The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-05
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
Calico balls rage in Hartford.
The followers of Stevens are called
Thadicals.
The first shad sold in New York for
six dollars.
Carlotta Patti is building gorgeous
villa at Nice.
A "matrimonial bureau has been
opened at New York.
There are two thousand Good Tenn
plars in Vermont.
Santa Anna is still in New York, or
Elizabeth, N. j.
Teachers, salaries in Dublin range
from $50 to $500 per annum.
The salary of q bareback rider IN
Havana is 900 per week in gold.
A large fish that had passed through
q pipe was found in Buffalo boiler
nearly cooked. Fishy.
A gay duke in Paris recently de-
ceased, was noted as the possessor OF
2,700 waistcOats.
The growth and development of the
grain trade of California is wonder
full accomplishment.
The new Constitution of Missouri
gives married women in that State the
right to make wills.
1t takes more money to run the
Freedmen's Bureau than it did the
whole Government under Jefferson.
A Canadian paper says Canada can
never prosper as a purely agricultural
country.
New York has twenty thousand more
school children than there are inhabit-
ants in Boston.
California yielded in 1886, 100000
gallons of wine. 1t aspires to five mil
lions.
Workmen in Birmingham get up the,
inside of a watch for eighteen shillings.
An icicle in Newark fell and smashed q
twenty dollar bonnet.
A Baltimore paper speaks of Mr.. Ray
mond as that political tiibbertigibbet."
Trade and commerce are steadily inn
proving in Ireland.
Philadelphia is about to build 81 ,OOO,-
900 worth of new school houses.
A deep religious interest pervades all
portions of Vermont.
An Italian engineer, n. Geralgo, of
Trent, has invented needle-gun which
fires fifteen shots per minute.
James S. Blaine, of Maine, is said to
be the handsomest man in the United
States House of Representatives.
4 worthless fellow in Chicago stole
the funds his mother had appropriated
to attend tine death bed of daughter.
A wealthy merchant at Salem, Massa-
chusetts, gave $4,000 in New Year
presents Of $1,000 each to his poor re-
lations.
The shipwreck ofa British steamer near
the entrance of the port ofNew York is
going to cost the United States the sum
Of 800, 900.
The Radicals of Indiana talk Of i'm
peaching the Supreme Court of that
State for having decided the law taxing
dogs to be CONSTITUTIONAL
A young scamp representing himself
to be the son of Commodore Wander
bilt, has succeeded in deceiving West
ern steamboats, and railroads TO pass
him free -,r
The reporter Of an English journal
gives humorous account of his being
transported across the river on, the back
of COW; the ferry-man being ruddy
scotch lassie of seventeen. r.-
The States are to be allowed their
constitutional status when necessary to
further some plan of the ruling party,
but when people ask for representation
in Congress, then the States suddenly
fade into Territories and the people
have no rights in a corporate capacity.
Some of the strong-minded danes
who hold clerkships in the Treasury
Department are very wrathy because
they cannot have "tea clubs" at which
an hour or so in the middle Of each day
will be devoted to tea-and-tattle, in
stead of the work of the Department.
We shall yet have debate in the House
as to whether il is proper to permit
teapots in the Treasury Department.
Hash. CORES.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion of Raleigh, n. c., acknowledge the
receipt of si25 from New York and Bal
timore for the poor of Raleigh.
1t will surprise some people to learn
that the Federal military still occupy
the executive mansion at Raleigh, n. c.,
to the exclusion Of the Governor Of the
State.
The Methodist Colored Conference,
which has been in session in Petersburg
for some days, have divided the State
of Virginia into nine conference dis
tricts.
At one period of the late freeze the
country mills in Virginia were closed
up TO such an extent that farmers sent
grists of corn to the Fredericksburg |
mills, n distance of twenty miles.