The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1867-06-20
NEWS ITEMS.


There are only about 100000 taxa
BILE incomes in the United States.
In Wayne county, Pensylvonia, hay
has recently sold for Ioty dollars lO1.ss
Ripe peaches are selling 10 Memphis,
Tenn, at fifty cents piece.
They are eating wa!crmeIlons in New.
bern, N. @.
Alabama epiCuros are luxuriA,ing up
on green coru
Two hundred and tbirty-fve tn ousaud
bushels Of wheat are now in store at Nil.
waukee.
A correspondent thinks The cotton crop
Of Georgia will be double that of last
year.
One ofour exchanges thinks that "ten
pounds Of sausage for o dollar is dog
cheap"
DR., Ayers riIls are good to have il
not 10 take. They give him an income
last year Of s6s, 57S.
A destitu'e lady in Baltimore has been
provided with comfortable home by her
former slave.
The Chicago Times claims for that
city 100000 population AID $50. 900.
900 rats.
Judge Edmons, of New York, anys the
spiriualsis in the United Statos plumber
between ten and eleYen millions.
A Convention ofthe republican party
ci North Carolina is called for Sepiem-
Der 4.
A Boston gentleman Of wealth propo
sea to bear the expense of rip Of Sena.
tor Wilson 10 Europe.
London has2l daily papers. go week
lies and illustrated papers There are
$50 provincial papers in England, 40
Welsh, l40 Scotch, aud l25 Irish.
Congressman j. Morrissey ia the pur.
chaser Of Barnum'S beautiful residence
at Bridgeport, Conn. The price paid was
$4,000.
It's rather remarkable that while sew
e'al thousand feet are required to mako
one rood, n single fool,properIy applied,
is often sufficient to make one civil.
In North Caroline wheat is represent
ted as unusually promising. bul the re.
ports concerning tobacco are rnlavor-
able.
Arkansas md Louisiana papers report
cotton as much better than was sencr-
ally expected, Corn anil fruits are also
looking well considering the weather.
A girl has been arrested in Newark,
N, j., for trying to steal waterfall
from the head of another girl on the
street,
The politicians in and about the New
York Constitutional Convention favor
Gen. Grant for President and Senator
Morgan or Gov. Fun'on for vice Presi'
dent.
The Richmond (lnd. Telegraph tells
ola Wayne county mau who took his
family to tho circus last Monda,, and
sold his cooling stove 10 get raouey to
buy tickets.
One result Of the war is said 10 be that
Washington now contains nearly double
the population it had in 1860, and
that the public business done there
is more than twice as large,
The SIN Francisco Bulletin says it is
conceded that this years harvest will be
the most abundan, ever known 10 Cali
fornla.
A colored tournaments among the ok.
elements Of Memphis with secessiouists.
But we sec no reason why there should
not be black as well as white filters.
Gen. Hunt Of Colorado has been au-
thorized to raise troops by GEN. Sherman
who, 10 bis letter. says that prudence on
the part of the whites will prevent trou
Bile with the Indians.
Count Bismarck suffers terribly from
a nervous disease which prevents him
from sleeping; TO recover some sleep he
gets on horse at | o'clock of the night
aud rides till 4 O'Clock, reforms homo,
goes 10 bed and sleeps Eve hours.
The cost Of the new Roman Catholic
Cathedral, at New York, is estimated at
0O0o. The time of its completion
will depend something on the movement
of the Fenians, since it is built by The
subscriptions of poor Irish servant girls
and laborers.
Mr.. Greedy has already turned
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