The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-17
CURRENT ITEMS.

I The French prize for virtue has beef
taken by bale: girl, at Nanterre, thi
year. ..-
A new asteroid has been discovers
from the Hamilton College IN. ~ OBJ
servatory. ts.."5
No appointment has yet been made Il
fill the vacancy at the head of the Ag
ricultnral Department.
! Hcaly, charged with the murder o
Cory, at the Spencer House, Cincin
natl, in July last, has been acquitted
Ii costs the working men of tht
North fifty millions of dollars per veal
20 Try Radical experiments in the
South.
The present Emperor of China is but
twelve years of age. 1t is therefore
/ hardly probable that he will visit Paris
Chief Justice Chase has expressed the
opinion very positively that the inn
peachment movement WAS one of great
folly.
Among the failures IN the dry goods
trade, in New York, are Fairchild Il
Fanshawe; Loeschisk, Willard y
Rhodes, ami Vim. Bruner.
There is an old man in Taunton,
Mass, aged seventy-threc, who has
listened to over five thousand sermons
in his life. He has survived them.
Postmaster General Randall intends
to apply To Congress for authority to
extend our postal arrangements into
Japanese ports as fast as they are
opened.
Authentic information, it is said, has
been received that the letter, or procla-
nation, purportiug to have been issued
by Escobedo, against foreigners, is a
forgery.
Miss Rosa DEngle and Miss Lula
Psulliu, while bathing in the river,
about three miles below the town of
jacksonville, Fla, on the 9th lust, were
drowned.
Ida aud Ellen Snow, twin daughters
of Harvey Snow, of Mattipoisett, nearly
four years old, were poisoned to death
last week by eating friction matches.
Ten thousand dollars reward is offer
ed hy the Juarez Government for Mar
quez, aud he is reported to have about
his person one million dollars in foreign
exchange.
The affair of the United States steam
er Haze, ut Montreal, is creating some
excitement, and it is thought possible
that the Canadian canals may he closed
against American vessels on account of
it.
Paul Greffet, Young man of twenty
four, member of one of the oldest fam
lies in st. Louis, fell into coal pit ut
st. Joseph, Missouri, the other day, and
was 80 severely injured that he died
soon afterward.
According 10 French estimates sub
mittcd to the Corps Legislatif, the whole
expenditure made in the attempt to
establish monarchy in Mexico, after
deducting receipts from c"atOms, &c,
is about S60, 100000.
Geo. A. Hill, a colored barber of Bos-
ton, and married man, has just been
brought back from Chicago, to which
place he eloped with white girl Of Is;
daughter Of respectable parents in West
RoXbury.
william S. Russell, of the receiving.
snip Grampus, at Mound City, Illinois,
became involved in n quarrel with some
negroes on Saturday evening, and jump
ed into the river to escape. While in
the water they shot and killed him.
We are spending at present million
dollars week on "the Indian War;
so-called, and every Indian killed since
the troubles began has cost the Govern
ment not far from million of dollars,
and the lives of some ten white men.
The financial situation of Portugal
is 81 desperate that eminent Portuguese
are advising the government to sell The
Island of Madeira TO some foreign gov
ernment. fthe Portuguese are in earn
nest they will please address in SINGER
itN." W. Fl. Seward, Washington, u. {.
Two women of the den.i monde went
30 the last races at Chantilly with y
microscope bounet; u dress whose body
seemed to refuse absolutely to begin,
and whose skirt WAS inst twelve inches
long; they wore 10 pantalettes. When
they entered the travellers room they
We're hissed.
An item of q sensational nature is go.
ing around, to !lie effect that Major
Gcueral s. G. Burbridge is working
fer his living in Tennessee saw mill.
Wby lie should not work for living
rs well as any one else is not stated; and
rs to the saw mill, that may be the oc-
cnpation best suited TO his capacities.
A distinguished clergyman in Con-
necticut town recently attended cir
Gus on the same afternoon on which he
had engaged to officiatc at a funeral,
and, watch in hand. enjoyed the evolu-
tions in the ring till compelled reluc-
tantly to leave aud fulfill his funeral
engagements. He had, says an eye
witness. the sympathy Of the entire au-
dience. rflt
Of94O immigrants who arrived at Co
lumbus last week, 23l intended TO settle
in Ohio, 73 in Indiana, and S. IN Ken
tucky, the remainder going to other
States west. The majority of the i'm
migrants arriving this season have been
Prassians and Hasoverians, whe leave
home to get "out Of the draft" which
is a chronic institution in the happy
land of Bismark.
Information has been received at
Sheridan's headquarters, in New Or.
leans, that party of hundred fill
busters-among them some half dozen
deserters from the United States army
have left New Orleans within a day
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