The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23
CURRENT ITEMS.
Miss Josie Lapham has been licensed
to preach in Ohio. s }ft ~.

/ Miss Josie Lapham has been licensed
to preach in Ohio. i'5t
A high-handed undertaking. negro
stealing a hen from ten rail fence.
In reply to the question whether the
Nicolson pavement is healthy, a West
ern paper says that all the contractors
| got fat on it.
A case of haunted house at Ironton,
Ohio, has been dispelled by the arrest
of the ghost under the vagrant act.
1t costs the working men of the North
fifty millions of dollars per year to try
Radical experiments in the South.
An editor, referring to patent metallic
air-tight coffins, says: "No person hav-
ing once tried one of these .coffins will
ever use any other"
Brigham Young ungallantly said of
the wife of Joe Smith, the prophet, that
she was the Oldest liar he knew"
This was part of Sunday afternoon
sermon on the Smith family. -
A Methodist College is to be estab-
lished at Lucknow, in India, where the
MethOdists now have schools with All
attendance of 1000 pupils
A Milwaukee paper says the Japanese
as balanc;sts have no living equal, un-
less it be the smart fellows who bal
anced the books of one of our whole
sale clothing merchants after he had
stolen some $4,000.
The Salt Lake Vidette has the follow
ing: "Correction-Instead of people
all very lousy in a letter from Crystal
Park, the other day, read people all
very busy" 'E
The MormOns of Utah are very anx-
ious to be admitted to the Union as a
State. They are willing, they say, to
have the peculiar institution" of
polygamy brought before the Supreme
Court, claiming that all they want is
fair play.
An afflicted editor who is troubled
with hand-organs under his window,
longs for the "evil days" mentioned in
Ecclesiates, when ''the grinders shall
cease because they are few" and "the
sound of the grinding" shall be '.low."
A traveller was lately bGastiug of the
luxury of arriving at night after hard
days journey, to partake of the enjoy
ment of we'll cut ham and the left leg
of goose. Pray, sir, what is the pc.
culiar luxury of a left leg" ''Sir, to
conceive its luxury, you must find that
it is the only leg left
A DISTINGUISHED clergyman in Con-
neticut town recently attended circus
on ihe same afternoon OH which he was
engaged to officiate at funeral, and
watch in hand, enjoyed the evolutiOns
in the ring till compelled reluctantly to
leave and fulfill his funeral engage
ments. He had, says an eyewitness,
the sympathy of the entire audiance.
PLANS HAVE been accepted for the
great bridge over the Mississippi river
VI st. Douis, and the work will COM
mence at once. Three years will be re-
quired for building it, and the cost will
be near S5.OOO,O00. 1t will not intefere
with navigation, will contain double
railroad track. street car track &c. 1t
will be one of the most splendid bridges |
in the world so the papers of st. Louis |
say.
A very nice gentleman, hailing all
Tho NOV from Massachusetts, md suh-
scribing himself W. Fl. Boyington, re-
Gently married an excellent young lady |
in Gibson county, Indiana. Last Sat-
urday night, his former wife, whom he
deserted in Canada, made her appear
ance and raised an energetic panic in
the family. A marriage certificate was
duly presented, and the scoundrel went
to Jail at Princeton, in default of $500
bail. So much for trusting to new
corners, without inquiring into their
antecedents.
THE notorious Jim Thompson, who
had been confined in the Springfield
(Mo) Jail, awaiting trial fgr the murder
of Hiram Christian, made his escape
from that institution on the 4th. The
escape created great excitement, and the
taller was openly aharged with bribery.
Thompson was couple of days after
ward arrested by n party of men in
PEELED to shoot him twice before they
could capture him. His next flight, it
IS supposed. will be to another world