The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

Breckinridge is in Paris.
Ole Bull is in New York.
Bridal wreaths cost sixty dollars in
New York.
Russia and Turkey have assumed O
warlike attitude. The mine is on the
point ofexploding.
Cui Bono is the singular name Of .
colored man in Mobile.
Three hundred thousand people are
said to be starving in Sweden.
A father was convicted of murder in
Minnesota upon the testimony Of his
idiotic son.
After January 1st. it will cost but
twelve cents to send letter to Europe.
A facetious stage driver in Iowa
drained a comrades whisky bottle as a
joke, and died. 1t was bug poison.
A Georgian sold his cotton, put the
money in his pocket, and lay down by
the fire to sleep. He woke to find his
clothes and money burned off from him.
The poet who won the French Acad-
emy prize for an ode on the death OF
Lincoln, is going to send $1,000 to Mrs. l..
The Prince of Wales goes to church
regularly; but as it is an ultra ritual
istic church, the grumblers are still
unhappy.
Prayers have been ordered to be said
in all the churches in Austria, until
April next, for the Empress of Austria,
who is eRceiRte.
A new State assessment in Maryland,
just completed, shows the value of prop
erty to be S492, ,653,572. The old assess
mont stood SIZE, 5l2,lS6.
The Washington monument has
reached the height of la feet, at cost
of S24O,OOO. 1t is proposed to further
elevate it 374 feet.
Sumner believes the lapse Of three or
four years will witness the annexation
of Cuba without the expenditure of q
dollar.
A reporter in the Louisiana Conven-
tion was threatened with thrashing
by one of the negro members because he
didn't make good English out of the
honorable gentleman's speech.
General Dix, writes a Washington
correspondent, has written home that
he will return in April. His friends say
he will be a candidate for the Presi-
deHcy.
Mrs. Rombey, widow, residing at
Peori, Ill.,, while in somnambulistic
state, walked into the Illinois river, in
that city, and was drowned. She had
been missing twenty-fonr hours before
her body was discovered.
England has another barbarian war
on her hands. Bishop Crowther, of
Sierra Leone, went on visitation up
the Nile, was taken prisoner, and, in
the course of etfecting his release by
force of arms, the Vice-C Consul, Mr. Fell,
was killed. Evidently the Africans
have no regard for prestige"
A New York correspondent states that
as an illustration of the present scarcity
of employment, it may be mentioned
that in response to the advertisement
of a certain down town dry goods house
for an entry clerk on Tuesday, there
were, before o'clock P. NJ, no fewer
than 600 applications.
The report that the Dominican army
is marching to the Haytien frontiers is
confirmed. Baez, the insurrectionary
leader in Dominica, has, it is reported,
been shot by order of President Cabral.
A revolt has broken out at Cape Hay
tien, in Hayti, and Salnaye is actively
engaged in suppressing it.
Further advices from Hayti confirm
the previous report of the brutal assina-
tion of Colonel Montez in prison by or
der of President Salnave. After keeping
Montez without food for four days an
attempt was made to complete the work
by poison. This failing, Salnaye ordered
the jailor to smother him. The attempt
being unsuccessful he was finally stab
bed and his skull broken to pieces.