The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-17
CURRENT ITEMS.

( Ex-Governor Magoffin has been elect
ed to the Kentucky Legislature.
Howe, the sewing machine man, of
fered 100000 for French trotting horse
in Paris, but was refused.
Boucicault's plays average him two
Thousand dollars week.
A moving machine took off John Nc
KEGS arm and his sisters foot while
operating in Ohio recently.
In reply to the question whether the
Nicolson pavement is healthy, a Western
paper says that all the contractors got
| fat on il.
General r. B. Hayes, member of Con
gress from the Second District of Ohio
has rendered his resignation, which has
been accepted, aud Governor Cox has
ordered the vacancy to he filled at the
October election.
A Boston man, lately deceased, had
insurance policies upon his life amount.
ing to $4,000, payable within sixty
days. ,.o.
Jacob Thompson is said to have a
good chance for appointment as Secre-
tary of the Interior in thu new domin.
ION of Canada.
l.. c. johnson, son of Ex-Governor
johnson, of South Carolina, committed
suicide at Rome, Ca, last week. He was
insane.
Ex-guerrilla Quantrell is in the CON-
mission business in Mexico, just across
the Rio Grande, under the name of Sam
uel Anderson.
George Ingraham, a day laborer at
Boston, has recently fallen heir, with
nineteen others of the family, to an es-
tate in England worth sl,0O0,OOO. His
share Will be $4,000.
The political thimble-rigger who con
trolls the columns of the New York
Times applauds, like all his Radical con-
temporaries, the position assumed by
Mr.. Stanton. ST..
The Buffalo police are confiscating
bread of light weight for the benefit of
the poor. The poor are perhaps better
acquainted with the light weights than
any other.
The Phlladelphia Press very coolly
says it would not desire to see such q
man as Brownlow Governor of Penn
sylvania, but he is good enough for Ten
nesSee.
A Connecticuter went from that State to
Kansas with 81 in his pocket, by getting
on trains and being put off, only to take
the next, and so on to Kansas. He was
a well trained youth.
1t is curious circumstance that the
excessive rains of the past season, and
which, in this country, have prevailed
mainly on this side of the Allegheny
range, have also obtained in western
Europe.
A fellow was kicked out OF an edit
orial room the other day, for impudent-
ly stating that che had seen in Germany
a fiddle so large that it required two
horses to draw the bow across the
strings, which would continue to sound
for six weeks"
The flag Of the Republic of Mica
raugua was displayed in San Francisco
on the Fourth of July, for the first time,
side by side with the flags of the United
States and Msxico. The flag has blue
stripe above and below, on which Is
represented a volcano surrounded by
smaller mountains, the sunburst appear
ing over the tallest summit.
Chicago has just put forth a new
claim. Itproclaims itself the best sum-
mer resort and fashionable watering
place, if people could only see it in that
light. 1t rests its claim chiefly on 'he
pure water from its big bore. 1t might
have added the advantages of "blue
beef diet, and the perfume of its ''fer-
tiliZer" mandatory.
Western newspapers are always great
in promising future prosperity for their
cities, but the most extensive state
ment of this kind we have lately seen is
thar the town of Fort Scott requires
but two things to make it one of the
largest cities in the world, and these
are buildings and population"
A leading Madrid banker, who went
to Rome during the centenary, was seiz-
ed with cholera on his way home, and
died. 1t is now found that the whole OF
his vast property has been left to the
Pope, and his heirs openly contend that
the will was made under undue intiC-
ence, and that they will contest its va
lidity.
The British West Indies are in q very
bad condition. Jamaica has no funds
in her treasury, and cannot pay the sal.
aries of her officials. Although labor
seems abundant, there rs q general dis
position in favor Of Coolie immigration
--even the authorities patronizing the
traffic. In Jamaica Coolies bring El4
each, and in Demarara 60.
Amasa Walker, of Mass, who has been
collecting statistics on ministers sal
aries, publishes the result: He has re-
ceived reports from 1000 ministers of 8
different denominations. Of these
whose reports were exact enough for
classification, he finds that the average
salary in 1860 was $772 SO; in 1867 it was
907 %. From all these returns he de-
duces the general fact that since 1860
ministers salaries have advanced not
moro than 20 per cent, while the cost
of living has advanced 100 per cent.
Not long since the loyal quarry-own-
ers of New England dismissed q great
many of their employees who voted the
Democratic ticket, No word, of con-
demnation of the occurrence appeared
in any Republican newspaper. 1t is re-
ported that white men, at the late cleo
ton in Tennessee, dismissed negroes for
voting the Radical ticket. The mere
rumor of the outrage has driven all
Radical newspaperdom. into o state of
violent Indignation.
GoITER.-Mr. d. A Lille, of Illinois,
says the Western Rural, is satisfied that
"goiter in lambs is caused by either
close confinement of the ewes, high
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