The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-26
CURRENT ITEMS.

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THartfort is investing $4,000 in a
chool-house. E.Sis n saI q ao.'rg
| Sickles' relief would be q relief to tho
country. aug .l.rtaiu p Sic o.
I Fourth of July is rather at O discount
Colorado is badly frightened at the
Indians. as
There are 7O0, 900 chad taken yearly
from the Connecticut. a. ..1 -.-.
Six thousand bold Fenian boys met
in convention in San Francisco.
General Thomas is the New Bedford
Hercury's best man for the Presidency.
A Paris paper says the Gar was "pro-
foundly touched" The Poles say not.
T. Two hundred bottle-nosed whales
were recently captured in the Forth of
Froth. F.r rrr r."E
Belgium, German and English tailors
supplied the Paris striking tailors with
funds. gs.B r'sGtI ga }GA
The Chimolithograph is the title of Il
new London weekly. Heavy name for
light reading.
The Paris Exposition is picking up.
| 1t is now threatened with net profit OF
forty million francs.
A little son of C. Rapp, of Batesville,
Indiana, was drowned on the Goth,
while bathing in a mill-pond.
Mr.. Colfax is doing "Acfoss the Con-
tinent" all over the North West, aud
expects an invitation from Sitka.
Guiccioli's memoirs of Byron are in
eight volumes. A great deal Of wicked
ness required commensurate space.
It is now said that no more removals
must be made South, but that there will
be no restoration Of deposed officials.
1t is stated that ex Senator McDougall
of California, intexds to settle in San
Luis Potosi, Mexico. -4
In Niagara county, Western New York,
the lTH0y WOTlll Is COulinlltiHb uiCuului
ravages among the orchards.
At the grand review in Paris, the
Princess 0belinski's robe was sea green,
covered with tea roses; and she wore O
diadem worth 10000 francs.
The Republican Committee in Wash
ington have sent twenty negroes and
ten whites as missionaries to work in
the organization of the party in the
Southern States.
1t is reported that man who con-
fesses he was party to the assassina-
ton conspiracy is now in Washington,
and will testify in the Surratt trial
some time this week. a.
Charles Alexander Sidlcy was muir
dered in Cleveland, early on Friday
morning. He had been seen ont sere-
nading, accompanied by three negroes,
and was last seen with them at Il saloon.
A party of Pittsburghers, represent
ing capital of s2,OOO,OO0, have COM
menced buying crude petroleum, for
delivery at any time during 1868, at
their option. 1t is presumed they are
setting the traps for a big "corner" in
that odurous mud. a.
At the commencement of Washington
University, Missouri, the other day,
there was an exhibition of gymnastics,
and a distribution of prizes to the in
cipient circus performers accompanied
the award Of diplomas to graduates Of
the classic course. ...--,..,,. ......g. .
Lydia Dickinson, aged thirty-fve,
was killed in the Amoskeag Mills, Man
chester, New Hampshire, few days
ago, by having her clothes caught by
shaft. which whirled her round and
dashed her body against the machinery
until she was shockingly mutilated.
At Iberia cut, near Gallon, on Satur-
day morning, an express train on the
Cleveland: Columbus and Cincinnati
Railroad. struck a wagon in which
were Wilson Sipes, a farmer, his wife
and three children. The man and wo-
man were killed. The children only
received slight injuries.
After seven or eight weeks spent in
slaughtering unmuzzled dogs upon the
streets of st. Louis, the police have dis
covered that there is no legal authority
for the butchery, and the friends of the
defunct animals threaten TO sue the
Mayor for. their yalne-as ifa dog not
worth muzzling, could be supposed to
have anr yalup