The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-13
CURRENT ITEMS.
Naples has struck oil.

kerosene.
John Morrissey denies the losses at
tributed to him.
Fruit growers say there are no fears
for the peach crop. -- .-
New Jersey proposes to better its sys-
tenn Of education.
A young man in New York was fined
S for stepping on a lady's dress.
The wool men in Washington are
said to look sheepish.
Tilton denies that he intends to marry
his pheasant friend, Miss Anna Dickin :
SON."
Pine wood is distilled in New Jersey
at large profit.
A young man in Newburg, Ind, who
was frozen stiff, was warmed into life.
There were 47,46s illegitimate births
in England last year.
The Congress Hall hotel, at Saratoga,
will be ready next Summer.
An Illinois girl who lost her speech
has had forty offers of marriage.
A negro in Chicago attempted to poi
son the inmates of boarding house.
1t is predicted that the Y ear 1867 will
witness the downfall of the Ottoman
The best currency is that sort of cur
rency where dollar here is a dollar the
world over.
Respectable girls are enticed from
their homes in Patterson to dens of in
fanny in New York.
Woodsawyers in Kokomo saw a cord
of wood and take it as part of their
pay.
1t is stated that Edwin Booths
share of the income Mt the Winter Gar
den Theatre, New York, amounts to
$500 per night.
A cigar-holder has made its appear
ance in Paris, upon which, after a cigar
has been smoked in it tor some time
photograph appears.
The young people of Below Falls
have formed dramatic associations to
keep the youth of that place from tip
ling shops and billiard saloons.
No word has yet been coined that adj
equately describes the present condition
of the streets of New York, says an ex-
change.
A man in Detroit who "saw in the
mirror of the past how swiftly he had
rushed into the moat of dissipation cut
his throat OH the street.
The present decrease in the violence
of the assaults on President johnson Is
not to be attributed to Il want of op-
but to the fact that the mat
ter has been overdone.
The Cleveland and Pittsburg rail-
road pays an annual premium of 500
to that engineer who runs locomotive
the greatest number of miles with the
least expense.
The ire of the fair damsels of Colum-
bus is expected to be awakened on ac-
count of the merchants Of that city
to charge sight-seers a
small entrance fee.
A merchant in New York, who failed
twice in fifteen years, and was forced to
sell his wife's wardrobe to procure the
of life. has inst retired with
O fortuue of s50U,GO0.
Sanford Conover, the detective, who
fabricated the testimony complicating
jeff. Davis with the Lincoln assassina-
tion, has been found guilty of perjury.
A man named Carleton was arrested
in New York on Friday on the charge OF
money and other property
to the value of nearly million Of dol
lars from the treasury department, in
Memphis, Tenn.
A son of Cornelius Vanderbilt has tes-
tilted before q committee Of the New
York Legislature that his father owns
one half the Harlem railroad and seven
teen thousand shares Of the Hudson
River road.
Two young women Of very respecta-
BILE families in Milwaukee, dressed them
selves in male attire, and with each a
cigar, and hats jauntily set on the side
of the head, made tour of the city,
taking \ billiard-roOm in their course.
Concerning Barnum and his Con-
gressional aspirations Connecticut
paper says that "sewing monkeys
head and fish's tail together, TO make
q mermaid, is performance well calcu-
lated to make n man notorious, but 1t
affords no evidence Of craftsmanship
Patrick ORenrke, formerly treasurer
of the Roberts Fenisns, i'll New York.
has instituted legal proceedings against
the directors of the Stephens branch
for the recovery of cash checks made
PAYABLE to his order, which, it is al
legged, were sent by parties who thought
O'Rourke was treasurer ofthe O'Mahony
branch, a position he resigned ut the
time of Roberts detection.
A woman in New Britain, Conn, hav-
ing became enrsged at her husband re-
Gently, rushed out of doors in revenge,
and seated herself in o snow bank, and
there remained until nearly frozen. He
urged her in vain to return to the house
and even attempted to drag her out OF
the snow. But she resisted until drow.
siness overcame her, when he picked heI
up and carried her to the fire.
The salvation of Mobile depends, &C.
cording to the Montgomery (Ala.) Mail
of the 18th instant, upon the completion
of railroad between Mobile and Chat
tanooga. Otherwise Savannah on the
Atlantic will exceed Mobile on the Gull
in advantages for the shipment of cot
ton.
Four young men of Rome, Ga, were
arrested the other day by q squad o.
United States soldiers, for taking part
in . tableau called "The Officers Funer
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