The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-27
CURRENT ITEMS.
The Bishop of London is again ser

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The Boston contributions for the Gre
tans amount to $19,97l.
A favorable change has taken place
in the health Of Mr.. Charles Kean.
Blondin, the famous rope walker, is
at present performing in Brussels, Bel
GUM.
The newspaper carriers in Indianap-
, oils have formed Protective Associa-
ton.
, 1.-The Boston Pilot nominates General
Sheridan for President
The potato rot is fostering the mur-
phies and pestering the farmers in Con-
necticut.
The death of Lord Robert Pelham
Clinton, uncle of the Duke of Newcas-
tie, is announced.
Mrs. Lincoln passed through Milwau-
kee last week, on her way to Lake Su-
perior. .r ....l
A New Orleans firm offers to supply
likely young Coolies at sixty dollars o
head.
Colored news boys re now seen ON
the streets of New York.
There are 800 men at work in the
Philadelphia navy-yard.
The National Labor Congress will
hold its next session in New York.
The Car of Russia is reported quite
i'll at the Crimea.
Several Japanese officers and mer-
chants have arrived at Berlin from
Jeddo.
Add Ell Kader is spoken ofas the fu-
ture Governor of Crete under the Suzer-
alyty of the Porte.
The latest news from the plains re-
ports the Crows as being friendly.
1t is understood the assets of the Un-
adilla Bank will pay about thirty per
cent of her liabilities.
The raft Nonpareil, that recently
Iuc OCCuu NOJd dHCy 10 Oh CAiilOi-
tion at the Crystal Palace.
Grant continues the work of retrench-
ment. The head of the Burean of Pris-
oners had his head chopped off on Fri
day.
Seven thousand dogs. have been i'm
pounded in New York this season.
Salt works, covering about two acres
in extent, have been established at At
lantic City, n. j., after the style in
vogue at Turks Island.
81 do not say that man will steal,"
said witness on a trial, "but if was a
chicken Pd roost high when he was
around
A company at Waterbury, Connect
cut, is manufacturing one and two cent
coins for the Peruvian government.
DR.. Sarmiento, of the Argentine Re
public, is in Harrisburg, investigating
into the Pennsylvania common school
system.
Mrs. Geo. Mays, of Venango county,
Pa, who was bitten by mOccasin
snake about two weeks ago, died from
the effects of the poison on Saturday
last.
John NJ. Shivers, an old magistrate of
Isle of Wight county, Va, has been ar
rested by military authority, charged
with assaulting freedman.
John Ii. Reagan, postmaster of the c.
S. A.. has been pardoned by the Presi-
dent.
The removal of General Pope is talked
of considerable, but nothing definite is
known.
The army worm is reported to be de-
stroying the cotton in Mississippi and
Louisiana.
Rev. S. C. Baldridge, q venerable min
lister of the United Presbyterian Church,
died on the 4th inst.
Twenty thousand immigrants have
come West over the Pennsylvania Gen.
trail railroad since the lst Of January,
1867.
The number Of registered voters in
Louisiana, according to act of Congress.
is little over 100000.
Major North, of the Pawnee sconts,
was in Omaha on the 2lst. He feels
confident he can clean ont the Chey-
ennes.
The track layers on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad are
now within ten miles of DesmOines.
Western dispatches say the military
authorities are arming all the citizens
at Fort Sedgwick for the protection of
that post.
The Cheyenne road from Laporte to
Phil. Keardey is impossible except for
large parties, and even they are fire.
quently attacked.
John McCarty. alias Murry, was ar
rested in st. Louis Wednesday, on the
charge of killing prostitute in Balti-
more on the 4th of July.
At Lansing, yesterday the new Mich
igan Constitution was signed by sixty
six members. The Convention then ad-
iourued sine die.
A negro burglar was shot in Memphis
while in the act of robbiDg dwelling,
and another negro was shot while in
the act of breaking into house.
Another revolution in Hayti seems
imminent. The partisans of Jeffrard
are busy plotting to remove Solnave.
Several influential parties have been ar
rested.
The number of convicts in the Illinois
State Penitentiary, at Joliet, which at
the beginning of the present year was
nearly eleven hundred, has decreased to
about one thousand.
HonlJas h. Campbell, late minister To-
Sweden, has arrived at his home in
Pottsville, Pa.
1t is again stated that the original in
structioRs sent to General Siekles, sus-
pending the operation of Order No. 10,
-