The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

to practice law.
Fred. Douglas returns an income of
$6ll6.
The east end of the Hoosac tunnel has
the measles.
An attempt will be made in New York
to enforce the law against profanity
More than q million dollars are ex-
pended In this country annually for cut
flowers.
The leading avenue of Cleveland is
geometrically laid out and is called Eu-
cid.
Tilton abandons religion for politics.
The latter pays him better.
A young lady has been asleep twelve
years out West. Marriage would open
her eyes. t-'
The Bishop of Brooklyn is opposed to
the clergymen keeping trotting horses.
A Radical paper in New York says
that party has become "dwarfed and
debased in mind" lt.E II iEFl
\
While the debt of Democratic Con-
necticut is going down, that of Radical
Massachusetts is going mp.
The shipment of gold from New York
on Saturday, amounted to two million
dollars.
Swallowing o bit Of oyster shell caus'
ed the death of poor Charles Campbell
in Cincinnati. ttt r
The Second National Bank of Chicago
has voluntarily ceased to be depOsito-
ry of public money.
A Cambridge schoolmistress tried to
knock down the wall of room with a
boys head, bat was not successful.
A majority of the press in Wisconsin
and Kansas have an ~ guess not" posi-
tion on female suffrage in those States.
A ysung man named Mahn, convicted
in New York of killing S. S. Garland,
has been sentenced to the State prison
for life. ... ssgsF
An exchange says the tan-cOlored lady
who presides over the household affairs
of Thad. Stevens attempted to cOwhide
an editor.
4 couple of Central African kings,
Goneche and George Popell, have con-
tributed so cents apiece to the Voltaire
statue at Paris.
"a Cordelia Howard, the original Little
Evan In Uncle Toms Cabin, is aGout to
resppear upon the stage in q leading
character.
1t is said that George Bancroft, the
historian, declines the appointment OF
Minister to Prussia, offered him by the
President.
Rev. DIR. Knox, of Mason City, (nl.,)
was killed few days since by falling
down well in consequence of the
breaking of rope.
There was manufactured and sold in
the town of Cambridge, VT, last year,
over three hundred tons of butter,
which, at thirty eight cents, the aver
age price paid, amounted to two hun
dred and twenty eight thousand dol
lars.
Slanderous gossip impelled young
lady in Michigan to end her existence
With strychnine, and to leave letter
With instructions to tell those who
tried to injure her that they might en-
joy the privilege over her grave.
Secretary Seward and Attorney Gen.
cral Stanbery were examined before the
Judiciary committee in the matter of
the impeachment, on Saturday. Ashley
is still in Washington, officiating for
the committee.
Thursday afternoon little boy aged
three years, son of Mr.. Fisher, residing
ut the corner of Bedford and Grosvenor
streets, Birmingham, Pa, accidentally
fell into kettle of boiling water, and
was scalded so badly that he died about
six o'clock in the evening.
The ship Palmas from New York, for
Valparaiso, with war materials for the
Chilian Government, put into st. Thom-
as recently, in a leaking condition. She
was Immediately blockaded by two
Spanish men-of- war, and will probably
have to unload.
An Omaha dispatch says that there
are large numbers Of Indiansnear Forts
Sedgwick, Saunders and Phil Kearney,
with hostile intentions. Troops are
constantly being sent to these points,
and General Augur is using all the
means in his power to prevent hostili-
ties, or in the event of war to effectually
chastise the Indians. .gsrE FssE
The New York Eypress, Of Saturday,
says: The horseshoers, it is said, have
completed arrangements for q strike on
Monday next, unless they can obtain
the increased remuneration they will
then ask. The "floormen" demand 50 SO
and firemen S3 75. About two hundred
men have signified their intention of
puItiCipatihS'
On the 4th instant, large iceberg
grounded ut the entrance Of Hearts
Content Harbor, Newfoundland. Four
days later it moved of, but appears to
have damaged one of the Atlantic CO.
bles-that Of ls68-in passing over it.
The injury, it is thought, will be easily
repaired. Meanwhile, the old cable of
1866 is in perfeet order, and comRuni-
cation between Europe and America un-
interrupted.
A dispatch from St. Panl, MINI an
nounces that Moses A. Hawks, who kill
cd his wife to get the insurance on her
life has been indicted for murder in the
first degree. The lady was a young
bride, and was killed by the discharge
of pistol which her husband MAS clean
ing. No suspicion attached to him at
the time, bnt subsequently, he was ar
rested, examined and discharged. 1t
now appears that he has been indicted
by grand jury.
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