The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-07
CURRENT.ITEMS.

ton will meet on January 10Th.
There are las, 200 shade trees in Paris
covering about seven per cent. of the
city's area.
Nashville has not experienced such
dull times rs these in score of years.
The soldiers fair at Chicago realized
over $4,000.
The Duchess of Bassano is dead. She
was one of the Empress Eugenie's ladies
of honor.
The Jefferson (Texas) Times says I'M
migrant trains pass through that town
every day.
The Workingmen's Association OF
Burlington, Iowa, are agitating the sub
ject of small cottages.
The coal trade OF Pennsylvania has
never been more active than at present.
The squirrels have almost disappeared
from the woods in South Carolina since
the war.
ScIantos, Pa, pays sixteen dollars a
night to have eight men walk around
its streets.
Train proposes, in the light of recent
events, to call the Hub BOztown.
Wolves have appeared in large num-
bers near Leavenworth, Kansas, and the
inhabitants are frightened.
Daniel Ulrich, of Keokuk, Iowa, was
rebbed of S65QO in the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago railroad car last
week.
Maakato, Minnesota, lately shipped
twenty-one Thousand muskrat skins for
the Eastern market in one lot.
The Irish fox hunting season has com-
menced, and the lords and squires enjoy
every facility for breaking their necks.
A company has been formed at New
York to deliver -four to any family at
an advance of only 81 per barrel on
wholesale prices.
1t is stated that movement has been
set OH foot in New York to raise, equip
and send to Italy regiment of the Pa
pal Zouavo corps.
At Bay City, Michigan, a week ago,
the thermometer indicated eight de-
grees below zero. Teams were crossing
the river on the ice.
A man was recently arrested in Grand
Rapids, Mich, who had in his pocket
$4,000 in counterfeit scrip and $4,000 in
counterfeit drafts.
Boston is to have a skating park at
last, 2S, 700 feet in extent. 1t will be
open to the public every Saturday.
A lady killed large gray eagle with a
stick near Amherst, Wis, the other day.
The bird was in the act of attacking a
flock of geese.
Three parties are aiming to get pos
session of the Missouri Pacific railroad,
Vanderbilt, the Pennsylvania Central,
and St. Louis party.
A negro shot a mulatto woman in
Greenvillv, Ala, the other day, for re-
fusirg to marry him. He was after
ward Shot and killed for resisting ar
rest.
The editor of the Rushyille (lll)
Times offered his services as a wood
sawyer two days in the week, in order
to raise money for the holidays.
Typhoid fever, in very fatal and
malignant, form prevails in the southern
part of Wayne and the northern part of
Union county, Ind.
There is said to be living in Cincin-
natl in extreme poverty, an English
woman and her daughter, descendants
of the great Duke of York.
1t is said that the Howe Sewing Ma
chine Company have offered one million
of dollars for renewal of their patent.
There must be money in the thing.
A German lady advertises in Galigani,
and among her other accomplishments,
states that she "has n0objection to let
blood"
At Fall River, Mass, it is stated that
$500 miles Of printed calico are made
every year-enough to go around the
earth more than three times.
The vicksburg Herald says the coun-
ties of Washington, Bolivar and 1saru-
ma are in q more destitute condition
than any other portion of the country.
Six hundred and thirteen thousand
six hundred and thirty-fve bushels of
wheat We're shipped from Red Wing,
Mimi, this season. Last year this town
shipped 1868 bushels.
A hunting party from Pottsville, Pa,
brought back from Elk county, after a
hunt of two weeks, eight deer and a
large black bear, oil killed by the hunt
ers.
A new style of veil has been invented.
1t allows the lady to see, the covering
for the eyes being of different ma
terisl from the portion which covers
the face.
A Toronto trader advertises POLITICALLY
that there is "No Thoroughfare" through
the new Dominion, but if the people
will come to his store he will show them
thorough fair.
A man in Connecticut had one of his
ey>s pot out by piece of chip striking
it, while he was chopping wood, some
time since, and last week he was
thrown from sleigh, and will proba-
bly, lose the other eye from the injuries
received.
A man in Nevada, who was accused of
taking quartz specimens from a ledge,
acknowledged his guilt. The Court,
however, held that ledge is real estate,
and the law being that real estate can
not be stolen, he was acquitted.
Charley Bent, Chief of the Dog or
Oldiens band of the Cheyennes, recently
died of fever near Fort Dodge. Charley
Bent, was a son of the celebrated Col.
Bent, brother of Julia Bent, the belle
OF the Cheyennes, and one of the princi-
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