The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

years tnat renains hoa'iy 30
new.
The lightning melted and destroyed
the other day over thousand feet OF
telegraph wire near Cheona' Illinois
The Mammoth Cave has been removed
to Washington, D. c. 1t was On exhioi-
tiep Saturday bat is rjw closed until
the 26th inst, for repairs.
In Springfield, Massachusetts,, sunrise
and sunset is announced by the armory
ouu-otherwise the inhabitants would
not know when it was sunrise.
1t is reported that there Is lake
which is visible from the Adirondacks,
but which according to the current ira
dition, no man has ever been able TO
reach.
Sevcnty-eight Chicago firms report
tsales of goods the last year exceeding a
million dollays each. One exceeded
nine millions.
In Washington county, Texas, on the
9Th inst, 5000 acres of land were sold
by the Sheriff at prices ranging from
l2t cents to Sc 10 per acre.
A crochet sha wi in shop window IN
Brooklyn, New York, is labelled "prIce
$780," r.- .-l
In Milwaukee, tax is paid on fifty-four
incomes exceeding $4,000. Of these
ten exceed $4,000, and one is over
$fO0,oO0. s' -.-.... -aI
Egypt has obtained a loan of $780,
100000 in Paris. The bonds are sold at
20 cents, bear seven per cent. interest,
and have thirty years to run.
Yellow, orange and Bismarck, are an
nounced as the fashionable colors for
street gloves for gentlemen, and laven'
der and flesh color for ladies.
Plug tobacco packed in peanuts and
apples is the latest device to defraud
the revenue. This fraud has been dis
covered at Norfolk, Virginia.
Prussia, which country has but re-
Gently adopted the use of postage
stamps, disposed of 69,661, ,070 during
the past year, thereby realizing S2,759,-
622. .- . ..
The famous Thames Embankment at
Lendon has been partially opened to
pedestrians, and seems likely to prove q
faverite river promenade. END. b.
An exchange thinks that "if We could
eliminate from all effort the element of
fret, it might be doubted whether there
are many brains among us that are
overworked after ALL"
The third nnual convention of the
New York Sportsmen's Association will
convene at Buffalo, on July second,
and last three days. Prizes arc an
nounced for excellence in rifle shoot
ing, single trap shooting, and casting
the fly.
The Austrian CamdrGde, after care
full numbering of the soldiers main
toined by various European States, has
come to the conclusion that Austria is
in very defenceless state, and that it
will be necessary for her to increase
her army to l,053,0OO men to preserve
peace.
l.. T.. Zenoa, late of the Imperial
Guard Of Macmillan, having been rob-
bed of $500 in Cincinnati, lodged at the
Cleveland station house Sunday night.
He was on his way to Canada.
The boiler in Van Wrinkles saw mill
at Andover, Ind, exploded, last Tues
day, killing Mr.. Wolf, postmaster at
Florida, Indiana, and another man
named Moore.
Mrs. Joel Ballard, of Kesaqua, Iowa,
repeated story prejudicial to the char
acter of E. 7. Dickman, and he, hearing
of it, Monday, went to the residence of
Mrs. Ballard aud shot her dead.
John F. Duncombe, ESQ.,, Of Fort
Dodge, has one of the handsomest
houses in Iowa, built entirely of gyp-
sum. 1t is found to be perfectly dura-
BILE, and so closely resembles marble
that it is Ofteu taken for it.
Miss Comstock, the Chicago school
mistress who was SO atrooiously beaten
by Mrs. Greer, has just married the Mr..
Moss of whom the latter was so jealous.
The indictment against Mrs. Greer has
been quashed.
A Boston paper says: The City Coun-
Gil of Bangor has passed an order for
the Mayor to take measures to prevent
the train from passing through Front
street at speed faster than a walk
which is not very definite as applied to
a railway train"
The pedestrian Weston walked mile
in the Boston Music Hall, on Tuesday
last, and said, before attempting it,
that he would be less fatigued in walk
ing from Boston 10 Worcester than in
making one mile in the hall, and that
with single exception it was the las
time he would do Ii. -.rr
Jerry Brennan, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
recently died, leaving his viii, direct
ing his heirs to dig in the cellar Of his
residence for some money he had buried
there. A search was made, according.
ly, last Friday, and gold and silver to
the amount Of ever $4,000 was found.
William Penny, of Staoyviile, Iowa,
has sheep which owns two mouths,
the extra one being under the right ear,
with complete Jaw and teeth, and n |
natural passage to the throat. In case
one mouth gets out of order, the other
can be used while repairs are being
made.
In the Iowa State Prison are 175 men
and one woman. The female is 7s years
old, and was imprisoned for life for
the murder of her husband FIVE years
ago. The youngest convict is boy Of
II years, in for rape. Of the l75 men,
l2l are bachelors, of course; and 33 are
under 81 years old.