The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-28
CURRENT ITEMS.


solved on Saturday to abandon the cen
tai system.
The collections in Boston for the des
titute at the South now amount to s36,
9s2 90.
There are 220 places in Providence
r. l., it is said, where liquor is sold or
Sunday.
There are snow-drifts in the western
part of Massachusetts, ten to fifteen feet
deep.
Minnesota has selected 10000 acres
of land under the agricultural college
act.
The Empress Carlotta is GONZALES
cent, and writes regularly and scnsibly
to her family.
A fire in Earlville, Lasalle county, IL
linois, on Saturday, destroyed sl25,OO(
worth of pIoperty.
Kossuth has written letter protest,
ing against the present relations OF
Hungary and Austria.
The Detroit Board of Trade has
abandoned the GENITAL system in conse
quence of the action Of neighboring
cities.
During the present session of Con,
gress about one hundred and fifty bills
have been introduced in thetw houses,
Eight thousand tuns of rails have
been ordered from England, to repair
the Canada Grand Trunk Railway
track.
The lease of the fremont House prop
erty in Boston has been renewed to Mr.
Stevens, at q rent of $35, 900 year, fol
ten years.
A Mrs. Eaton committed suicide a.
Galesburgh, Mich, on Monday night by
shooting herself through the head will
a pistol.
Colored people will hereafter ride il
the street cars of Philadelphia, will
white people, instead of cars set apart
for them-the law so declaring.
The Oswego Board of Trade has re
solved not to adopt the GENITAL system
until it is put in practical operation in
the markets of New York, Chicago ant
Milwaukee.
The Chicago tunnel has been formally
opened, with speech-making, gun-firing
&c. The whole arrangement for thu
supply of water to the city will cost
complete, s2,50O,0O0.
Another centennarian has been dis
covered in Buffalo in the person of Mrs
Mary Pelow, who will be 102 years old
OH the Goth of next July. Mrs. Pelow
resided in Rochester in 1889.
The difference of time between Lon
don and New York, and which the elec
trio cable makes matter of some con
sequence, has lately been ascertained
afresh. 1t is 4 hours 50 minutes and
1895 seconds.
Discoveries have been made in Sian
of ruined city ten leagues in diameter
with temples so vast that it took an
explorer one hour and half to climf
the stairs to the first floor. Whew.
A circus rider few evenings ago, Oh
a wager, rode one of the circus horse.
from the bottom to the top of the cir
cular stairs leading to the dome on the
Court House, at Chicago. The dome il
one hundred feet from the landing. The
stairs are not more than four feet wide
and the balusters not more than three
feet high. The daring performance at
tracted a large crowd.
Mcfarland, who lately shot the cor
respondent, Richardson, followed hi.
wife after she had gone home to hel
father in Boston, to get possession o.
her two children. The Court decided
that she had been a dutiful wife, and
had supported her family, including
Mcfarland, for years; that she was theil
natural protector, and therefore gave
the children into her custody.
There. have been several extensive
land slides on tho river below New Al
bauy, strip of one hundred feet il
width having disappeared in one place
and the destruction of whole farms il
expected from the next rise. The
Ledger tells of well which was carried
away-"the brick, windlass and hole al
disappearing" with the adjacent land
and adds, "This is a very singular oc
currence, IL true
Mr.. john Thompson, KNOWN as "Smok'
ing Johnny" from his inveterate use Of
tobacco, died last week at Salem, Ind,
at the age of over one hundred years
1t was noticeable in his case, as in that
of many other centenarians, that while
he recollected scarcely anything that
took place within the last few years
his memory of events which occurred
in his early days was remarkably vivid
and tenacious.
A family named Haight, residing al
Ionia, Mich, we're taken sick some few
days since with what was thought to be
trichiniosis. Two of the family have
since died, and from their bodies por.
tions of muscle were taken. These, or
being submitted to examination under
powerful microscope, revealed the
presence of the trichina spiraiis in per.
feet swarms. The number to the inch
was estimated at 10000.
The shoddy manner in which houses
are built in New York and Brooklyn is
illustrated by o recent accident in the
latter city. There had just been com
pleted block of three story houses,
the end one of which, corner house,
was to be partly occupied as drug
store. A family was preparing to move
in, but fortunately did not complete
their preparations, for the house fell
down, collapsed into heap of bricks
and timber. 1t is complained that hun
dreds of tenements are liable to just
such accidents. -r
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