The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-02
CURRENT ITEMS.
Chicago has ss5 lawyers.
Enfield has 200 shakers.

MI. Raymond VIII sail ior haSre III
July.
!, The Prince of Wales is rated severely
, for winning f70,000 on Hermit.
The Western papers, some of them,
! are for Pendleton for President.
Senator Chandler reported an income
Of SI2 ,94S last year.
The King of Prussia took private
box for Ristori's first appearance in
Paris. end.
There were 1888 persons in the recent
Masonic procession at Boston.
The Marquis of Hastings is reported
to have won flOO,O00 in London
"hell."
Augusta, Maine-he the young CO.
quctte-wishes a public park to spark
in. i.
General Geffrard is described as a
very black man with very white mus
tache.
British gold" is too abundant in
England. The bank holds thirty mil
lions.
For the first time in their lives, the
poor working girls in New York are to
have Home. ..
The Kansas Chief thinks that Horace
Greeley should be styled "Jetf. Davis
Pain Killer"
The Chicago penitentiary is so full
that seventy had to be turned out to
make room for new tenants.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of dia-
monds decorated n lady at recent
wedding party in Pitts6eld.
Not more than half the usual quanti-
ty of tobacco has been planted in the
Connecticut Valley the present season.
One of the "nOts" was left out of Mr..
Stanbery's opinion when sent South,
but it was still knotty affair for the
! Radicals.
Thirty thousand oysters have Just
been planted for breeding purposes III
the river Exc, in Devonshire, England.
The ladies put paregoric into the ice
cream at strawberry festival in Gin
cinnati to prevent injurious effects. The
eff .cts were not injurious but ludicrous.
DIR. Aver, the pill man, returns the
largest income in Lowell. This will
astonish people, particularly as the tax
on plate is included in the income iist'
Rebel Generals, as we'll as the rebel
President, are in favor with the New
York Tribune. Mr.. Greedy has Generals
Longstreet and Thompson in his lap
now; one OIL each knee.
Delmoniqo, who addresses the palate
of New York, returns an income Of
S2O6. .5O4; DIR. Bushnell, who addresses
the intellect of the country, returns an
income of 500.
Mrs. Blood has had her husband, one
of the cheerfal State constables who
manage the morality of Massachusetts,,
arrested for adultery and bigamy. Mrs.
Blood will tell.
The total number of Morgan raid
claims filed in the clerks Office of Har-
rison county, Indiana, to the present
date, is four hundred and sixty
Amount of claims, SS3, ,265 46.
Hon. ID. Ricketts,, President of the
Jacksonville Railroad, was thrown
from his buggy, at Indianapolis, q few
days ago, and seriously, but it is thought
not fatally, injured.
The n. Y. Herald, Ginseng Weekiy
Pacifcator, and Atlanta Ner Era, having
nominated Gen. Grant fol the Presiden-
cy, it is thought the formality of con-
vention will not be required.
The Lawrence, (Kansas,) Tribune says
the wild fruit crop of that section was
never cQualed in quantity before. The
wild plum trees are a solid mass of
fruit, and the same with gOoseberries
and straw berries.
The Albany Convention pays the
Journal and Argus 5000 each for pub
lishing a rerbdtim report of the pro-
ceedings. This is a Eight expense COM
pared with what it would cost to hire
somebody to read them.
Alexander Renaud, who committed
rape Oh girl four years and u half old,
in Brooklyn, New York, has been sem
fenced to twenty years in the State
prison. The child died from the brutal
ity of t!.e beast.
Where were the colored candidates
for admission to West Point, which Mr..
Sumner, General Butler, and the other
Massachusetts Congressman should have
Nominated if they have the love for the
race they pretend to feel
The great tabernacle of the Saints at
Salt Lake city is now finished. 1t is
two hundred and fifty feet long, and
one hundred and fifty wide, and fur
nishes comfortable sitting room for ten
thousand persons. -
A train Of immigrants, having twelve
wagons, passed through Leavenworth
OH the Goth inst. on their way back to
Iowa. High water and the fear of grass
bOppers, it is said, had frightened them
into their retrograde movement.
General Ord has issued instructions to
registering officers in his district, mod
flying I'll regulations previously pro-
mulgated, so rs to conform to the At
torney Generals opinion, as approved
by the Cabinet.
There is an announcement III the
Turkish refreshment room ut the French
Exhibition, TO the effect that every pur-
chaser OF dozen of Celestial wine will
receive as premium one bottle of the
water of the Jordan for Baptismal pur-
poses.
The telegraph line between Fort Coop
er and South Pass, a distance of l73
miles. is now and has been for two
weeks in the hands of the Indians. At
the former place company of infantry
is stationed, but having only two horses
they can make no offensive operatiOns.