The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-02
CURRENT ITEMS.

Bismark recently confcated eight
newspapers in fortnight.
Judge Totten, formerly of the Tonnes
see Supreme Court, is dead.
The greatest excitement exists in Ne
braska over discoveries of rich gold
mines.
sAttorney General Stanbery intends
shortly to visit the White Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia.
A new, cotton factory, the first evel
built in the State, has just been com.
pleted at Rockford, Illinois.
The pecuniary cost of the Mexican ex'
pedition of the French was over sixty
millions of dollars in gold.
Ottawa, Illinois, has baseball club,
every member of which weighs over two
hundred pounds.
Sanford Conover has been taken to
the Albany penitentiary, to which he
was sentenced for ten years. .'
The reign of terror continues in Spain
There have been sixty-eight political
executions in six months.
Frogs sell at Cincinnati at about tif.
teen cents per dozen, and the men who
deal in them make money at that.
Hon. Thad. Stevens and ex-President
Buchanan were together at a wedding
at Mountville, Lancaster county, Pa,
last week. -...... ..
A letter from Monterey says Lopez,
who betrayed Maximilian, has been ar
rested by the Governor of Oajaca, and
will be executed. -.
Chignons are now worn in London,
attached to the bonnet or hat. There
was sensation in Hyde Park when the
hat and chlgnon of u lady on horseback
blew off.
More than one hundred and fifty thou
sand pounds of wool have been pur-
chased this year at Morenci, Michigan,
at an average price of forty-three and
one-half cents.
The celebrated DR.. South on one oc-
casion preached before the corporation
of tailors. He took for his text the ap-
propriate wOrds-"A remnant shall be
saved"
The Adventists of Maine are preach
ing the immediate destruction of the
world, and at the same time are erecting
houses of worship substantial enough
to last hundred years.
The ground has been broken for a
monument to Pennsylvanians who fell
in Mexico. 1t will be of white marble,
seventy feet high, erected at Harris
burg, in the Capitol grounds, between
the Land Office and the Arsenal.
DR.. Lushington, who is co-survivor
with Lord Brougham of the brilliant
array of counsel which defended Queen
Caroline in l-2O, is "a, and very feeble.
He has lately resigned his seat on the
Admiralty Bench. his office of Dean of
Arches.
During heavy thunder storm on the
Eth the electric fluid struck the build
ing of the Comercio Bank Of Havana,
Cuba, and burst through the wall into
the room of the cashier, Mr. j. Guerre-
ro, who was lying OIL his bed asleep,
killing lsm instantly.
Benjamin Franklin Caswell, sign
painter, twenty-six years old, killed
himself by taking laudanum, in st.
Louis, on Saturday. He was desperate
ly in love with yonng lady. She
treated him with indifference, and, i'll
despair, he ended his life.
A young man named Francis Chatter
ton, from New Haven, put his hand out
of the car window ofthe midnight train,
near West Brookfeld, Mass, on Satur-
day night, to knock the ashes off his
cigar, when it was struck by post and
his arm broken short off.
William r. Daily, of New Albany. In
diana, whom the Ledger describes as
"ifty or fifty-ive years old, with mixed
black and gray hair, a benevolent look
ing face, and mild blue eyes" has just
been held to bail on a charge Of rape,
committed on the person of Mary La
toilette, his daughter.
The importation of coolies, who have
completed their time in Cuba, has been
carried on extensively for over year,
about 1000 having left for New Orleans
within that period. AMr. Williams has
made arrangements for the introduction
of 9, 900 Chinese laborers into Louisiana;
several other agencies being overrun
with applications.
Advices from Utah indicate than an
irrepressible discord has broken ont
among the saints, and that the problem
of Mormonism will soon solve itself.
Large numbers of anti-polygamists
have left Utah, bound for Nauvoo, Ill.
Brigham Young is being badly de-
nourced by many of his followers, and
the sect is becoming rapidly de-
moralized.
The Jews have resolved to establish a
college in Philadelphia. 1t is not, how.
ever, to be confined to their own people,
but to be open to Christians of all
shades of views. 1t will not exact from
any of its students any pledges, but will
he devoted to giving all who please to
avail themselves of its privileges q
thorough acquaintance with Hebrew
literature.
Invsntiveness is said to be on the
decline. 1t would not seem 30 from an
advertisement which has just appesred
in the London Times. The advertiser
offers a reward of three thousand pounds
for any one who shall discover, before
July lst, 1858, the means by which pain
"can be both permanently and COM
pletely extinguished." Very encour-
aging for inventors; but we would not
guarantee the existence of the sufferer
after his pain was extinguished.
A matchmaker of Washington, D. c.,
has just completed fine chronometer
watch, intended as a present from Presi-
dent johnson to the Tycoon of Japan.