The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-18
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
There arc 5000 Chinese in one county
in Idaho.
Ritualism owns less than 1000 pulpits
in England.
Cashmere goats are being introduced
in Wisconsin.
General Grant has again left Wash
iugton for West Point.
\ woman in England cut her throat
with pair of scissors.
Cincinnati is building immense
floating bath houses.
Ex-King Bomba is pauper-hasn't
q dime for drink even.
The story of DR.. Livingstone's death
is confirmed in all particulars.
The assessed value of taxable pro-
perry in Illinois is S44l 100000.
Rat hunts are fashionable in Illinois.
BY recent one 74OO vermin were
killed. ....-
Over two hundred horses and fifty
nine asses were killed and eaten in Paris
in March.
The royal family of England spend
or pocket over two and half millions
yearly.
Bishop Scott, of Oregon, died in New
York City, on Sunday, after brief i'll.
ness.
The traitor Lopez, il is believed, was
assassinated and robbed Of his $40, 900
blood money.
An Alderman in Ohio shot himself be-
cause his wife would not let him have
any cider.
A French gardener has succeeded in
giving any flavor ne chooses 10 fruit
while on the tree.
In Assam, India, the tigers eat one
man, on an average, for every six of
their species killed.
The passage of locomotives over one
of the Chicago streets, has cost seven
lives within year.
They tell of French editor who is
paid 10000 per annum, aud besides his
quill drives carriage.
The factory operatives in New Bedford
were never SO continuously aud dis
gracefully drunk as at present.
Francis Conn, Milwaukee, merchant,
has been convicted of arson and sent to
states prison for five years.
The Mayor of Utica has instructed the
police to arrest tobacco chewers who eX-
pectorats on the sidewalk.
Jeptha Wade, of Cleveland, has made
three millions by pulling the wires
adroitly in telegraphic stock specula-
tiOns.
During last May there was disposed
of in California and Oregon public
lands to the amount of 55, $3.50 acres.
Law son C.. Ives, who lately died at
Hartford, Connecticut, left SIS, 900 to
the Hartford Theological Institute.
Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell and her
husband addressed the Connecticut Leg
islature upon female suffrage on Thurs
day.
Several students have been expelled
from the Wesleyan Univerty at Middle
town, Conn, for riotous conduct on the
night of the Ii.
The "hen fever" has made it's appear
ance again. and has, in New York, as
sun ed the chronic form of an American
Poultry Society.
The California Pacific railroad has
been damaged $1,000 in court, for put
ting a passenger off its cars for refusing
to pay his fare in any hing but green
backs.
Two minstrel companies in Cincin-
natl are fighting over the possession of
a hall, each claiming q prior contract,
and the affair will get into the courts.
William Reynolds, farmer living
near Mansfield, Ohio, was gored to
death, on Sunday, by vicious yonng
bull, which attacked him while i'll the
cattle yard.
Brigham Young ungallantly said Of
the wife of Joe Smith, the Prophet, that
she was "the d-dest liar he knew
This was part of Sunday afternoon
sermon upon the Smith family.
Extensive deposits of coal, it is stated,
have been discovered on the line of the
Kansas Pacific railroad, thus probably
settling satisfactorily all questions OF
| fuel for the use of the road.
The first game Of the telegrsphic chess
match. between New York and Detroit,
has reached the thirty-sixth move, and
New York expresses a willingness to ac-
cept draw. Chicago is considering.
In the United States District Court
in Boston, Friday, John II. Hohson
pleaded guilty TO making false returns
as manufacturer to the United States
revenue officers, and was fined $1,000 and
costs.
A wedding was recently spoiled in
Schenectady by long-lost husband
stepping into the carriage with the
blushing bride and insisted that if any
marrying was to he done he should have
the precedence,
\ gang of thieves have, for two
months past, been operating on the line
of the railway between New Albany and
Chicago, and have committed more
than twenty bold robberies, thus fan
escaping detection and arrest.
i 4 Milwaukee paper says the Japan.
ess as balaueists have no living equal
unless it be the smart fellow who bal.
auced the books of one of our wholesale
clothing merchants after he had stolen
some $1,000.
Bridget Dorgan kas made disclosure.
limplicating a woman whose name aod