The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

Artemus Ward left about go, 900.
There are five "lady" editors in Iowa.
Springfield is to have chess club.
Honolulu is going to be lighted by
gas. f
Cholera is reviving from its wintry
sleep in Europe.
Barnum's speeches are said to be
rather "scaley.'
Twenty-seven miles of railroad are
contemplated in the schemes before the
Michigan Legislature.
The doctors in New York are already
agitating for the cholera.
4 rural couple were married in dry
goods store at Springfield, ILL.,, on the
I'd inst.
Winter seems to have fairly stolen a
March OIL Spring.
Miss Margaret Newman, of Boston,
left SEQ, 1000 to the Theological School at
Meadville, Pa.
Quebec is overjoyed at the prospect
of becoming the capital Of the new
"kingdom."
New York expects to use sos, 900 tons
of ice the coming season.
A young man in Milan committed
suicide by shutting himself in an heated
oven.
Congress, like "blOod and thunder
story" is to be continued.
The prohibitory liquor law has proved
total failure in Connecticut.
A rebel soldier, while in an Indiana
prison whitfield ont model of a new
cotton press.
New York has raised S64 40 towards
the erection of monument to Noltaire
There is to be an eclipse soon, and
that accounts for Summers ecceptrici,
ties "about these days"
Domestic troubles drove Mr.. Percival
of Detroit, to strychnine and death.
The Sandwich Islands are taking to
opium and their graves with remarka'
bic docility.
Two Esquimaux visited the opera
in Ney York the other night. They
were clad in fur-nOt verdure.
The peach regions of Illinois give
prospect of full crop.
There are now but four members who
were in the United States Senate when
Mr.. Foster entered it twelve years ago
Naval officers say that the Miantono,
nah could sink the Dunderburgs at q
distance of 1900 yards.
The Sioux and Cheyennes are grittine
their angry teeth because the U. p. r. X
is ploughing up their hunting grounds
Soldiers carelessly losing carbines ol
revolvers hereafter, will be charged 500
for the former and $50 for the latter.
There are two thousand prisons and
houses of correction in France, contain
ing fifty-thousand inmates.
People are so uncharitable as to say
that P. 7. B. always thought moro OF
pocketing a quarter than he did OF
pointing q moral"
In Washington.a woman shot man
because he did not marry her; in Gin
cinnati another shot one because he did
The Radical temperance men threaten
to make it penal offence for anybody
to sing "a little more cider too"
Amatch has been made in New York
between. Sam Colyer and Barny Aaron
to fight in June next for the champion,
ship and $4,000.
In towns in Massachusetts where
there have been no open sales Of liquor
for three years past intemperance has
increased continually.
There is proposition to remodel New
York city by adding Brooklyn, Bush
wick, Greenpoint and several other
suburban towns to it.
| lne Tculau lucNtthehe L" heiohe
MIDST preve powerful agent in the
cause of popular reform. The revOlu,
tion in England has not yet ripened.
There are in California 136,903 chill
dren under the age of fifteen years
The school expenses last year were
s659, ,229 II and the receipts $9ls. .e51 SO
In case before Commissioner Belts
Of New York, on Saturday, regarding
the seizure of distillery, it transpired
that the owner of the distillery had
been engaged in feeding five hundred
cows on swill. in the premises adjoin,
ing.
The Connecticut politicians are fairly
on the stump, instructing the people as
to their duty in the coming State cleo
ftion. Joint discussions are the order
of the campaign.
Col. James Worrall, the Pennsylvania
engineer to regulate the dams for the
passage of shad up the Susquehanna, ha:
made his official report. A series OF
steps have been erected at the Column
bia dam at a cost of $1,000, and the
shad are invited to climb them.
The Boston Trareller says that MAS
sachusetts has six candidates for thu
Presidency Sumner, Wilson. Banks
Butler, Boutwell, and Andrew-aud al
many moro men who would not object
to the second place on the Republican
ticket-Eliot, Dawes, Hoar, Bullock
Bi gclow and Devens."
The people Of Maine understand the
proper way to keep infants out ofplace.
of amusement. A town in that Stat.
recently had festival, and on its show
bills the public were informed that the
terms of admission were 25 cents; fol
children under II years, Is cents; but
under 4 years 81.
The drama of "Antigone," by Sopho
cles, was performed before Chicago
audience few nights ago, and at tn,
end of the play there was a general cal