The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

The world breathes easier. Sumner
will not resign.
A religions interest progresses in Chi
cago.
Our western exchanges are flooded
with accounts Of the recent great flood.
The Americans are the thinnest of all
the European races.
American bellies are the most deter
mined fortune hunters at present in
Paris.
There is forty feet of snow at several
points in Bridger's Pass, Utah.
Rich mineral discoveries in Piscata-
quis county, Maine. Copper, so says
Dr. Hayes, I'm.
Mohammed Emir Pacha, the Turkish
Minister of Police, died recently, aged
) 100 years.
"LittIe Rhody" threatens to punish
any person who gets up masked ball
by fine of $500.
A ship from Australia, loaded with
wood, is expected at New York.
The Port that will be used by Ameri-
cans in Europe-Pass-port.-lCommer-
cial Bulletin.
A prohibitory liquor bill has been de-
feated in the Minnesota Legislature.
The Portland (Me.) Press nominates
Senator Fessenden for the next Presi-
dent.
The effects of the famous New York
restaurant, the Maison Dore, were sold
at auction on Tuesday.
Lead worth 81 100000 has been takeh
out from two sections of land in Grant
county, Wis. 80
The Sachems of Tammany Hall, in
New York, have again resolved 20 sell
that famous building
During the past three months more
murders were committed by females than
males.
Full length portraits of Lincoln and
Douglas are to be painted for the State
Capitol, at Springfield, Ill.
Napoleon managed to extract twelve
millions in specie from the Mexican
mines and got it safely home.
The New York Tribune says Mr.. Ste;
Vens is not likely to have much success
in urging confiscation, -
Harvard College now holds funds
amounting toS1 ,999, sos, from which the
income last year was Sl41, ,1lO.
81 never can see one-armed soldier"
said witty philanthropist, without
wishing to lend him q hand"
Strawberries sold in San Francisco,
Feb. IA, at 80 to 75 cents pound-about
q quart. Grown in the open air.
| In sixty years the increase of the
Anglo Saxon race, all over the globe,
has equaled the present population of
France.
A firm in Cincinnati advertised a
few days since for porter, and had
800 applications within the next twen-
| ty-four hours.
immortality of the most startling de-
scriptiom is said to be spreading by
means of an organized secret society
throughout the country. y
Ingersoll, the boat-builder has COM
pleted au improved duplicate of the lit
tie ship "Red, White and Blue," which
he expects to send to Vera Crvz.
Garabaldi sent his contribution of
money for the Voltaire statute, and
praised it as sign of the return of
France to progress and fraternity.
The election for delegates to the New
York Constitutional Convention will
take place on the 23d of April. Colored
men are to vote, and eX-COnfederates
and deserters are not.
The cold weather in the Northwest
| is the most intense of the season. The
Upper Mississippi is frozen solid-some-
| thing that has not occurred for many
years.
In 1327 Captain Perry placed at School
Point, in Spitzenbergen, Ga depot OF
meat, some beef in tin boxes, which was
/ taken to Stockholm and eaten recently,
having been found in perfect state of
preservation.
An Indiana paper gets off the follow
ing: "a love-sick Sucker sends us some
doggerel to print. Respectfully de-
clined. Go and tell the gal that you are
fool, without letting everybody else
know it,"
1t is suggested that Congress place
the sum of S1,OOO,OOO in the hands of
General Butler for distribution among
the suffering poor of the South, as
means of enlisting that gentleman In
the scheme.
The philosopher says that if We must
have uncomfortable weather, we might
as well have it in March as at any other
time. Thus far March appears to have
been in accord with the philosopher.
A burglar, while engaged in robbing
! house, on hearing slight noise ex-
claimed, "Hang it! if they catch me
with these spoons, / shall be sent to
Congress, sure v-Bufalo (N. ~ Id
| rerfiser.
Greeley says there are 100000 people
in New York to-day who, il they had
been placed in the garden of Eden
when Adam was, would have soon
starved to death there for want of some
one to pluck the fsgit and put it in
their mouths.
! A Vermont man recently bought
twenty-six railroad tickets, intending
to take his wife and twenty-four chill
dren to the West. Among the two
dozen are eleven pair of twins-all
boys.
1t was reported at the Capitol yes
terday, says the National Rep"otedn,
that Senator Wilson would, in pur-
suance of his temperance plan, introduce
resolution to remove Winnie Ream's
studio from the Capitol to prevent men,
bers from getting on bust there.
malignant cattle disease has broken
ont at Nox.fan, ul;no;s Jt usually