The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-18
CURRENT ITEMS.
Ireland has a Fenian Joan of Arc.
Chicago has "big organ


Chicago has "big organ"
Scotland is just now agitated by a
theological controversy.
Cinnamon refuse to take passage in a
ship which carries corpse.
Ristori will make 5000 900 by her tour
in this country.
The army estimates in England
amount to f14,752,OOo in money and
139, ,163 in men.
The money lenders of Europe are snt-
fering from plethora of capital.
1t is so dull at Denver that they can't
even get up funeral.
A black-mailing villain was recently
mulcted in New York to the amount of
$4,000.
A war in New Zealand has continued
without intermission from 1s44 TO the
present day.
The Exposition building has already
cost France ten millions of francs.
The Astor House, New York, it is
said, will be converted into stores next
spring.
One of the Gardiner, Me-, ice gather
ers has sold his crop of last season at a
profit of SAC, 900.
Barnum, tho Snowman, has pressed
one of his play actors into his service for
stump speaking.
Victor Hugo is writing drama more
horrible than anything that has yet pro-
ceeded from his pen.
The wedding of James Gordon Ben
nett, Jr., to Miss Dix will take place in
Paris early next April.
Two thousand army pensioners, men
women and children. were paid last
week at Washington.
Forney says Ashley and Butler speak
the sentiments of the country. The
country should sue FOrney for libel.
The author of the "Black Crook has
sold the right to perform the spectacle
in the Western cities for $4,000.
Tin Holy Ghosts at seventy-five cents
hundred are philanthropically ped
died among the lower classes in Brazil.
One person out of thirty in Pennsyl-
vania is dependent upon the rest of the
community either for support or cor
rection.
A party in Maine are getting out the
timber for 5000 ton ocean steamer, to
be built. .....r
Ameeting Of citizens in favor of the
Impeachment of the President was held
in Pottsville, Pa, on Monday last.
Macmillan, like q school boy left in
the lurch in an apple robbery, threat
ems to expose Napoleon's intrigues
against the United States. -er- -.
ask days thou shalt labor and do all
thou art able, the seventh post the books"
seems to be a part of the commercial
decalogue Of some of our tradesmen.
The nose on the face of the Washing
| ton statue in the New York park has
been knocked into q pug by stone
from the hand of q boot black. ~.
It is not unlikely that Kansas will be
the first State to confer the franchise on
women. When the time comes what q
procession of strong-minded women
ill wand its way thither
An unhappy Hungarian exile was al
lowed to visit his wife and daughter,
who were ill. The unhappy man, after
being banished from his home for about
fiften years, returned only to find both
wife and daughter dead. They had
died within day of each other.
Anumber of ladies have entered their
names at a Ladies' Medical College, q
writer says, "If they prove as skillful
in dissecting bodies as they no doubt
are in dissec.ing the characters and lit
tie weaknesses of their female friends,
they will become proficient in the art of
! surgery. r. %.
As an. illustration of the number of
idle men in Chicago, Illinois, it is stated
tthat on Wednesday, load of hay upset
! in the street, and that, within fifteen
! minutes, there were seven thousand
], grown persons in the vicinity Of the ac-
cidsnt, besides large number Of boys
and girls. iea,
Edward O'Brien, New Jersey switch
tender, has been convicted of man.
slaughter and fined $500 and sentenced
| to three months Imprisonment for neg
ligence, causing an accident 0y which
two passengers were killed last summer.