The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

Puebla.
Indianapolis is overrun with gam
blers.
Game is plenty on the Cape.
Two or three suicides q day in vi
emma.
I Garibaldi is badly off with the gout
Springfield is busy about her next
falls horse show.
Barnum has on exhibition the bigges
cheat" in the world.
Fresh cannibal horrors are reported
from the West coast of Afri ca.
The Chinese are said to be the bes
misunderstood people in the world.
Two women in Cairo quarreled about
an egg, and one of the party was killed
Two girls attempted to commit sui
eide in Brooklyn Saturday night.
A deed was recorded in Indiana, the
consideration of which is Sl5, 100000.
The recently appointed Turkish en-
voy to the United States is to sail soon
Head Centre Stephens is really in
Paris, hobnobbing with the British Min,
lister.
Mobs have taken the place of Courts
and bad passions for laws out in radical
Iowa.
The price of exemption from militia
ry duty in France is, this year, 5000
francs.
The Cheyenne and Sioux Indians, of
whom General Custer was in pursuit
eluded him.
In 1866 five hundred thousand sheep
were killed by degs, and their value
was 81, 100000.
Companies are forming in almost every
considerable town in, the West to emi-
CRATE to Montana.
The reform party in England have
fallen back npon John Bright for their
parliamentary leader and champion.
A man in Albany was relieved of a
fish bone which he swallowed twenty
wears ago. 1t was taken out of his
neck.
Lady Emily Peel has presented Sir
Robert with a tirst-born sen, after eleven
wears of neutrality-suspicious. Paper.
The late Confederate steamer Shen-
andoah has been purchased by the Sui
tan of Zanzibar, to be used as aipleasure
yacht.
."Elder" Adams, of the American Col
ony in Japan, is in hot water and owes
the American U. s. Consul there 50 200.
The price Of cats has advanced in
Paris. Many an American will be eat
ing them for chickens or rabbits. s.-NeT-
buryport Herald.
The great prize fight for the champi-
onship of England did not come off, one
of the men failing to come to time.
They are prosecuting the dog war
with great vigor in Chicago. Already
5532 have been slaughtered this season.
The New York Board of Health claims
to have information that cholera pre-
walls in three interior cities of the
Union.
Our national naval contribution to
the Paris Exposition will be the fine
war steamer Franklin, commanded by
Admiral Farragut.
Mrs. General Gains is about 20 erect
in New York q residence which, it is
said, will surpass in every respect any
yet built in that city.
Thomas and Fannie Blackburn, nnder
arrest for cruel child-beating at Column
bus, have plead guilty, and been sent to
the county Jail.
The Count de Greffulhe, the richest
man in France, died on the eth, at the
ripe age of 92. His fortune is estima-
ted at fifty millions of dollars.
DR.. Blackburn, the map who tried to
introduce smallpox into this country
from Canada during the war, wants to
return and take his trial.
They are building an organ at Salt
Lake City for use in the Mormon Tab
srnacle, which will consume over 10000
feet of lumber in its construction.
A naughty girl has been arrested in
Paris for pouring boiling water on her
papa, beating him with club and 9th
erwise improperly conducting herself.
Mrs. Ex-President Tyler recently test
fled in a New York court that her late
husbands property consisted chiefly Of
slaves, which were freed during the
war. .. wg-.
A man in Pennsylvania ewns gal
lsws and hires it out to counties when
any of their citizens require hanging.
Teufel was the last man that dangled
from it.
Charles Wilson, engineer Of the Wash
ington street tunnel, in Chicago, was
accidentally thrown in the way Of o
piston rod, and pounded to death, on
Friday evening.
Accounts from the plains are confirm
atory of the massacre of mail party
between Laramie and Fort Reno. The
Crows have given General Vessels as
surances of q pacific disposition.
Col. Wallace has been convicted aud
subjected to q nominal sentence, for
arrestinga citizen and confning him
three hours in the guard house at Wash
ington, for selling liquor in camp.
! At Denver, on the 18th inst, Paul
Coburn, division superintendent of the
overland stage line, killed J. W. Haun-
ner, an express messenger, by striking
him on the head with billiard cue.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has decided that wagons, carts
and drays used for farming and lumber
ing, aud expires, wagons for carrying
freight exclusively, are exempt from
taxation.
The issue of Mr.. C. A. Dana's new
evening paper is postponed until Sep