The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

Shad fishing has commenced on the
Savannah river.
A Chicago policeman has fallen heir
to $40, 900 in gold in Germany. A good
fall.
There is no doubt but that New Jer-
sey will also rescind her concurrence in
the fourteenth amendment.
New England Railroads have been
kept clear of snow this winter, up to
the present date, with triaing expense.
More than 100000 persons have al
ready subcribed to the statue proposed
to be erected in Paris to the memory OF
Yoltaire.
Letters from the Tyrol mention that
within the memory of man so much
snow has not been seen in those regions
as has fallen lately.
Dry Goods Stewart wants to 0e Oh
the ticket with Grant for Vice PreSi,
dent. So-oh! his patriotic zeal for the
latter is accounted for.
Upwards of one thousand men are
now employed upon the line of the Bos'
ton, Hartford and Erie Railroad, build
ing, dopots, constructing tracks, &c.
The Superintendent of the Five
Points House of Industry announces
that on application to that institution
men will be found willing to work two
months for their board.
Grants surrender of his post in the
War Office, without orders from his su.
perior officer, is hardly worthy of q
good soldier. He could be cashiered
according to the regulations"
The Boston harbor commissioners
propose large expenditures for improve
ments which include q general depot
whore railroad trains may discharge
freights near the shipping.
The Governor of Wisconsin says the
State Reform School is we'll accomplish
ing the purposes for which it was estab-
lished. The whole number in the
school during the past year was 5l7.
1t is stated that the nitric acid which
finds its way into sulphuric during the
manufacture of the latter, may be so
thoroughly removed by means of wood
charcoal, recently calcined and 'pulver-
lied, that the most delicate tests show
no trace of il after treatment of the
sulphuric acid in the manner indicated.
A COW belonging to Amasa Willis, OF
West Brattleboro, Vermont, recently
lost a part Of her tongue by its being
bitten of by horse standing in an ad-
joining stall. The COW was accustomed
to steal the hay Of her neighbor, who
showed his res:stment by depriving the
culprit of the "unruly member"
In London, at the suggestion of the
well-known philauthropist, Hiss Bur
dett Coutts, an association has been
formed to furnish work for the uncm-
plOyed i'll road making, cleaning streets,
and in similar ways. Miss Coutts has
undertaken to pay $50 persons for six
months. at about fifty cents day, and
has given $500 toward thcroad making
fund.
R Portland has completely risen from
the ashes of the great fire of 1866. A
Portland newspaper says that "a new
city has grown up amidst the ruins;
large and elegant warehouses now oc.
cupy the waste places of but two years,
equalling in magnificence and extent
those of any city on the continent.
Capitalists are coming in and investing
their means to help enrich and popu-
late our fair city"
Omnibus signals have been intro,
dueed into Springfield, Mass, by which
those who want to ride can cOmmuni,
cate their wishes to the drivers. SINH
lar signals at street corners might be oi
value along our passenger railway
lines, for whilst our car attendants are
generally very attentive, there appear
to be both blind and deaf men on some
of the lines.
Portland harbor is said to be in dan
ger. The quicksands are forming bars
at the entrance, and as it gradually in
creases the access to the wharves Of
Portland for large vessels is becoming
more restricted. The Portland people
are becoming alarmed, and want a
breakwater constructed to stop the in.
hux of sand, which it appears comes
from the sea, when the winds are north.
easterly.
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