The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-01
CURRENT ITEMS.
Bananas are to be tried in Califor-

Agassiz says the Florida reefs were
10000 years-in building.
Registration will end in Louisiana on
the last of this month.
Eight inquests were held by the
Coroner of Chicago on the 23d inst.
The prince of Wales has just been
making second visit to Paris.
The races at Saratoga Springs COM
mence on the 9TH of August.
One hundred and eighty eight acres on
the Hudson river sold for S50,s00.
Two Englishmen have climbed Mount
Blanc this summer, the first since last
years mishaps.
Frank Fitch, a well-known billiardist
at Troy, made the unparalleled score of
1850 points one day last week.
Ristori is not captivating the atten-
tion. of the public As much in Paris as
she did in the United States.
The Troy Times says that Congress
man Morrissey made upwards of $780,
900 in stock operations in Wall street
last week.
The remains of Table Rock, Niagara
Falls, were destroyed by a charge of
200 pounds of powder, on Friday.
The Boston Post says: Brigham
Young promises to abolish polygamy
when the Union is reconstructed, He
is safe for the next two years.
A Mississippi paper thinks General
Ord was omitted from the vote of
thanks because he was the only COM
mander who had failed to get up riot.
Fifteen hippopotamus' hides were re-
Gently sent to tannery in New Boston,
Massachusetts,, to be tanned. They
were in halves, and weighed together
$500 pounds.
The Meadville Republican says every
body is crazy at Oil City under the
stimulus of the advancing oil market,
which has gone up over 100 per cent, in
three weeks.
Pennsylvania is excited over sope
supposed discoveries of gold. Twelve
hundred acres of land haze changed
hands in Wyoming county on the
strength of the report.
The washerwomen of Montana have
resolved that no Cinnamon shall en-
croach upon their business. They en-
force the resolution with tooth and
nail.
The New York Times recently chron.
icled the arrangements for funeral
under the head of "Out Door Sports"
A wake would be indoor amusement.
The Republican State Convention for
the nomination of candidates for State
officers in Wisconsin will meet in Madi-
son the 4th of September next.
Most of the gold now going to Euro pc
is to pay the expenses of persons now
travelling there, and it is estimated
that they will spend sl0,000,000 this
season.
In Cleveland a negro baby fell out
of window and nearly killed gentle
man passing along the street. .-Er-
change.
He had nigger on the brain.
Last week 1,O33 immigrants arrived
in Columbus, 3i7 of whom intend to
settle in Ohio, 81 in Indiana, 90 in Ken
tucky, and the remainder i'll other States
further West.
The Connecticut Legislature ad-
journed sine die on Saturday, after
session of three months. The constitu-
tional amendment, giving suffrage to all
citizens, male and female, was lost-93
to Ill.
On a terrace at Portsmouth, England,
past which the railroad trains rush
with tremendous speed, the society for
promoting the Gospel have caused to
be inscribed, Prepare TO meet thy
God"
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In regard to education, country ed
itor thinks that subjecting all Children
to the same system of instruc ton is
like boiling large and small p otatoes in
one pot and for like number of min
utes. Some of them get done, and some
do not.
A Norwegian woman, dressed in
homespun, brief and limp, who, only
seven weeks from her native land, ar
rived at Milwaukee one day last week,
was seen two hours after with q bran
new hoop skirt under her arm, Just en-
tering a car for Minnesota.
A German boy of fifteen or sixteen
years plead guilty in St. Louis court,
the other day, to the charge of murder,
committed on three persons in Colum-
bia Bottom some time ago. He did not
seem to comprehend what he was do
ing, and the Judge refused TO accept the
plea. He will pe regularly tried.
A young lady of a respectable family
at Pittsburgh, was arrested by the
police last Wednesday, disguised as a
negress, having blackened her face and
neck with oil and charcoal. 1t seems
that she was suspicious Of another
young lady being on too intimate terms
with her lover, and she expected to sur
prise then in disguise.
AQuaker gentleman riding in car
riage with fashionable lady, decked
with profusion of fjewelry, heard her
complain of the cold. Shivering in
her lace bonnet, and shawl as light as a
cobwes, she exclaimed: "What shall
do to get warm - az really don't
know replied the Quaker solemnly,
unless thee put on another breast
pinn