The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-30
CURRENT. ITEMS.

| Minnesota IS absorbing emlSTantS aI
the rate of about thousand day.
A lady in Hungerford, England, has
been frightened to death by a COW.
Ex-President James Buchanan has
been engaged to lecture in Cincinnati
next winter.
The Emperor Alexander gave $4,000
francs to the lamplighters of Paris.
New Brunswick papers tell of family
numbering seven individuals, all of
whom are mad.
John L. Goddard, Grand Master of
Free Masons in Pennsylvania, died at
Philadelphia recently.
The Illinois State House will cost
about ten millions of dollars, and will
require twenty years to build.
There is boy in Minnesota twelve
years old, whose legs are only ten inches
long and are without bones.
A well-known real estate broker of
Chicago has been arrested for bastardy
on complaint of a negress.
1t is reported that the English Gov
ernment is about to establish a perma-
nent garrison in British Columbia.
In Troy young lady stumbled on the
walk, and in falling the point of her
parasol penetrated her right eye, caus-
ing a wound which destroys the eye for
life.
In the Criminal Court of Indianapo-
lis, Indiana, last week, bills of indict-
ment were reported against five differ
ent physicians for procuring abortions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said in his
Phi Beta Kappa Grafton at Harvard last
week: "The true hope of any time must
always be sought for in minorities."
John C. Breckenridge writes that he
is tired of the hubbub of the Paris Ex-
hibition, and is going to Switzerland
before leaving for Canada in Septem-
Der.
The Mexican fllibustering schemes,
intended to avenge the death of Maxi
milan, do not appear to have met with
success, and have been quietly dropped.
Two Spaniards, who advertised in a
New York paper their desire to become
acquainted with two ladies, were made
acquainted with q hOrSewhip by an lD-
dignant relative.
The annual loss by the wear of coin is
estimated at one-tenth of one per cent,
and the consumption by the arts, and
loss by fire and shipwreck ut 1900, 600,
Il year.
In Beloit, Wis, the other day, Har-
riet Wallace, aged Is, was pushed over
by a school fellow, and fell backward
down a hill, receiving injuries which
caused instant death.
Mrs. Burley was severely burned, in
yinccnnes, Indiana, on Wednesday
evening, by the explosion of Il can OF
coal oil. She was using tue OIL to KIN
die n fire. 1t is supposed her injuries
arc fatal.
In Boonville, Warwick county, InG.,
a few days ago, August Gardner was
beaten to death by his brother-in-law.
There was n quarrel between them
about some money left to Gardner by
his wife's father.
sin q baseball match for the champi-
onship of the Western Reserve, played
at Cleveland, on Thursday, between the
Forest City Club and the Reserve Club,
of Hudson, the Clevelanders won, the
score standing 40 to 36.
A home for little boys has been estab-
lished near London. 1t will accommO-
date one hundred. The only requisite
for entrances is complete destitution.
There are ten thousand outcast boys
living in the streets of that great me-
tropolis.
They have very efficient policemen in
Cleveland. Two of them ordered
homeward- bound citizen to halt, the
other evening; he, believing them to be
highwaymen, took to his heels; the city
guardians fired at him and he returned
the fire. Fortunately no damage was
dene.
Ellis Jones was shot by his young son,
in Peoria, Mahaska county, Iowa, on
Tuesday night. 1t is supposed that the
boy was instigated to the parricide by
his older brothers, who wanted to get
the old man out of his way, so they
could enjoy his property.
The notorious Sanford Conover, and
some other prisoners confined in the
Washington Jail, made an unsuccessful
attempt to escape, on Wednesday night.
Conover and his cell-mate were detected
at work cutting the bars of their cell
with jewelers. saw. e. .~r
A dispatch from Fort Harker, Kansas,
says, on the authority of Colonel Smith,
Chief Surgeon, that no new cases of
cholera have occurred there during the
past twenty-four hours, and that the
epidemic is rapidly subsiding. Four
cases have occurred in passing trains.
The Dayton Journal particularizes
number of costly improvements now in
progress in that city, and adds that
more than a thousand dwellings are be-
ing built. The Toledo papers, we no.
tice. claim that at least fifteen hundred
new houses Twill be erected there this
year.
The Albany Journal says that after the
lst of October sll railroad conductors
are to be uniformed alike throughout
the State Of New York. A provision to
that purpose was incorporated in IN act
of the Legislature last winter. A plain
uniform will be in better taste than the
present fashion of labelling these officers
with band upon their hats.
One of the Howards, the American
gymnasts, while going through a per-
forulance in the Casino, at Marseilles,
made spring with the intention of
clasping his brother around the body,
hut missed his grasp, and fell from an