The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

Population of Paris, 2,45O,sl6.
A band of gypsies is peregrinsting
Maine. ,lu- So t--
Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is at the
Exposition.
A new paper has appeared in Brook
lyn.
The "Black Crook" was worth s474,-
754 20 Niblo's last year. ta
Gear Alexander commands million
and half of soldiers.
Five breweries in Chicago turned out
100, 900 barrels of ale last year. Il
A paper in Blue Earth City, Mimi,
nominates Horace Greeley for the Presi-
dency.
: Grant is strenuous for Sherman-the
old boys stand by each other beautifully
! A large Newfoundland dog made the !
descent of Genesee falls in safety the
other day.
The uncollectable whisky tax in Gin
cinnati amounts ts nearly eight mil
lions.
Gambling is on the increase in Eng
land. The upper classes are the most
playful.
Queen Victoria gives two and half
millions of her own money to found
hospital in London. i
Two boys managed to steal ton OF
hay from one of the Philadelphia parks
the other day.
Secretary Seward and the Postmaster
General accompany the President to
: Boston.
The Countess of jersey left million
|. and a. half of hard cash. She was the
banker ohild's daughter.
Phil. Tieman, and other big fish in
the billiard pond, are attending the H.
linOis tournament.
Cleveland has prodigy, 10 years old
and twenty-one inches high. He can't
compete with Thumb-uatil he gets
married.
Hydrophobia is appearing in New
Jersey, and the usual number of infalli-
BILE cures are published in the papers,
} The Connecticut Legislature has re-
ceived bill making it unlawful for the
Good Templars to employ and pay
liquor spies.
The Russian Government is rushin'
the railways. Within six years it has
spent nearly one hundred millions of
dollars in aiding them.
The Southern Relief Committee of
San Francisco, up to the present time,
have remitted $74,43O to the New York
Commission.
The battalions added to the Irish
military establishment on account of
the Fenian disturbance are to be with
drawn immediately.
A monk in Egypt has discovered the
buried treasure of the Pharaohs. He
lived so fast that Government imprison-
ed him until he divulged.
European mails to the sth instant,
bring rumor that Juarez demands two
millions and half sterling as a ran
SOM for Macmillan.
An inquisitive urchin at Pittsfeld,
Mass, while reoiting a lesson the other
day from Chi lists sermon on the mount,
broke out, "Mother, did Jesus Christ
get two thousand dollars year for
; preachingp
, New York landlord, who rented part
| of store on Broadway last year for
3d. 900 and drove away his tenant this
year by charging $4,000, has lately
leased the premises for $4,000, and was
glad of the chance.
There was q tornado in the town of
Claverooh, New York, extending over
an area of three-quarters of mile
square, destroying hundreds of. valuable
fruit trees, and demolishing farms,
fences, chimneys, &c. No lives were
lost.
John Z. Stroup. proprietor of the Day.
ton Hotel, was arrested in that city on
Saturday. and held to bail in $4,000, for
passing counterfeit postal currency, in
four different places. Several pieces
of the stuff were found upon him when
J arrested.
A Sunday School on wheels is said to
be in operation in Utica. The mana
gers hold it in q car furnished by the
managers of one of the railways lead
ing out of Utica, and the scholars are
gathered up all along the line of the
road. o." -
u A farmer near Erie, Pennsylvania,
bought several barrels of spoiled sau-
ssges, for the purpose of using them as
Q manure, and put link into each hill
of corn. His corn came up the next day
by the help of every dog within cir
Gle Of five miles or 30.
A diamond weighing between twenty
one and twenty-five carats has been
found on the Orange river, in South
America. The Colonial Government
has taken the matter in hand, intending
to ascertain If there are any more of the
same sort ip the neighborhood.
A correspondent writing from ober-
lin says: "At the school and through ,
out the city, the largest possible inter
course is allowed between the sexes,
which, of course, is attended with the
most fruitful results. If decent be-
baved white man comes there, aud de-
ports himself as o law-abiding and |,
christian-like citizen, he IL permitted
to escort some of the fair colored dam :
sells to church; bpt should he venture to .
hint at the superiority of the Anglo
Saxon race, the chances are that he will ,
be drumned out of the district in dis
grace"
How DID He FIND IT 0UTf--A travel. !
or once arrived at village inn after a ,
hard days travel, and, being very tired,
requested room to sleep in; but the I
landlord said they were entirely full {
and that it was impossible to accom- a
modate-that his wife had to sleep on !
the sofa and himself on the floor, but /
| would see what hia wife could do for n