The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-14
CURRENT ITEMS.

Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont is report
ed to be writing book.
Grant clubs are being organized in
Cleveland, Ohio.
In Chicago, during two days, S23O, 900
worth Of property has been destroyed
by fire.
Santa Anna has become involved in a
law suit in Havana, on account of some
old score.
Ten burglaries, or attempts at burg
larry, occurred on Sunday night at Lam
caster, Pa.
Over $1,000 kegs of lager have been
made in Milwaukee during the past
year.
A large rolling mill for the manufac-
ture of nails is to be established in Dan
vile, Pa.
A State Soldiers Orphan Home is to
be built at Bloomington, ILL.,, at . cost
of $4,000.
The Postmaster Generals report will
this year show deficiency instead of
small surplus.
Four geologists were lost for day
and night in the woods near New AL
bany, Ind, last week.
The journey cigar-makers of Phila-
delphia, to the number of two thousand,
are on a strike for higher wages.
1t is announced that woman's rights
weekly paper is to be started by three
maiden ladies at Terre Haute, Indiana.
Prairie fires are unusually numerous
and destructive in Kansas this season,
owing to the long drought.
Fires, set by sparks from railroad
locomotives, are DESTROYING much valu-
able property ia Illinois and other of
the Northwestern States.
The immense coal heaps on the Cunard
dock, Jersey City, have been on fire for
several days, from spontaneous COM
bustiOn.
The sorghum crop of 1867 is pro-
nouuced failure. Heavy rains have
prevented the cane from maturing in
season to escape the frost.
The Republicans have sixty-two men,
bers of the Wisconsin Assembly, and
the Democrats thirty-eight. The Re-
publican majority on the State ticket
is about 5000.
Alden Adams, of Leverett, Mass, has
this season gathered good crop of hops
off from the same vine that his grand
father gathered from ninety years ago.
1t is stated that boxes of common
house flies have been exported to New
Zealand by the English settlers to ex-
terminate the native New Zealand blue
bottle.
The receipts of the Chicago, Alton &
st. Louis Railroad, last month. amount
ed to nearly half million dollars. For
the current year, the receipts of the
road will exceed five millions.
A waiter in an Albany restaurant
man down and broke his leg
the other day, because he had muttered
an intimatien that his steak was over
done.
1t is reported at New York that
number of prominent Democratic pol
iticians, who wrote to General Sher-
man, asking if he would be candidate
against General Grant, have received a
decided and emphatic negative.
A young druggist, named Peterson,
died suddenly in Chicago, last week,
after drinking a glass of wine, in his
own house. The wine was poisoned,
but it is not known whether it was
poisoned by himself or by some one
else.
Aspiring of salt water which yields
one thousand barrels of saline fluid q
day, has been discovered in Summit
county, Colorado, thirty miles from
Georgetown, and salt factory will be
at once established.
Aspccial cable dispatch says that af-
ter his recent defeat, Garibaldi made no
address to his men at parting, and look
ed cold, haggard and disappointed"
There were no French troops in the
battles. ,......r|
During several days past numbers of
spurious twenty-five-cent notes have
been in circulation in Washington. The
bogus currency is triae thicker than
the genuine, and the green on the bask
a trife light. The vignette of Fessen-
den is good wood.cut, and not steel
engraving.
Several citizens of Matsmoras, Mexi-
co, having recently charged certain civil
officials with being concerned in con-
templated revolution, the commander
of the post arrested and imprisoned the
informants. 1t is expected that anoth-
er revolutionary movement will take
place within few months.
Great Britain now contains thirty
millions of people, an increase of two
and a half millions since 1852, and dur
ing the time she has furnished three
millions of emigrants to this country,
Australia and other parts of the globe.
During the last fifteen years Ireland has
decreased in population nearly eight
hundred thousand.
The New York Post calls the attention
of consumers of canned vegetables, to
the fact that the cans purporting to
contain two pounds, are really much
lighter in weight. At recent trial in
Brooklyn, three packers testified that
during the past three years they never
had put up two pounds of tomatoes in
what they called a two-pound can.
The same style Of swindle has come into
vogue with strawberry baskets.
A prize fight took place at Miami