The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

! DeBow, the reviewer. q.
Hon. George H. Pendleton is making
campaign speeches in Ohio.
Queen Victoria has sent ploughmar
wife Sl5 for having triplets.
General Frank P. Blair is going to b'
President of an insurance company IL
st. Louis.
Hon. John L. Edwards has accepted
the democratic nomination for Governor
of Vermont.
There is to be Fenian Congress a
New York on the 2lst. New officers ar'
to be chosen.
Ten thousand persons are repoted to
have died of the plague in Mauritiu'
during one month.
Eighty-fve per cent. of the mortality
of st. Louis is among children under
five years of age.
Lady Palmerston was favored with
the only private visit made by the Sui
tan in London. 90.
Milwaukee, like Chicago, proposes tc
have a lake tunnel to supply the city
with pure water.
A Memphis barber advertises that he
employs only Conservative" darkies
in his establishment.
The rinderpest has appeared in Bucks
county, Pa. and is said to exist in other
portions of that State.
The Greek government has chopped
off the heads of three thousand brigands
within the last quarter.
An unsuccessful oil we'll in Indiana
spouts sulphur water of q quality which
surpasses the Virginia Springs.
The Boston ldrertiser says that the
great gun of the War Department
won go Off" This was before Stanton
left.
In Memphis, on Tuesday night man
named Wood, while attempting to
shoot one Haugh, shot his wife through
the heart. .
A number of immigrants from tS
fatherland are expected in Norfolk, Va,
this fall, most of whom will settle in the
neighborhood of that city.
The Canadian Methodists Lave put
an anti-tobacco clause INTO their creed.
Some of their original members chew,
but they don't choose to admit any
Others.
The revenue of Girard College has in
creased so largely that it is proposed
soon to add to the number of beneficiar-
les. There are about five hundred or
phans now in the school.
The New York Tribune Associate on
has decided to erect IA new edifice, at a
cost of two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. 1t is to be bnilt upon the site
of the present building.
1t was announced in the Methodist
Church, in Staunton, last Sunday, that
the military court at Winchester has
turned over all the papers connected
with the Methodist Church property TO
General Schoticld for his decision.
A little girl in Troy, three years old,
swallowed a nickel cent about week
since, and died in convulsions OH the
morning of the 9th inst. The symp-
toms were those Of virulent poison, not
unlike those caused by arsenic or strych-
nile.
Legal tender leagues have been FORM
ed in South western Ohio. They have for
platform the payment of the bonded
debt of the United States with Treas
ury notes. Only candidates in favor
of that measure will be supported for
office.
A Feniau barbecue was held at Troy
on Monday, in which sham battle, in
imitation of Limestone Ridge, was one
of the sports. The Fenian troops were
afterwards reviewed by Major General
Wool, of the United States army, who
appeared in full uniform. q
In Albany on Monday evening, 9th
inst, as a woman was sitting asleep in
chair by second story window, a
neighbor came in and touched her on
the arm to awaken her, when she started
up suddenly and fell ont ofthe window,
breaking her arm and leg.
In Covington, KY, on the 9TH inst,
as a German carpenter named VIM Nes,
mer was working on the st. Aloysius
Chnrch, the scaffold upon which he
was standing fell, and he was pre-
cipitated to the ground below, a dis.
tance of sixty-five feet. He was instantly
killed.
An alleged house of i'll fame in New
port, Rhode Island, was entered at
night by order of the Mayor some time
ago, and Mrs. Burnham borne away
and shut up. She brought suit against
the Mayor, got verdict for $500, and
the City Council, with many wry faces,
voted to pay her the money.