The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-27
CURRENT ITEMS.
Brigham Young has sent number OF
into the South. :


raising stock for his Southern Telegraph
line.
North Carolina has gone for o con-
vention by decided majority.
The st. Louis Water Commissioners
advertise for sale S2,5OO, 900 gold bear
ing bonds.
Richard O'Gorman, Sr., well-known
Irish patriot, died recently near Dublin,
aged eighty six.
A lady in Washington was divorced
in the morning and married again at
noon.
General Kirby Smith, late of the rebel
army, is now President of Shelby Col
lege, Kentucky.
Fitzhugh Lee, son of r. E. Lee, and
himselfa a General of the late rebel army,
is about to marry.
Senator Morgan has turned coRserva-
tive since the recent election. So says
rumor.
The coinage has been doubled since
the discovery of gold in California
nineteen years ago.
The brilliant season of marriages is
about following the yellow fever sea-
son in New Orleans, Galveston and
Mobile. 81
In Montreal little French newspa-
per is published expressly to advocate
annexation to the United States. :,
Indian skeletons are found in dig
ging cellars and wells at Green Bay,
Wisconsin-four or FIVE in a place some
times.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin says that o man
living amid the activities of the nine
teenth century is a condensed Methu-
saleh. .s- o..
At Sitka it rains almost constantly
one fair day week being considered a
liberal allowance. 1t must be a good
field for the umbrella trade.
A steam boiler insurance company has
been formed in Hartford, Connecticut.
1t is the first in America, hut there are
many in England. .H.
A party of negroes in North Carolina
tried which could "stand" the strongest
load in gun. One of them got his
hand blown off.
A house was all framed and ready to
be raised i'll Alton, Illinois, one night,
but before morning some thief had car
ried away the whole of it.
The Shreveport Ua.) NelrS of the 9Th
says there is no abatement Of yellow
fever in that section, Notwithstanding
there had been two or three heavy
frosts.
The owners of the race horse Muggins
have brought suit against the North
western Railroad Company for $40, 900
damages sustained in transporting the
horse to Memphis.
An effort is being made in the Cana
dian parliament to give to American
citizens the same facilities in securing
patents that are extended to citizens Of
the New Dominion in the United States.
Several prominent citizens of Massa-
chusetts have addressed petition to
Governor Bullock for the pardon Of pris-
oners confined to hard labor for viola
tion of the prohibitory liquor law.
Hale, the veteran horse thief of Maine,
says that if lie could only die with q
stolen horse in his possession before the
owner caught him, he should die per-
fectly happy.
An unreconstructed Georgia editor
says that the circumference of General
Pope's soul "doth not seem to exceed
the periphery of three cent piece"
He hasn't been arrested yet.
A Spanish paper of the 18th ult., in
giving accounts of the principal events
that have occurred on that date since
the creation of the world, begins as fol.
lows: "Year Eve has little boy, very
much like the serpent of Paradise.
General Grant will soon submit to
Congress q report embodying a plan
providing for thorough military edu-
cation. The plan contemplates a bu-
reau of military instruction in the War
Department under the charge of Di-
rector General.
The hackers of Duffy claim that he
sold the fight in the late mill. He is
represented as having been fearfully
punished Notwithstanding, having lost
two front teeth, ;had two fingers put
out of joint, and his left arm dslocated
at the shoulder.
The agent of the Merchants Union ex.
press company at Bridgeport, Conn, re.
ceived box the other day, marked
with great care, which he supposed
contained q Thanksgiving present from
friend. On opening it, il developed q
select company oflive black snakes.
Several murders have been perpe.
trated recently on the roads near Selma,
Alabama, and the Selma Messenger
thinks they are the deeds of one individ.
ual. The same paper advises the citi.
zens to offer such reward for the dis
covery of the murderer as will attract
detectives from other cities.
The Philadelphia Ne,rs tells story Of
the widow of Union soldier who mar
ried again but was persuaded by hel
husband to continue drawing her pen.
sion. In order TO do this, she was com.
PEELED to take an oath each time that
she was "still widow" She is now
under indictment for. perjury, and the
informer was the rascally husband him
self.
B1plesiou.
New YORK, Novembd1R6.-Last even
ing, at Sergen, n. j., quantity of gly
cerine, used for blasting, exploded while
in the hands of q workman, who wa.
holding it. In an instant all the in
mates of the building were blown away
and of the house NOT a fraoment ra