The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-09
CURRENT ITEMS.
Cuban planters are failing numerous,

CUhhEN1 ITEMS.
Cuban planters are failing numerous
Since New Year 3O,653 French have
left Mexico in "a transports.
Hsvanese are charitable. They rails
ed $4,000 recently by fair for poor
children.
The Quaker City is fitting up for the
proposed Beecher- er-Sherman-D Duncan Pal
estine expedition.
The steamship Colorado and the brig
Jennie, stated yesterday on a race to
China.
The New York taxpayers bill for this
year in $le, 100000.
Defalcations in the Navy Department
to the amount of 500, 900 are rumored.
Daniel Wsbster's farm at Franklin is
to be sold.
Pennsylvania is threatened with po-
lice despotism. Tsa.s- ss..~sssassf
Forney is occasionally" loysl-when
it pays.
Kossuth says he will end his ltfe in a
foreign land.
The Queen of Spain is in an interest
ing condition. ~
1t costs nearly $1,000 to criticise the
government in France.
California produced 5000, 900 worth of
Strawberries last year.
Quow Daddy, Q very respectable can.
nibal of Africa, is dead.
Cornelius, one of the greatest painters
Of modern Germany, is dead.
Nobody in Rome dares to risk himself
far from his own house.
Republican papers refuse to print ne
gro speeches. Nash's, for instance.
Tho number of wrecks reported for
the present year is 734.
Quilp thinks brisk London porter is
the best kind of man to swallow.
A Chicago paper speaks of Ristori as
the Queen of comic tragedy" -
The Mexican Imperials have no idea
of paying their debt-4O0,OO0,OOO.
Phillips says the s9th Congress "lived
slip-shod, wavering, timid and half
hearted"
About twenty-five per cent. offeminine
lifeis devoted to dressing and undress-
ing. W.
A mother in Hudson City whipped
two school teachers for whipping her
child.
A Massachusetts, clergyman Is certain
that God is in favor of the prohibitory
liquor law.
New York has succeeded in domesti-
eating in its Park large number of
English sparrows. ,
|. A Chinaman in San Francisco, named
Hang Up, committed suicide by hanging
himself.
Thirty-four colored persons in Phila-
delphia own property to the amount of
| 81 ,355, 900.
Several fine landscape painters are
among the perman snt boarders in the
Maine State Prison. .,.,
A man in Indiana chopped eight and
three-eights cords of wood in five hours,
and received $40 for it.
The Norwich, Conn.,, Bulletin finds the
election figures disgusting. Meaning
the figures cut by Republicans.
The presence of great many French
officers in Havana stimulated the lot
terry business and tickets sold for Sl7 90.
Ex-Governor Andrew, of Massachu-
setts, has made, in favor of license
law, a speech which fills more than
twenty columns of the Transcript.
Jersey City is to be deprived of some
of its luxuries. The Legislature has
passed bill reducing the number. of
Alderman. -
Three New York milkmen have been
fined S25 each for watering their milk.
1t is to be hoped the good worSwill not
end here.
A Canadian gentleman, desiring to
get thoroughly married, recently en-
ployed eight clergymen in the perform
ance Of the ceremony, |'
The British Government expects to
have O. million pounds over this year.
the estimated income is sixty-nine mil
lion, and the disbursement sixty-eight
million.
The Great Eastern will be opened to
the public for few days after her arri-
val in the North river, where she is
daily expected.
There has been tremdous hail-stOrm
in Cuba, causing great destruction Of
property. Some Of the hail-stones
measured from three to seven inches in
diameter.
A suit is pending in the Supreme
Court, New York, to recover from Her
ring, the safe man, 5000, which
amount was stolen from safe the de-
fendant warranted burglar-proof.
TX Marvel has gone in business in
New York as CONFIDENTIAL agent for the
purchase and sale of real estate" Mar
vol has been by turns lawyer, an es-
sayest, novelist, and an amateur farm
er.
The poorest paid SERVANTS Of the pub
lie are letter carriers, and the increase
Of their salaries, twenty per cent, by
order of the Postmaster General is
heartily approved by the people.
The New York Ladies' Union Relief
Association, organized to take care OF
disabled soldiers and their families, is
doing q heavy business. The Treasurer
acknowledges the receipt, up to April
I'd, Of sl9l.
The Natiox gives this precise and lu-
minous description of the lot on which
the New York Postoffiee il to be built: