The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-08
CURRENT ITEMS.
Daniel Gould, United States Consul at
Leith, died there July %.


Louisville has been commenced.
A Frenehman named Moreau was
buried by mistake in Brooklyn, last
week.
The Mexicans, up to July oath, had
steadily refused to give up Maximilian's
body.
The Commissioner of Patents will is
sue two hundred and tweuty-seven GER
tifcates of patents for the week ending
August l3.
The great tunnel on the Pacific rail,
road, at the summit of the Sierra Neva-
da, is nearly completed.
A Connecticut beggar, while whining
for crust of bread, stole set of false
teeth to eat it with.
Twenty-three thousand three hundred
and seventy-six emigrants arrived at
New York last month.
An expedition is about to be sent by
the French to the North Pole, to make
scientific observations.
Some barditti last week robbed the
United States Express stage in Lafay-
cite county, Missouri, of Sl7OO.
The Edward J. Royce who is report
ed to have been elected President Of
Liberia, used to be a barber in Ohio.
There are no less than five lawsuits
pending in the English courts concern
ing the steamship Great Eastern.
French and German officers are re-
quired to give security that they can
support a wife before obtaining per-
mission to marry.
A fire broke out in Mobile on Satur-
day, destroying S30, 900 worth of proper
ty before it could be subdued.
Registration closed in Savannah, Ca,
on Saturday, the figures standing,
whites, 2.269; colored, 3,O62.
The dog war in New York this sea
son has resulted in the capture of 5S5l
CANNES; at a cost to the city of s, ,2Od 80.
A gorgeous saddle made for Maximil-
ian and used by him, has come into
the possesson of hotel keeper in Wash
ington.
The st. Louis street cars are not meet
ing with extravagant success in their
attempt to collect six cents per single
fare instead of five.
The sun at present presents the rare
appearance of being entirely free from
spots. A telescope of considerable pow
er fails to show the slightest speck on
its disc.
Any newspaper, from no matter what
quarter of the world, which speaks OF
Mexico in q different tone from that
adopted by M.Rouher, is now contiscated
in the French postoffice.
Three club houses" in Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, were seized by the State Con-
stable on Saturday night. Thirty-four
persons were arrested, and all the
liquors and gambling implements con-
fiscated.
A committee of the Connecticut Legis,
lature is engaged in taking the testi-
mony as to the whisky drank by the
members of the last Legislature, and
which the State was made to pay for
by an appropriation.
A cemetery was lately flooded near
Manchester, England, and the loose,
sandy soil was SO much disturbed that
several recertly inferred coffins and
their contents hoated away. However,
all tho bodies were eventually recov-
cred.
A letter from an Upper Mississippi
river boat, dated July %, says: "a fine
10 okiDg young man, deck hand and an
American, named Fred. Babb, from
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, was tumbled over
board this morning and drowned, he
being unable to SWIM"
There are $4,000 girls and young
women employed in the shops and man
ufacturing establishments of New York
Their wages average $ per week. The
question is, how can they live on such
trihei What suffering. misery, and
even degradation must be hidden under
such a life.
Mr.. Tilton, President of the Toledo
Wabash & Great Western railroad, il
living at Springfield in the house of the
late lamented Lincoln, which is in
tested with patriotic pilgrims, who are
anxious to worm out his autographs for
the edificatiOn of future visitors and
correspondents.
Ancw directory of Baltimore has been
issued, which embraces the names OF
73, ,4s0 householders, being an increase OF
1928 names over its predecessor
There being only about twenty-five pei
cent. of the population enumerated in
the directory, this would indicate the
population of Baltimore as not less than
81, 900, of whom about 1000 are color.
ed.
There are in Ireland IL district luna
tic asylums, one auxiliary, and the cen
tral asylum for criminal lunatics. The
annual report of the Inspector General
made to the Lord Lieutenant indicates
a great increase of insanity. In 1856
there were SS45 lunatics, in 1864 only
s272. while there has been a constant
decrease of the population of Ireland.
The same phenomenon is noticed in both
England and Scotland.
A German professor says that if a
dead cat was flung in a pool of water
and left to decompose, the drops of wa.
ter would show, when under a micro,
scope, all the animals belonging to the
cat species. Likely; and Butler would
if treated in that manner, produce q
fine crop ofspoons, visible 10 the naked
eve; Thad. Stevens wiggle-tailed ne
groes, Kelly small feet of gunbosts
Brownlow lucifer matches, Sheridan 2
million little shoulder-straps, Bolts {
crop of fatty Third party men, small
bubbles, and so on, Gd iafHitHm-