The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

A notorious Detroit smuggler is in
limbo. ..-.s.
The tomahawkers are still at work in
the West.
The C. O. /. r. is said to be penni-
less.
The deputy prothonotary of Quebec is
dead.
Puseyism has cropped out in San
Francisco.
Nebraska grows as rapidly ass gourd
Some New Yorkers purpose revolu-
tionizing Cuba.
The reward for Surratt was withdrawn
in November, 1865
London is going to be reconstructed.
New York wants to be.
Nearly half O million dollars were
spent in Chicago for Christmas gifts.
Tho Western Indians are still suffer
ing for the want of o generous sastigar
tion.
The largest nan in Congress ts MI
Baldwin, of Massachusetts,.
There arc twenty-five bald heads in
Congress, two wigs and fifteen pairs OF
moustsches.
Santa Fe is 30 healty place that the
residents rarely die save Of old age OF
whisky.
The new Tycoon of Japan is Q gen.
tleman Of progressive ideas.
The Pope's new soldiers are ready to
fight against foreigners.
The cattle plague in England cost
s17, 1865, 900 in gold.
According to French work the next
deluce is due in about six thousand
years from date.
4 number of ladies were arrested at
Lowell, Mass, the other evening, for
forging lecture tickets.
Over 1900 men and 300 oxen and
horses are engaged in Maine in hauling
logs into the East Machias and Machias
rivers.
Michael Ryan, of Troy, n. Y, was
choked to death on Tuesday while eat
| ing sausage. Look ont for the scratch
claws!
One night last week SEINE rascals in
Indianapolis broke into church and
carried off the stock of sacramental
wine.
The London Times says Fenianism is
"myth," yet Fenian arrests continue
to be made in Ireland almost daily. Eas
Some Of the English papers think the
yacht race "not so great feat after all. ,
Grapes with pungent taste.
A Maryland paper puts forth Gen
Grant rs President and Gen. Lee as Vice
President Of the United States for the
next term.
As matters stand now there would
appear to be no very near prospect of q
clearance of the foreign element from
! the field of contention in Mexico.
Minnesota still has left 3O,550,00C
acres of public lands open to settlement
under the Free Homestead Law i'll that
State, an area larger than the whole
State of Ohio.
The Montreal Daily Ne,rs fOots up, as
it says, for the information OF its Amer
lean friends, the strength of the British
army stationed in Canada and the Low
er Provinces. 1t is 22,S25.
The Iron Mountain and Cairo and
Fulton Railroads, recently sold by
Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, to Nc
Kay and Read, for 100000, have been
sold again by the purchasers for 81 ,275,-
900, a clear profit of 375,OOe on the
| transaction.
A Wisconsin Court has decided that a
man has tho right to chastise wife to
reasonable extent" Cowhide whips
are now in great demand in that State,
and married men walk the street tri'
umphantly.
A "skatorial queen" who has been
turning the heads of nearly all the
"slippery heels" of Philadelphia by heI
graceful and artistic manipulations ol
the steels turns out to be an Arch street
ieweler, named Davis.
Londsn "pea-soup" fogs are proverb'
ial, and it is announced in the last mail
from England that on December Goth
that city was visited by one Of these
fogs, which was so dense that the gas
lamps were lit all day, and the omni'
busses and the steamers on the Thames
had to stop running for several hours
In the inland country districts Of Eng.
land, however, the day was clear and
bright.
During the. revolution, Washington
said he was afraid to march his little
army through Chester county, Pennsyl
vania, because of the tories. That is
one Of the strongest radical counties IN
the State. That is very natural. The
tories were the loyalists Of the revolu
ton, and prated of their loyalty as
the radicals do now. Both the old tory
and the modsrn radical have substan
TALLY the same creed =. s.-..
Large seizures of imported brandy
and other spirituous liquors, arc daily
being made at the principal ports o
entry in the United States, in conse
quence of ignorance in regard to a pro
vision Of the tariff act, passed at the
last session of Congress, which provide;
that no importations of brandy or othel
spirituous liquors shall be made in cask'
or other packages which contain les:
than thirty gallons. So far the good:
have been delivered to the parties OF
the payment Of fine equal to th'
amount Of duties on the liquors.
A thoughtless young mother Of fifteer
years, residing in Los Angeles, Califor
mia, placed her infant child, six month";
old, on the back of colt, without bri
die or haltar, and tied the legs Of th'
infant under the belly Of tho colt, a I.