The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-17
CURRENT ITEMS.
Great Britain has 300 cooperative

Great Britain has 800 cooperative
Societies. 80 %2 is8.
Australia is going to Confederate
like Canada.
Madame Ristori has offered prize for
the best comedy. 6 o.. -.---
The Russian papers insist on a great
European struggle not far distant.
William Cullen Bryant is to write for
the resurrected Putnam.
NJ. Barthebaug, the French poet, died
recently at Marseilles, aged II.
The newest thing is linen wedding
What nexti gJ
The South fears sickly autumn, ow-
ing to the heavy rains.
Oysters are somewhat expensive IN
London. They sell there at the rate OF
about $40 bushel.
DR.. A. Bolan, of Pennington, Me-, has
died from the effects of a "felon" on his
hand.
The harvest in Spain has been very
abundant this year, and the arrival of
Spanish wheat at Bordeaux, in France,
is noted.
A spelling book of the year 1899 was
recently bid up to $25 at an auction
sale at Washington. t .-.
Th large spice mills of c. J. Fell x
Bro. at Wilmington, Delaware, were
burned on Tuesday. The loss is heavy.
The ex-King of Naples, who was at
tackled by the cholera at Albano, was
was recovering at last accounts. His
wife, the ex-Queen, died.
A California cucumber raised in Rock
Island county, ILL.,, measures three feet
two inches in length, and one foot one
inch in circumference at the butt.
John Stuart Mill has lately received
the highest honors at the disposal of the
law faculty of the University of Halle,
which faculty refused like honor to
Count Bismarck.
The Young Mems Association of Mil
waukee have a new library building,
which is said to be the finest in the
country. The Academy of Music has
been remodeled for its purposes.
1t is said that New Haven minister
of twenty five years standing has been
obliged to leave the pulpij and 80 to
work as carpenter to get means to sup
port his family.
Seventy-fve officers and men of the
iron clad feet lying in the Mississippi,
below Algiers, have had yellow fever,
and fifteen men and one officer have
died.
A man is under arrest in Washington
for stealing house. He took the parts
Git was frame dwelling) to pieces, and
carted them away to set up in another
part Of the city.
The English Parliament house clock
is of such magnitude that the time re-
quired to wind it up is two hours. The
dials are twenty-feet in diameter, and
the hour bell weighs fifteen tons.
Mr.. John Hopkins, of Baltimore, is
initiating the good example of Mr.. Pea
body. He has already founded and Ell
dowed hospital and an educational
institute, and is planning several other
generous schemes.
1t seems probable that new system
of telegraph construction will soon be
adopted generally in England. The
wires are to be laid side by side in
tables buried under the bed of a rail-
way, each being separately insulated in
very simple manner.
The improved drainage of many cities
and towns in England has led to con-
siderable reduction of the total NOR
tality, in some cases amounting to one
fifth and also to an unexpected result
a diminution, more or less considerable,
of cases of consumption.
Most of our readers will feel interested
in knowing that the first Sunday School
in England was established in the city
of Gloucester in 1871, by Mr.. Robert
Raikes, printer and editor of the Glou
cester Journal, in conjunction with the
Rev. Thomas Stock.
The world of arts recently suffered
most irreparable loss by the destruction
of the famous chapel of the Madonna
del Rosario, in Venice. Among other
works of considerable note which were
burned was Titian's celebrated picture
of the Martyrdom of St. Peter.