The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-07
CURRENT ITEMS.
There are 1856 post Offices in Canada.
snow-shoe races are popular in Mon

I A pomologist says the peach crop
will be large. a
/ Ohio talks Of erecting Governor's
mansion.
A false wife in Chicago threw her ille-
gitimate babe into the river.
The N. Y. Herald mentions Judge
Black for the Cabinet.
A bill is before the Illinois Legisia-
ture to restrict topers.
According to rumor Ben Butler clear
ed S4OO, 900 by recent stock speculations.
i-Er.
In New York city thirty-two foreign
papers are published.
young man in Iowa, after his
fathers death, married his own step
mother.
In the United we pay twelve cents
each for the Presidents salary.
Mysterious disappearances are often
better than mysterious appearances.
They boast of the great Densin Spain,
but we raise from the very soil the
maste--d0ns.
The average pay Of the ministers of
the United States is three hundred dol
lars year.
An exchange alludes to Wendell Phil
lips as "the pilot fish of the Republican
shark"
Shingles are used as substitute for
money at Presque Isle, and are consid-
cred legal tender"
A Bangor paper has been presented
with n new potato grown III cellar.
A Paris paper says Mcnken sances
like Lola Montsz and writes like Miss
Beecher Stowe.
4 communication from the spirit
world" raped out that "a Great Hum
bug" would soon be in Congress.
An exchange wishes to know if the
colored barber lately installed in the
Treasury Department can shave notes.
Great Britain, with shrewd eye to
it's interests, suspends all duties on arti-
Gle. essential to ship-building.
The Cincinnati papers are calling for
the appointment Of milk inspector to
protect the public against "swill milk"
The heathcn and Christian tribes in
the Feeiee Islands have had war, re-
sulting in victory to the. Christians.
In prominent church ut Indianapo-
liz. the execution Of Il fine piece of mu-
sic was applauded with clapping of
hands and stamping.
The Boston 7rarelIer makes the fol-
lowing confession on behalf of New
England: "The great want of the conn
try is great man.
4 Salem letter carrier received n val
entine last week with 1920 enclosed.
1t was sent by several persOnsa as token
of acknowledgment for promptness and
fidelity.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Uiorld says Lonis Napoleon in
tends to abdicate his throne ut the
closing of the great Paris Exposition.
The Falls ofNiagara, on the American
side, has gone back about one hundred
and fifty feet, within two weeks, in con-
sequence of the fall or huge masses of
rocks.
The are 4s5,000 Catholics in New
York city, 25,0OG of whom are regular
chm III attendants. The total includes
80 900 young men between the ages of
Is and 30.
1t is stated that Mr.. Geo. Peabody
has provided for every relation of his
now living, the most distant receiving
$4,000, and those nearer receiving
$50, 900 each.
A man in Ohio walked OH ice twelve
miles, obtained marriagelicense, went
back "by the same conveyance the
same day and was married in the
evening. Such persistent bridegroom
as that chap deserves to be "hugged mp
warm
The Turkish Government have for
hidden the circulation of Egyptian cop
per coins, of which SSOO,OO0 worth are
held in COnstantinOple, chiefly by the
poor; great distress has ensued, and
several riots have occurred.
The Detroit Free Press relates the
case of a child of Alfred Woodson, of
Greenfield, Michigan, who was bitten
by mad dog, and, suffering horribly
from hydrophobia. was smothered to
death, during severe parOxysm, under
the advice of physicians.
At the great temperance meeting held
in Harrisburg. on Tuesday, Governor
Geary made the announcement that he
had inst received intelligence from
Washington to the effect that General
Grant was about identifying himself
with the cause.
The New York dramatic critics are
severe on the animals in the christian
Martyrs" at Barnums. They say ''the
lions and tigers acts their parts with
shameful indifference, and evince none
of that fieudish zeal for the blood of
Christian martyrs which the truth of
history makes it incumbent upon them
to exhibit"
A Buffalo paper has the following !:
'We know of one enterprising Western
I representative who bought twenty-five
dollars worth Of written eloquence in
aid of railroad grant, and who circu-
lated it at home with such acceptance
that he was rewarded by credulous
people with United States Senator
ship
A family in Hartford, Conn.,, consist
ing of gentleman, his wife and sew
eral children, were all poisoned day
or two since by taking what was sup
posed to be dandelion bitters, which
contained belladmna. The mistake
occurred through the carelessness of q
drugpist's clerk. None of the cases