The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-14
CURRENT ITEMS.
Robert Heller is in San Francisco.

| washington mas pOpuiabioh vi io",
600.
Hartford is TO have "social club" on
large scale.
Troy has one hundred and fifty pro-
fessional thieves.
Two gold boards are now run by the
Boston spectators.
There are 500 inmates in the Vermont
Insane Asylum.
Betty Kahn hung herself in New York
to escape neuralgia.
London has twenty three theatres and
| twenty-nine music halls.
Snow is two feet deep in some parts
of Aroostook county, Maine.
The hotels at Niagara Falls are
making preparations to take people in.
Wild pigeons are robbing many of
the wheat fields in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin gives over s2OO,OOO to
charitable institutions this year.
The New York boot-blacks have re-
duced the price to five cents "shine."
Mr.. Mccormack, the reaper man,
hands in his income account rs sl67 100.
Mrs. General Gaines new mansion
on Central Park, New York, will cost
81, 100000.
Thad. Stevens talks Of"mild confisca-
tion"-we suppose he would say "gen-
tie hanging"
Grasshoppers are so thick in Kansas
that they scoop them up with a peck
measure.
Several of the smaller cities in lndi-
ana are vieing with each other for the
palm of plug-uglyism.
Gold is generally more valuable in
France than in England, and silver in
England than in France.
A soldiers says following Indians with
infantry is like shooting mosquitoes
with ten-inch guns.
A furniture establishment paid $1,000
for one page advertisement in the Paris
Exhibition catalogue.
A Vermont farmer has recently paid
$500 each for yearling buck and two
Spanish merino ewes.
There is q terrible suspicion among
Americans in Paris that the restaurants
there supply horse-fesh for beef.
Chancellor Livingston, ffty-six years
ago, wrote letter expressing doubts as
to the practicability of railroads.
The Cameronian forces arc mastering
in Pennsylvania preparatory to the Re-
publican Presidential Convention dele
gates.
The last survivor of those who carried
the dying Nelson to the cockpit Of his
ship at the battle of Trafalgar, died ro-
Gently.
The Third Annual Fair of the State
sheep breeders and wool growers,
opened in Auburn. New York, on We'd
nesday.
\ Chicago book-keeper returns n
larger income than that of the firm
combined, the firm being one of the
largest in the city.
The London journals are discussing
the question whether "a discovered
head retains sensibility.' They should
ask any eX-office holder.
Maine has thirty well organized base
ball clubs, and there will soon be a
match for the State championship, with
q silver ball for a prize.
In Paris, whisky cocktail is translated
as follows: Eoktelle de OniSki. Like q
rose ny another name, il is doubtless
just as sweet.
There are thirty thousand journey
men tailors in London. Their recent
strike has completely suspended all
work and old clothes are the fashion.
Last year there were 330,50l 500
pounds of tobacco produced in the
United States. a falling of of 100000
600 as compared with the crop of 1865.
The steamship Cuba sailed from Bos.
ton, Wednesday, taking one hundred
and seventy-siX passengers for Liver
pool and $751; 900 in specie.
Austria is enjoying speciality for
singular robberies just now. The last
thing stolen was $50 ID. mortar from
the Vienna Museum of Artillery.
All places of business are to be here
after closed on Sunday in Jersey City,
newspaper dealers and BARRIERS alone
excepted, and these not to ply their av-
ocations after 9 A. NJ.
James Murphy, who attempted to
outrage the person of an orphan girl
twelve years old at New Albany, Ind,
has Just been sentenced to The peniten-
tiary for two years.
A st. Paul paper says that certain
members of the late Minnesota Legis-
lature were given to talking of their
"per diadem," and to saying that they
were determined to see into the Janus"
of such and such propositions.
A Maine paper says that notwith-
standing the vigilance displayed by the
officials, as much liquor is drank in
that State as ever, and the effort to
more rigidly enforce the law only
causes dealers and consumers to use
more circumspectiOn.
A "werry hodd' coincidence astonish-
ed the religious world of New York, the
other day. Two of the city clergymen
preached the same sermon, word for
word identical, on the same day. The
professional writer, who furnished the
discourse. was careless with his 'man-
folds
Detroit journals of Thursday edited
their readers with reports of three
highway robberies, one faithless hus-
band, one ditto wife, one case of in