The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-07
CURRENT ITEMS.
The Chicago plumbers have had their
wages reduced. W Z ~ stt ItE

The navigation of the Hudson is to
be improved. f'' ~
One hotel in Saratoga buys 1900 chick
ems daily for breakfast.
Theodore Tilton's poems are to be pub
lished in q volume. q rat t
The Californians are getting up big
medal for Juarez. " ,...
A monument is to be erected to Maxi
milan IN Trieste, Austria.
A Civic Cross is going TO he founded
in Belgium for acts of deyotedness.
Lewis D. Campbell, late Minister to
Mexico, is at home, in Butler county,
Ohio.
Macmillan is said to have measured
six feet three inches after he was shot.
The Pennsylvania State Fair will be
held at Pittsburg on the 9th Of next
month.
The proposed enlargement of the Erie
canal will cost ST 900, 900, if carried
out.
A Base Ball Convention, representing
fifty-four climbs, was held in Chicago
last Friday. ....- ~.. 40
A harness maker, in New Bedford,
Mass, has been left Sl37 900 by q de-
ceased relative in England.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr,, the treas
nrer of the Hudson River railroad, is
said to be only % years of age.
A Boston paper thinks these are called
"dog days" because there is so much
growing about the weather.
Admiral Farragut is said to be the
only full admiral afoat. His insignia
of rank is a blue flag with four stars.
At q recent assignment sale in Cincin-
natl, notes of business firm to the
amount of Sl37 900 brought Sl20.
According to a New York paper, that
city contains five hundred ana fifty
men who make their living as decoys
for the faro table.
They are racing carrier pigeons be-
tween Cologne and Brussels. The fast
est time made is 10 miles in three
hours. 10
j. Rubel, q merchant in Milwaukee,
hanged himself OH Wednesday, on ac-
count of reverses in business.
A Washingtonian proposes to carry
the mails and passengers TO New York
IN balloon in three hours.
The English Church Ne~s publishes q
list of $50 churches, in which lights are
habitually placed on the altar.
Deiazel, the famous French actress,
is said to be coming to America. She is
only seventy-fve years old, and still
takes girls parts.
Cotton in large quantities is raised in
Southern Utah, and the cotton yarn
needed for the Territory is manufac-
tured there.
During his brief stay in Harrisburg,
General Grant was the guest of Ex-
Governor Porter. The Union says his
visit was Il very quiet one.
Rev. John Hail, of Dublin, has been
called to the Nineteeth Street Presby-
terian Church, in New York. He is to
have $1,000 yoar in gold, and the use
of the parsonage. .l
The Pension office, during the last
month, received 1889 claims, admitted
:, 100 claims, and rejected 1884. The
total number of claims dispOsed OF dur
ing the month was 6,4l9.
The Parisians are the best begging
letter writer's in the world. Napolcon's
illustrious visitors were perpetually an
neyed by epistles complaining OF I'M
pecunioslty.
John Nelson, of Brooklyn, a married
man, proposed marriage to ayoung lady
and was accepted. When the lady dis
covered he was Il married man he coolly
asked her to wait till his wife, who was
died. 2.
A young man at Fall River, Mass,
who was TO have been married on Sun
day night, took so much encourage
ment' in preparing for the ceremony
that he found himself in the Lookup the
next morning.
Mrs. Thirza Wing, aged 80, whose
husband was u militiaman in the Revo-
luton and fought at Saratoga against
Burgoyne, lives at Charlemont, draws
her pension regularly, and is still bright
and vigorous.
Nineteen widows, whose ages ranged
from fifty years up to century, were
invited to the house of an old bachelor,
at Dorchester, Mass, the other day, and
all partook of q strawberry feast, and
on their departure were presented with
handsome bouquet apiece by the old
gallant. ..r..ts ...-r.N
Two policemen are constantly detail
ed in Springfield, Massachusetts,, to pro-
tect the laborers on the Union street
sewer from the attacks of strikers who
were discharged as soon as they struck.
The present gang is willing to work
for wages that the others refused, and
the latter would make them trouble but
for the police.
Henry Ward Beecher says of this col
umn in newspapers, that ait is worth
moro than all the small fry of CORES
pondents, with an editor thrown into
boot! Like caravan, it stretches along
its columns with packages and parcels,
spices and gems, bits of fragrance Of
cunningly wrought met ais, gathered
from the Orient ard from the whole
world besides.r I'D ..sF
Colorado papers continue to report
outrages by Indians. 1t is noticeable
fact, however, that the reports, sifted
down, generally resolve themselves into
one, two OF four Indians being discov
cred in the bluffs, or good distance off
on the plains. In a majority Of in.
stances the Indians are fired at, and
then return the fire and run.
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