The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-26
CURRENT ITEMS.

/ Smallpox prevails TO q serious eA
tent in Chicago.
Tho cholera is raging badly at Fort:
H1rker and Hays.
Governor Flanders, of Louisiana, has
arrived in Washington.
1 sSumner is color. blind. He recognizes
nothing but black.
Five hundred Swedish emigrants ar
rived in Chicago on Monday.
CLARK Mills is said to be about tc
make an equestrian statue of General
Grant.
Conover has been creased by: some
body, and will slip through the law.
Edwin Booth has relinquished his
purpose of building theatre in New
York.
Three millions of bales is the high
est mark for the cotton crop this year
A single county in Ohio yields 7OO,,
900 bushels of wheat, valued ut 81,
600, 900.
The census of the Cherokee nation
amounts only to l3, 156, falling off OF
5000 since the last enumeration.
Wool, according to quality, is sold in
the New England States at present at
from 40 to SO cents per pound.
H. Robbins, wealthy farmer in the
town of Salem, Wisconsin. hung him
self on Monday night. in fit of in
sanity.
Coant Bismark is said to be specula-
ting in land, having recently bought a
large estate "cheap for cash"
A bird's-nesting little hoy tumbled
over a precipice in England 500 feet
deep, and Will never rob birds nests
again.
Visitors are rushing to Niagara Falls
this week at lively gait. The South
erners are coming in large Numbers.
William Johnson, livery stable keep
erat Altoona, Pennsylvania, has been
arrested on the charge of dealing in
counterfeit postal currency.
Mademoiselle Cornelie, a young
French actress, has begun to have
great success in the classic drama, and
Is spoken of as O successor to Rachel.
The great tabernacle of the saints at
Salt Lake City is now finished. 1t is
250 feet wide, and furnishes comforta-
BILE sitting room for 10000 people.
Last year eleven churches in Boston
gave S255, 900 for benevolent objects, and
three hundred and eighty-two churches
in tile State gave 100000.
1t is believed in Washington that
Generals Sherman, Hancock and Rosseau
will be appointed to fill the commission
to treat with the Indians.
Rumors that Sheridan is To be remov-
cal from his position as District Com
mander, are freely circulated in Wash.
ington, but are not generally believed.
No less than one hundred newspapers
have been started in the District OF
Columbia since it was made the seat "i
Government. and all hut nine nave eN-
pired.
An arsenic manufactures III Boston
died on Monday, from the continuous
infusion of the poison into his system
during his long employment in manu-
featuring it.
The Franklin, Admiral Farragut's
flagship, has arrived at Cherbourg,
France, and the Admiral is now in Paris,
where he is receiving tiattering atten-
tions from all classes.
The Earl of March arrived i'll Boston
on Tuesday, from England. The young
gentleman bears by courtesy this title,
il the eldest son of the Duke of Rich
mond. who was born in 1918.
There were shipped by railroad from
Golden, Union county, Illinois. between
the 18th of May and the 18th of June,
$50, ,92O quarts of strawberries. Chicago
got most of them.
Bishop Thompson, (Methodist Episco-
pal,) who is now attending the Metho.
dist Conference on the Pacific coast, in
tends, before his return, to visit our
newly acquired Russian possessions.
A woman named Belle Norton, who
had Just been sentenced for night walk
ing, attempted to commit suicide in the
Superior Criminal Court of Boston, on
Friday. by strangling herself with her
hood,
During the labOring difficulties III
Chicago, last May, the boss plumbers,
OH account of contracts and the pres
sure of work, were compelled to yield
to the eight-hour demand: hut they
are now resolved TO return To the ten
hour system.
A Washington judge having got rath-
er drunk recently, Went to a well known
concert saloon, where he was welcomed
familiarly by the actresses as Justice. >
and was evidentually escorted in tri-
umph behind the scenes.
Miss AzOa Phelps got On a reaper, in
Hudson Michigan, to take ride, on the
18th instant. The horses ran away; she
was thrown upon the knives, had one
hand cut off, and was shockiDgly man
gled otherwise. Her injuries are sup-
posed to be fatal.
A tract of ground consisting of four
/ blocks item acres) has been donated by
Hon. J. T. Brady, of New York, for the
establishment of Catholic College in
New Houston, Texas. The college will
be under the direction Of the Jesuit