The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

The New York city courts granted 81
divorces last year. .-.-.
A letter from Paris states that Rossini
is "very unwell." ..... ....., ..-..
Blondin broke his arm by fall fren
his rope at Cologne. ..r,r
Dickens is taking notes for a new
volume upon this country. s 5CC
"Drunk and disorderlies" saw the city
wood in Minneapolis, MINI.
One of the Maine courts has just
granted forty divorces in a 81 ngle
session,
The London papers want the police
force increased from 1000 to 1000.
Wisconsin lead miners propose to
erect a monument to the poet Percival.
Two seals were seen on cake of ice in
Newport Harbor few days since.
The walrus in the Geological Gardens
in London daily consumes ten quarts OF
oysters.
Buffalo meat, at wholesale, is down
to six cents per pound in the Hays City,
Kansas market. ..,.... Q. ....'.
Twenty-six thousand tons of coal in
transit by the Delaware and Hudson
canal are frozen up.
The Washinee wooden mill of Sails
bury, Ct, has stopped work owing to
the large stock of goods on hand.
More votes are cast in Montana than
in either Nevada or Nebraska, yet the
two latter are States, while the former
is Territory. Eit 5EE
Oil business in New Bedford, Mass,
is very dull, and there has not been q
transaction in oil or bone from first
hands for q month. 'yTlGvTTFF
A deaf and dumb man, named James
Webb, has started shoemaking in Dan
bury, Conn.,, with five deaf mute work.
men.
The supply of poultry is declared by
the oldest market men in New York to
be more abundant than ever known be-
fore. ~ - -.
The wines of the late Sir Frederick
Bruce, amounting to about 600 bottles,
are to be sold at auction in Washington.
New Orleans negroes claim the ina
lienable right to stop the street cars and
throw them off the track when they
want amusement.
Two negroes recently broke into lot
terry Office in Savannah and stole an inn
mense number of tickets, supposing
them to he money.
An English firm of brewers have just
had brewing pan made that will bold
1900 barrels. 1t is the largest one in
Great Britain.
The scholars in the public schools at
Clinton, Iowa, attend school but half
a day, the boys in the morning and the
girls in the afternoon.
A fierce lynx, which leaped at one
bound from the ground to q crotch of a
tree fifteen feet from the ground, has
been killed on Rock river, Ill. =.
Mrs. General Sterling Price has re-
Gently received $4,000 insurance upon
tho life of her husband in a Connect
cut Life Insurance Company.
,r;sono- q; N,c,i,on ioil,oto,v
took noison to make himself sick SO
that he might escane trial for the time
and succeeded in killing himself.
Tho Amesbprv fMassN riua1er saws
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'na' q iauy OIL tha' Piaoe A'iiou o'"n
IN" ;n h;" ,Eooro, oron va" and % two twoecent niece.
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-. 80 -, .aasno - -
reeeh'iy piaoou LIS tongue "s"'S oil
iron lamp post and was frozen last" for
his pains. Hot water was required to
IL
A steam Sawm'fi IN br'S'oi' in"'' 10
managed oy man anu HIS 'wo uaugn-
tsrs. One of the girls Is engineerand
fireman, and the other helps her father
lift the boards and roll the logs.
French butchers near Portland, Ne,
clean hogs, not by scalding, but by
placing the carcass on skids over q
blazing fire and carefully watching and
turning it until the bristles are scorched
off neatly and effedtually.
The people in Canada are troubled
with the "silver nuisance" and are de-
yising means to get rid of u. 1t is so
abundant as TO he n drup and an iucon-
venience. The government thinks Of
making provision for it's expectation. .,
Look ont for coal gas. In New Lon
don, few nights since, Mr.. Jonathan
Bishop and wife narrowly escaped suf-