The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-11
CURRENT ITEMS.

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Milwaukee, Wis.,, has $4,000 inhabit-
ants. Thirty years ago it was a wilder-
ness.
Moose are very plenty this winter in
the woods of Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick. .a 4
Philadelphia is still discussing the ex-
pediency of establishing a paid fire de-
partm0nt.
The loss of property last year by
steamboat disasters OIL western rivers
amounts to S3,000,000.
During 1867 S22, ,3O8. 400 internal revt
enue wero collected in New York city.
The Girard estate at Philadelphia
yielded to the city over half million
dollars last year. i
Aaron Jones has abjured the prizes
ring and keeps a drinking saloon in
Cincinnati.
Cuba is to have system of coinage
identical with ours, except the three
dollar gold piece. 6
Joseph Miller, of Wilbraham, Mass,
has read two chapters in the Bible every
day since 1903. - =
"Invisible agencies" turn the wheels
of u spiritualistic printing press in Phil
adelphia. 4
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The negroes nbout Louisville are stiil
afraid to come into town for dread Of
the medical students.
Tie Nashville (Tennessee) Union sayf
the coming year is the most gloomy
upen which the South has ever entered.
The total losses by fire in the United
States in 1867, are estimated at S35 ,00O,-
O0O. or not much more than half the
aggregate of the previous year.
A newspaper reporter says steamf
boat on the North River was sunk BIZ
coming in contact with o "mass of com
gealed water" "Ice" would have ans
swered the same purpose.
Nearly every paper from the interior
of Alabama contains call for the white
men to organize for the deieat of the
constitution, at the election on the 4th
of February next.
The ladies' of Rockland, Me-, are go-
ing to have a leap year ball next week,
in which they will assume al the prlyi-
leges which the year affords them.
Bostonians are very indignant be-
cause Mr.. Charles Dickens did not 60 to
church on the Sunday that lie spent in
the "Hub." Perhaps Mr.. Dickens is not
interested in American politics.
The Mount Vernon Fountain says that
two of its friends and patrons, both of
them members OF the church and Sun
day school officers, had a fight on the
public square in that town last week.
The Kennebec Journal says that the
storm of Sunday last week prevented
several ladies from going to church,
but some of them were seen on the ice
engaged in the healthy occupation of
catching tOm-cod. q
Joseph Huff was hung at Harrison,
Tenn, a few days since, for murder, and
the execution was witnessed by over
1000 spectators, most of whom were wo-
men and children. who came provided
with lunch, rs to picnic.
DR.. Charles Jewett, the celebrated
temperance lecturer, writes that the
growing of hops is utterly inconsistent
with total abstinence principles. He
should have brought corn, rye, pota-
toes, apples and grapes also under ban.
A. Calais, Missouri, the other day,
one w. L. Strayton got badly burned in
the upsetting OF. part Of ladle of mol.
ten iron in the snow, which caused the
metal to fly all over his person and into
his face. y
The following advertisement appears
in an Illinois paper: "Notice-Every-
body who knows something about my
wife's residence, which I lost three
years ago, is herewith requested to call
at the Wcstliche Post Office, August
Slayer" ~
The officers of the New York and New
Haven railroad have decided to use
steel rails in place of iron in relaying
the track of their road, and President
Bishop has ordered two thousand tons
fr,,,, IN, EnnlarYd
The employees on the trains Of the
Boston and Albany railroad assumed
their uniform caps on New Years day.
The conductors wear blue navy cap
with gold badge, and the brakemen
aud baggage masters wear q gray cap
with black band and silver badge.
VIM. Meerser, publisher Of the Sunday
Mercury at philadelphia, on being con-
victed of Publishing libel on the Dis
trict Attorney of that city, m0yedt .by
his counsel, for new trial, and 1t was
refused; wbereapon he is senteaced TO
be imprisoned nine months in the coan-
ty Jail and to pay fine of $500. ssist
In Mission Sunday School in Brook
lyn, at the Christmas festival, one of
our popular speakers was talking 90 the
children 10; q familiar eolloquial style,
and at theclose of his remarks, after
describing the good time coming, and
describing the Millennium, he asked the
question, "Will not that be glorious p
Pausing for a moment fer reply, one.
of the ragged boys responded with the
phrase g Hunkey.dory.59 II "a
A physician in Boston recently wrote
a prescription, and as he desired to ad.
minister the medicine to child, waited
until it came from tire druggists. He
gave the child drop, il uttered q cry.
and he found that the druggist had put