The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-16
CURRENT ITEMS.
The sFl French OH are adding whale to their
dishes Of fish. ii W. III

freedmen III some OF the LOulslaHa pal
ishes.
Girls. twelve years old are practising
in the art of pocket-picking in Cincin'
natl.
A cave greater than the Kentucky
mammoth cave is reported in Southern
Illinois.
Mild cases of cholera and cholera
infantum are quite frequent in Phila'
delphia.
The story that Sheridan is to be i'm
diately removed is again current IN
Washington.
Last Wednesday the thermometer in
dicated ninety mine degrees in the shade
at st. Paul.
At Quincy, Illinois, bridge is con-
structing across the Mississippi which
will cost S2,OOO,0OO.
The mackerel fleet from Provinceton'
Massachusetts, are doing poorly. The
fish are scarce.
Bankruptcy is expensive. One ad-
vertisement for the bankrupt Joseph
Barker, of New Orleans, cost $1,000
The Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
is completed to within fifteen miles of
Des Moines, Iowa.
General Pope has issued another bull
relative to the enforcement of the re-
construction laws in his district.
King Sheridan complains bitterly of
the sayings and doings Of General Reus-
seau, in New Orleans, recently.
The whites of Mississippi are, it is
said, developing a rational and earnest
sympathy for the education of fthe freed
men.
Ex-Congressman John Wentworth
was thrown from buggy in Chicago,
on Monday night, and had his leg bad
ly broken. -e,
The safe of the Columbia Hotel, at
Saratoga, was carried off on Monday
night. 1t contained but $50.
There were one hundred and forty
six deaths in Chicago last week, against
one hundred and seventy.six for the
same week last year. ~ y
The Colorado Register says there are
few persons in that Territory whose in
comes are less than one thousand dol
lars year.
David Kurtz. Chief of Police at La
fayette, Indiana, died on Saturday
morning from too much morphine, taken
as n remedy for diarrhea.
Mr.. Webster, of Covington, Kentucky,
a tanner of horses, nearly lost his life, on
Saturday, at Mnrfreesboro, Tennessee,
by kick from horse.
Some impious scoundrel stole three
months contributions OF the Sunday
school scholars of a church i'll Paw
tucket, Massachusetts, the O6her day.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ex-
tended the privilege of converting the
7-30s falling due OIL the 18th inst. into
5-20s until September 18th.
A doctor removed, the other day, a
frog from the stomach of a young lady
at Peacham, Massachusetts, from which
she had been suffering for ten years.
The st. Joseph (MissourD common
council have subscribed 100000 in city
bonds to aid various railroad enter
prises. The city has 81 300, 600 taxable
property.
Mr.. Bradley disclaims any intention
of fighting a duel with Judge Fisher,
aEd says his note to the Judge was not
challenge but demand for personal
explanation.
Lizzie Carey, of Columbus, Ohio, at
tempted TO commit suicide by taking
laudanum, few days since, because her
lover escorted another girl TO circus.
A physician prevented any fatal result.
The Hoosac tunnel is going on, or in,
little more rapidly. In July the bore
from the east end was pushed one hun
dred and thirty-one feet, and on the
western end one hundred and twenty
three feet were made.
Hackmen who overcharge their Gus
toners are to he remembered hereafter
in New York, The police authorities
record the names of all hackmeu COM
planned of for this offense, aud their Ii
censes will not be renewed when ap-
piled for at the expiration of the term
for which they are granted.
A funny tub race occurred at Chelsea,
Mass, a few days since. There were
four competitors, the winner taking
the tubs as his prize, and the last man
in being compelled to 90 unshaven for
two months. Charles II. Davis was the
lucky man and Frank Haskill the un-
fortunate.
The company who are authorized to
erect an experimental half mile of ele-
waited railway up Greenwich street,
New York, have commenced near the
Battery, placing the foundation masonry
for the columns. The wrought iron su-
perstructure is under contract, and in
the course of about two months it will
be placed upon the foundations. The
iron guide for the return rope, placed
below the pavement is also being put
in. ~
On Monday, in Cairo, negro girl said
to be young, handsome and attractive,
attempted TO commit suicide by taking
poison, but by the timely application of
sutidotes was saved. Her cause for the
rash act was that the cook of the steam
er General Anderson, with whom she
was devotedly and desperately in love,
was about to leave the city, and she
rcouldn't exist without him.
Z DariDg a recent rain storm a man
camped on Muddy Greek, near sedalia.
His wagon was loaded with goods and
was drawn by three horses 1t being
inconvenient to get breakfast in the
rain, he went to the nearest house (half
a mile) to obtain that desirable item on
q wet morning. In about an hour he
returued In find his wagon pands and