The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-11
CURRENT ITEMS.

New York bewails the return of the
Menken.
A harem-scarnm fellow-Abdul-Ass
Ireland sent out lG2,251 emigrantt
last year.
London beer drinkers are furious oveI
short measures.
"Blackwood" denounses the American
rocking chair. .~.C
The Reformed Dutch Church has
given up its middle name.
More subterranean antiquities have
been dug out in Indiana.
| A New Jerseyman cut boys throat
for calling him to breakfast.
Mario is to sing to the Russians next
year st $4,000 month.
A reverend snob has "sat" for his
photograph in the act of prayer.
The crops in Utah promise to he bet
ter than for five years.
Lord Chief Justice Whiteside has had
to dodge the Fenians in Dublin.
Now that Bismarck is gone home,
France is again making love to Lux
emburg.
Cr0ton is so scarce in New York that
whisky is universally taken straight.
In addition to the fever. Washington
| has now the two Massachusetts, Sen.
atOrs.
Bennett is turning pious; having
cheated all his life he would now cheat
the devil.
A hundred different kinds of tele-
graphing machines were shown at the
Paris Exposition.
The New York Governors have par
doned about IL 900 criminals in the past
hundred years.
Colfax's friends think he has the in
side track, all owing to that track
"Across the Continent"
A Sacramento rascal stole the Grape
from the door-knob of house of mourn
ing the other day.
We are told that our Government is
the best in the world. 1t ought to be
if its excellence is according to s
cost.
The Prince of Wales is going TO Ire
land to tickle the Fenians into loyal
ty. They can't be whaled into submis-
sion.
King Francis Joseph has ordered the
Pesth pawn-brokers to return all pawn
ed articles on which no more than n
form is due.
"Dearly beloved sisters" we're the
words in which IN English curate open
ed the service when his congregation
consisted of two ladies only.
John Graham beat out his Wi1e,s
brains, IL Springfield, Illinois, on Fri
day night. Jealousy and whisky were
the causes of the murder.
A lady was taken with labor pains in
the street in New York, and another in
a horse car in New Orleans. Both cases
terminated favorably for the census.
The majority of the members of Con,
gress are anxious, aud hope, to finish
their business early next week, making
two weeks session.
Ben. Wade kindles his ires, cleans his
horses, reads Nasty, studies Mrs Goose's
Melodies, and refuses to eat grease; ergo
he should be candidate for the Presi-
dency.
The 4th of July was celebrated in
Portsmouth, Virginia, by the various
colored civic societies. Fredrick Doug
lass, the widely known colored orator
delivered an Grafton.
General Thomas Francis Meagher
Secretary and Acting Governor of Mon
tana, fell from the deck of the steamer
Thompson, at Fort Benton, and was
drowned, on tho evening of the first
| instant.
OF 1860 immigrants who arrived at
Columbus, Ohio, last week, 47S intend
to locate in Ohio, $40 in Missouri, 267
in Illinois, 246 in Kentucky, and the re.
mainder in Indiana, Minnesota, Wis
consin and Nebraska.
The Japanese Commissioners have al
ready paid 100000 on account of 'he
ram Stonewall, and will, OH their return
to Japan, make arrangements for pay
ing the balance of the purchase money,
100000. The vessel will leave the
| Washington Navy Yard for that coun'
Try in August.
The additional Reconstruction Bill
prepared by the House Committee pro
vides that district commanders shall
only be removable on sentence Of court
martial, on their own request, or by
consent of the Senate. They are ts
| have power to vaeate all civil Offices
and make appointments to fill vacancies
and are not to be governed by the opin
ions of the Executive. Registering
officers are to be empowered to take tes
timony as to the eligibility Of persons
offering for registra ion.
Mr.. Colfax having concluded The de
livery of his lecture "Across the Con
tinent," in this country, will sail fol
Europe shortly, to deliverit before Piui
the Ninth, Napoleon the Third, the KinI
of Siam. the Sultan Of Turkey, tn,
Car of Russia, and John W. Forney
He will then have the manuscript bounC
in the American flag, in gold cloth, anC
present il to Queen Victoris; ate,
which he will return TO his native LAND
and run for next President, highly in
dorsed BY the crowned heads and tn,
Fenians.
Boutwell, is in q great rage over th'
publication of Greeley's testimony. A
soon rs the examination had been con
cluded and the reporters notes writer
out, Horace got leave to revise tn,
manuscript, put it in bis pocket zDt
furnished copy to the Tribune ant
Commercial correspondents. That's wha
ought to have been done in the case O
every other witness, and the publi,
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