The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-12
CURRENT ITEMS.

7 Mace, the pugilist, is coming hither.
Yellow Jack bas carried off 10000
Mauritians.
Porcelain bouquets are feature at
the Exposition.
Brignoli is styled The volnptuous
"swell" of music.
Sunday fishing costs fifty dollars in
! New York State.
The eight honr excitement has wholly
died ont in Chicago.
There were 81 cases of smallpox in
Chicago last week.
Tom Thumb lisps. He considers him
self Thumb pumkinth.
A New York newspaper man has got
mp i certain cure for cholera.
Radical way to purify the jury box
scent it with the negro.-A. \. LeadeI'
The Bank of England is worried by a
surplus of thirty millions of gold.
The wheat crop of California amnunts
to twelve million bushels.
Chas. 4. Shaw threatens two volumes
of recollections of Artemus Ward.
A Yankee is going to furnish .Ieddo
aud Yokohama with gas-light.
Paris spends twice as much money for
wine as 1t does for bread.
Australia is to send to America to
learn how to grow cotton.
Under the new reform bill, u seat in
Parliament will cost about 5000.
A lady was burnt to death in seeking
to rescue her children from Chicago
fire.
Chicory juice is used by the London
blondes to dye their fashionable locks.
There were 572 deaths in New York
city last week--an increase of 63 over
the preceding week.
An Indiana gentleman has just mar
ried his sixth wife. He thinks he can't
have too much of n good thing.
A prize fight near Cambridge, Eng
land, attracted number of justices of
the peace--no5 i'll an official capacity.
At Salt Lake, cotton yarn spun from
Utah cotton sells for 20 cents pound !
more than yarn from the States.
The mayor Of Fall River Mass,
amused himself on the 4th by distrib-
uting pennies among poor children.
The latest English charity is the dis /.
pensing of "tickets for baptism" to the (
poor who cannot afford that luxury.
William B. Astor reports an income
of S1,112,055 for himself, and about
S30, 900 mere as trustee for other persons. |
The swine III Sitka eat only fish, so
that their pork has the taste of cod,
and sausages and Goldfish balls are syn !
onymous terms.
While the elder Forney is studying
Shakespeare, the younger Forney is Wis
iting the Gardens III Paris studying /
female attractions. /
A.. --s~mcJlned squa6ble is impend- I
ing among the saints about the success |
sor of Brigham Young. Young Brig
ham wants to wear the mantle.
An aged Connecticut couple recently |
had family gathering " which II of
their descendants were present. whose /
united ages werc =, 425 years.
Sitka has fos three hundred days in
the year; which is only another exam :
pie of the great mist-ery which envrl- .
Opes our Russian possessions.
The Fifth General Assembly OF Evan (
gelical Christians, from all parts of the
world, will be held at Amsterdam, !
from the 18th to the 25th of August.
An employee of a soda water estab-
lishment in Hartford failing to receive
his wages, turned on the fawcets Of the |
fountain uncorked the bottles and re-
muneratcd himself in kind.
Forney complained of the filth that is !
thrown at him, and Prentice suggests
that it makes very little difference
whether the filth is thrown NJ Forney or
FOrney ut the Nth.
An individual who WAS sent to Jail for
marrying two wives, excused himself by
saying that when he had one she fought !
him, but when hs had two they funght /,
each other.
The Albany Ecenihy JOHrtGi says the
difference between Horace Greeley and
Thad. Stevens is, that one favors uni
yersal amnesty, while the other urges .
universal damnesty.
A young man from ST. Louis, named .
McManuus, was drowned at Oconomo- I
voc, Wisconsin, on the 4th, while res
cuing a little boy who was bathing.
McMannus was heir +" an estate worth !
500, 900.
et. -.sEr....s.
A stranger in New York allowed
new made friend to measure his chest in
a bar-room, and shortly after found lie .
was immeasurably sold, when Ire went /
IN take his mauey from his breast mock :