The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

lrlnidau.
Counterfeit nickel FIVE cent pieces are
in circulation.
The cotton crop of Sonora, Mexico,
this season is q success.
ID. Indianapolis runs horse cars on
the street railroads.
A woman's hospital is sOoD 10 be es-
tablished in San Francisco.
New York city consumes daily over
22s,OOO quarts of milk and water.
In February, 10 Cincinnati brewers
made Il ,635 barrels of beer.
The Democrats of Chicago have de-
clared for Pendleton for President.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is supposed to
be worth S75,OO0,OO0.-
The Artemus Ward monument is to
be placed in Central Park, New York.
frightful famine is prevailing in
Algeria, and instances are named of
cannibalistn. -r
The government of the Dominion of
Canada proposes to make American sill
yer gal tender.
The Brignoii Opera Troupe lost $1,000
in one week, by singing to rnapprecia-
tive Philadelphians. a.
Pennsylvania proposes to raise the
tax on the coal production of the State
five hundred per cent.
Business in North Carolina is atan al
most dead stop. In Newbern rents are
only one. tenth as high as they were
two years ago. -'-....r' .- r.r
Three New York ladies have present.
ed a $4,000 telescope TO the Wesleyan
" University-the Methodist College-at
70 Middletown, Conn.
Burkhart Gctner, grocer of Defiance,
Ohio, entered saloon one day last
week and took three drinks, which killed
him in three minutes.
Lola Montez was born in Dublin of
Irish parents. Her grave is Greenwood
Cemetery and the headstone contains
only her age and her name, Eliza Gil
bert.
There are nearly fifty whisky dis
tilleries in New York city, and liquor
can be bought at Sl.25 per gallon-75
cents less than the Government tax.
The site of the original town of HUI
ron, Ohio, has long since disappeared,
the waters of the lake having wasted
away broad acres, streets and buildings.
Montgomery & McCarty, a Mobile
firm, are engaged in the business of i'm
porting Scotch Iaborers, under arrange
ments with various Ranufacturing COM
panies and other employers.
A barrel marked "Hand Corn Shell
lers," shipped at Louisville for Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, diffused such fragrance on
the ambient air in the Toledo depot,
that it was opened aud found to contain
deceased African.
Aspecial train was run through from
Portland to Boston one afternoon re-
Gently, to carry two passengers, a man
and his wife, who, in their haste to
reach their daughter, dangerously i'll in
New York, chartered the train for $3.50,
in order TO catch the evening express
train from Boston thither.
Last week several tracts of land IN
Pickens District, South Carolina, were
sold by the Sheriff for arrearageS of tax
es, at the following ruinous prices for
each parcel: $50 acres for $50. 200 for
go, $50 for S41, 300 for 81, 90 for $l4,
200 for so, 100 for 50, and GO acres for
Sl1 90.
A New York r.has recently patented
an appliance for preserving life in wa
ter 1t consists simply of a cork jacket
and loose rubber suit, the latter being
in a single piece and covering the Gu
tire person, with the exception of the
feet and hands The whole weighs
eight and half pounds, and is put on
in two or three minutes. Iron. soled
shoes for ballast form part of the ar
rangemeDt, which was subjected to
very satisfactory tests i'll the harbor, OFF
the battery, oil Thursday.
On Wednesday, of last week, the resi-
dents of Stuyvesant Landing, on the
Hudson, Were greatly alarmed by see
ing novel craft floating down the riv-
er and making for the shore, quite a
good sized house. Their first supposi-
tion was that Albany had gone adrift,
but as no other building made its ap-
pearance all attention was turned to
this single wsnderer. The runaway, or
rather fioataway, was brought to the
shore, and on examination was found to
be a very nice house and completely
furnished. Search was ut once made
for its occupants, but none were found.