The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-18
CURRENT ITEMS.

three feet Of snow.
There is to be o baby show at the
Paris exposition. T ~
New York has contributed Sl70, 900
to the relief of the South. 49,.
Bows in Rochester are not allowed tt
coAgregate on Sunday.
Queen Vic.'s new book is actually
printed, stitched and bound.
1t is decided that contract for lob.
by services can be enforced. "
Polly Haskins, of Camden, Ohio
claims to to lis years old.
Wendell Phillips's special terror just
now is Gen. Grant. #
Flour costs three times as much in
Boston asst does at Salt Lake city.
Indiana's maple sugar crop is very
large this year.
The Milwaukee mills turn out from
5000 to 1900 barrels of -four daily.
Why does not Congress establish a
Chinese Bureau to take care of John
Chinamani
They have "lady" compositors in Port
land. Females are extinct.
The city councils of Boston have ap-
propriated 100000 for new lunatic
asylum.
The fire department of Chicago en-
ploys 140 men and has $400, 200 worth
Of property. t -. Psi
New York has passed law calculated
to break up impositions practiced upon
working-women. a#
General Kliby Smith has been con-
firmed Consul at Panama. 1t is said he
will not accept.
The New Workers have stage-racing on
Broadway, the stakes being the lives of
the passengers.
New Workers complain that their for
eign trade is willing away. Radical leg
islation. grEu..T sE7E
The water has been let in the Penn
sylvania canal at Harrisburg, and boat
men are preparing for business.
A New York correspondent states that
Senator Sherman, who sailed for Europe
on Saturday, will return in August.
An association has been form ed for
the introduction of silk culture into
Nevada upon an extensive scale.
The Hebrewsin New York are about
to establish an insurance company in
New York with very large capital.
The ground occupied by the Mer-
chants Exch ange of London is said to
be worth four millions of dollars.
A correspondent says the National
Capitol is not only a bear garden, but
lovers trys., and playground for
piccaninnies.
A young man employed at the roll
ing mills at Bethlehem, Pa, fell heir
to an estate in Holland valued at 50 900,
600. -- a.
A fellow whose lives is white, whose
nose is red, and who is always getting
blue, isn't necessarily p,triot.-Iren-
ticC.
On the Fourth of July next the "bird
of freedom" will scream from the Gulf
of Mexico clear mp to the North Pole.
The Michigan constitutional conven-
ton will contain seventy-five repub-
licans and twenty-five democratic MEM
bers.
The New York Methodists ask the
world to discourage the practice Of play
ing "those games which do not tend to
godliness.
About $1,000 has been realized for
the Southern relief fund by the exhibi-
ton of Mr.. August Belmont's private
picture gallery, at New York.
A Canadian dispatch says that force
of United States troops arrived at
Rouse's Point on Friday, it is supposed
to guard against Fenian raids.
A strange fatal disease has broken out
among the sheep in some sections of IL
linois. The microscope reveals the pres
ence of parasites in the stomach. =.
The Pittsburg silver-mining company
operating in Jackson county, West Vir-
ginia, have found rock yielding forty
dollars to the ton, and are confident OF
striking richer vein.
There are every year in Russia 300
horse fairs held in 1913 localities. The
average number Of those animals Of
fered there for sale every year is calcn-
lated at 263,00O.
A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature of New York to abolish all
public markets in the city of New York,
| leaving the business of keeping mar
kets to private enterprise.
The Radicals abuse the President for
exercising the pardoning power. From
April Is, 1865, to March 2, 1866, 1l6s
pardons were recommended by Radical
officials, and 800 by others.
The Evansville Journal says that the
prospect for the peach crop in Southern
Indiana is. very fine. The Olney Qll.)
Journal says that the prospect in that
section is equally good. So also says
the Hickman (Ky,) Courier.
The celebrated Esterhazy jewels sold
at auction in London for f37 ,76O. Among
the objects sold were one diamond, sew
enteen karats, which went for $4,000,
and splendid Hungarian uniform Of
rich Genoa velvet, whereof the sleeves
of the pelisse alone contained 10000
pearls; this uniform sold in four lots for
f5175. ~. ..g
A young man named Harry Rivers
was poisoned by his landlady in Chi
cago last Tuesday. The same number
of the Tribune which records the fact,
mentions also the murder OF a man
named Tracy, by some person not Ger.
taiuly known, in order to prevent his
appearance as witness in case of as.
sault; two cases of probable hydropho-
bia; the murder of two girls; the rape
of a girl thirteen years old by her own
. father; besides choice assortment OF
x~..la,naannra anh minor