The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

Kansas is more than twice as large as
New York.
We read of the conversion of a Nor
mon elder to Romanism.
General Howard, the head of the
Freedmen's Bureau, is only thirty-seven
years old.
The profits of the London Times are
said to reach nearly half million OF
dollars year.
The scarcity of Croton in New York
is accounted for by the increased actiy-
ity in the milk trade. - - ..-.
A saving machine is to be manufac-
tured in Connecticut which shsrpens
it's own saw as it goes along.
The bottom of the Tennessee River is
said to be "foored" with government
property, between Eastport and Padu-
cab.
A train approaching Peoria, Illinois,
the other night ran at full speed through
prairie fire. The current of air saved
it from the heat.
Richard Grant White says that Charles
Reade stole the plot Of his "White
Lies" from the French, aud Reade says
that White Lies when he says 30.
Mr.. Lykins, the banker, who recently
failed at Lawrence, Kansas, for seventy
thousand dollars, is found to have as
sets covering but half of that amount.
Paul Coburn was tried at Pueblo, Col
orado, for the murder of John w. Hau-
mer, in Denver, in April last. He was
acquitted. He killed Hammer with q
billiard cue, while in fit of passion.
Mr.. William Dougherty died at Mem
phis on the 5th inst. He was the archi-
tect of the State House of South Caro-
lima and of the Washington Monument,
and planned the extension of the United
States Treasury building.
Anna Nelson, a young girl of fifteen
years, was arrested Mt Buffalo, on CON-
plaint of her parents, who allege that
she is an incorrigible girl, and that they
had exhausted all means Of reclaiming
her from vice.
Two men died in the st. Louis City
Hospital on Friday night, one of whom
had been treated for consumption and
the other for typhoid fever. A post
mortem examination proved that death
had been produced by the horrible
pork-worm, trichina.
The special committee on the Sonth-
ern railroads has concluded the work of
taking the testimony, and the report to
be made to Congress is now in course
of preparation. 1t will show that the
companies have paid their Indebtedness
to the Government as rapidly as they
could; that they have been doing very
little business since the close of the
war, but that it has been gradually i'm
proving.
In the house owned by Mrs. Lincoln,
at Springfield, ILL.,, in glass frame is
set a piece of Laura Keene's dress which
she wore on the stage on the evening of
the Presidents assassination. 1t bears
q portion of the deep, dark, crimson
stain which she received as she support
ed his head in her arms when she
hastened from the stage to the box
where he fell.
A few days since, at Greenwich, Ct,
an eagle or some huge bird descended in
an open field where dog (Which is of
size) was crossing, and
literally took hold of him by the back
and carried him up perhaps sixty feet
in the air. For some reason she drop
ped the animal, and followed him te-
naciously to again seize him. The dog
escaped, and what is more remarkable
not one whit the worse for his aerial
flight.
A terrible accident occurred at the
central shaft of Hoosac Tunnel, in Wss-
tern Massachusetts,, 10Th inst. The
gasoline works at its mouth exploded,
and the building covering it burned up,
and thirteen men who werein the shaft,
which is $50 feet deep, perished, either
from suffocation or from the accumula-
tion of water consequent upon the stop.
page of the engine. Their bodies had
not been recovered, at last accounts.