The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

A pnblic fair in aid of the Cretans is
soon to be held at Boston.
General Charles P. Stone is in charge
of coal mine near Richmond.
Bonner, the owner of the Ledger and
Dexter, has a summer residence in Len
nOx. .-....-.s
There are more young men in the
Maine State Prison than at any time
before.
The New York City Hall bell is the
largest bell in the country and weighs
ten tons.
The United States steamship Susque-
hanna has arrived at Newport, r. l.,
from Hampton Roads.
The new telegraphic line connecting
Norfolk, Va, and Weldon, n. c., is in
full operation.
Mr.. VIM. McElderry, of Lynchburg,
Va, died few days ago in New Or
leans, of yellow fever.
Hon. Henry J. Raymond, of the New
York Times, has returned from Europe.
NJ. Beaudelaire, French poet, known
as the translator Of De Quincy and Poe,
died in Paris on the lst of September.
The cost of bringing the statues of
Nelson and Lewis from Europe to the
capitol square, Richmond, was $500.
John w. H. Hill, of Culpepper Court
House, Virginia, died of yellow fever
in New Orleans, 18th instant. He was
a brother of General A. p. Hill.
Edward White, the Milwaukee pork
packer who filed his barrels with salt
and sand, has been sentenced to three
years in State prison.
A new Masonic hall was dedicated at
Stonington, Ct., on Thursday, by the
grand officers of Connecticut, assisted
by the grand officers of Rhode Island.
A man recently swan across Niagara
river, starting from the ferry on this
side and landing on the Canada side
nearly opposite the towers of the new
suspension bridge.
A young COW whale, about eight feet
long, was harpooned in New London
Harbor, on Friday morning, and put on
exhibition at ten cents per sight.
Thursday, September II, was the 10th
birthday of Rev. Samuel J. May, of
Syracuse, who has been for twenty
three years pastor Of the Unitarian
Church, in that city.
Miss Goodwin, aged y, daughter of
Reuben Goodwin, of COrinth, Maine,
got separated from 6lackberrying par
", and is hOpelessly lost in the woods.
The new postmaster at Wilmington,
n. c. (E. R. Brink, formerly a lieuten-
ant colonel on the staff of General Kill
patrick has appointed George L. Nab
son, a cOlOred man, clerk in the post
office in that city.
Rev. Newman Hall, Rev. Charles
Kingsley and another famous English
writer are in New York. Dickens
writes that he will he here by Christ
mas at the farthest. Surgeons coming
is also talked of.
The Massachusetts, Temperance Con-
vention met at Worcester OH Tuesday.
DR.. Eddy, of Boston, was chosen presi-
dent. Addresses were made by Senator
Wilson and others.
Forty emigrants from East Tennessee
and North Carolina, including men,
women and children, passed through
Kansas City on the 18th inst. en- route
for Colorado.
Recent experiments prove, so ha-
vana paper says, that the leaf of pota'
tato is perfect substitute for tobacco.
Then we shall soon have cigars of '!Mer-
cer-filler" and Pink-eye-wrapper"
A young girl of inceudiary tendencies
was caught in Cincinnati, and accord
ing to the papers Ishe confessed in an
"artless manner" to having set some
dozen houses on fire.
At Sing Sing Prison motto is read:
"The way of the tarnsgressOr is hard,
and Immediately under it,
"Visitors to the prison - cents each"
A religious paper that once defended
Merrill at this late day pitches into him
and says that God or man cannot re-
ceive him back unless he makes bet
ter confession.
4 train OIL the Northwestern railroad
in the western part of Iowa, was a few
days since delayed one hour and quar-
ter by grasshoppers, which covered the
track so thick that the engine drivers
slipped on the rails.
Commander John s. WinslOw, the
hero of the Kearsarge and Alabama
fight, received an ovation last week at
the Winslow House, new hotel named
in his honor on Kearsarge Mountain,
New Hampshire.
The Memphis -lralGRche tells ola Ger
man who settled in West Tennessee In
1868, upon a capital of 500 and good
health, hired farm at 5000 rent, clear
ed $1,000 the first year, bought the farm
at slO,OOO, and has now become
wealthy landed proprietor.