The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-12
CURRENT ITEMS.
Lots of snow on Mount Washington.
Detroit has "a now daily evening pa

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In Kansas they hang counterfeiters.
At Buffalo sailers are shipping at q
dollar day.
Cincinnati is to have Lincoln
Park.
The organ of the temperance party in
Maine is defunct. -+- ...-.---..-
Chicago has one thousan rats to every
one of its inhabitants.
Philadelphia papers say that that
city is ready to receive the cholera.
A remarkable desire to read the Bible
has shown itself in France.
Religion in Illinois is not keeping
pace with the increase ofpopulation.
The bootblacks and newsboys of Chi
cago had banquet the other day.
A large number, of Norwegians are
emigrating from Quebec to the United
States.
Rev. Joel T. Headley is said to he the
author of Detective Bakers book.
Restless Californians are irrepressibly
anxious to get up into the new territory
to develop"
The distiller1es in Peoria, ILL.,, have
stopped on account Of the high duty
and low price of whisky.
Offending editors in Madrid are made
to wear spiked iron collars and to serve
in the galleys twenty years.
Somebody who saw DR.. Livingstone
shot and buried reports the fact and
places his fate beyond doubt.
Barnum has secured that Connecticut
pig with an elephants trunk and an
eye in the centre of its forehead.
There is family in Madison, Morris
county, n. j., father and eight sons,
who have never tasted liquor.
1t is stated that Fred Douglas, accom-
panied by other colored orators, is about
to make a canvass of the South.
During May l5,468 acres of public
lands were disposed of at the offices in
Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.
A woman in Montreal had the body
of her child in the house five days, not
being able to so to the expense OF burial.
A man ii Buffalo has succeeded in
writing the Lords prayer inside cir
Gle the size of three, cent piece, twen-
ty-nine times.
A Halifax paper says that Nova Scotia
has saved $250,000 by importing -four
from Canada instead of from the United
States. .rr % .-a
A young man in Buffalo was found
with $4,000 of counterfeit National
Bank money which he was about to dis
pose of to ''shOvers."
The City Hall Building at Quincy,
Illinois, was destroyed by fire on Satur-
day; loss about $4,000, mostly covered
by insurance.
The Pennsylvania papers concur in
the opinion that the coming wheat crop
will probably be the largest ever har-
vested in that State. "E
A patent for Improved vice" has
been granted to man in North Adams.
Vice can probably be improved as well
as anything else.
Gen. Cole, who shot Hiscock, MEM
ber of the Constitutional Convention Of
New York, has been fully committed
for murder.
A man and wife at North Brookfeld
we're caught shaving the hair from the
tails of their neighbors' cows for hair to
sell to tin peddlers.
A London paper asserts that the Eng
lish public is continually having old
books foisted upon it under new names.
Literary honesty of English writers
must be at low ebb. u
In Toledo, ON Thursday night, Mrs.
J. Gould left pail Of water standing
by her bedside. During the night, her
infant child fell out of bed, aud was
drowned in the water before the mother
awoke. q. q
Mile. GraznOw was received with en-
tbusiasm at the Grand Opera, Paris, on
the occasion Of her return from St..
Petersburg, where treasures were poured
at the feet of the bewitching danseuse
by the Car, Archdukes, BOyards and
Mondjihs. aTsa-ss e
The tenth German Sanserfest will
take place in Philadelphia next month,
occupying a week. The cost of the fes.
tival is estimated ut S37 900. Seventy
two organizations have agreed to be
present, and ten more are expected.
A young man named Bradford was
killed near Bristol, Rhode Island, on
Saturday. He was standing on the
platform of cal which was backing
down, when sudden shock threw him
on the track, and the train passed over
him.
The Pope's health, according to cor
respondent Of the Pail Mall Gazette, has
lately given uneasiness to Rome. The
correspondent states that he has again
been suffering from q bad leg, and the
swoons caused by the pain, but at the
latest accounts he was better.
Sanford Con overs petition for arrest
of Judgment has been denied, and he
will be sent to the. penitentiary at
Washington, on Monday TO serve out
the sentence of five Year, imprison-
ment passed upon him for false swear
ing In the assassination case.
A fast young man Of Brooklyn forged
number of checks and realizing .
large sum of money proceeded to Phil
adsiphia, where he had D good time
generally and lived in the most extray-
agant style, but just after giving ban
quet to his friends he was invited to o
police station.