The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-07
CURRENT ITEMS.


Suicides are buried at midnight in
London.
Detroit has squelched huge swind-
ling concern.
The cadets at West Point complain Of
their victuals.
The influenza has caused great NOR
tality at Honolulu.
Rents are one-third higherin St. Louis
than in New York.
A Minnesota editor pleads for old
fashioned singing.
The whole number of wrecks reported
in England during the present year is
2,199.
One million six hundred thousand
dollars are involved in an Illinois law
suit.
Fifty-two persons were killed on the
New York Central railroad during the
past year.
A child in Thetford, Vermont, was
killed by being bitten through the neck
by horse.
An Idaho editor complains of certain
parties who pay his demands in bogus
gold dust.
A scheme is discussed in Paris for the
erection of monster hotel, to contain
5000 rooms.
Ada Isaacs Menkin is described as do
ing the Juvenile" business in Paris.
She has been delivered of fine boy.
A man down East was robbed few
days since at church, while sitting in
the same pew with Beast Butler. Force
of habit-that's all.
A hbellous correspondent says that
fully one-half of the houses of ill-fame
in New York are owned by the corpora
tion of Trinity Church.
Abill for the establishment ofa bridge
across the East river, between Brooklyn
and New York, has been introduced into
the New York Legislature.
At late meeting of the President and
Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company, John Shay was ap-
pointed Superintendent of the Shep-
herdstown division of the canal, III
place of Levin Benton.
A meeting has been held in Philadel,
phia to devise means by which Congress
could be prevailed upon to reduce OF
entirely obliterate the internal revenue
tax of five per cent. on all domestic
manufactures.
At small private dinner of fourteen
plates at the Breevort House, New York,
the other day, there was an array OF
tilted distinction, viz: one prince, one
duke, one lord, two barons, two counts,
one marquis, and one marquise.
The ceremony of breaking ground on
the line of the European and North
American railway took place on Tues
day at Bangor, Maine, in the presence OF
large concourse of spectators.
A cable dispatch states that the reve-
nue. and trade returns of Great Britain
are very satisfactory, and indicate that
Mr.. Disraeli, Chancellor of the Exche-
ouer, will be able to exhibit surplus
revenue of nearly f2,000, 900 sterling.
On the Goth ultimo, while the work
men in the central shaft of the HoOsac
tunnel were preparing to explode the
blast, spark from the lamp adjusted
Oh the visor of the cap of one of the
men fell among the powder and caused
a premature discharge. One of the Ia.
borers was killed instantly, second
was seriously injured, and two more
considerably hurt.
The Gettysburg Star learns that the
committee of the 1st army corps, having
the matter in charge, have decided to
place bronze statue of General Rey-
nolds in the National Cemetry, and not
on the spot where he fell. The statue
is to be six or seven feet high, with n
base Of nearly the same heiget. The
triangle formed by several avenues near
the gate in front has been selected for
the site.
A st. Louis dispatch says: albert
Koch, the naturalist, writes that at our
late agricultural fair relic called the
jaw of shark, found in the coal beds
of Bellville, Illinois, is not such, but
that it is the larger portion of the infe-
rior maxillary, or lower jaw, of hinge
and exclusively carniverous reptile He
considers it as belonging to one of the
extinct 'Saurians, and not yet describ-
ed. This fossil is in highly remarka-
BILE state of preservation. 1t was taken
out of the solid coal, sixty feet beneath
the surface of the ground, and the coal
bed was overlaid by twenty feet of solid
limestone"
During the year just closed there
were sol fires in the United States
against 354 in 1865, with losses amount
ing to s66,41O,OOO against s43, 900.
The aggregate loss by fire during the
last II years is $3.50, 5000. The num-
Der of railroad accidents last year was
IS against 1873, the number of persons
killed by them lis against 335, aud the
number of wounded COZ against 1,427.
The record for II years is / ,49s accidents.
killing 2,3l9 and wounding 1888. Last
years steamboat accidents number 90
against 81, with 633 killed against 1,7S6,
and l56 wounded against 265. The II
years list is 347 accidents, 6,006 killed
and 1,735 wounded.
The mission of Hon. Frederick W.
Seward, about which some papers have
speculated wildly for the past few days,
is to arrange for the establishment of
United States naval station in the West
Indies. Mr.. Seward having been de-
tanned for few days at Annapolis,
Maryland, by the accident to the
steamer Gettysburg, finally sailed in
the steamer Don yesterday afternoon.
His destination is Hayti, and his object
is to negotiate with that government
for the establishment of naval station