The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

zen VI DOStOu, Has Decu dppoihteu Az
torney General by the King ofthe Sand
wich Islands.
w. II. Milburne, the blind preacher,
is going to Paris to consult an oculist.
He has hopes of recovering his sight.
James Lunderdale recently died i'll
Washington county, Texas, at the ad-
tanced age of ninety-six years. He
was with General Jackson at the battle
of New Orleans.
Governor Peirpoint, of Virginia, has
pardoned II. B. Lewis, of King George,
sentenced to the penitentiary for three
years for the killing of DR.. Rose. The
trial excited great interest, and the
prisoner was recommended to mercy by
the jury, and bar, and large number
of citizens.
At Pleasant Mills, New Jersey, lives
the Oldest John Smith. His age is III
years, and his faculties are not dim, nor
is his natural force abated.
One thousand men are repairing the
Great Eastern for her trips to and from
New York to Brest, during the French
Exposition.
The Cherokecs have appropriated
250,000 acres of land and 100000 to
help construct the railroad from Fort
Bailey to Forts Gibson and Smith.
The President, upon the recommends
tion of the District-Attorney and spe-
cial Mail Agent, has pardoncd Michael
| Connor. convicted at the October terra
of 1865 of the District Court of Ohio, of
mail robbery, and sentenced to five
years imprisonment.
The Sultan of Turkey is building a
hot-house at an expense of 100000. He
already has q house which cost more
than that, and which, rs it contained
sixty women or more, we would have
supposed it to be hot enough for all
practical purposes.
The removal of inspectors of distil-
leries of the Internal Revenue Bureau
continue to be made, and 4 thorough
and radical change in these officers will
speedily take place in places where cor
ruption, etc, has been discovered. A
determined and persistent effort is be-
inc made to secure to the treasury the
tax upon spirits manufactured, of which
it is estimated that over three-fourths
has heretofore escaped taxation, and
this largely through the inconpctency
and corruptions of the distillery inspec-
tors.
Pouring cold water on the face and
head destroys the effect of narcotic poi
sons. A girl poisoned with laudanum
\ in England was saved in this way,
after all other remedies had failed.
The manufacture of window and bot.
tie glass at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
gives employment to one thousand
eight hundred men and boys.
1t is stated that the State Democratic
Committee of Illinois have concluded to
establish new Democratic paper in
Chicago, and that the company will
have a capital of $3.50, 900 TO start on.
A story is told of Newburyport
voter, at the late municipal election,
who received dollar to vote certain
ticket. Being slightly fuddled, he
dropped the greenback into the ballot
box, and crOwding the vote into his
pocket, started off with the impression
that he would ego and take something.
There are professional thieves in Gin
cinnati so mean that they disguise
themselves as city missionaries, and
visit the houses of the poor to steal
baskets and buckets, obtained on the
pretext that they will bring them back
| full of articles of food to relieve the
destitute lenders.
THE prophecy, "Many shall run to
and fro, and knowledge shall be increas-
ed" is believed to refer to the advent OF
news-boys.
Wool eight and half inches long
has been taken from CotswOld lamb
in Lyndon, Vermont.
| An exchange says the radicals think
eternal vigilance committees the price
of liberty.
STEPHENS failed to offer the city OF
Dublin as christmas gift" to the
Irish Republic.
NOTICING the territorial scheme, q
Southern paper speaks of Thad. Stevens
as the "King of Terrors."
THE negroes of DR.. o. B. Early, of
Memphis, returned to him last week,
and claimed and received their former
situations. Lured off by Bureau agents,
they stated that they had been told
they must work for three dollars Il month,
which left them the alternative either
to steal, starve. or go back to their mas
ter.
THE Richmond Dispatch says that the
owner of the farm known as Dutch Gap,
finding that the island made by the cut
ting of Buffers canal could not conve.
| DC luG w uoC Nithoue o'AhN
means of communication with the main
land, is filling up one end of the canal
! in order to create a causewsy, and the
canal will soon be among the things
that were.
THERE are in the United States 5000
miles of railway, which cost 81, ,3s0, ,OO0,'
600. In Europe there are 10000 miles
which cost S3,5OO,OOO,OOO. The length
of the European telegraph wires is CO.,
900 miles, while in the United States
there are 10000 miles.
BEN. HoLLADAY's friends and old en-
ployers on the overland stage route are
going to give him a big silver punch
bowl, with q six-horse overland coach
all to cost $4,000.
The Erie Dispatch saps that young
lady named Haskins, who has beer
teaching school in the neighborhood Of
Lake Pleasant, recently undertook to
correct pupil, little girl, when she
was set upon by an elder sister of the
pupil, and cruelty beaten. She was
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