The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

George Bancroft, the historian, is con
fined to his house, in New York, by i'll
ness.
The population of Berlin, according
to the last census, is 632 ,39. -
The FreewilI Baptists in the United
States have membership Of 900.
There are now nine hundred and
forty-6ve conyicts in the Ohio. .Peniten-
tiary.
The food in the western waters is re-
markable for its continuance as we'll as
its extent. a... Ertr .a g
There are Ave candidates for Congress
In Connecticut, who are worth an aggre-
gate Of S2,350,0oO.
The trial of Surratt, it is supposed,
will commence on the 10Th or Goth in
slant.
The average pay of the ministers ol
the United States is three thousand dol.
lars year. r..s.....r
Gen. George H. Thomas declines the
nomination for President proposed by
the Union men of Tennessee.
A number Of bridges, and consider.
able other property, were destroyed by
the late floods in Nebraska.
Iowa has now 1,145 miles of railroads
in running order, which have cost $45,-
4so, 900, and will soon ranklseventh Is a
railroad State.
There are said to be about 1000 cash.
mere goats in Illinois. They are as
easily raised as the common goat, and
are very profitable.
Bryant says the Spanish people, as a
whole, are the raggedest he ever saw.
Their poverty is only equaled by their
pride.
The Wisconsin State Journal publishes
o list of combinations and reflections
by the United States Senate under the
caption "Many are called, but few chos-
en.o tt'
Treaties have been made by the Kaws,
Sacs and Foxes, Mismis, Peorias, Plank
ishaws, Ottawas, Wyandottes, Pottawo-
tamies, KickapOos and Shawnees since
February II.
The Indiana House of Representatives
contains thirty-three lawyers and thir-
ty-four farmers. A couple of stray edi-
tors have strangely got mixed mp with
the crowd.
The Fenians in New York are trying
to raise money for the equipment of
privateers, and have sent declaration
to Washington, asking recognition of
their rights as belligerents.
The total valuation of taxable prop
erty in the State of New Jersey for the
present year is $44s, s,474,67S 4s. The
State tax is estimated at $3.50, 900, and
the county tax at 81, ,a9s, ,277.
Take counsel of your passions, preju-
dices and errors, and bid reason hold
her tongue. This is q never failing re-
cipe. It is the way in which Radicals
are made.
Mrs. Sweet, convicted at Saco, Me-,
of poisoning her husband, has been SEN
fenced to six years imprisonment.
Charles Wilkinson, of the same place,
convicted of murder, has been sentenced
tn prison for life.
A Colorado woman eloped from her
husband and three children. Adding
"insultto injury" she left . note be-
hind informing her husband that none
of the "childers" were his.
A drunken fellow sitting on the steps
of a church in Boston, the cold wind
blowing chillingly around the corner,
exclaimed: "If heaven (hic) tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb, / wish the
lamb (hic) was on this corner"
At the Columbus, Ohio, opera house.
on Monday night, Lester, the gymnast
in attempting the feat of dropping head
downward aud hanging by his toes to q
trapeze, lost his hold and fell into the
orchestra. In falling, however, he con.
trived to change his position, so that he
struck upon his feet, sustaining no other
injury than q sprained ankle. The dis
tance from the trapeze to the stage wa
over thirty feet.
The Pottsville Journal says: We have
heard of several landlords who have
invested hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars In collisry Improvements in thi,
country, who propose to sell out in CON.
sequence of the insecurity Of life and
property here. If they cannot succeed
in selling their collieries they will lei
them stand idle. This state Of affairs
affects all kinds of business, and the
law-abiding citizens of the country art
the sufferers.
The London Court Journal gives cur
rency to . report. Of . new fashionable
innovation in dress, which it sayt
it would almost be inclined to fan
sy that it was oaaard if it were lesl
precisely vouched for. 1t is this: That
small silver bells are to be introduced
into the trimming of ladies dresses
The idea is . little wild Indian and
squaw fashion, but there may be some.
thing pleasing in il; and ina dance il
may keep q sleepy partner vivacious il
the "belle" ever and anon shakes hel
bells" by way of keeping up the ex
citement and her partner awake.
The Naton comes out against Mr.
Barnum, who is running for Congress in
Connecticut in the severest manner
speaks of "the knavishness of his ca
reer," and of him as o "good specimen
of q class" who are well content to hav'
their moral deformity exhibited to al
comers Is long as it makes dollar flov
into the till. II holds that when i,
State amongst the foremost in refine
ment, and which admires high cul
ture, . high character, combine'
with both patriotism and elo
ouence, deliberately GENES forward ant
tells the world that the party of pro
4 gress. of reform, can find in its border