The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-14
CURRENT ITEMS.

There are forty-fve breweries in
Cleveland.
1t is remarked that oysters this sea-
son are in a remarkable good con-
dition.
The new cotton factory building at
Tiftsville, Conn, is said to be the larg-
est in the world.
The great work Of raising the grade
of all the business portion Of Chicago is
nearly completed.
A shoe manufacturing firm at Marl-
boro, Mass. has recently failed with
$780, 900 liabilities.
Three ladies died recently in Seymour,
CT, aged respectively eishty-two,
eighty-six and lightweight.
A letter for Chatham Four Corners,
directed "KatamvOrkan," was dropped
into a Massachusetts, postoffice.
The foreign arrivals at Philadelphia
since the first of January last number
735 against 76o for the corresponding
months last year.
Margaret Carroll killed an infant
daughter of Mr.. Perry, of Cleveland,
Saturday, by giving it too much pare
goric.
! In California female servants get from
$50 to S30a month, and laborers from
$50 to Sl25 per month. Those are gold
rates.
ing on pond in Philadelphia Thurs
day afternoon the ice broke and three
boys were drowned.
The Vermont Central Railroad bridge
at Northtield, three hundred feet long
and seventy high, was burned on Sum
day.
The New York and New Haven rail-
road has just introduced new system
of warming their passenger cars by
means of hot water circulating through
pipes placed under each seat.
The New Orleans PicGyune Of the 18th
inst. complains of warm, damp weather.
MANY of the trees still maintain their
green foliage, and the roses and lilacs
are all ablOom.
| A sneezing match for the champion
ship is announced to take place at the
Chicago OpeIa House this month be-
tween the minstrel Arlington, and John
| Dillon. Sneezists may become popu-
lar-who nose.
A Milwaukee bookkeeper has confess
ed to stealing $4,000 from his employ
ers. He has friends, and his friends
have feelings, and in consideration OF
these feelings the bookkeeper is at large
and his name suppressed.
The weather prophets still predict
that we are to have Il period of mild
weather, basing their opinion on the
general fact that winter rarely closes
in snugly until after the streams have
been filled by rains.
Three little girls in the indianapolis
schools, hearing that belladonna would
make them beautiful and their eyes
brilliant, partook of th o poisonous ar
ticle. and rubbed it in their eyes. IL
came near making angels of them, bnt
a skillfni doctor saved them.
Jersey City is to have a remarkable
institution in "a theatre for Sunday
amusement, where the bible may be
used as textbook"
1t appears that the Mormons have o
settlement in New Jersey where they
indulge in plurality of wives.
William w. Thomas, of Hartford, Ct,,
received box by express on Monday,
which was marked "handle with care
and keep warm" On opening it, live
Alligator, two feet nine inches long snug
ly packed in hay, was disclosed. 1t was
brought from South Carolina.
The Galveston (Texas) Ne'cs says that
State is paradise compared with many
other parts in the South, and that al
though there is 'close pinehiRg just
now, owing to an enforced change oi
; base and to the failure of the cotton
CROP" the future promises we'll
The New Orleans Times notices the
! effort making to ship western grain in
Atlantic parts, via the Mississippi, and
avs it is the manifest destiny of that
eity TO be tie emporium of large and
growing trade in breadstutfs with the
, West Indies and the neighboring ports
of Mexico, Central and south America
The surveyors of the proposed route
for railroad from Springfield, Mass.
70 the Hudson river report that it viii
cost only so. 900 q mile to construct Oh,
railroad to the New York State line 10y
the Winsted reute, while it will cos
s55. 900 q mile TO build it by way OF
Danbury, and So 900 by way OF Latch
field.
Canal navigation is suspended from
Syracuse TO Tspy, New York, Boats
containing over 1oO,O 900 bushels Of peta
toes. 10000 barrels of apples, and near
!, ly 40O, 600 bushels of grain OF all kinds
{ besides q large quantity of other pro
!. Snce ara frozen in. The thermomete
averages eight degrees below zero.