people who
die in hospitals. '.-
A Utica paper says that during the
fitful fever of her life, now ended, a
woman in that city had been married
three times, and each successive hus-
band was named Tompkins.
In the will of Mr.. X. Garrett, noted
agricultural implement maker of Eng
land, occurs the singular but isensible
bequest of great coat to each of his
300 employees.
An indictment is pending in the Su-
perior Court of Northampton, Mass,
against the town of Pelham, for not
maintaining its common schools six
months year.
Boston is chiefly distinguished for its
Yankee enterprise, magnificent harbor,
crooked streets, hypocritical piety,
spacious Common, big organ, dilapi-
dated State House, and the Atlantic
Monthly.
When the new route of commerce to
the eastern world is opened the first
article that California will export to
China will be deceased Chinese. This
singular people cannot bear to be buried
in foreign soil.
Two men, named Burns and Loomy,
engaged in wrestling match in st.
, Louis the other day. On the third
round Burns was thrown so hard that
he died in few moments from the eff
feet of it.
While seven year old youngster was
coasting on Boston Common, Saturday,
he collided with another sled, whose
sharp pointed runners ran into his
mouth, knocking out his teeth promis'
cuously and tearing open his left cheek
back to his ear. 1t was an ugly affair,
and came near killing the little fellow
outright.
: The census of Chill was taken last
2 April, and has just been published. Ac-
! cording to this census, the area of Chilli
i, l32, COO square miles: the population
is 2.0S5. .0i5: S32 of the inhabitants are
., from 100 to 140 years of age, and 9,G3f
, are physically or mentally helpless.
During the year just closed there
3 have been 5,932 deaths in Chicago. The
e largest number in any one month was
t in October-1,175. This is the month
: in which the cholera prevailed so fear.
fully. The total number of deaths in
1865 was 1861, showing an increase this
: wear over 1865 Of 2,27l. During the
prevalence of the cholera there were
1881 cases reported, of which 900 ter
| minated fatally.
A Wisconsin official who had arrested
f couple of rascals, was riding with his
, prisoners when prairie chicken made
=, its appearance, and the officer drew his
: revolver and fired two or three shots at
p, it. One of the prisoners suggested that
l he could do better, and the revolver
f was handed over to him. The prisoner,
9 however, did not try his skill on the
. chicken, but presented the shooting-iron
at the officer and "backed of" leaving
( the officer to cogitate on the "uncer.
tainty of man" and to return home
minus prisoners and $50 revolver.
f A Mr.. Snowberger, Of Waynesboro,
Y Pennsylvania, tells how he was swim
f died out of $500 in gold by gypsy doc
|. tor. The gipsy agreed to cure Mr.. S. Of
e rheumatism, and made him gather al
+ the treasure in the house, set it before
s the doctor, who was to tie it in nine
bags, while the owner was to sit will
his back to the operator. The bag
!, were arranged and tied, with the in
Injunction that they were not to b'
l. opened for nine months. The nine
= months having terminated, the bags
were opened, and Mr.. Snowberger's gold
had melted away.
A sad occurrence has just happened
o at Arth, in France. Lieutenant Eel
}, chin was sometime back bitten in the
Il thumb by man named Muller, but hi
n thought nothing of the wound, ant
o went next day journey on his private
: affairs. On reaching Basle he found hi
, hand and ann began to swell, and 8
: medical man declared the case was one
y of poisoning from human bite. He al
> once returned home in haste, but he re-
: fused to have his arm amputated. The
: consequence was that the Inflammation
? increased fiightfully, and he died some
= = days after in horrible suffering.
: An old cider imbiber, who was af