The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

two Forneys.
The murder of Macmillan is the com
mon newspaper theme.
The Hoosac tunnel was extended l0s
feet in % days of last month.
The House of Commons proposes to
enlarge its dining rooms.
Illinois paidS $4,000 for two extra ses-
sions of her Legislature.
There were 264 ,29s marriages last year
in the United States.
Tom Thumb is q dwarf of culture; he
has cultivated = moustache.
About 2O00 miles of railroad are
building in Minnesota. tE
The manufacture of silk in New Jer'
sey is proving failure.
San Francisco is made happy by the
discovery of bed OF oysters in the
bay.
Among other American celebrities at
Liverpool is an alligator seven feet in
length.
Sicily exported 10000 tuns of wine
and 5000 casks OF raisins last year.
There are now lO41 conyicts in the
Columbus penitentiary, of whom l&'
col0red.
The female sovereigus propose to
meet in Paris. All females are sovcr-
eigns there. .E =
One of the diamonds in the Empress
of Austria's Hungarian crown is valued
at 10000 forms.
The Maine feature of last Fourth of
July's celebration was laundering big
fire in Portland.
NJ. Arseene Houssaye asserts that wo-
man is the fourth theologic virtue and
the eighth mortal sin.
New Hampshire people have just kill
ed Il 300 lb. bear. He had been bruin
mischief among the sheep.
Parton is raking up the dry bones of
Confucius for the n. Y. Ledger. 1t is
COnfucius worse cOnfOunded.
In Detroit, the ladies are raising
So, 900 by dime subscriptions for a SOL
diers' monument.
At Maromaine, Wis, hail stones seven
inches in circumference did much dam
age to the crops.
The Shah of Persia cannot travel be-
cause the country will not support his
suite of $1,000 persons en- route.
For interfering with his legitimate
right to thrash his wife a man in De-
catur, ILL.,, bit of another mans nose.
Bismark drank nearly all the beer
there was in Paris. Parislans would be
glad to see him on his bier forever.
The Arch Duchess Mathilde was ac-
counted the most beautiful blonde in
Europe, but she would smoke cigarettes.
A Madrid tailor killed his wife's Sc
ducer, then his wife, and finally him
self. The job occupied but " ~"
minutes.
The eh:-e sultana prepared n splen-
did coffee service, enriched with jewels,
as o present for the Empress of the
French.
1t is asserted by the San Francisco
papers that forty tons of silver and six
of gold are sent away from that city
every month.
A New London shePherd-a Baptist
is under cloud. We must repeat that
the shepherds have been cutting mp nn-
common this season.
The fastest time by running horse,
on record, was lately made at Geneva,
Illinois-a quarter of mile in nine
teen seconds.
A Methodist college is to be established
at Lucknow, in India, where the Metho-
dists now have schools, with an atten-
dance of 5000 pupils.
The man who cut his throat in ST.
Peters Church, at Rome, in presence of
j hundred Thousand people, had u lTg-
er audience than lie ever will see again.
The crop of wheat this year is eStina
ted at the comfortable figure of 225 ,OtO,-
900 bushels-a grain of comfort for p'or
folks.
A large number of heavy lumter-
dealers in the Western States are sIid
to have failed in consequence of there
cent decline in lumber.
A recruiting officer in Denver ias
hung ont flag with skull and cDss
bones painted on it as an indication of
what the Indians may expect from lis
men.
The report that our Government is
negotiating for the purchase of he
Sandwich Islands, arises from the f.ct
that a new and more liberal treaty las
been made with that country.
1t is said that politicians are urgng
the removal of Secretary Seward. lis
claimed that he is al incubus on he
Government, because of his mania for
foreign complications.
In the Ohio contested election cas-, Of
Delano RS. Morgan, the contestant las
sent enough evidence TO the GoyGn-
ment printing Office to make boob Of
two thousand pages.
A servant left boarding house in
Peoria because, as she alleged, "he
young gentlemen boarders did not py
any attention TO her. aud she waste
quired to eat at the second table,
In Sweden and Norway there seems
to be almost mania on the subjeciof
emigration. All who can gather to.
gether sufficient sum 10 pay their ps-
sageto America make start.
The police of Chicago are waging ear
on the social evil by arresting all be
inmates of disreputable houses, who're
fined the next morning in the Poice
Court. The theory seems to be tina in
this way the business may We made IN
profitable.
The Indians in ArizOnia are on jhe
war path vigorously, and have obtin-
ed some advantage our troops, bufthe