The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

certs in Paris.
The Bloomer costume largely prevails
Just now in Kansas. ...... !.
An exchange calls Secretary Seward
the American Bismarck.
The London omnibus drivers and eol
ductors are organizing strike.
One of the largest cotton houses il
Liverpool has suspended for f40o, 900.
A married lady at Grand Rapids
Michigan, recently eloped with q clsl
dancer.
1t is stated that the Fenian infornnl
Massey has arrived in Canada.
Brevet Brigadier General Simonstr
has been relieved from duty at Indial.
apolis.
A lunatic at BlackwelPs Island con
mitted suicide, by jumping into a tpf
of boiling water.
Somebody in the Chicago Times nemi
mates Mr.. Davis for President and Mr.
Greeley for Vice.
Nine hundred homesteads were taker
up at single land Office in Wisconsin
last week.
Count Bismarck is feathering his nest
He has just paid s4l2,5OO for a country
seat.
Leimburner's sheep skin factory, Ill
Buffalo, was burned on Saturday. Th'
loss is about $50, 900. .. (
Butler is now shaking Ford's diary st
the Impeachment Committee, and hopes
to make noise with it.
Isham G.. Harris, ex-Governor of Ten
nessee, has established himself as q
commission merchant at Liverpool,
Budroodeen Tyabjee, a Mohammedan
has been admitted =. to practice at the
English bar. He was sworn on the Ko.
ran. ..H- .a- sr.
Thirteen regiments of British regular
troops making about nine thousand
men, are now stationed in Canada.
A man has died in New York from
hydrophobia, although before his death
he did not remember to have been bit.
ten.
One dry goods house in Chicago last
year did business of S, zoo, 900, and s.
| firms did business of over 81 200, ,00(
each.
The Gulf Squadron is to be dissolved,
and the vessels belonging to it will be
attached to the North Atlantic Squad.
ron.
The season in the Northwest is very
backward, and fruit and vegetation
show the effects of it. Wheat, however,
| looks we'll.
Lord Brougham has settled a scan
dalous case for $4,000, besides costs. He
was threatened disgraceful develop.
ments unless he complied.
Some English Quakers, who are about
to visit Madagascar, will take an i'm.
mense clock with them as a present to
the Queen of that Island. 4 b : -
Payne, who tried to murder his
cousin, Miss Holcraft, in Philadelphia,
the other day, and then cut his own
throat, is said to be recovering.
st. Patrick's Cathedral, ia New York,
was opened on Sunday tor the first
time since it was rebuilt. Archbishop
McClosky delivered the address.
The Canadian Council has ordered
that animals, poultry and fancy biras
imported from the United States by sg-
ricultural societies be exempt from tax
alton.
Ex-member of Congress Riddle, of
Ohio, has been engaged to assist the
United States District Attorney in the
Surratt case. Mr.. Bingham declined to
give his services. 8 .'' -
The Supreme Court of Ohio has de-
cided that temporary closing of the
polls on election day, for dinner or any
other purpose, is violation of the law,
and vitiates the election.
A man ut Worcester, Mass, has b.en
fined 81 and costs for planting in his
garden on Sunday, and party Of card
players had to pay IS apiece fer indtlg-
ing in their amusement on that day,
A family named HiscOck, residing at
Michigan Centre, Mich, was poisoned a
few days since by eating pie-phnt
green's. The father died from the eff
fects, but the remainder of the family
are recovering.
One of New York's most distinguished
organists was found, the other msrn-
ing, lying dead in the streets, and the
remains we're carried to the Morgue for
Identification, like those of any common,
worthless, brainless "loafer." This vas
the end of genius.
George Whiting, thirteen years old
and . boy named Loring, sixteen yars
old, quarreled at Bay City, Michigan,
on Saturday, and Loring shot Whiting,
inflicting q wound of which he died in
q few hours after. The young murderer
10 in Jail.
A series Of experiments by Captain
Joseph Davis, Of Baldwinsville, Mass,
has proved that barren apple trees nay.
be made to bear plentifully, and al ex-
cellent quality of fruit, by girdfng
them when in full bloom. The lark
must be cut away in strip two inches
wide, care being taken not to injure the
wood. Trees treated in this manner
soon heal over, and have the APPEAR
ance Of being grated, v.-l .
The next Treasury monthly statement
will show Q slight increase in the plb-
lie debt, owing to the large amount Of
twenty-five millions recently paid asin-
terest, and the small receipts of inter
nal revenue, estimated not to exceed fif-
teen millions. The revenue returns
will, however, be largely increased in
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