The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-27
CURRENT ITEMS.

Ben Wade is both agrarian and gre
gariaR.
Talbot, of Taunton, is a negro and
juryman.
Connecticut has six inch straw
berry.
Men with cork hats are certainly
light headed.
At last accounts Santa Anna took hii
chocolate regularly.
A death from the trichina is reported
in Henry county, Iowa.
Radical bills have many sections
They are nothing if not sectional.
The spiritualists of New York had a
material picnic at Fort Lee.
John B. Cough talks of going to Eng
land on lecturing tour.
Some of our travellers find it easier to
20 abroad than to get back.
Brooklyn means to have monument
of Lincoln with his whiskers.
A black delegate from Greene county
attended the Ohio Republican COnven'
tion.
The condition of the harvest through
out France is regarded as satisfactory
AChicago policeman shot dead an un'
offending man, supposing him to be a
robber.
COMPOSITION has reduced the steam
boat fare from New York to Albany ts
one dollar.
Washington is sickly. To have Thad
Stevens and the typhoid fever in July,
will be hard.
The Surratt jury is forbidden the lux
ury of BARRIERS on account of their talk
ative qualities. .r..
The New York butchers threaten to
kill if they cannot murder without
municipal dictation.
The new State capital of Nebraska is
to be named Lincoln, in honor Of the
late President.
Trollope's new novel is called "Ar'
tingsle Castle" 1t is on level with
his others-a very dead level.
The British Parliament has been sit
ting some four months, and has pro-
duced 26 public and II local statutes.
Some Cincinnati lawyers are employ,
ing female detective to work breach
of promise case. Shrewd fellows.
Speaker Colfax has been longer
getting "Across the Continent" than
any traveller since the invention OF
railroads.
One hundred and fifty tailors are
forming cooperation shop in New
York with about SIG, 900 capital.
Speaking of prize fight, the gentle
"Admiral" Semmes laments that "the
instinct of the brute is yet strong with
in u.s."
The papers in Kansas express much
alarm for the crops in that State Oh ac'
count of the army Of grasshoppers.
Governor Fenton, of New York. it is
said, has re.olved to pardon young
Ketchum, the defaulter.
Bass, the rich man, helped the Mar
quis of Hastings out of his betting
scrape. Hastings would have been
"bust" without him.
Coryden, the Fenian informer, is re-
ported to have been paid $4,000 for his
perfidy by the British government.
The Union Pacific Railroad is now
open to Julesburg, three hundred and
seventy-six miles west of Omaha.
Over $4,000 cigars were seized at
Troy, New York, last Tuesday, for not
having revenue stamps affixed.
Saco, Maine, boasts of an elm that
girts 20 feet and some inches, and hem
lock 100 feet high, that girts Ia feet
inches.
Senator Yates predicts that Chicago,
St. Louis, Leavenworth, or Omaha, will
be the capital of the nation. A capital
joke.
The son of the Governor who order
ed the burning of Moscow, during the
French invasion, is the guest of the
present Emperor in Paris.
Speaker Colfax was entertained by
Hon. George H. Pcndleton, of Ohio, al
his residence near Cincinnati, on Satur'
day evening.
A man in New York State hung him.
self because his wife refused to give
back property which he had transferred
to her name. He secured six feet of it
Among the passengers who sailed
from New York, Saturday, for Europe,
was Mrs. Alexander w. Randall, wife
of the United States Postmaster Cen