The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-24
CURRENT ITEMS.
General Longstreet is among the
White Mountains. 1.s...a

General Longstreet IS among the
White Mountains.
Mike McCool and Aaron Jones are
giving sparring exhibitions in the West.
The late Duke of Northumberland
left five children and fifteen titles to be
divided among thom.
The finding of dead bodies of infants
in Brooklyn, n. Y, is becoming of al
most daily occurrence.
The Hannibal Courier, q Radical sheet
in Illinois, calls General Grant nothing
but military butcher.
The Wadsworth House, in Buffalo,
suffered by fire tn the extent of O,OOO
on the 10Th instant. Insurance $500.
J. w. Mason, one of the pioneers of
Cincinnati, and native of Baltimore,
was thrown from his buggy few days
ago and killed.
In old times, one hundred years ago,
in New Hampshire, the bill for "rais-
ing" meeting house included the item
oil SloI JU tOr rum. "a
The Hoosac tunnel, during August,
was bored one hundred and fifty y-four
feet. The boring is tweuty-four feet
wide and nine feet high.
An Illicit distillery was seized in Ohio
lately, which had been running for
eight months in coal mine two hun
dred feet under ground. ,s'
An English workman, who died re-
Gently of delirium tremens, had been
accustomed to quenching his thirst with
fifteen quarts of ale every day.
The will of the late Bishop Timon has
been admitted to probate in Erie county,
NY. 1t bequeaths all his property,
said to amount to Sl,0OO,OO0. to the
Church.
In Wisconsin, recently, man, after
knocking down his wife and stamping
on her, picked her up tenderly and beg
ged her forgivness. He then tried 10
hang himself.
Forty emigrants from East Tennessee
and North Carolina, including men, wo.
men and children, passed through Kan
sas city on the 18th inst, e" route for
Colorado.
Hiram Powers has been absent from
America thirty years, aud will probably
never return. He has large family,
several of his children being married
and settled in Italy.
The Irish organ in California opposes
any further levies for raids on Canada
or instructions in Ireland. 1t thinks
that the present time is not favorable
for the Fenian objects.
1t is a remarkable fact that every
living ,uember of the old Wing State
Committee in Connecticut is now in the
ranks of the Democratic party, uphold
ing the Constitution and the Union.
A train on the Northwestern railroad,
in the western part of Iowa, was, few
days since, delayed one hour and a
quarter by grasshoppers, which covered
the track so thick that the engine dri-
vers slipped on the rails.
The New York Tribune says that were
Brooklyn technically, as it is practical
ly. annexed to that city, it would have
n population of 700 900, and terrific
ry of nearly circular form, with radius
of ten miles.
A short time ago the sea, in washing
away portions Of an embankment at
Deerness, exposed to view quantity OF
human bones. Among the remains
skull was picked up which excited much
curious INTEREST, as linnet's nest was
found inside.
There were parts of three skeletons OF
mastodons found near Huntertown, In
diana, the other day-a full grown male
and female, and a calf. They were
found in a corn-field, in what was once
q deep marsh. The bones were three or
four feet below the surface, bedded in
light clay, which was covered by con-
siderable depth of muck.
The trustees of the New York House
of Industry announce that they will
open, on the first of October, home for
working women, capable of aecommo-
dating FIVE hundred persons. The charge
for board and washing is three dollars
and twenty-five cents per week, and any
woman of good character may obtain adj
mission.
There are 10 letters "held for post
agen at the Providence, r. l., office. A
wealthy gentleman visits the office
every week and furnishes stamps for all
letters that require it. What motive
prompts him to this action is unknown,
but it is said that some years ago he suf-
fered loss to large amount through the
failure of letter to reach its destina-
| ton.
A certain razor merchant in the French
Exposition eulogized his wares thus:
'These razors have been made in cave,
by the light of a diamond. They cnt
as swiftly as thought, and are as bril-
liant as the morning star. Finally, you
have only to place them under your Pill
low ut night, and when you wake in the
morning you will find yourself shaved )"
According to Washington dispatch
| il is asserted there by the friends of Mr..
Stanton that that gentleman said at a
dinner given him in Boston some days
ago that there never existed between
him and General Grant any understand
ing in relation to his (Stanton's) going
out of the War Department; and fur
ther, that the first intimation that Mr..
Stanton had of Grants becoming his
successor was Grants letter informing
him that he had accepted the office.
The old -penitentiary building in.
Washington is to be demolished, and
buildings to be used for mechanicalpnr-
poses erected upon the site. The re-
fmains of j. Wilkes Booth will he reached