The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

= About 100000 worth Of buildings
have been erected in Chicago the pre-
sent year. . z
The wine crop of Fairfield county,
o., is estimated at $1,000 gallons this
year.
The apple crop of Indiana, now being
gathered, is the largest and best for
many years.
There is now o continuous railroad
connection between the Atlantic cities
and st. Paul.
Among the prizes at the Clay county
Qll.) Fair was handsome dress to the
tleetest-footed young lady.
Menken has taken passage in the
steamer that will bring Charles Dickens
to these shores.
A Chicago firm has built packing
house in Leavenworth, Kansas, with
capacity for 100000 beeves per year.
In Randolph township, Crawford
county, Pa, three pair of twins were
bora in one night last week. Don't all
move to Randolph.
Ill-natured people say Charles Sum-
ner is to change the title of his lecture
from care we q Nationi" to cam l
husband ~
The Alta Californian complains of the
scarcity of earthquakes there this sea-
son. They make splendid items when
they do come.
A veteran matrimonialist is petition
ing the court ut Lafayette, Ind, for
release from his seventh wife, he having
the eighth in view.
A six year old boy iu South Sodus,
Wayne county, cut off one of his fingers
in a straw cutter the other day, and
died of lockjaw.
Sixteen hundred and fifty heirs of the
deceased Anneks Jams, all residents of
Brooklyn, met in cheerful social inter
course at Poughkeepsie few days ago.
In the old Methodist cemetery at
Pittsburg, Wednesday, body which
had been buried twenty-five years was
exhumed and fodnd to be perfectly
petrified.
At wedding in Madison, Fla, last
week, the happy man was fourteen years
of age, and his blushing bride was a
widow with five children.
A Brooklyn paper announces the mar
riage of Miss Katharine Puhrls and
John R. NJ. Schwine. We should think
that was literally casting pearls before
swine.
An old German of Indianapolis de-
clined to sell any sourcrout to mer-
chant of that city because cabbages
were scarce, and he had only put up two
barrels to use in case of sickness.
The Universalist Society of Caven-
dish, Vt, has employed Miss Damon
to occupy its pulpit. She is pretty and
the young men there are all becoming
Universalists. -
The ship Fearless" had hard time
on her last trip to California. Rightin
the midst of terrific gale off Cape
Horn, the third mate went below and
blew out the brains of the second mate.
A physician prescribed six grains of
quinine for young lady at Fon du Lac,
Miss Mary Jones; the druggist put up
morphine instead, and Miss Jones is
another in the long list of victims to
druggists mistakes" g.
The new State House at Sacramento
is drawing near completion. The
building covers $1,000 feet, and the
dome, 276 feet circumference at the
roof, will culminate at point 226 feet
from the ground floor. xla
The prairie fires in Kansas are raging
with undue violence this season, owing
to the drouth and prevalent high winds.
The flames sweep over the plains and
surround the exposed settlements,
cracking, roaring, and tapping their
fiery tongues at the prey which is not
always fortunate enough to escape.
Joseph Schultz, lunatic, jumped
from the fourth story of hotel in st.
Louis, on Saturday morning, to the
pavement, but received only a trifing
injury in the spine. He ran like deer
for some distance just after making the
terrible leap.
The deepest guano deposit is seventy
feet. Humboldt says an inch in depth
would demand a lapse of 800 or 600
years. This would seem to prove a
long succession of ages in time past,
during which birds must have existed.
Achapin Peoria, III, has bean making
love in novel way. At early morn he
steps round to the house of his inamora-
ia, builds fire, lays in a supply of
wood and water, and after making him
self generally useful, departs steaithily.
If the girl don't have him she deserves
to be married to dandy. -