The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

Ohio is TO have new lunat.c asylum,
to cost 100000.
A French paper considers the whale
an antediluvian sardinc.
1t takes two men cRe hour TO windup
Trinity church clock.
The sheep of California yielded $500
900 pounds of wool last year
There is fine sleighing over the north
ern part of New England. The snow is
neither deep nor drifted.
The Boston Asylum and Farm School
owns 100000 worth of property, and is
in flOurishing condition.
The greatest activity now exists in
both political parties in New Hamp-
shire, and eminent speakers on both
sides are soon to take the stump.
Prairie chickens ace so plentiful in
Iowa that Il is deemed waste Of pow
der to shoot at them. They are easily
knocked down ana Capturedhy men who
use only sticks.
The graveyards within the MetrOpoli
tan district of London cover I-1 acres of
ground and hold more than hllfa mil
lion of dead.
The Paterson q. j. Locomotive
Works have received orders for making
twenty engines for the Pacific railroad.
Utah is becoming manufacturing re-
gion. Announcements are made Of the
erection of two WOODEN factories there.
Several families in Newport, Rhode
Island, were recently poisoned by eat
ing scallops cooked after they had fro
zen and thawed again.
The SuSqujnanna, at Harrisburg, is
closed. The ice Is not of sufficient thick
ness, however, 10 warrant skaters
venturing upon 1t.
A Massachusetts, railroad has recently
built along its line several miles of
high board fence tOprevent the drifting
of snow upon its track in winter.
The net earnings Of the PittShurg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad for
the year 1867 were S2,4i3,lll, against
S2,374,99l in lS66 showing an increase
of S6s, l22.
Anew no Ell is to b. built at Concord,
n. H., TO cost over 100000.
Counterfeit tens on the First National
Bank of New York are it, circulation.
Rev. A. s. Vaughan has been installed
&spastor of the Third Reformed Church
ofNew York, Pa.
Queen Victoria has obtained the sec
end prize for FIT pigs at the Birming-
ham cattle show.
Ia an Illinois libel suit, where $500
were claimed, the jury returned 81.
The new opera house at Newport, Il. !.
will seat l4O0 persons.
A delaIeition to the amount of $780,
600 is reported in the Hamilton county
(Ohio) treasury.
The total u9mber of Maine officers
who hold commissions m tine regular
army is seventy. six.
Nearly fourhundred men have recent
ly been discharged from Kittery navy
yard in Maine.
A splendid cotton plantation of two
thousand acres in Franklin county, y.
C. was sold for $3.50 per acre.
One negro in Montgomery, Ala,
knocked another down for asking him
TO run for Secretary OF State GA the
Radical Ticket
B. c. Waters, r mail agent injured on
the cars of the c. c. & Cincinnati Rail
road last spring, Jas taken Sl5,o10 TO
call it square.
The Spirtualists ofDuakirk are in hot
water on account of an erposs of their
tricks by the famous Eddy mediums.
A letter, went through the mails d.
rected: '2 deekun eyesier Yooclid Oh
highoh kuiahoges kcuntee."
Rev. j. Gibbons, of the Baltimore
Cathedral, has been confirmed by the
Pope, and will 5000 be consecratcd
Catholic Bishop of North Carolina.
A $500 diamond RIM was recently
found in a dead letter at Washington
and returned to the writer in England.
1t had beer sent to New York, and was
never called for.