The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

The grain crops in California are
promising.
The Queen of King Theodorus is re-
ported dead.
Strawberries sell from sixteen to
twenty-five cents quart in Chicago.
To crown Disraeli's troubles, he has
been made the subject Of some verses
by Upper.
The body of Georgia Major has been
plowed up on the Seven Pines battle
field.
The municipal expenses of Brooklyn
for the next year are estimated at So, l4O,-
600.
The Nicarauguans are greatly excited
by the arrival of British pretensions to
the Mosquito territory.
A peach tree in Goorman, Miss, has
taken to bearing perfect roses. There
are no rose bushes near it.
Whang Doodle is the name Of one of
the Chinese overseers on railroad now
building in Oregon.
In consequence of the recent plenti-
ful rains in New York milk has been re-
dnced TO seven cents a quart.
In Middletown, CT, young man who
only took half an ounce of turpentine
was relieved of tape worm 200 feet
long.
The Canadians have completed their
preparations and are now ready to well
come the Fenians with bloody hands
to hospitabls graves"
The Orange Trginidn, Lynchburg
NeWs and Shenandoah Herald represent
the wheat crop of their sections as re-
markably promising.
General Schofeld has withdrawn the
mounted guard which kept watch and
ward over the War Office during the
StantSnian controversy.
A member of the Massachusetts, Leg
islature estimates that the State will
gain over eight million dollars by now
stopping work ut the HOosac Tunnel.
Hezekiah Case, of North Manlius,
Onondaga county, has sheared q three
year old sheep, the fleece weighing TWEEN
ty-fOur and halfpounds.
commencement Day at Vassar Col
lege, Poughkeepsie, will occur the last
week in June, and the demoiselles an
ticipate very nice time.
Somebody having stated that Grant
has no will of his own, Prentice thinks
he had better make one Us soon as pos
sible, in view of his political death.
Eggleston, the carpet-bag candidate
for Governor of Mississippi, was up be-
fore the Mayor of Jackson recently, and
fined SIS for getting whipped in a street
fight.
A young lady tainted in New York
theatre the other night. She was re-
vived by throwing water in her face,
aud her first words were, 20, my new
bonnstlD r.
1t is estimated that over $4,000 per
day is spent in the "pOlicy shops" of
New York city. The amount of oppor
tunities wasted, and of disappointment
and misery resulting, is beyond esti-
nation.
A little child, aboat five months old,
was found unframed in the wreck of
the cars at the Erie Railroad disaster,
and as no one has appeared since to
claim the child, it has been adopted by,
family at Port Jervis. .... D..
Abyssinia, since the evacuation by
the English, is in state of utter con-
fusion. Civil war RACES, the native
chiefs are fighting for the supremacy,
and blood flows freely. 1t is thought
the Egyptians Will undertake the con-
quest of the country.
In the neighbOrhoOd of Leeds, Maine,
the following curious document, in a
wretched scribble, is to be seen in a
window: "a Da Skool kept at :
plaise, terms 2 pens and 3pens per week
for reeding and knitting and righting
and sowing"
The Memphis Aralaache tells OF Ger
man who settled in West Tennessee in
1863, upon a capital of 5000 aud good
health, hired farm at $500 rent, clear
ed $1,000 the first year, bought the farm
at SIC, 900, and is now become a wealthy
landed proprietor.
An old woman who went nto the
poultry business some time since, under
the expectation that she could make
fortune by selling eggs, has quilted it in
disgust, because, as she says, "the hens
ueyerli lay when eggs are dear, but
always begin % soon as they get
Cheap o. -.n g.