The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-10-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

There are 2O,OO7 schoolable children
in Cincinnati.
The water of the lower Ohio is lower
than at any time for twelve years past.
A cavern with a fathomless lake has
been found in Wyandot county, Ohio.
The Rev. Theo. L. Cuyler denies that
he has ever been photographed in an at
titude of prayer.
A bold headline in an Omaha paper
reads: "GaribaldI, theiItalian Brigand,
Arrested in Rome"
A bet of 100000 was recently made
at the Paris Bourse that in less than
FIVE years General Grant will be En-
peror of the United States.
A Chicago criminal lawyer cleared a
thief by his eloquence, and the fellow
robbed him of two hundred dollars the
next day.
The aggregate capital invested in the
oyster business at Fair Haven is not
less than 81 100000 employing directly
fifteen hundred people.
The expansion of the rails of rail
road five hundred miles long in hot
summer day is one-fourth of mile, all
of which has to be allowed for at the
joints.
An unknown German laid himself
down and slept on the railroad track
near Wayne. A train came along land
cut him into numerous pieces.
Ann Burns stabbed Samuel Phelps in
Chicago last Wednesday night, infict-
inga fatal wound. Phelps had seduced
the girl and deserted her.
A fashionable lady of Reading, Pa, "a
woman of cultivation and refinement"
was found on the streets there Monday
beastly drunk aud shockingly profans.
Three iron establishments in France
employ twenty -four thousand hands,
and work two hundred and thirty thOus-
and tons of iron year.
A thief who took John Graham's
watch from his home at Troy recently,
returned it after keeping it for two
weeks, Mr.. Graham finding it on We'd
nesday dangling from his door knob.
A minister in Lawrence, Mass, lately
had barrel marked "crockery" deliv-
cred at the depot in that city, out the
head fell out during carriage and reveal
ed keg of brandy snugly bestowed in
the cask.
Alvin Mohre, of Newfane, VT, missed
an OK from his pasture short time
since, which was afterwards found with
his head between two trees, where lie
had b cen without food or water for nine
days.
4 wide-awake fire company in West
Newton, Mass, turned out the other
night to put out the aurora borealis, but
it had got under such headway that they
returned without action. Nevertheless,
their intentions were honorable.
A few days ago, a train of cars ran
into hand-car, containing fifteen men,
one mile east of Aurora, Ind, and killed
three men on the spot, besides wound
ing six others. A dense fog prevented
the parties from seeing each other.
Near Deerfield, Iowa, Monday, an
emigrant family was journeying west
ward, when gun in the wagon was
accidentally discharged, and the ball
passing through the body of the mother
killed her, and inflicted fatal wound
on her daughter.
A Richmond paper speaks of girl,
thirteen years old, who committed to
memory fifteen hundred consecutive
verses of the New Testament in one
week, wearied out several teachers in
reciting her lesson, and had brain fever
the next day.
General Buffers new house at Lanes
Vile, Gloucester, Mass, occupies one of
the best locations on the Cape. The
first story is of Wolfe Hill Granite.
The second is to be of wood, forming
French roof. The foundation is
spoons"
A year ago, DIR. Youmans was called
to attend a man in Pontiac, Ill. The
man died, and the doctor ran off with
his widow. There being suspicious
afioat, the body was taken up, aud it
was ascertained that the man had been
poisoned by arsenic. Ever since officers
,Nnronit Of ha 1n..tnr md
he has been arrested at kewaunee, Wis.
Broad street Philadelphia, is eleven
miles and half long, in one straight
line, and one hundred and fifteen feet
wide, extending from League Island,
on Delaware river, to the northern
boundary of the present city limits. At
its present rate of improvement, it will
only require few years to make II one
of the finest thoroughfares in the world.
1t is curious to note the distinctions
of color as applied TO disease. There
are, the yellow fever, the black vomit,
the green sickness, the white swelling,
the scarlet fever, the yellow jaundice,
and, as Mrs. Partington says, the
"browu creeters." And now we have,
rs a climax, the "blue death" on board
the hospital ship at quarantine.
A sailing carriage, designed for cross
ing the plains, has been made at ST.
Louis. It's wheels are ten feet high; it
has two upright jib sails, and sail on
each spoke of the two wheels on one
side of the wagon. The steering gear
acts on the forward wheels. The body
is shaped like o boat, and hung low,
aud will be used as a boat in crossing
streams.
A twelve year old boy, near Des
Moines, Iowa, was carrying home q
scythe on horseback, Tuesday. when he
was thrown from the animal and fell
upon the scythe, almost disemboweling
himself. The intestines were not injur-
ed, however, and the boy is likely to re-
eever.
A few days ago, while a daughter Of
Mr.. Samusl Humphrey, in the town of