The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

Prize fighters are to be disfranchised
in Michigan.
Polly Haynes, of Kentucky, is dead
at the age of l05.
Waddell, of Shenandoah nOtoriety,
has returned from Europe.
There is farm in Burton county, In
diana, which contains "a 900 acres.
A Cape May letter states that there
are about 1000 visitors on the Island.
. The original meaning of chignon is
cabbage. Heads of cabbage-oh, ladies'
Several carpenters were poisoned by
drinking lager, in Bergen, y. Y.
The mother of Governor English, of
Connecticut, died last week at the age
of eighty-one.
A merchants advice in selecting a
wife was, "get hold of piece of calico
that will wash"
A rolling mill on the cooperative
plan has been started at Alliance, Ohio,
with capital of 100000.
A -four merchant in Ohio has his life
insured for 100000. He isn't anxious
about the fall of breadstuffs.
Two hundred workmen have been
discharged within the past two days
from the Springfield armory.
Kossuth, it is sal !, declines the seat
in the Hungarian Parliament, to which
he was recently elected.
Professor Agassiz and the Senior Glass
at Harvard are going to Southern Ohio
to investigate the antiquities there.
Th names of W. H. Surratt and An
ME surratt appear in the published list
of those who sailed for Europe last Sat
u:day.
4 dog killer in Kansas City, on Mon
day, exhibited 100 dog tails to the Mar
shall. for which he received $50.
The street railroads of st. Lonis have
been compelled, by popular hostilities,
to return to their old charge of five
cents per single fare.
Samuel Marvin, wellknown citizen
of Lancaster, Pa, died few evenings
since from the effects of chill received
while bathing.
The friends of incompetence in Eng
land are beginning to question candi-
dates for Parliament, to learn whether
they favor restrictive legislation.
The seventh annual fair of the st.
Louis Agricultural and Mechanical As
sociation will begin On the 9TH of
October next. s25, 900 are offered in
premiums.
Corn has fallen in Texas from two
dollars TO seventy-five cents a bushel.
One paper even reports that nav corn
can be engaged a. twenty-five cents a
bushel.
On Monday night constable, at
Chicopee, Massachusetts,, who had
seized several barrels of liquor, was set
on by mob and barely escaped with
his life.
Colonel William Gilpin, latterly Gov
ernor of Colorado Territory, is now said
to be one Of the wealtbiest men in the
West, having recently sold tract Of
land for 81, zoe, 600.
A boom to cost 500, 900 is being con-
structed at williamsport. Pa. 1t win
be one Thousand feet long, with a
"schute" of Eve hundred feet, and will
be finished in three months.
The first instalment of Greolsy's auto
biography in the Ledger goes back in
time to James /, and to l641. A pic
ture is presented of the house in which
Mr. Greeley's mother was married.
An Ohio paper gives the names Of
three prominent Radicals who have
committed suicide during the year past
an example which the entire Radical
| party is following With a certainty Of
'"'ss'',s srgE -E&Ez - 70 ga c. ,
The steamer Virgo, of savau nah line
/ which arrived at New York, on Sunday
from that city, brought the first bale Of
1 this years crop of cotton. Ii is from
Florida aud of fair quality -