The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
There are $50 licensed liquor shops in
Chicago.
Grace Greenwood is lecturingin Iowa
In some cities the dull season is the
very carnival of advertising.
A feature of the times is the steady
withdrawal of money from the saving,
banks by the working classes.
In the United States we pay twelve
cents each for the Presidents salary.
A young man in New York was fined
IS for stepping on lady's dress.
A tape worm removed from man in
Brattleboro measures 546 inches in
length.
A Roman Mosaic picture has recently
been dug up at Salzburg.
The disruption motto is, blessed are
piece-makers.
VIM. NJ. Goodwin, chief clerk in the
Philadelphia postoffice, died last Satur-
day.
Governor Crapo, of Michigan, is again
reported seriously i'll.
The daily pay of the Prussian infant
~ soldiers has been raised to seven
cents.
A dear little girl of twelve summers
in New York died for love OF an actor.
A young man in Iowa, after his faith
er's death, married his step-mother.
Lancaster, Pa, has thieves so mean
that they steal Grape from the door
knockers.
A wonderful cat. in Cairo dances to
the music of piano-forte and can laugh
like child.
Street railways are about to be intro
duced in Dublin, Ireland.
Mr.. Barnum, the Snowman, is spoken
of as radical candidate for Congress in
Connecticut.
Up to the 14th ultimo London had
subscribed f1s,OOO for the sufferersIby
the colliery disasters.
A colored man was fined one dollar
and costs in New London for "groaning
like a'possum in meeting.
The statistics of Pennsylvania show
that but one citizen of every thousand
arrives at the age of sixty years.
The deepest gold mine in the Great
West is at Gold Hill, Nevada. 1t is 800
feet deep and has tunnel 100 feet in
length.
Jacob Bouvier has just died in Eng
land, leaving fl5,0OO, 900 and lawsuits
to multiplicity of collateral heirs.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion in Chicago give daily relief to IN
average of 40 poor families, at the ex-
penditure of $l65 81. y....
At st. Paul, Minnesota, four old peo-
pie, whose united age was about three
hundred years, danced a quadrille.
The noise made in the saloons of the
Capitol by men who desire to crush the
country is regarded with profound at
tention 10y Congress.
DR.. Usher Parsons in the only sur
viving commissioned officer who served
with Commodore Perry at the battle OF
Lake Erie.
L. N. Belknap, of Louisville, donated
one thousand loaves of bread to the
poor of that city on Wednesday.
1t 10 estimated that one hundred mil
lion feet of logs will be cut in the Up
per Missississippi this winter, and
eighty millions on the st. Croix.
1t costs s., ,OOO, 900 more to govern New
York than it does Philadelphia, whose
population is nearly as large as that of
the former city.
4 Pittsfeld divine does not consider
that the scriptures furnish any direct
prohibition Of the use of intoxicating
liquors.
A choked horse in New Haven,
was relieved by inserting street hose
into his mouth, and the water turned
on.
Rents are said to be on the down track
in Philadelphia, as well as in New
York-those Of the stores and count
ing rooms especially. = -ualis4
There is an aged colored woman ne
siding on Long Island, whose skull has
become 80 soft that her head appears to
be mass Of pulp. A physician has
II in his hand ashe would q
piece ofspongeS4a 1''rsa