The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

bore.
! In Meigs county, Ohio apples are
thirty cents bushel.
General Ord is pretty effeotuall.
clearing his department ofhorse-thieves
Fort Kearney is just half way from
New York to San Francisco.
Evans'Pass is the highest point aboy'
tide water on the line of the Pacifi'
railroad, its elevation being s242 feet.
The graduating class of the Univer
sity of Vermont, at Burlington, this yea
only numbered eight.
There were one hundred and thirteer
fires in New York during the month o
July, causing losses to the amount o.
1927 900.
The stage line to Denver has been re
stocked and coaches are Running regu
larly. Adequate military protection il
promised hereafter.
Domestic infelicity RACES somewhat II
Ohio. During the last four years th'
ratio of divorces to marriages III tha
! State has been one 10 twenty-siX.
The deepest bore in the well line il
! the artesian well at the Columbus Co..
State Penitentiary, which is 2775 feet
or more than half mile.
We do not learn that thepromised ex
hibition of meteors was particularly
brilliant anywhere in the country.
! Marasche, the chess player and editor
has been forced to retire by illness.
A Connecticut river farmer boasts Of
field of corn averaging nine and a hall
feet high.
A Newport advertiser wants to let
cottage Containing eight rooms and an
acre of ground"
The Chicago Republican says that
10000 persons in that city are without
gospel influences. Most of them cell
tell jack of spades from knave Of
hearts in the dark.
Delmonico is boarding the Marquis OF
Almandria and his two daughters at
$500 week.
The North river steamers come up to
Albany and Troy every night with an
average Of from 700 to 1000 passengers
each, and yet the railroads are equally
crowded.
Another ehivalric tournament" Of
tia spears and gilt rings took place at
Paris KY, a few days ago. Nine
kuighIs contended.
A wife in Flint, Mich, was lately sold
for one dollar, and the GlObc of thai
place laments that a fair and cOmeIy
woman is discounted SO below th'
price of good COW.
In the vicinity OF Manchester, y. y.
the Potatoes arc IL second bloom, and
athc" vegetables have commenced Sec
ond vigorous growth i'll consequence oi
the great fall of rain.
1t costs ten dollars to drive lame
horse in New York-almost as much as
to hire lazy one at livery stable.
The State Constables have notified
the proprietor of one of the principal
hotels in Portland, Me-, that he must
take the wine list off his bills of fare.
The Appletons are about TO erect q
building in Brooklyn with six hundred
and forty-six feet frontage, for theil
printing and boOk-bindiDg establish
ment.
The editor of paper in Maine has
lost his wallet, containing a torn three
cent scrip, two postage-stamps that
hadn't been used but once, and Con
federate 81 bill.
A few days since a negro nurse, EN-
ployed by Mr.. William A. Pettaway, in
Richmond county, n. c., poured lauda'
;na IN; ;fa!pMn the throat of his child, cans'
had had attempted Qfp fGp the previous day sit !,
drink indigo. She was as'aRpyy any, making II
| A gentleman living in Greene county
Ala, has offered his entire crop of corr
at 35 cents bushel, in the field; and il
is said that any amount of corn can bt
engaged in the canebrake region ut 81
cents bushel.
The New York Society for the SUI
preston of gambling is doing its duty
Within the last two or three days, tho
keepers of faro banks, keno banks, &c.
have been leaving the city, most of them
going to Saratoga.
A boy named Johnson is amusing
himself and the people of South Paris
Maine, by Blondin-like feats on a tele,
graph wire over the river, twenty feet
above the water. He crosses 1t with
his head in sack, carries out stove
and fuel and cooks on the wire.
In running to catch "fly ball" in a
base ball game at Usage, Mitchell coun-
ty, Iowa, few days ago, two players
came in contact with such force that
one of them had jaw broken and was
knocked down insensible, while the
other had his face bruised and the bones
of his nose broken.
The distance from New York to San
Francisco, by way of Chicago, is three
thousand and three hundred miles. II
train should run at the rate of twenty
miles per hour, including stoppages-
which is, perhaps, the average rate on
railroads on this country-it would re-
quire little less than seven days 20 ac-
complish the distance.
A relative Of the "Great American Pie
Biter," at Lee, Mass, the other day un-
dertook to eat forty-eight CLANS while
another FLOW was opening six, and
was beaten by only four points; the
opeuer having completed his task while
the eater was boiling his forty-fourth
clam. The pie bitter will bite through
sixteen bak ,rs' tdrnovers placed In .
pile at once.
Lightning played some curious freaks
! at Concord, n. H., the ether day. Strik-
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