The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-08
CURRENT ITEMS.
'oor Grant is still speech-less.


bition at Omaha. ~
The Rotchchilds refuse to let Italy a
loan.
All Sicily has run away from the
cholera.
The London Spectator welcomes the
lOw-crowned hat.
Another pretty Shakeress has eloped
from New Lebanon.
Spurgeon has the gout in his left leg.
He pretends to have inherited il, the
sinner. .fr ,rf.-F Vrf.E.r
The Connecticut Legislature has con-
cluded not to. invest in portait OF
Lincoln. 5yr..o. Az.
The Sultan is busily suppressing news
papers. He should have a command in
the South. o..
They have gold silver and iron in
abundance, so they say, near Brazil,
Indiana.
A Mobile paper elegantly says North
ern historians of the war seem to be
engaged in great lying match.
Mrs. Victor Hugo could not refrain
from going to Paris, notwithstanding
Victors example and appeals.
Hendershott, who disappeared from
the surface with his drum and his heir
ess at Poughkeepsie, has emerged at
Omaha. rw.#s
1t is stated that large vein of coal,
within few miles of Terre Haute, has
recently been discovered. g
Brown, the Portland oarsman, chal-
lenges Hamill, of Pittsburg, for o race
in Portland Harbor for $500.
The principal business of Congress
will be to vote an enormous sum to
carry out its Shellabarger-Sherman des-
potism.
S. Wright, q negro, of Cleveland, is
Joint owner with A. NJ. Burke, of pat
ent for improving the quality of refined
petroleum. ...
A Paris actress receiving salary OF
S72O refused an offer from another thea
tire of Sl200 because she would have to
play old lady parts. t.#.. 3 -
Public drinking fountains are being
erected in nearly all eur large cities.
They will soon be considered indispens-
able. An attachment for the accommO-
dation of horses is the latest improve
ment.
The publication of new organ of the
Congregationalists of the West will
soon he commenced at Chicago. 1t to
be called "The Adrdnce," and will be ed
tied by Rev w. w. Patton, of that city.
The abolition of capital punishment
was provided for by bill recently in
troduced into the Connecticut House
of Representatives, but that body, after
mature discussion, defeated the bill by q
vote of II to 90. ,
The dead body of William Dyson, a
machinist, was found in th" river, at
Cleveland, ON Monday. He was last
eoen alive at an early hour Sunday
morning, when he left his boarding
house. He was intoxicated, and, it is
supposed, fell into the river. HI
The Union Convention, of Richland
county, Ohio, the other day nominated
Captain Joseph Gutzweiller for Clerk
of the Court. Joseph publishes card,
saying that he is Democrat, and can't
run for office on the other side. 1t is
generally believed that less scrupu-
Ious candidate will be found
Among the unreported speeches in the
Presidents New England tour was one
of workman in the Western Railroad
shops, who said to Mr.. Johnson: l have
watched with intense delight yOur
majestic firmness in the administration
of your noble policy and the mainten-
auce of the American eagle"
DIR. S. G. Howe writes from Athens un-
der date of June 6, that the clothing
sent from Boston to the destitute Cretan
women and children "is just in time and
just the thing" He adds that "the
war goes on bravely. Every body con-
cedes that if the insurgents can keep
life in their bodies while longer, the
island is free, and if free, the union with
Greece is inevitable" r..
John w. Bond, who married wife in
Greene County, second in Howard,
and third in Morgan, Indiana, pleaded
guilty he'other day, aud was sentenced
to two years in the Penitentiary, at the
term of the Circuit Court held at Fay
cite. Jchn was only nineteen when he
began the matrimonial business, and is
not yet twenty-four.
Two coaches arrived at Denver on the
9th of June, over the Smoky Hill
route. They encountered no difficulty
with Indians, but were delayed On ac-
count of high water, which had caused
damage to the Kansas Pacific Railway.
Several streams were rendered impass-
able. Later advices report the railroad
repaired. A band of two hundred In
dians attacked Fort Wallace, June ~,
killing two soldiers and wounding sew
eral. Three Indians are known to have
been killed. s.,5t' 1lslS sBS
The Buffalo papers tell Of the remark-
able effects of lightning at the fair
grounds at Springville, last Thursday.
A storm of rain came up and drove
large crowd into the exhibition sheds,
one of which was struck by thunder
bolt. At least hundred persons were
prostrated by the shock, three of whom,
it is feared, were fatally injured-the
others escaping with but slight damage.
One woman was prostrated and deprived
of her senses, but not of her power Of
locomotion. She instinctively gathered
herself up, ran to an omnibus, and was
conveyed to a hotel, and declares she
had no knowledge of what took place
after the fash until she found herself
in room at the house. Several horses
were killed.
In the Pittsbnrg Court of Common
Pleas, gu Saturday, decree was grant
ed divorcing David Richey from bonds