The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-07
CURRENT ITEMS.


Congress threatens to rush its busi-
ness.
A volcano in the moon is said TO be in
an active state.
New York's internal revenue is thirty
FIVE millions of dollars.
A Chinese wall is needed on the north
ern frontier to prevent smuggling.
Panthers are on the rampage in Cen
ter county, Pa. a-.-,f rs-.
There are sixty German newspapers
in Pennsylvania. s sr ..ef.tas
Chicago thief was captured in Ger
many. Along race. ~ .e..~
F A man in Franklin, Pa, last week
died of umbrella-poked in his, eye. .
In one of the wards of New York
there is q grog-shop to every fifty-seyen
persons.
The young Mormon girls are said to
be very ready to elope with young Gen.
tiles.
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburg, II
in his twenty-third year, and has pen
sion Of $4,000.
The cost of manufacturing one pound
of cotton in New England is about ii
cents.
An exchange says the scalping In
dams in tho West are collecting their
poll-tax.
The Boston Post compares the Repub,
lican party to pawnbrokers shop, full
of unredeemed pledges.
During the thaw in New York the
streets were passable only to those who
were prepared "to 90 up to the knees
and win."
An old French soldier who served
under Napoleon in Russia and Water
loo, has just died at Bordentown.
There is a young lady in Harrisburg
who can play two pieces at once on the
piano, and at the same time sing Q
third.
The right of New Jersey to refuse
the suffrage to men on account Of color
is shortly to be tried in the highest
courts of that State.
The n. Y. World says of tho tariff bill
"instead of bill to increase the rev
enue, it ought to have been a bill tc
blockade our own ports"
A little six-year old urchin, away up
in Maine, being unable to drive an OBJ
stinate COW out of the barn, set it on
fire. "She run then," so the boy told
his mother.
A torpedo, of magnetic character, that
would be drawn to the bottom of any
iron vessel that was passing, is talked
of. 1t would be very attractive ar,
rangement.
At the recent Wool Growers Conven-
tion in Springfield, ILL.,, it was stated
that there are in that State 100000
sheep, worth So, 200, 600, yielding annu.
ally S3,OOO,OO0.
A daughter is almost always right
when she endeavors to initiate her
mother: but we do not think the moth
er equally right when, at certain pc
riod of life, she tries all she can to imi-
tate her daughter.
Cincinnati will be Cincinnati. An
exchange says that some admirers OF
Ristori in that city recently got so
frantic in their appreciation of her fine
acting, that they presented her with
six large hogs as an evidence of their
affectionate regard.
Victor Wright, of Middlebnry, VT,
sold twelve ewes to a western purchaser
for l2,OOO-S1 900 each; Edwin Stowell,
of the same place, sold a ram lamb for
50 900, and F.. Hammond sold ram
lamb for 81 500; another gentleman sold
a yearling ram for 81 900 which he pur-
chased year ago for $3.50.
A gentleman in California, having
made lady q present of pair of pis-
tolls, after several trials Of skill, they
concluded to go through the forms of a
duel. They took their positions, fired
at the word, and, to the terror Of the
lady, the gentleman fell. She threw
herself frantically upon the corpse, en-
braeing aud Kissing it with every
oc an.laa I'nhnr Gnph
magical Influences the gentleman re-
vived, and rose unburt from the ground,
and-and-they are to be married.
The yield and profit of surface mining
in Missouri may be judged of from the
mere fact that it has, in the last forty
years, produced largely over one hun
dred million pounds ofpig lead; and ac-
cording to the best data that can be oh
tanned, has averaged nearly twenty
thousand ponnds of ore to the mine per
annum. The surface diggings that have
given these results embrace bat o email
part of the lands that science points out
as rich in such deposits.
It has been erroneously reported that
J. C. Fremont had parted with his in
terest in the Atlantic and Pacific rail-
road. His position in the company and
his interest are unchanged. But it is
true that the heavy capitalist named by
us on Friday-Jerome, Garrison and
other leading men at New York-haye
taken large Interests in the company,
and their association with il will give
it strength necessary TO insure the Wig
orous and successful prosecution Of this
great enterprise.
A difficulty occurred below Shrevc-
port, on Red river, between Mr.. Ar
minstead and Mr. Carroll, about the
hiring of some freedmen, when both
drew their pistols and dcommenced firing.
Carroll was killed.
The South Caroliaidn says there is q
growing disposition among capitalists
of the North to loan money to the pro-
ducers Of cotton, for the purpose Of en-
abling them to carry on the labors Of
their plantations.