The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-13
CURRENT ITEMS.

Union.
Gen. Sheridan darkly intimates IN
other civil war. ,,,
Morrissey will make his mark in Con
gress.
In Montreal forty couples were mar
ried in one day. .EWI VNt.
A Southern paper says the 39th Con
press was an "immense malignant ca
reer of hate"
A Western editor indulges in "bitte1
burning words"
This toast was offered ut railroad
festival: "Our mothers, faithful ten
ders, they never misplace the switch.
The Boston Post calls Summers g.
case of chronic strut"
Tilton advocates suffrage without ref
erence to age, sex, or color.
1t is reported that George Peabody ii
to give half a million of dollars for 6
Home for Fallen Women ut New YORK
Prentice says overy negro is now bit
ten by the gallinippper Of political am
bition. az
Brownlow threatens to suppress the
Memphis AralaRche.
France has one hundred thousand
disabled young men.
A Memphis policemen has become
heir to $4,000. He now puts on airs.
Governor Stone, of Iowa, Is deficient
S35, 900. He ought to be reconstructed
A lady in Vermont has just had trip.
let's. Her poor husband bears up nobly
London papers style Louis Napoleon's
speech mixture of folly and bravado
Best proof of governments irreso,
lution-resolutions.
James Gordon Bennett, senior, is
writing his memoirs.
Jackson's autograph sold dinNe York
last week for $5.
Alligators have made their appear
ance at New Orleans earlier than usual
A young lady in Lewiston suddenly
left off combing her hair, and going to
q river drowned herself.
The negro Bradley is OH his way North
to collect "martyr money"
A bootblack in San Francisco charges
twenty-five cents for "shine."
1t is magnanimous to bestow charity
upon suffering people and taunt them
with their dependence.
The Springfield Republican inquiries if
the real object of Summers bill is to dis
courage reconstruction
4 man in Arkansas finished gallon
of rum in one day, and the rum in less
time finished him.
Punch suggests that "mum" is used
as title for ladies on account Of their
well-known love of silence.
The story of Senator Yates relapse
after signing the pledge is too mclan,
chOly for belief.
Barnum's first effort, if it ever comes,
will probably be o mer-maiden speech
The early adjournment will blight
Mr.. Buffers 'peaCh.-N. Y. UorM.
A New York judge sentenced prac,
titioner of garroting to forty years in
Sing Sing.
General Butler climbed. rather toe
high when he Skinned up" the Con-
gressional pole to display his person
advantageously.
The South is offered admission to
Congress if it will send members will
ing to brush Summers shoes. That is
the amount of the Reconstruction bill.
In street car in New Orleans lady
smartly parasoled gentleman for i'm
pertinently pressing her feet.
One hundred and fifty-six millions OF
letters passed through the New York
postoflice during the past year.
A Souther paper says were the South
to make Stevens present of $2Oo, ,oOo
that revengeful fellow would cease bis
vindictive schemes against the South
Iron-works.
An exchange says that lawyers prac'
tising before the military Courts in the
Southern satrapies, are expected to open
their arguments with the usual formu-
la-"May it please your shoulder
straps"
1t is reported that the "water" of an
Artesian we'll at Corpus Christi, Texas,
which the people Of that place have
been using for various disorders, turns
out to be pure kerosene oil.
In Indiana married woman held q
revolver over the head of q lawyer whom
she charged with circulating SANDER
GUS stories about her, and at the same
time dashed bottle Of vitriol in bis
face.
The New York Times, u Republican
paper, says religion, like everything
else in Washington, is shamelessly pros,
tituted to the necessities, and conven-
fences Of partisan politics.
At Winona, Minnesota, business men
closed their stores on week day, and
the whole attended q religious revival
meeting. Trade being dull of course
had no influence.
There is case Of courtship in East
Lyme, Connecticut, that has been 60
ing on for more than forty-five years
and during that time, with very few
exceptions, the gentleman has called
on his intended on each alternate Sun
day evening. -.- "
FRUIT PRospECT.-The editor of the
Ohio Farmer says: The winter has not
been hard upon the vines or the wood
of the cherry, peach or other tender
wooded fruit trees. Old Doctor Kitt.
! land said to us the other day, that he
never saw the wood in better condition
or the promise better for crop Of fine
fruits. The same is true of the field
crops; winter wheat, clover, and all the
grasses, have come through the winter
in the best condition.
In Kentucky lives q man, the head
-o,nocfahla and Intelligent