The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-03
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
AN unsatisfactory meal-a domestic
broil.
MINK raising is a new Wisconsin in
dustry.
CoNsrANrINopLE is to have a $780,
600 opera house,
TIE ice is reported fourteen feet thick
at Duluth.
New crop watermelons are announced
in Florida.
SMELLING by the use of petroleum is
recent invention.
TIE Hartford Screw Compauy "turr
out" 864, 1000 screws daily.
THERE are nearly one hundred female
physicians in New York.
ELLSWORTH, Kansas, is shipping but
falo meat direct to England.
The dispositions in Marshal Bazainei
trial number 5000 documents.
BEEF is only two cents a pound in
Texas, and the kidneys are gratis.
BURKRvILLR, Virginia, reioices in thu
discovery Of iron ore and indications o.
copper.
The first locomotive that ever crossed
the Upper Mississippi exploded the
other day.
A PREoocloUs eight-year old girl in
tentionally shot herselfin Savannah the
other day.
THERE is sleighing throughout the
entire country north OF the Carolinss
and Tennessee.
GOVERNOR HOFFMAN, of New York
has not yet sailed away to Europe. II
is too stormy.
CINCINNATI couples can 60 to the Rev
Mr.. Yocum for matrimony, and tc
Lawyer Severance for divorce.
VESSELS valued at 100000 have
been wrecked OF the lakes and the St
Lawrence during the past season.
JOAN B. COUCH is getting up a testi'
monial for George Cruikshank, the
temperance caricaturist, Of England.
General Mcclellan is being talked o
az the successor of Joel Parker in TIT
gubernatorial chair Of New Jersey.
A GIRL in Cambridge city, Indiana
is the possessor OF a half-finished bed
quilt already containing 300 pieces.
MISS CoBBB, British female meta.
physician, contends in two long anc
lsbored articles that dogs have immor'
tai souls.
Miss SOPHIE BARNEY took a premium
at a Montgomery, Ala, fair as thu
young woman who would make TIT
best wife for poor man.
TIE season for hog stories is in full
blast in Tennessee. Mr.. j. B. Clipper
of Limestone, has just killed a snortel
weighing S35 lbs net.
THE pipes of the Richmond IVA. city
water works are so clogged with snow
and ice that the passage OF water into
the reservoir is impeded, and scarcity
of water in the city is the result.
OWING to the illness of Madame
Lucca and the continued hoarseness o
Miss Kellogg, no more operas will be
given in Philadelphia until March.
A NUMBER of sand spouts" recently
appeared near Virginia City, Nevada
They were columns of sand ten feet IL
diameter and thousand feet high.
Mrs. FAR claims that she is not ye
understood. If there are to be any
more developments, it isn't safe to live
in California.
PROFESSOR AGAssIz expects Lake Erie
to dry up in about twenty thousand
wears. Quite likely he may himself bt
pretty well desiccated sooner.
Ar the Smithfeld Christmas cattle
show her Majesty Queen Victoria took
first hopors" in pigs, and the Duchess
OF Athol was first in Scotch cattle.
A LONG autograph letter Of George
Washington to the Rev. Mr.. Boucher
of Annapolis, respecting the education
Of his stepson, realized EOS at a recent
auction sale in London.
ExUNITED STATES Senator and ex'
Minister to Spain John P. Hale, o.
New Hampshire, went to the polls and
voted on election day, and has not beer
out of his house since. He has been
sick for over a year.
HENRY MEIGGs, the Peruvian railway
millionaire. recently presented Presi-
dent Balta's wife with $4,000 upon
her birthday, while that lady's daughter
received on the same anniversary 9
check for $4,000.
The Danbury Nesos changes the Gus.
tomary announcement by stating thai
"any person who sends US two dollars
and nice eight dollar chrome will re-
eeive this paper for year and no ques'
tons asked"
SSrH GREEN, Superintendent, on be-