The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

the eastern States.
Two hundred Chicagoians have FORM
ed club to visit Paris.
Portland is going to have q new $780,
600 sugar refinery.
/ A man in Pittsfield, Vt, killed twen-
ty-six crows at q single shot. H
The duke of Hamilton won 100000
at the recent Liverpool races.
The Catholic schools of Cincinnati
are patronized by $4,000 pupils.
The literary activity in this country
at the present time is remarkable.
Florence, the actor, has been swindled
out of sl925 by a forged check.
Barnum succeeds in stuffing animals
better than in stuffing ballot boxes.
There are over five hundred vessels
of all classes at the wbarves in New
York.
Henry Bowen, for thirty years Sec
retary of State of Rhode Island, is
dead.
The people of Santa Cruz, California,
are luxnriating with luscious ripe APP |
Piles.
The Society of Friends is reviving in
England. The Friends ut present num-
ber 1900.
There are now nine hundred and
sixty six prisoners in the Ohio peniten-I
tiary. q. AT tC< @ |
Over one hundred new vessels are |
being built or contracted for in Maine.
The North German Parliament has
adopted the national constitution, and
adjourned. E ~
Two fingers aud part of q hand were
found lying around loose in Kendall
vile, Ind. " ''tR.f.
The common school fund of Indiana !
is greatersthan that of any other State,
being 81, 100000.
Chalmers thinks that the use of the
semicolon would have saved Shaks-
peare from his commentators.
Patti is engaged to "noble-hearted
young American, who, before she be-
came famous, loved her for herself"
The Hartford Courant is so Disguised
with the conduct of its Radical friends
that it compares our colored fellow cit
iz1s to dogs! i tt'
DIR. Abrahams, who died suddenly in
New York few days ago, left nearly
his whole fortune (S3OO, ,OOO) to various
charitable institutions. y,.r.s......
England has about four hundred steam
ploughs and cultivators in operation,
saving the labor of about twenty-five
hundred horses,
A large number of counterfeit half
sovereigus are in circulation in Montreal,
and have deceived the banks, as they
are of full weight.
The discharge of Messrs. Drew, Fisk
and Beldon, parties in the Erie plot"
was ordered OH Tuesday, by Judge
Barnard, of New York.
Ten. boys, aged from eight to sixteen,
were sentenced to thirty days impris-
onment at Jamaica, Long Island, for
having stoned an organ-grinder dead.
Mr.. August Belmont has thrown open
his admirable gallery of paintings to
public view to help the friends of the
Lauies' Southern Relief Association.
Westfield, N. Y, is lighted with nat
ural gas, which is brought i'll pipes
from gas spring a mile and a quarter
distant. 1t costs customers four dollars
per thousand feet.
The miners strike at Dover, New
Jersey, is ended, and all the mines were
in operation on Monday. The strikers
have gone to work at the old price.
Ristori went across to the Canada
side on Sunday, and had her photograph
taken at Niagara. The officers there
upon arrested the artist for breaking the
Sabbath.
Chief Justice Chase, of the Supreme
Court, has appointed Judges Nelson,
Swaine and Miller commission to pre-
pare the forms and practice under the
new bankrupt law.
The State Department publishes
correspondence relative to the reported
capture and shooting of a son of the
Marquis de Montholon, in Mexico. The
Mexican Minister furnishes infOrma-
ton that no such event has taken place.
George Dawson, for thirty-six years
connected with the Albany Evening
Journal, has resigned the editorial
charge of the paper to George W. De-
mers. who has been for two years one
of its editorial writers. Mr. Dawson
still retains an interest i'll the Journal.
On Monday night, John W. Snow
and William Charleton, sentenced to the
penitentiary from Sullivan county, In
diana, jumped from a wagon, on the
way from New Albany to Jetfersonyille,
and, in the darkness, escaped. They
were handcuffed together.
A young man calling himself L. NJ.
Hosea, who married the daughter Of
prominent physician of Philadelphia
last month, was arrested recently on
charge of committing forgeries on his
ather-in-law and others to the amount
of Sll 900 OF more, and has been sent to
the Pennsylvania penitentiary.
l. The Senate has confirmed Mr.. Aiexan-
der Reed as Postmaster at Toledo,
against the protest of Mr.. Ashley, it is
said. Two of Ohio's best fighting men
General John w. Fuller, of the IA
nous "Ohio Brigade" and General A. S.
Commager, who led the Sixty-seventh
Ohio in the assault on Fort Wagner
were rejected for the same position
within q week or two.
On Thursday last, farmer named
Payne, living few miles from Dun
leith, was unable to cross. swollen
creek, on his way home, and attempted
| IN uet into n vacant house near by for