The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

.CURRENTalIEMS.
Alaw suit in Illinois involves nearly
s., 0,000. 1877 ~ '.o.'. 49, =.-a"
Owing to the deep snow, quail are be-
ing taken in large Numbers by pot-hant-
ers about New Haven.
Great quantities of venison are being
exported from Canada just now to the
American market.
There is o; large surplus Of labor Mt
Buffalo, Rochester, and other cities in
New York State.
The Alta California says mining made
more progress in that State last year
than before since 1853. a.. l'.
Twenty years ago the assessed valua-
ton of Providence, r. l., was S25,5OO,-
600; now it is $s3, 400, 900. =. ..,. .- .4ra
About two dozen first class houses on
Fifth avenue arc for sale, prices ranging
from $4,000 to 100000. l',r.. -. " -,
On account of peculiar aspects Of the
moon, astronomers conjecture that q
volcano in that orb 10 in o state of erup-
ton. .'yglaF 4sll ~ tS-st sos ~ go
Workmen are now busily engaged in
reconstractiag ST. i Patdck's .Cahedral
in New York City, which WAS destroyed
by fire in October last. ''".4N
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The total number of hogs packed in
the West this season, according to the
Illinois. Journal, is 1,4l6,74l against
/, ,399 12l last year. ,','..n, ''' '.' 80, 20
The biggest sn6w-storm that ever has
occurred in New England $50 far as
knowp) was one hundred and fifty fears
ago, on February 20 and 81, I'LL. 1t
fell from eight to ten feet deep. 80"
Ryland's Iron Trade Circular (Eng.)
gives the particulars Of 347 joint stock
companies in course Of liquidation, with
capital varying from f5,OOo,oOo down to
$4,000. l..I
The agricultural land scrip of New
Hampshire, under the law Of Congress
appropriating public land for an Agri-
cultural College, was sold on Wednes-
day for $4,000 to a banker named Lew
is, of Ohio.
The professors of the Sheffield Scien-
tifc School at Yale College are going
to give b course OF ls popular lectures
on scientific subjects, for the benefit OF
the mechanics and workingmen of the
city! t.3 jQbL9 ."i IL
They have bad water in Philadelphia.
At times, according to the Bnlletia, "the
decoction becomes so strong and of
fensive that it is absolutely not fit to
be drunk by human beings"
A manufacturing establishment in
Erie, Pennsylvania, has purchased one
of the abandoned oil holes, and is abun-
dainty supplied from it with gas for
lighting and heating purposes, and with
a large surplus to spare. ~H .
Two gentlemen near Farmington,
Connecticut, counted LAO quails in one
flock, after the late great snow storm.
Others in neighboring towns have seen
very large .hocks. The birds are quite
poor now, and hardly fit for the table.
Preliminary steps have been taken by
the Hawaiian Government to negotiate
o treaty with Japan, extending to the
Sandwich Islands the rights and priv
ileges granted in 1853 to the United
States, England and France, and subse-
quently to Italy and Holland.
The costliest watch that was ever
made is said to have been one which was
constructed in 1874 for the Sultan Abdul
Medjid, who must have found it rather
inconvenient, since it was five inches in
diameter, and strnck the hours and
quarters on wires, with a sound resem-
bling that of a powerful cathedral clock.
IL cost 200 guineas.
A French newspaper states, with re-
sNru " .ho p"f'.'iNU'SS iounu - .Ao p''"
to, that "the microscope reveals to us
the existence of small black spot, Of
the diameter of pins head, in the po-
tato. In this small space can be detect
Cd dkme 200 ferociOus animals of a
coleopteric form, which bite and tear
each other with continued fury. 1t is
easy to comprehend the potato disease
;nn Mn'n 'u ." '''
49,
NJ heisehs nus iounu 'na' 'oo''.o'
irom various countries oon'an h,'o',n'
IN 'er! u'nof'n' propof.'on'' II w.
Daceo rom some paris ., Ut, rlan'e 80 N.g.
i'ao t0Pa. sa ' n.U.rn =. 80 80 " = -,
eight OF ~, PCT cs'nt' Oh nieotihe' llco' "hiie
Havana tobacco contains only two per
cent. He proposes to smokers way of
nreserv;no than frsm the effects OF the
aikalo;d. and advises them to put into
the tube of the pipe or cigar-holder q
little BAN of cotton impregnated with