The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

Negro suffrage is no go in Michigan.
England feels the want of more SOL
diers at home.
The Chicago "bore" has just been wa
tered.
st. Alban's Church, New York, is the
head centre of ritualism.
In plain English lice eggs have been
found in waterfalls" Dreadful, isn't
it.
A profound "incompatibility" exists
between Prince Napoleon and the En-
press Eugenie.
The Radical leaders now speak Of
Congress as the supreme legislative
power."' -" .'t~
1t is suggested that the present
weather is a good subject for prohibi-
tory legislation.
The slain dogs Of Chicago amount to
nearly one thousand. ..--...
Lamaratine declines to give public
reading to pay his debts. He prefers
begging.
A Canadian dcad-house was broken
open recently, and fourteen bodies were
stolen.
II is said that Jenny Lind will soon
visit this counery again.
At. Stewart says unless the South
be rehabilitated, politically, business
cannot revive.
There we're one hundred and eleven
divorces granted in one county in lndi-
ana last year.
The Come cticut Radical papers are
blackguarding the working-men for Ie-
pudiating Radicalism.
Portsmouth, n. H., has an organ that
was made in England during the times
of Cromwell.
Brighsm Young has 40 living children,
some OF whomeo are grown up and mar
ried. - s-.s ) -
The Detroit Common Council. voted
two hundred and one times for q Presi-
dent before choice was made.
Melborne has au Australian "Barnum''
in the shape of smphibiods animal pre-
seuting a mixture of-the dog and fish.
The will of Col. Fallon, Of St. Louis,
has been set aside. His heirs think he
left six or seven millions to the wrong
people.
The Chicago Times says: "Erratum
in the poem published yesterday, for
dirty shirt read dirty shirk.'"
Gsnersl Butler ba. parcitased a house.
in Washington, thus being arssidsnt Of
one district, representing another dis.
trict, and actually living in still third
district.
Antiausrians in New York are excited
over the discovery under the tertiary
formation in the lower part of Broad
way, a stratum of rock laid in regular
blocks. & l1NItJH.G .6-s
In England four-fifths of the work OF
the post-officesand telegraphs is done
lby women, and they sell two-thirds or
more of tho beer and liquors.
A murderer soon to be hung made q
will in which he bequeaths to Cincin-
natl physician his head, after e1ecu-
tion. -y4iti II 4 = 4. E
The Shakers dine in silence. Broth
ers and sisters sit in common room. at
tables ranged in line, few feet apart.
They eat at six in the morning, ut noon
and at six in the evening.
| Mrs. Betsey Baker, who braided, when
twelve years old, the first straw bonnet
| in the United States, having as Q model
and guide only . bonnet imported from
England, died Mt West Dsdham, Mass.
Sunday week, aged 90 years.
II is stated by xn eminent English
authority that tho life of coins is much
briefer than before the, introduction o.
of steam for passenger travel. This II
attributed to the, almost constant at
triton to which they arc subjected BY
being carried about and the consequent
passage Of them from hand to hand.
Itistold ofthe lsts Niss: Milford, tha'
she once bought turbsn on her way te
an evening party, and put 1t an in th'
carriage before her arrival; but the de
light ofths gusatsk knew no bounds whel q
she appearedin the drawing-rooms still
fcsrrying on heS head dress the shop
ticket, which described her ~ eYer,
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