The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

The mud was ankle deep in New Yofk
on Monday. 5a s,'~, -s rr-
The importation of pork into Russis
is prohibited. z.,.- .:
England gives the Minister to Paris
$50, 900 a year. l
Powdered wigs are worn by fashiona.
BILE New York ladies.
Miss Sherman is pronounced the belle
of Washington. ..,
The Cretans want several of our gum
boats as well as our money.
Anna Dickinson has given two silver
goblets to the doctor who cured her. out
West. --..r .r. &C.,, =
Mr.. Ross, newly elected U. s. Senator
from Kansas, was private soldier dur
ing the war.
More than two thousand houses were
built in Buffalo last year. at cost Of
fvo milliop dollars.
Strong salt water has been struck at
Lawrence, Kansas, and the citizens are
much excited over it. ys. .. ..,u,l
The pecuniary loss arising from the
cattle plague in England isestimated at
e., SOC, 900. -..t
Alad of fourteen hung himself with .
skate strap on Saturday, at the institu-
ton for the blind in Boston.
Farm laborers are wanted in the in
terror of Canada, at Sl3O to $50 year,
with board. .. '- .r.-...s
California's school expenses last year
we're $sl9, ,220 and the receipts s9le,o5l.
Mrs. Geysel, q lady of Philadelphia,
froze to death on tosr step in that
city.
Fifteen feet of land in London sold
for s2l5,OOO.
Capital punishment has been abolish
ed throughout Italy.
Miss Gustina Bartlett died at Bart
lett's Island, Maine, on the 18th ult.
She was but Is years old and weighed
400 pounds.
The Glasgow Manufacturing Compa
ny, of South Hadley Falls, Mass, has
declared an annual dividend Of 20 per
cent.
Charles Sumner, according to rumor,
is to retire from political life at the
close of his present senatorial term, in
1869, and will spend a number of years
in Europe.
At recent fashionable reception in
New York several young men appeared
in maroon velvet coats and breeches,
with silk stoc ckings-a sort of court cos
tune.
A man attempted to commit suicide
by jumping from the Cincinnati sus-
pension bridge ut the highest point, but
was taken out of the water uninJured.
Tho news of the passage of the anti
contraction resolution in the House of
Representatives, on Monday, caused an
advance in the whole stock list at New
York, in some cases as high as two or
three per cent.
Shareholders of the New York Sun
Mutual Insurance Company held meet
ing on Saturday, and decided to have an
examination of the books of the COM
pany so rs to determine in regard to It's
insolvency. 1t was reported that the
debts were $1,000 more than the assets.
A match between r. II. Henderson,,
"tho Drummer Boy of the Rappahan-
nock,r and Mr.. Nevins. of Chicago, to
drum for the championship of the
United States, will come off February
10th, at the Chicago Opera House.
An army officer in the Indian country
writes in the following cheerful strain
to a friend: ~ would send you lock
of my hair, but / fear it would be q
fraud upon the savages Of this vicinity.
There is fair prospect that one of the
noble red men will be my barber before
spring.
Seven Fenian prisoners-Colonel Rob
ert Lynch, Rev. John Mcmahon, Mr..
Haven, John Quinn, Thomas School,
Daniel wlalen, and Mr.. Kayden-were
quietly sent from Toronto to Kingston
Penitentiary, on Saturday, by the rail.
way. All, except Father Mcmahon,
we're ironed sufficiently to prevent an
attempt at escape. +. H. Welthan, the
last Fenian prisoner, against whom no
bill was found, was discharged on Sat-
urday.
The London Examiner, under the head
of "Capricious Justice" has the follow
ing 1--WE see that in Essex boy Of
eight years of age has been sentenced
to fourteen days imprisonment, with
hard labor, and afterwards four years in
a reformstory, for stealing . piece of
wood for his mothers fire. If the urchin
had put the wood on railway in order
to upset train, he would have escaped
with An admonition.'
Some idea of the cheapnes Of steam
boat and railway transit may be formed
from the fact that Dutch butter is now
sent from Rotterdam to Harwich by
steamer, and from the latter place to
the south of England by rail, and the
cost Of carriage all the way is less than
one farthing per pound; and Normandy
butter is sent from st. Malo to South
amptou by steamboat, and from thence
to London by rail, aud the cost of car
riage amounts to only one halffarthing
per pound.
An effort is making by DIR. Howe, of
Boston, and the Massachusetts, Board Of
State Charities, to establish in Massa-
chusetts school, or q number of schools,
for the purpose of teaching the dumb to
speak. One hearing has already taken
place before committee of the Legis-
lature, and it is believed that the effort
will be successful. One wealthy gen.
<la,,,n 10 raodr In c0nfrihuta 2OWO