The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-20
CURRENT ITEMS.


garian Diet.
The amount of gold in the Treasury
is about S93, 100000.
Mr.. William Cullen Bryant is in the
Scotch Highlands.
Mrs. JEFF. Davis and child sailed from
New York for Charleston on Saturday
Work is to be commenced Immediate
ly on the new bridge across the Missis,
sippi at st. Louis.
A Mrs. Warner was the 4th of July
orator at Richmond, Wis, and she made
the national bird scream melodiously.
The voting population of California
is about one hundred thousand, and it
has not increased any within the past
twelve years.
Reverend Radical W. II. Greene, of
Connecticut, escaped on the 18th from
the Jail where he was confined on
charge of poisoning his wife.
The New York Herald states that bu-
siness in that city has almost come to q
standstill, and stagnatiOn of trade is
the general complaint.
Prince Christian has been appointed
Ranger of Windsor Forest-an office
whereof the duties consist mostly Of
drawing much money.
Among the latest arrivals at Saratoga
are two young ladies from Havana,
known as the "charms Of Cuba" and
wearing diamonds to the value of $780,
600.
General Barksdale, of Mississippi, has
written letter ranging himself along
side of Longstreet and Thompson, in
favor of reconstruction under the mill
tary bill.
Governor Green Clay Smith and fam
ily, and General Sol. Meredith and W.
G. Gallagher, of Cincinnati, arrived at
Halena, Montana, on the 9th inst.
In some of the English cities, Liver
pool especially, they have a difficulty
in the police force unknown here, i. e.,
to get young men men for police Of
ficers.
A cable telegram brings report that
the Archduchess Sophia, mother of the
reigning Emperor of Austria, and of the
late Prince Maximilian, has become in
sane.
An unsuccessful attempt was made.
on Saturday, to dislodgs Table Rock, at
Niagara Falls. by blasting it, but moth
ing beyond fissurc on the surface was
accomplished.
DIR. Brice Cooper, formerly captain
of the eth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was
killed at Samantha, Ohio, on Satur-
day, by John \. Starr, dnrir = dispute
abont an old debt.
Gold mining in Virginia is rapidly IN
creasing. By the first of November sew
entecn mines will have been opened in
Spottsylvania, Culpepper, Orange and
Louisa counties.
The Jamaica Cleaner, of the 9th ult.,
publishes nows from Hayti of the elrc-
ton of General Salnave President of
the Republic. The term of office is
for four years, instead of for life, IS nm
der the old Constitution.
w. C.. Mcdowell, lawyer of Leaveh-
worth, fell off an outside seat of an ON
nibus at ST. Louis, on Tuesday, and the
wheels of the vehicle passed over him,
killing him almost Immediately. His
remains will be brought to liillsOOro,
Ohio, for burial.
Colonel Henry K. Rathbon0, the step
son, and Miss Clara, the daughter Of
Senator Harris, who were with Prcsi-
dent Lincoln in the box when he was
assassinated, were married last week.
at Albany, and sailed for Europe in the
Vile de Paris on Saturday.
Balloons, it is said, are now sent mp
in England, to which rockets packed
with powdered magnesium are attached.
AS the magnesium burns, an extensive,
area of the country isillnminated is as by
bright moonshinc. A permanent light
of this nature would be sail moon
shine
The longest train of cars that eve
passed over any railroad is said by the
casters (Pa.) Argus to have recently
passed over the Lehigh Valley railroad.
1t consisted Of 275 loaded cars, aver
aging six tons each, making 1850 tons in
all. The train extended $3.50 feet-Ovrr
two-thirds of q mile.
4 free-born negro, bearing the rath
er inelegant name of Aaron Sweat, iiv-
ing in North Carolina, has announced
himself as candidate for Congress, and
is now hard at work among his breth-
rem in complexion. Like Tom Ford, he
is willing TO "sweat barrel" in the
cause. Let him-sweat.
There are now in operation in the
world 95,727.2 miles of railroad, of
which the United States has &c, 1898;
Great Britain and Ireland, 1926;
France, 5,952.5; Prussia, 5,794.S; Austria,
$3.50. and all of Europe 50,1l7.5; North
America, 39,4l4.l; Asia, $685.; South
America, 1919: Africa, 37ss; Austral
asia, 6O7.7; West Indies, 4l0.3.
Among other strange changes on the
Western plains made by the Pacific
railroad, viii be it's effect on the great
buffalo migrations north and south dur
ing the spring and summer months.
The immense buffalo trails that sweep
from the States of Mexico to the British
dominiOns. and over which countless
herds move northward, rs the grass be-
gins to grow, and southwark as il be-
gins 10 fade, will I've entirely broken up
by the railroad and the trains of cars
that will constantly be in motion over
il. The buffalo, which, like the Indian,
has been forever retreating before the
advance of the white man, will have
thus have his last great stamping
Creund destroyed; and as there is no
further retreat possible for him. he will
have TO prepare for final Disappearance
from the soil of the United States.
4 young and prepossessing lady, be-
longing in Louisville, Kentucky, became
almost entirely blinded while in the