The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-05
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT EMS. "a
Ex-Gov. Curtin is going to Rome.
St. Paul has dedicated a new opera
! house.
Rogues in 81. Louis are let of with
straw bail.
Fresh strawberries, in New York.
Cardinal Antonelli has the gout in
his hands.
The new dance in New York is called
the Dip.
Several professional female baybers in
New York handle their razors with
great dexterity.
The Springfield Armory is giving
steady employment to Zoo men.
If all accounts are true the Empress
Eugene is one of the unhappiest of
wives.
A family of Eve persons in Turin dur
! ing the past ave years lived upon cats
flesh. '@
A woman in Paris fell in love at -,
and then blighted affection induced
suicide.
wretches in New Haven amuse them
selves by throwing pepper in the eyes
of drunken men.
The maple trees are yielding q fine
harvest up in Vermont.
Farm laborers in England get IL shil-
lings per week, and two quarts of cider
per day.
Pretty girls in New Albany 20 out by
the river nights bathing-in the moon
light.
! Women are arrested in Cincinnati
who use obscene language in the street.
The Indian Bureau cost Ssl, 100000
last year, and the result was the killing
Of eighty Indians.
Canadian eggs, under the new tariff,
will have to pay duty Of one cent per
dozen. Our national debt will be paid.
Ten thousand persons in the south
western quarter Of Chicago have been
driven from their houses by the flood.
A man in Poughkeepsie recently sue
ceeded in getting man into lunatic
asylum, and then married his wife.
Five members of Henry Ward Beech
er's Church have been arrested for dis
tilling contraband whisky.
Thirty Thousand bushels of corn went
from New York to the relief of the
South, and SOC, 900 bushels are wanted.
The change from the bushel to the
GENITAL measure for grain, ETC., is inau-
gurated in all the principal cities, east
and west.
A cOlored woman has just died in
Richmond, leaving 80 children to
pourn her death. She was only once
married.
An honest man in Maine travelled
fifteen miles Que night TO return $3.50
which had been paid him by mistake.
seize MIN, DaruHu
The advantage Of the present style of
bonncts is that any lady possessing in
genuity to maize q pin"nshi"n can he
her own millineI.
Two large steamships have passed
through the Suez canal, and the com
plete success of the undertaking is con
sidered assured.
A man in Cleveland advertises n half
interest in well regulated laying hen
for sale, assigning as n reason his utter
inability to spend all the profits.
4 yery important trade has sprung up
in North staffordshire, England, which
promises to assume large proportions.
Ii is the extraction of oil from shale.
During last. year in England single
will was admitted to probate which
paid into the treasury for taxes on it's
1 iegacies and other .charges S96l 300 10
gold.
Prince Salm Saln, fn ornamental
staff officer Of McClellan's during the
peninsular campaign, is now command
ing the Imperial garrison in Orizaba,
Mexico.
The Treasurer of Nason CO., Iowa,
whose safe was robbed of $4,000 the
other day, has been arrested for com
plicity in the crime.
If well-seasoned shingles are dipped
in lime and then washed ard dried be-
fore being laid, they will last much
longer than ordinary shingles, and
will not become covered with moss.
"Sir." exclaimed an excited Radical
''if the rebels are going TO be allowed
to rule over us, then the blood Of the
colored substitute, for whom l paid
three hundred dollars. was shed in vain
in vain
! Eleven conductors on the Pennsyl'
vania Central Railroad, were presented
on Friday, with one hundred dollars
each, by the Board Of Directors, in con-
sideration Of faithfulness IN the dis
charge of their duties.
A lecturer in Philadelphia clcverly
alluded TO the greeabdck as "a piece Of
paper stamped with the image Of some
great man at Washington, which (the
paper, not the mani Congress had made
legal, and every shopkeeper felt TO bg
teader.' ,...