The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-30
CURRENT ITEMS.

3D. Wales will be again father in July.
The suicidal mania is spreading.
Alaska absunds with musk OK and
elephant fossils.
o The treadmill is still in use IN the
English prisons.
Ohio has twelve thousand acres Of
vineyards.
Hancock is the Boston Post candidate
for the Presidency.
The Methodists, of Philadelphia, own
property to the amount Of SlOO,OOo,Voo'
Rev. Mr.. Trask, the anti-tobacco apos-
tie, of Fitchburg, has just issued fresh
lot of his tracts for the SUMMER cam
paign.
The authorities are making prcpara-
lions for commencing the trial of JEFF
ferson Davis, i'll Richmond, on the 4th
of MAY.
Stalks of winter wheat grown III
Georgia which were already headed
were last week exhibited on the Pro-
duce Exchange Of New York.
Tho bed on which Capt. Early was
sleeping, at Meridian, Miss, on last
Sunday night was struck and singed by
lightning without injuring the occu-
pant.
A New Hampshire tax assessor ex-
empted dog from tax because he had
but three legs, and the law did not pro-
d. vide for taxing fractions Of animals.
A swarm of bees left hive on Pine
street, Manchester, N H., on the lst of
April, and took lodgings in postotiiee
drop letter box on one of the city lamp
posts.
The MorInons are building fort at
Cove Creek, Utah, 1000 feet square,
with walls of black volcanic rock, laid
in cement, four feet thick and eighteen
feet high.
Capt. Phillips, registration commits
sioner and commander of colored mill
tin, shot n man named Barth, at Gala
TIN, 1enD., OH II'ldl, lhhtNt'iI:r " ''''
wound. Barth was intoxicated.
A Washington correspondent says:
Late estimates show that the expenses
of the War Department arc now slSo,-
OOO, 600 per year. Do the working peo-
pie know who pays this money
The official returns of the Connecti-
cut election are as follows: English,
59,55l; Jewell, 45,779; scattering, :; En-
glish's majority over Jewell, l772. The
rest of the State ticket ran very near up
to English's vote. ... $685.
Some confident persons Ill New York
paid ninety cents on the dollar for
Mexican bonds, three years ago, bellev-
ing that when the Republic should be
re-established their Investment would
be secured Now, the same sort of pa.
per commands only twenty cents.
1t seems that after all the indigua
ton against the Kuklux, the family of
Ashburn are satisfied he was killed by
"assasSins in the interest of a well
known Radical in Columbus" whose as
pirations had been thwartcd by the
murdered man.
In Columbus, Georgia, an indepen-
dent ballot-box WAS opened for citizens
entitled to vote under the reconstruc-
tiep acts, but whose names had been.
stricken FROM the registry. There were
polled 800 white votes and one colOred.
20 en- ha ,nN nt al
Cars are now loaded at Mobile with
new vegetables, consisting of green
peas, turnips, cabbages, cucumbers,
snap beans, beets, Irish potatoes, dew
o berries, strawberries, &c., attached to
passenger trains, and forwarded with
expedition to Chicago for market.
- Besides the loyal leagues and the Ku-
kluxes, there are two other secret So
cietics at work in the South. These are
the Kowkillians and the Kowmilkians.
> and are very active and formidable.
The Meridian, Miss, Mercury says that
when the COWS come up at all they IN
yariably come up dry So"
The Omaha Herald says of Senator
Thayer, of Nebraska, who has aspira-
tions for McCulloch's place: ale pro-
baby knows as much about finance as q
dog does about astronomy, no disrespect
being intended either to Thayer or TO
the dog
The Sergeant-at-Arnls of the Senate
!subpenas al the witnesses inthe i'm
D. peachment trialby telegraph, and then
charges ten cents a mile travelling ex-
penses to and from the place of resi-
+, ience. His dispatch to General Rous-
seau in Oregon, puts $1,000 IN his peck
ct. The people foot the bill