The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-25
CURRENT ITEMS.
Canada has gold on the brain.
Chicago has q clerical cruiser.

Another Fepian movement is fore.
told.
Canada has adopted the American
caucus system. ..'
The Irish citizens of Chicago are about
to establish a paper.
A man in Missouri was nearly killed
by three wildcats.
There is very general exodus from
Ireland TO this country.
California promises an immense wool
crop the ensuing season..
Strawberries are plenty in the New
York markets at % cents each
Pennsylvania is going to paint Gov
Geary at an expense of $500.
Philadelphia is denied voting on the
inevitable Sunday car question.
A duel recently took place in Paris
on account of one of the demi-mOnde,
Men in Dayton dressed in women's
clothes rob solitary pedestrians by
night. .-!
A woman in Ohio AYERS that she has
lived solely on vegetable diet for fifteen
years.
Radicalsm is the most expensive Ink
ury this country has ever INDUCED in.
The Emperor of Brazil erecteda tomb
stone over poet who died Of starya-
tion.
The Chicago Board of Health has be-
gun cleaning that city to avoid the
cholera.
The philanthropic Sumner thinks his
emission" will soon be the French mis-
sion.
The Japanese Commissioners have
arrived in New York from San Fran
cisco.
1t is proposed to establish company
in London to insure husbands against
mothers-in-law.
1t is said the Italian innholders make
the lowest of their bows to the univer-
sal Yankee.
The King of Denmark said he would
rather die among the Danes than rot
with Prussia.
Not "happy" returns-those necessary
to be made to the internal revenue col
lectors.
The State Department is not fitting
out an expedition to explore Russian
America.
A man in Milwaukee who tried it, de-
scribes in paper Of that city how it
feels to be drowned.
A meeting of the Democratic State
Convention of California is called at
San Francisco on June 10.
The rage for speculation i'll real estate
in New York continues and heavy sales
take place daily.
One can ride in coach in Paris, and
take three friends with him, for forty
cents an hour in gold.
A gentleman in Philadelphia put
pistol to his temple and blew out his
brains-all for love.
A recent meeting at Berlin declared
that Luxemburg must not be separated
from Germany.
The reported alliance between Aus
tria and Prussia is denied by an Aus
trian official journd.
The City Council of Columbus has in
itiated action looking to the purchase
of a public park;
The Omaha papers complain that new
comers there have to sleep out of do ors
owing to the lack of houses.
The Missouri river continues rising.
The food in the river is now higher
than at any time since 1874.
Five mad dogs were killed in Chica-
90 one day last week, and on the same
day four persons were bitten.
The "new India rubber neck and
bust" is probably made of that material
because all finger marks can be prompt
ly erased.
The Congress of the United States of
Columbia has passed law hostile to
the proposed inter-oceanic canal scheme.
1t is reported that France and Rus
sia will make joint proposition to the
Porte to cede Gambia to Greece.
Wisconsin and Minnesota were visited
by severe snow storm Sunday night,
attended with cold weather.
Luxemburg really belongs to William
the Third of Orange. but the Prussians
have IL and the French want to have 1t.
A Cincinnati paper advocates thepur-
chase of o million brooms to be used in
making that city elean-just once.
The Independent has discovered that
"the States that now need reconstruc-
tion are the Northern" That's what's
coming.
A pretty girl ran from Fall River to
Providence after negro minstrel, and
her mother pursuing caught her just in
time.
The Marquis of Westminster has ad.
vanced f5O,OOO for new paper in Lon.
don, to be called The Day. 1t is to knock
the Times out of time.
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A religious paper says "it has been
noticed that every marked revival of re,
ligion has been followed by season OF
greater wickedness.n
A gentleman in Pennsylvania got up
at midnight, took an axe and beat out
his wife's brains, and then neatly hung
himself with his suspenders.
The Surgeon General of the army ha'
issued circular enforcing precaution
ary measures, in view of the possible
appearance of cholera this summer.
The bevies of pretty bar-maids at the
restaurants in the English branch o.
the Exposition building, excite the ad
miration of all the French visitors.
Cincinnati had grog free by fire il
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