The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

More than three hundred kinds oi
hoop skirts are manufactured in New
York.
San Francisco exported in October
63O, 900 sacks of wheat, valued at 81 ,l63,-
600.
Ex-Secretary Stanton is preparing q
reply to the Presidents message con-
cerning his suspension. gs..n"
Philadelphia has increased il popula-
tion more than q hundred thousand IN
the last two years.
Six hundred and fifty vagrant dogs
have been slaughtered in st. Louis dur
ing the last month. ST..
! The Russian national debt amountsto
s765, ,0OO, 900, on which the interest due
this year is SAG, 10000
More men are said to be out OF work
in New Haven, Conn, at present than
at any other time these ten years.
Dan Bryant has gone back to burnt
cork in San Francisco, where he gets
$50 per night for the condescension.
A man in Middlesex, Mass, has killed
two of his cows by beating them with
a barn shovel when he was q little
angry.
Two men fought the other night for a
particular bed in the station-house at
Providence to which they had been COM
mitted.
A poor sewing woman in Michigan
received news on Monday that $4,000
in gold had been left her in England.
One of the new lobby members in
Washington is said to be the loveliest
woman on earth, and dresses like an en-
press. Woe to the Treasury.
The Fort Smith Herald says the Ar
kansas river is so low above that place
that last week drove of cows stopped
to drink in it, and they drank it in
two.
The pork packers in Louisville have
already closed their establishments for
the season, owing to stringency in the
money market, outside combinations
against them, and the exorbitant price
demanded by feeders.
The editor of the Des Moines (Iowa)
Register has been presented with grass
hopper which he says weighs three to a
pound. One cabbage head just makes a
nice supper for four of this sort. He is
two and a half inches long, and still an
infant, his wings just beginning to come
ont on his back. He is one of the kind
that has become burden.
There is strong reason to apprehend
that Texas will soon cease to be ctock-
raising State. Every negro in the coun-
try is stated to be heavily armed with
guns and pistols, as well as with knives,
and cattle are wantonly shot down,
whilst there is no refuge whatever for
hogs and poultry.
The Savannah, (Ga.) Republican con-
graduates it's readers on the growth
and increasing Importance of their city.
Before the war it had about twenty i've
thousand inhabitants. Now it has more
than thirty-six thousand.
@Large congregations of the poorer and
middle classes assemble weekly in Eng
lish churches, where the music is fine
and no sermon is preached, in prefer
ence to filling houses where the singing
is damaged" by the interruption of
preaching.
Advertising is one of the powers ofthe
world. 1t is an encyclopaedia upon the
wall; It knows all, or at least talks
about everything with equal self pos
session; history, science. finance, STRAIT
egy, commerce.; it NEEDLES with every
subject.
A man in Bridgeport, Ct, had two
calves to sell last fall. One he sold to
the butcher, and the other he killed and
sold the meat to his neighbors at five
CeulS per pOuHu ltSS tuau bno MAJ hcb
rates. On the last calf he made thirteen
dollars more than on the first.
A suburban resident proposes as a
subject for discussion in country debat,
ing societies, "The Killing of Hogs in
the front yards ofdwellings on the pub,
lie streets, as a means of educating
young children into healthy sentiment
and of accustOming them to the brutali-
ties ofcivilized society"
A negro woman, in n suit of her hus.
bands clothes, succeeded in obtaining
admission to Union League meeting
in Union Springs, Va. Her husband
discovered what she had done, and re.
ported the case to the officers of the
League, who made all preparations to
murder the imprudent woman, and
would have carried their plan into effect
if the husband had not repented and re
ported the case to the military csm-
mander, who interfered.
SOUTHERN NEWS.