The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-15
CURRENT ITEMS.
/ The present Emprsssof Morocco was
once a French peasant GIRL @4@ :

thousand lawyers. sA4.a~
Ex-Governor Gilpin, of Colorado,
lately sold a agarden patch for =, 200 OOo'
Horses sell for three dollars, and
sheep for twenty cents, in Manitoroc,
Wisconsin.
Ira Aldridge, the famSdssnegro actor,
died recently in Poland, while on pro-
fessional tour. ~ u -gg
The English ladies have Invented
what they call the demi- temps, which is
an anterior hustle.
New York disposes of 100000 gal
Ions of water daily. Think of the
whisky it takes to do it.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has nat
ural bridge which it matches against
that in Virginia. .-...t. $500.
In Colorado they have abolished the
use of long meter tunes-they are too
slow for that people.
\ Wisconsin farmer complains that he
has not room enough this year on his
farm to stack his crops.
Dumas has been secured to lecture in
the United States this winter-sixty lee
tures for 50, 900 francs being the stipula-
tion. Z ...--- ......
Mr.. Charles Dickens is certainly COM
ing to this country, his agent having
left England to arrange the prelimiRa-
ries.
Earl Derby is quito i'll in consequence
of having sat down upon nothing where
he expected to find a sofa. = 1ss
One servant maid was drowned at
Cape May on Thursday while bathing,
and two others were rescued with great
difficulty. % o.
Chicago is All Indian word meaning
"much wind" These aboriginal lin.
guists, says an exchange, deserve to
rank among the prophets. 49,.
The Republicans of Wisconsin are
warned that they may go too far in the
way Of Sunday and lager beer restric-
tiOns
OF something like thirty Thousand
complaints against the New York street
cars, within the past year, none were
prosecuted.
The pickpockets are reported to have
done thriving business at the Sing
Sing camp meeting. They preyed while
the ministers preached.
A New Jersey minister has become in
sane in consequence of intense study of
tn doctrine of Christian perfection. He
won't have many fellow sufferers.
Whale steak, with snail sauce, is the
new Partisan delicacy. A fillet of rhin-
oceros, larded with caterpillars would
look we'll alongside of it.
In Stanton. Wisconsin. IL little girl
went to sleep in the field where her
father was cutting his wheat, and he,
not noticing the child, ran over, her, the
machine cutting her TO pieces.
An anti-rit ualIstic member of Parlia-
ment recently introduced resolution
forbidding clergymen to wear "any gar
ment, GOV vering or ornament" except
surplice and hood.
On the Sd inst, child three years
old, named Charles Cummings, went to
sleep upon side track of the Detroit &
Milwaukee Railroad AZ train coming
along it was instantly killed, .7.r
Chignons should be we'll secured. 4
young lady went through fashionable
strert in Boston the other day with one
dangling down her back. Tie artistic
effect was lost-and the chiSnon nearly
so.
Ten thousand pounds were taken
from the India fund and spent for
grand ball in honor of the Sultan at
London. At the same time, thousands
Of persons are starving to death IN In
dia. Happy England sEr.#. .sF
Colonel Robert 4. Gilmore, Post
master of Chicago, went out upon the
lake in a small boat, on Friday night.
A few minutes afterward gale arose,
and as the Colonel has not yet returned,
il is believed that he was drowned.
0The editor of the Efiingham, (Ill.,)
Lnionisi makes the following valcdic-
tory, in plaintive good faith with
this number closes our connection with
the JURioRist Our expenses per week
are about SIS, whereas our average in
come docs not exceed 81 to S. per week.
1t would take rich man to publish a
paper at this rate"
A.P. McIlrath went to Chicago from
Cleveland in April last, leaving behind
him his wife, Anne E., twenty years
older than himself. Shortly afterward,
by fraudulent representation, he pro-
cured divorce from the motherly
partner of his joys, but she is not salts
fed, and has induced the COurt to set
aside the decree, and order q new trial.
The freedmen are rapidly becoming
tuUtdtttt. ~
not blacksuiiths-have been arrested at
Atlanta, o black counterfeiter has been
trapped. and black distiller, WHO slip
ped the revenue tax as adrOitly as the
most intelligent white in New York
City. ..r -.. ....r..-.s.ss I'D.
The residence OF Mr.. Eberson, on the
banks of the Ohio river near the mouth
of the little Miami, was entered Friday
evning by three men, who proceeded to
bind the entire family with cords.
They then robbed them of thirty -four
hundred dollars in money and bonds,
and all of Mrs. Eberson's jewelry. No
clue 10 the robbers has yet been OBJ
tained.
Mermaids are said to be numerous in
the Kaw river, in Kansas. A few days
ago a party Of yoang men out hunting
came across six of them, who fed at
their approach. A singular coincidence
was 'he finding Of six waterfalls, six
sets Of hoop skirts and six ct cettrds on
the hank nf the riyar near where the