The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

The United States owns 1,4OO,OOO,000
acres of land.
4 cousin of Lafayette is living in
Detroit, aged ninety-four.
The drought in Central Illinois is
greater than has been known for many
years.
Over five thousand barrels of apples
were shipped from Toledo, Ohio, last
week.
Mr.. Alexander Adamson, of Washing
ton, has patented new skating chair
to run on skate irons.
Tho Philadelphia North american says
there are more people ont of employ
ment there now than there were in the
hard times of 1857.
Admiral Farragut has discovered y
relative in Paris in the person of Don
Louis Farragut, an old Spanish Hidalgo.
A family in Detroit was badly poison
ed by eating beefsteak which had lain
for thirty six hours OH plate of zinc
before it was cooked.
A man in Havana recently attempted
to slope with three women on the same
evening. The enterprise was too COM
plicated, and he ingloriously failed.
The expected meteors did not mako
their appearance at Mobile, and the star
gazers were thereat greatly disap-
pointed.
Captain R. A. Davis, nephew of
President Davis. died in Vicksburg on
the 31st ult., at their residence. He was
about forty years old, and his disease
was yellow fever.
The Washington Chronicle announces
the melancholy intelligence that Hon.
Reverdy johnson has entirely lost his
sight.
The Eleventh Senatorial district of
Georgia, composed of the counties of
Clay, Randolph and Terrell, has elected
to the Convention an entire black dele
gaticn.
General Malone has been elected
President of the Virginia and Tennes-
see railroad. He is said to be one of the
best railroaders in the South.
Admiral Raphael Semmes lecture in
Nashville, Tennessee, this week. His
subject will be the story of the exploits
of the Alabama.
The corn crop in Mississippi is much
shorter than was expected, aud plant
ers are turning their attention to Mid
die and West Tennessee, where it can
be obtained for from 55 to 60 cents, for
their supplies.
The New Orleans Crescent speaks of
the gratifying revival of business in
that city, and says that within the last
two weeks there has been marked and
auspicious change in the aspect of COM
mercial affairs. 4A
A freight train on the Ogdensburg
and Lake Champlain railroad ran of
the track near Pottsdam on Saturday
morning, precipitating the engine and
FIVE cars down an emba nkment and
killing q brakeman named Cummings.
An explosion of a kerosene lamp, at
party given by General Sibley in St
Paul, Thursday night, resulted in the
death of Miss Maggie Murphy, a ser.
want girl, and the serious injury of Miss
Susie Sibley, who will lose the use of
her arms. Others were burned, but not
seriously. ......
The New Orleans Times states that the
corps of surveyors of the New Orleans
Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad Com,
pany have commenced the survey and
location of the line of that road from
Mobile to Gadsdeu, Ala, where it will
connect with the Wills Valley Railroad
to Chattanooga; when built, will com.
plete the line of Railroad communica.
tion between New Orleans and Chatta.
nooga.
Southern journals announce that
Senator Wilson and Speaker ColfaS
have written letters expressing their
opinions in favor of the repeal of the
tax on cetton and making the repeating
act retroactive in its operations, going
back to the LIST of September. Some ol
the Southern papers express the opinion
that it would be better to raise the tax
so that the cultivation of cotton would
be impossible, and the people of the
South be. forced to what they have
never done before-raise enough food
to keep them from starvatioD.