The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-02
CURRENT ITEMS.

Wisconsin is to have five Supreme
Court Judges. f...g 81.
Another feminine Esculapius has ap'
peared i'll Paris.
Pittsburg is going TO have a week OF
Italian opera. ... .r
The London Court Journal defends
crinoline.
Madrid abounds with inflammatory
publications. sa t.a..
st. Louis has a case of mystery and
miscegenation. - b.
Minnesota owns S2l.652.7O4 worth OF
live stock.
At Johnstown, Pa, the Cambria Iron
Works employ 5000 hands.
The New York fire department is go,
ing to be furnished with Bibles.
There are now wanting only $50 miles
of wire to connect New YORK with Pc
kin, in China. ...,..
The first man who carried mail from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg on horseback
died a few days since.
A western artist invested $1,000 in
Crosby Opera House tickets, and drew
Il picture worth SIS.
Railroad wrangles are just now the
most lively matters going.
Some of the New York baggars refuse
to receive anything less than fifty cent
postal stamps. ...,..
One of the handsopest girls in Chica
90 has been arrested for stealing jewel
ry.
The Marquis of Westminster has an
income of 81 ,0O0, 900 per anHm.
The Susquehanna river continues fro
zen over at Harrisburg, and sleighs eros:
daily on the ice.
There have been in the Protestant
Episcopal church in the United States
50 bishops, of whom 43 survive.
The celebrated burning well neal
Franklin, Pa. is again on fire, the flame:
frequently shooting mp to a height o.
100 feet.
1t is stated in some of the Paris pa
pers that some of tho soverigns have
agreed to exhibit their crown jewels al
their coming Exposition.
The Lochiel Iron Company of Harris
onburg, Pa, has contracted to furnish
5000 tons of railroad iron for Southern
railroad.
Lord Mas, the newly appointed Gov
ernor General of Canada, is all 1risl
Peer, and in Parliament was called the
STAT Irish boy"
Pennsylvania is to have new coun
ty, made of slices of Armstrong, Butler
Tenango and Clarion.
A row in Nankin, China, was quelle'
by chopping off forty-fivc heads from
the most headstrong.
The New York authorities are pub
fishing the names of men who owl
pigstyes and let them as tenement
1 houses.
Wonderful statisticians have compu
ted that if everything that had diet
was piled on the habitable parts of ou
globe, it would make pile three miles
high.
Judge Stewart, in the circuit cour
at Madison, Wisconsin, recently de
cided on an appeal of barber, finet
for shaving on the Sabbath, that it wa
awork of necessity and not Sabbath
breaking.
The Supreme Court of the Unitet
States has jsst decidti that the Unitet
States revenue law of 1866, imposing
special tax on lottery-t:cket dealers, j
valid, and can be enforced against then
in the State of New York.
| A dispatch from Chicago states tha
come of the great army Of ticket-hold
1 ers now propose to take revenge b,
bringing suit against Crosby for violat
ing the State law against lotteries.
A man in Auburn who lost leg il
consequence of injuries received frou
Gen. Grants carriage during the Presi
dents reception in that city, attempte'
Ito swindle the General by playing upo1
his sympathy.
! A Maine paper tells hard stor,
about q drunken man in Sage, VIII
dropped from his mouth o piece Q
cracker he was eating, when . httl
dog immediately picked it up and at
it, and in less than an hour swelled n
u and died.