The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

Massachusetts, realizes 1000 an
nually from its State prisons.
The Girard estate, at Philadelphia,
yielded to the city over half million
dollars last year.
Mrs. Littlefeld, of Winslow, Me-, died
on Sunday last at the age of one hum
dred years.
In the coal mines of England and
Wales about $50, 900 men and boys are
constantly employed.
Six hundred and thirty-one thousand
five hundred and forty-eight hogs were
packed during the past season in Chi
cago.
The Tennessee Legislature has passed
a bill taxing dogs two dollars each, ex-
empting one dog for each family.
The school committee of Boston have
wisely decided that May Day shall No
longer be regarded as holiday by the
public schools of that city.
Rev. DR.. McCosh, whose visit to this
country is remembered, suggests gath
ering from all quarters Of the represen-
tatives of the Presbyterian Churches.
He names Edinburg as suitable place.
Lake Champlain was frozen over last
week. This is three weeks earlier than
the average period, and no similar cir
cumstance, it is stated, has taken place
for the past tifty-two years.
Canada has about $4,000 active mil
itia, of which Ontario and Quebec have
81 900, Nova Scotia 1000, and New
Brunswick 2O0O. The enrolled militia
of the Dominion number in addition to
these about l42, 600 men.
In San Francisco, it is noticed, as one
of the effects of the cession of Russian
America, that large quantities of choice
Siberian sahles have been received in
that market at oue-half the former
price.
Chicago possesses forty distilleries-
twenty-five large and fifteen small
makes twenty-five thousand barrels of
spirituouS drinks year, and has two
thousand saloons, or Que to every sixty
members of her adult population.
The Hebrew population is on the in
crease in New York city. Within the
last eighteen months over two hundred
children have been initiated by one
rabbi alone. The Hebrew Fuel Society
intends to relieve one thousand cases of
distress this winter in New York.
In speech in the House Of Repre-
sentatives last Thursday, Mr. Marshall,
of Illinois, said that a majority Of the
Federal officials seemed to have adopted
the maxim:
A little thieving is a dangerous art,
But thieving largely is noble part
'Tis vile to rob hen rOost of hen,
But stealing largely makes us gentlemen.
The Native TTginian publishes the
following epitah on the notorious per-
son, which, unfortunately for the coun-
try, has to treat by anticipation the
event that could truly make it an
epitah:
To fawn, and fatter, and fawn, he
To lie. and fatter, and fawn, he
Spent his whole life, and here's the last lie
Of the lying and ttattering Forney.
Captain Schaaf, the United States
officer who killed Colonel Sheppard,
near Mount Vernon Arsenal, in Alabama,
has been tried by court-martial. He
was sentenced to pay fine of $500, and
to be imprisoned at Fort Pulaski for
six months. He left Atlanta for Fort
Pulaski OH the 2Sth ult. Considering
that the killing was an assassination,
to perpetrate which he used his power
as an officer to have the victim brought
into his presence as prisoner, it cannot
be denied that his brother officers who
tried him let him off very lightly.