The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-18
CURRENT ITEMS.
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Sofa pianos are q recent novelty. s
Quinine brings $685. an ounce at Cape
Town.
Alexander H. Stephens is very sick.
Maine has Just began to ship its ice
crop Southwark.
No peach crop in Western New York.
Worcester refuses to license the sale
OF trewOrks. ~ rkEtE{ SbS~f
The. bowels Of Tdnis are writing
with cholera. .s..g .s.. eds .rA
New York has had an earthquake
shock! 8Y} 4 ,7ylA5- -a4--+ a.
Cattle are wanted in California to eat
the grass that is going to waste. .. i
Ex-Gov. Cox, of Ohio, disapproves of
negro suffrage, it is said. e' 81
Pennsylvania Republicans want a
State constitutional Convention.
The Cooperation is the name of the
Paris workingmen's journal. +.
The Baroness Truro's forty -nine dia-
mond necklace sold in Londsn for
$4,000. ~ .
OBaldwin and Mace are matched to
fight in England for $4,000.
The Sultan and his harem are to visit
London. Awkward for Vic.
A trout three feet long and weighing
80 lbs. has been caught in lake In
Switzerland. 81 e& ~
A mandatory in Maine makes 10000
bedsteads per annum.
The car conductors in New York are
drawing back for another strike.
"No cakeo is appended to marriage
notices in Kanses. -.- E..f -
The New York morgue is found too
small for the requirements Of the city.
The mortgage stamps on the Chicago,
K. l. and Pacific r. r. cost $4,000.
Another Paris green suicide has ac-
CURED in New York. Despondent mar
ried woman.
Government will take all the tele-
graph lines in England for the postal
service.
A live porcupine was surprised by a
party near Hamhill the other day, and
surprised them in turn.
Queen Ristori and Gorilla Du Chaillu
both contemplate return 10 America
in the fall.
1t took twenty eight minutes Of hard
praying to start the blood of st. Jarni-
arius at Naples recently.
The Philadelphia Age suggests Kelly
for Governor of Louisiana.
A man in Barre blew his head off with
double e-barreled shot gun.
1t cost negro fifty dollars for shoot
ing at man and woman in Tennessee.
A high price for that place.
The silver cbalice of st. Michael'S
Church, Charleston, S. c., has been res
cued from pawnbroker's shop in New
York and restored to the church.
New Jersey, not the most advanced
State in educational matters, has abol-
ished corporal punishment in public
schools.
Instead of levees OH the Mississippi,
it is now talked of laying drains to car
~ off the surplus water into the Gulf.
Mail service between the famous
Stone House and Manassas Station, Va,
is performed by little girl II years OF
age.
Thad. Stevens is getting badly mixed
on the confscation question. He now
proposes to confiscate only rich men, as
he expresses it. sE LA.
A relic of Buffers reign in New Or
leans has come to light in the shape OF
S2O, 900 worth Of jewels and gold pack
ed away in barrel of damaged pork.
Ireland is in transports of joy at the
pardon of the Fenians. They will soon
be in transports" also, of nautical
character.
Thad. Stevens says he would not con-
fiscate the property of rebels unless
they were rich. Then he would punish
wealth, not treason. How does this doc
trine suit about herei
A company of eight hundred ladies
and gentlemen made an excursion from
indianapolis, Ind, to Cincinnati, to
witness the "Black Crook" The West
ern mind enjoys the spectacle hugely.
The assassination of Mr.. Hiscock, an
exchange thinks, may prove to be of
great usefulness. Mr.. Hiscock would
probably have preferred being useful in
some other way.
Military law will not allow confeder-
ate taxes to be collected in the South
ern States. 1t would be more generous
to allow of their collection in confeder-
ate money. ..... ...
One of the Alabama freedmen applied
to Gov. Patton for divorce on the
ground that his wife couldn't be coming
home every week, and he knew another
woman who would do very well.
The New Orleans Times says "Gov-
ernor Wells has managed to secure
larger share of odium and
general contempt than were ever
before earned by public officer in this
or in any other State" A very success
full man.
The n. Y. Herald thinks "our citizens
should Immediately by agrand, univer-
sal. resolute expression, put General
Grant before the country as their choic c
for President"
A drunken hummer, enjoying natures
sweet Iestorer upon a cellar door in
Philadelphia the other night, was re-
lieyed Of the incumbrance of his shoes
by aa enterprising darkey who had his
ewes open for the main chance.
1t is intimated that the editor of the
Lawrence (Kansas) Tribune who count
ed ten thousand million grass-hoppers,
ON one sandy ridge, in one hour, has
been engaged to count how much Ben
n.Io. ,nada or,t of tho vyor II - ann