The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-11
CURRENT ITEMS.
The season for murders has set in.

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The cholera continues TO scourge por-
/ tions of Italy, ~
Maximilian's wife is dying from soft
ening of the brain. ~
An insane man shot his father dead in
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. q =
Prus.ia's war levies amount to over
al, 900, 900 in gold. gE q 80
An Indiana Radical styles Horace
Greeley Hdish- water patriot"
Nine hundred gold medals will be
distributed at the Paris Exposition.
The grocers in Philadelphia have
formed black list of dilatory debtors.
|, The French Company are about $685.
900 "ont" on the Great Eastern.
California papers pretend that the
recent earthquake there was no great
shakes. ...a...
A memoir of Gen. James Oglethorpe,
the founder of Georgia, has just ap-
peared in London ,.-.-f9 ~ ~.
The fishers at Camden. Me-, made
Sl750 at one haul, taking $500 lbs of
salmon.
The biggest rat in the world, the Rus
sian autoc-rat, is merrily whisking his
tail in Paris.
Minister Bancroft has received his
instructions, and will leave for Berlin
next week.
The champagne business, like the
wine. is lively. The sales for some
years past netted $l2S, ,240,000.
A Peruvian surgeon, who gives ladies
small feet by cutting off the httle.toe,
is about to visit New York.
Lucy Stone says that in her late mis-
sion to Kansas she found negroes every
where opposed to female suffrage.
They have an artificial horse at the
Paris Exhibition which will travel
twenty-five miles upon each winding
up.
A married man in Williamsburg, aged
forty, ran away with his wife's niece,
aged twenty-five, on Tuesday last
Twenty million dollars will be paid
from the Treasury in the next ten days
in redemption of ccmpound-interest
notes. r-
Mr.. P. Cooke, fifty-fve years old,
formerly of the firm of Cooke & Allen,
in Cleveland, is mysteriously missing
from that place.
Congressman John Morrissey is the
purchaser of Barnum's beautiful resi-.
dence at Bridgeport, Conn. The price
paid was S65,OOO. .g
A Dublin paper says a fearful blight
has set in among the early planted po-
tatoes in ireland, and whole fields are
affected by disease. ~
3 The Board of Alderman in Providence
'resolved" that prohibition is not the
way to control the liquor business, and
then proceeded to license.
The Cleveland cooperative store re-
ports q dividend of over twenty per
cent. OH the capital invested, on its first
years operations.
The Richmond Ind.) Telegraph tells
of a Wayne county man who took his
family to the circus last Monday, and
sold his cooking stove to get money to
buy tickets. $3.50.
The singular anomaly has occurred OF
one of Maximilian's war vessels captur-
ing prize off Yucatan, which, cannot
be sold because the captor does not hold
a port. r...
The King of Abyssinia remains true
to his declaration of love for, Queen
Victoria, and declares he will hold the
English Consul in prison until she con-
sents to give him her hand.
The editor of the Lawrence (Kansas)
Tribune says that in one hour he counted
on one dry, sandy ridge, ten hundred
thousand million grasshoppers, and left
some uncounted.
The farmers in Delaware county, Iowa,
have Just discovered that they have
wheat for sale, and are disposing of it
ut 81 so q bushel. A few weeks ago
they refused to sell at 81 25.
tits understood that Secretary McCul-
loch contemplates an early and perma-
nent reduction of the force employed in
the Treasury Department, in conse-
Quence of rapidly diminishing business.
The rumor goes at Milan that jeal-
Gus husband disguised himself as q
I priest, entered the confessional attend-
ed by his wife, heard her confession,
which revealed the secrets he feared
and which have led him to sue for di-
vorce.
i Alaw.is proposed in Illinois to pun
| ish those found guilty of "that social
eviln which is represented to be alarm
ingly on the increase. In New England
the crime is so prevalent as t. excite
the concern even of the clergy.
An enthusiastic temperance man in
Fitchburg, Mass, has just had private
still confiscsted by the State constables.
\ He had been carrying on the distilling
busin ess very profitably for some time,
while loudly advocating prohibition.
At the Ohio State Episcopal conven-
ton, in session at Cincinnati, on
Wednesday, Bishop McIlvaine, in the
course of his annual address, denounced
tractarianism and ritualism as unmiti-
gated idolatry, and concluded with the
hope that his diocese may long be
/ spared from its ravages.' ID = ~
Another political parson has come to
grief. Rev. James Davidson Dyke, of
Indiana, was excessively "loyslT dur
ling the war, and proved his orthodoxy
and love of country by melting several
riots against "Copperheads.n- A few
days ago he was arrested for horse
stealing, and it is said several clear
cases win be made out against him. =.
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