The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

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They are cutting their coal by ma
chinery in England.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard has been re-
duced to peace footing.
Chicago promises to erect ten thou
sand buildings this year.
Spurgeon is going to Paris to opreach
during the Exposition.
Ex-Goxetnor Curtin, of Pa, sailed for
Europe on Saturday.
Walter Scott says Rob Roy could tie
his garters without STOPPING.
The old Eastern question has again
put on its threatening aspect.
Anexchange says the pleasantest tum-
BILE is to fall heir to large fortune.
The clergy of Ottawa county have re-
solved to abolish Sunday funerals.
Miss Harris, the American prima dom
ma, is creating q sensation in Paris.
The projectors of a flying machine in
California expect to make the trip
across the continent in. twenty-four
hours.
The exodus from Germany has already
swollen to surprising height the flood
of emigration to the United States.
A Rembrandt engraving, "Christ
Healing the Sick" was sold at auction
in London, recently, for G. leo.
The temperance party threaten to in
clude pickles in the prohibitory law,
as encouraging II taste for something
stronger.
A St. Adams, VT, liquor seller de-
Tended himself by stating that his
whisky was so reduced by water that it
could not intoXicate.
The ::Dunkers" in Pennsylvania voted
to received colored persons into the
church but objected to "saluting them
with the holy kiss"
A,brilliant idea of Forney's is to make
each State build residences in Washing
TON LOT ltS oeldtois. fpihoN P"pD's
has land for sale.
An exchange says President johnson
is the only public man who has rivalled
dapseuse in standing on one toe-the
veto. =,
Opium to the amount of s3,OOO,OOo
worth has been seized in San Fran
cisco for an attempted fraud upon the
revenue.
"Civil liberty and martial law cannot
endure together; the antagonism is ire
conciliable; and in the conflict one or
the other must perish
A brilliant meteor was seen at COun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, on the evening of the
Sd inst. Its length was equal to that OF
full moon.
The Democrats carried the charter
election in Norristown, Pa, last Friday,
by So majority. The Republican ma
jority last spring was 30.
We are requested to believe that a
trout caught near Quebec recently
weighed nineteen and half pounds
and measured two feet six inches in
length.
1t is said the Universalists are rapidly
abandoning the Republican party. Rea-
son-they don't believe in 'endless pun
ishment."
Hon. Edward W. Lawton, Lieutenant
Governor of Rhode Island in ls4s, died
at his residence IN Newport, Friday
night.
American artists in Italy have pro-
tested, through Mr.. Hiram Powers
against tax on works of art BY the
United States.
The myterious disappearance epidem-
ic is still cultivated in Chicago. The
latest victim Is John Proud, whs had
$500 about him.
The Chicago Board of Trade have
voted one thousand dollars to relieve
the Southern destitute, and there is a
disposition to increase it to five thous-
and.
This time the tables are turned. A
coquette in Ashland, O., was made to
return $4,000 WORTH of presents and pay
six cents damages to the blighted OBJ
ject she had Tilted.
A gentleman of liberal-minded views
residing in Buffalo, who had procured
an Indiana divorce, was compelled to
shoot dead his ex-wife's brother, before
he could establish quiet in his house
hold.
A severe epidemic is raging in the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at Columbus,
Ohio Over thirty pupils were taken
suddenly i'll with a disease resembling
typhoid fever and diptheria. The in.
mates of the Asylum are being sent
home as fast as possible.
Two young ladies in San Francisco,
the other day, in crossing street in OPP
posite directions, happened to meet face
to face, and as it was very muddy on
both sides of the crossing, neither would
turn out of the way, but stood glaring
at each other for about quarter of an
hour. During that time crowd of about
three or four hundred people assembled,
the street was blocked up, and traffic had
come to stand-still. The females were
young and well dressed, and looked as
if they ought to have had better ideas
of propriety than they exhibited. The
crowd hooted and jeered, and appeared
to enjoy the scene amazingly. Atlength
q policeman CAME along and compelled
one of them to take the right, "as the
law directs" The look of concentrated
hate given by the party who had to step
of the walk is said to have been indie
lscribable.