The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-09
CURRENT ITEMS.
Anew York paper frowns upon court.
ing in the street cars.

/ A New York paper frowns upon court
ing in the street cars.
An English clergyman has sued Tor o
divorce on the ground of his wife's cru
|, city.
The prize for virtue at Nanterre was
taken this year by Il ballet girl.
Ward Beecher denies that he takes q
glass Of ale the first thing in the morn
ing.
Georgia has built more than seventy
cotton factories since the war.
A German husband in Milwaukee
hung himself to the bed-post.
There was considerable cutting up
On the Fourth.
An Illinois farmer sold his crop OF
Strawberries for $4,000.
All the brothels in st. Louis have
beer suppressed. They were owned
mostly by one woman, who returned an
income of $4,000.
California papers say that San Fran
cisco sends away forty tons OF silver and
six tons of gold every month, and that
the State exports 10000 tons of copper
annually.
The son of John Y. Mason has got
commission in the Freach army in
Algiers.
Brown challenges Hamill for race
in Portland harbor for $4,000.
BY the death of her father, in Bath,
England, the wife of Col. G. l.. Eber-
hardt, of Macon, Superintendent of
Freedmen's Schools in Georgia, has fallen
heir to an estate valued at over 81 ,OOO,-
600, which will be divided between her
self. a brother and two sisters.
The editor of the Clermont (Ohio)
Courier has been shown twenty-five
members of the weevil family in one
head of wheat. He says it is reported
that in some portions of that county
whole fields will not be worth harvest
ing.
The Washington County Fair for
1867, is to be held in Marietta, Oh
Wednesday and Thursday, September
18th and 10Th.
DR.. Lincoln Goodale, of Columbus, is
the only survivor of all who went to
Marietta in 17SS-the first year Of the
settlement. He will be eighty-five
years of age on the 25th of this month.
He went to Marietta with his parents,
with the first women and children of
the settlement, in August, 1888.
a sensible Virginian suggests that
marble monuments for Confederate dead
will not feed the starving Confederate
widows and orphans.
Somebody says"a wife should be like
roasted lamb-tender and nicely
dressed" scamp adds, "and without
any sauce.'-N. q. Pic.
A girl six years old was picked up
drunk in the street of Il Connecticut
town laSC week,
A young lady named White was kill
ed at Middletown, Conn, on Friday, by
the mistake of druggist, who mixed
! laudanum instead of rhubarb in pre-
scription prepared for her.
A fruit grower in Loveland, o., sue
ceeded this season in raising one bushel,
three peck s, and three quarts of straw
berries from square rod of ground.
Hon. Lazarus w. Powell, Ex-Governor
of Kentucky, and late United States
Senator, died at his residence in Hen
derson, Kentucky, July Sd, of paralysis,
aged fifty-tive years.
John C. Breckenridge writes from
Paris to friends in Kentucky, that he is
tired of the hubbub of the Exposition,
and contemplates leaving for Switzer-
land. He will sail for Canada in Sep
tember with his family.
NJ. Emile Pereire is President of
twelve or fifteen joint stock companies,
whose aggregate capital is S74S, ,OOO, 900.
His influence in Paris may be imagined.
Cleveland seems to be desirous of i'm
itating Chicago. In a single paper one
day this week, we find these head lines :
Suicide or accidental drowning, a man
found in the river and identified; a man
stabbed on River street, arrest of the
perpctratOr; man shot and thrown in
| to the canal, no clue to the murderers;
terrible conflagration last night, oil re-
tneries destroyed, loss from 100000 to
$4,000.
The street cars will run in Cincinnati
on Sunday, despite clerical protest.
They have a swimming school in Phil
adelphia. 1t is described as large hall
and a vast bath-tub. One young girl is
said to have learned in six lessons
enough of the art to be able to swim
around the reservoir unaided. There
are dressing rooms and retiring rooms,
and various simple gymnastic contri-
vances, which are employed in order to
bring about the reaction that is so i'm
portant after bathing. The hours are
so arranged that young and old, male
and female, novices and experts, may
indulge in bathing and swimming, and
all without the infraction of the rules
of delicacy and propriety.
A farmer in Papstown, Illinois, hung
himself last week, the day after his
marriage to beautiful young girl,
because gossip said his wife had been a
prostitute.
Five boys have been killed and two
others mangled by the locomotives and
cars going through q single street of
Chicago during the last year and a half,
and the city council is taking the suo-
ject in hand.
Usage orange hedges are planted in
Illinois, cultivated and warranted for
one year at 80 cents per rod. In two
years they will keep out all stock, and
are warranted to last 800 years.