The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-05
CURRENT ITEMS.


General Lee is having a new house
built ct Lexington.
Joe Coburn is in Cincinnati and gave
an exhibition last night. - a'sS
Prince and Princess Teck have re-
turned from the Continent.
1t is said that fifty thousand people
have visited the Oneida Community
during the last six years.
The Episcopalian church contribu-
tions in this country amount to some
thing over three million year
Agovernment detective at Cleveland
announces that new counterfeit five
dollar treasury note is about to be IS
sued.
The Reverend Green, who poisoned
his wife in Litchfiald, Connecticut, is to
be hanged on the 4th of December, 1865.
A little girl, nine years old, in Berks
Co.. Pa, was crushed to death in the
horse power of athreshing machine last
week. .... ... ..
DR.. Wittstein, German chemist, as
serts that European wines contain two
and half per cent of oxide of zinc.
A 'loil" preacher at Evansville, Ind,
named C. Runk, has been fined $50 for
trying to defraud the government out
of license to peddle potatoes. ..f
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Wilbur F. Story, of the Chicago Times,
has sued the Princeton Patriot for SLAM
der, putting his damages at $4,000.
The soundings for the Atlantic Cable
from Brest, France, to the French island
of st. Pierre, off Newfoundland, thence
along the coast to New York, are COIN
pleted.
Two Virginian brothers named Brown
recently met at New Lexington, Ohio,
after separation of fifty-one years,
during which time they had not heard
of each other. The elder one was eighty
four years old. -.E....
Thirty thousand tuns of granite have
already been placed in the breakwater
at the mouth of Saco river, Maine, and
twenty thousand more will be needed
The Masonic fraternity at Milwaukee
assisted at the laying of the corner
stone ofa Universalist church in that
city last Friday. The ceremonies were
quite imposing.
A new cave has been discovered in
Schoharie county. The entrance is half
a mile from the Schoharie Court House,
on the farm of Napoleon Clark, and is
believed to form passage under the
West Mountains.
The through mails to the West now
go i n IRON bound boxes, instead ofleath-
er bags. Each box. tightly packed,
contains about eight hundred letters.
A lad in Belfast, Maine, has been SEN
fenced to three months in Jail for de-
stroying monuments in the cemetery
an odd case.
At the Chicago Soldiers Fair, on its
closing evening, last Thursday, over
three hundred dollars were taken In
one hour by votes on the question of fe-
male beauty.
1t is said that the large factories at
Newburyport, Mass, will continue to
rur on full time, with the amiable de-
sign of crowding out the smaller Try,
which are now stopping.
A workman by the name of White
died suddenly in Norwalk, Conn, re-
Gently, of a paralytic shock, caused by
a sudden fl of anger.
Chicago is threatened with q deluge.
There is one hundred and forty feet
head of water just ready to burst
through the thin pipes laid down by the
| plumbers at the new aqueduct works.
In New York, feG evenings since,
two hundred ladies were admitted to
the Masonic degree of the Eastern
Star. They were all wives, widows, or
daughters of Nasons, and this degree
enables them to ask assistance OF Ma
sons everywhere when in distress.
The Baltimore Post tells of n girl
brought in as drunken blasphemOus
vagrant before the Police Court of that
city Friday, who, five years ago, was the
beautiful heiress of one of the wealth
lest Baltimore families. She fell under
a promise of marriage, which was never
fulfilled.
There are half dozen French mem-
bers of the Dominion Parliament who
do not understand English at all, and
twenty more who do not understand it
well. All motions arc read in both lam
guages.
A German at st. Louis applied for a
situation in an intelligence Office. Af-
ter paying fee he received a note as
follows: "Go from st. Louis to New
Orleans, and then take o schooner for
Brazos, Santiago"
Three ladies of Springfield, Mass,
took vegetable remedy for q severe
headache, Tuesday, which German
| WOndu pTepdTcu HUN ouuuiy hCA 10.
Her product was virulent poison, and
the ladies were with difficulty saved by
medical skill from death.
The Cesarian operation was lately
performed at New Haven by DR.. Town
send, and both mother and child are
now doing we'll. The operation is one
of the rarest in surgery, and was never
performed but once before in that State,
and then with fatal result.
Professor A. H. Newton, of Yale Col
lege, says that the meteors, which some
people sat up . few nights ago to see,
are in stream at least five thousand
miles thick, at least one billion miles
long, and of unknown breadth; in the
thickest part of the stream the individ-
ual bodies are twenty-five miles apart.
The new Jewish synagogue on the
corner of Fifth avenue and FOrty-third
street, New York, is nearly finished. 1t
is constructed in the Moorish style, and
is covered with traceries and exquisite
designs. The building is one hundred
and sixty -four feet in length, ninety-six
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