The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-06
CURRENT ITEMS.
Maggie Mitchell made $4,000 last

Maggie Mitchell made $4,000 last
year.
A charcoal pipe is the latest novelty
for smokers.
Milwaukee pays $4,000 a year for
school expenses.
A man starved to death in the streets
Of Jersey City last week.
A religious journal calls Saratoga the
Vanity Fair of America.
In Chicago s336,O5O worth of prop
erty was destroyed by fire in August.
Boston is to have Charles Dickens for
the first two weeks in December.
There were only seven fresin Chicago
on Frlay last, the total loss being
about 100000. -rr .....
Goods were recently delivered in Chi
cago in just "a hours and As minutes
from New York.
A druggist in Troy, Ohio, who had put
up corrosive sublimate for calomel,
killed his man. .
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A thief at Long Branch recently stole
S3O, 900 in diamonds and money, but
disgorged to detective.
In the month of May there were
s9, 100000 pounds of cotton shipped
from Bombay, valued at 3,367 900.
The Norwegian settlements in Min
nesota are noted for the number and
character of their churches. n.r
The money value of the crops this
year is estimated to be $500, 10000
greater than last year.
Large numbers of cattle are dying
from the effects of the heat and dust on
the Northern plains. 20
An Indianapolis carpenter fell one
hundred feet from a church steeple the
other day and was not killed.
Immense herds OF buffalo are seen
near Fort Kearney, going South. In
dians are following them, and trouble
| is expected.
The new Postal convention between
the United States and Great Britain is
to be carried into effect on the 1st of
October, 1867.
The telegraphic cable between Pla-
centia Bay, New Foundland, and st.
Pierre, has been laid. That to Sidney
will soon be completed.
There are ice caves in Oregon. The
ice is in columns or pillars, and Port
land gets its whole supply from an i'm
mense cavern in the white Salmon
river.
A farmers daughter in a Somerset
shire village, England. lately sheared
the whole of her fathers flock of sheep,
averaging from 20 to 25 per day.
A prudent young woman in Provi-
dence, who looked under the bed before
she reposed thereon, discovered large
and intelligent negro hidden there.
A great fire has occurred in Venice in
the church of st. John and st. Paul.
Titian's painting of Peter Martyr and
many other masterpieces of art were
burned.
A Wabash, Ind., paper names base
ball club in that city, the "Haul-up-
and hit en- get -em-quick -take-em-en.
the-hy-go-in-o n-on-your-muscle Base Ball
Club"
The Commissioner of Patents has
issued 3l9 patents for the week ending
September ID. This is the largest num-
Der of patents ever issued i'll one week
from the Commissioners office.
ADayton lawyer took possession of
two children, Friday, as security for a
board bill which their mother owed,
and she was obliged to call for police
aid to recover her assets.
A Pennsylvania youth of nineteen
chose for the partner of his joys and
sorrows a maid of fifty summers, and
tore her from the arms of her parents,
moving off in the middle of the night
to be married.
Milton Hodson, residing near Plain
field, Heuricks county, Ind, died of hy-
drophobla lately, the result OF a
bite of a mad dog, received fifty-two
DAYS ago. 1t was clearly developed
case, attended by the usual horrors.
New London, Conn, has among its in
habitants an eccentric humorist, who
ties stout twine to the trees and fences
on the opposite sides of the main street,
and enjoys the falls of the passers-by.
Benjamin Shyers took Robert Massin-
gills girl from him, on the way to
church, in st. Paul, Decatur County In
diana, on Sunday evening, and when
the party were returning, Massingill
threw stone at his rival, which struck
him on the head, and caused death.
A Scotch jury has found verdict
against Mr.. Dundas Drummond, with
damages in the sum of E3, ,000, for calling
a man Il ID liar. Such personal anath-
ematizing is an expensive recreation in
Scotland and few can afford to indulge