The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

London supports 10000 cabmen and
5000 omnibus drivers.
The English Catholics have lately
sent $40, 900 to tho Pope.
A Catholic fair, held week before last
in Boston, nettcd over $4,000.
Three-fourths of the infants in Min
den, Ct., are females.
A female reformation society is to be
started in Chicago.
The snow drifts on the Lake Shore
railroad are ten feet deep.
There is a rum palace in Cincinnati,
erected at cost of three hundred thous-
and dollars.
The Hall Mills ut Lewiston, Maine,
turn out 100000 yards of cotton cloth
per year.
Hon. Horace Greeley, of New York,
declines being candidate Cor U. S. Sen
ator.
1t cost New York city, last year, $751;
400 to clean its streets.
A turkey gobblcr weighing. fifty-iivc
pounds, was sent to the President on
Christmas.
Sandwich Island infants learn to
swim before they can walk. So says a
correspondent.
There are 200 boot and shoe factories
at Lynn, Mass, with annual produc-
tions estimated at Sl2, 100000.
Indiana is suffering from a plague of
rats. They are travelling iu legions
through the State.
A lady at .Cheltenham, England, a
few weeks ago, found thirty-six pearls
i'll dish of oysters.
4 Wall street operator is reported to
have given his wife q Christmas dia-
nond set, worth over 100000.
There were 300 arrests in New York
OH New Years day for drunkenness and
disOrdcrly conduct.
An aged lady, lately deceased, in Ply
mouth county, Mass, bequeathcd 500
for the support of her favorite dog.
A movement is taking place in Man
chester, England, to petition Parlia-
ment to enact laws for compulsory ed
ucation.
In Brazil large pine apples cost four
cents each, oranges one cent, bananas
six for cent, cigars ten for cent.
General Grant has issued cards of i'm
vitatioB to ball to be given at bis res
idence in Washington on the 9th inst.
A train was .snow-bound near Pitts
Geld, Mass, last Sunday week, and some
of the passengers held religious services
in the cars.
The cattle plague is making terrible
havoc in Holland, and the returns indi
cate that the pestilence has not reached
its height.
A Boston clergyman, who cannot shut
his eyes to the abomination any longer,
is preaching against fitting hoops
No clue has yet been found of the
whereabouts of Louis Fox, the billiard
player, who disappeared at Rochester,
n. T., month since.
The Buffalo Fenians had civic and
military procession on Tuesday, to in
augurate a monument to Lieut. Lancr-
gan, killed ut Ridgeway last June.
.. The city expenses of Paris we're 2l5,-
Co., ,ooo of francs last year, against only
g. 100000 in 1852; and this year will
Ike more than last.
The Indian commissioner has applied
for an investigation Of the Fort Kear-
ney massacre. He says that if the mat
ter is not attended to, there viii he a
general Indian war.
A large and splendid Catholic church,
with sitting accommodations for 5000
persons, was dedicated last Sunday In
st. Louis. Its congregation Is chiefly
composed Of Germans. ft
The win of the late Augustine de
Iturbide has been presented for probate
in New York. 1t bequeaths all the de-
ceased's property to his son, young
Prince Augustine, who has been adopted
by Maximilian, Fd3i -