The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-12
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
Flowing and planting have begun in
Missouri.
Energy is good thing when it has
head as we'll as legs.
Lord Brougham has lost the use of his
tongue and limbs.
Massachusetts, has fifty three thousand
more women than men.
There are five hundred American
youngsters at school in Germany.
Not stick or stone marks the last
resting place of Zach. Taylor.
Philadelphia is full of young men
from the country seeking employment.
Indians out West are eating horse
flesh, as the deep snow prevents hunt
ing. '.. .... -......
Buffalo has a young scapegrace, thir-
teen, married, drunken and wife
beater.
OF the West Point graduates fifteen
are editors and fifteen clergymen.
Several of the daughters of Brigham
Young are actresses in the theatre of
Salt Lake city.
Ice gorges are reported in the West
ern rivers, doing great deal of damage.
The bearers of advertising placards
in New York have been arrested.
1t is said that the mustache of the
Empress Eugenie rivals that of her hus-
band.
Louis Napoleon says "the Empire is
peace" If he doesn't look out, it will
be pieces.
A lady principal of school for girls
in ST. Louis receives an annual salary
of 5000.
The ''last of the revolutionary heroes"
is still dying in every section of the
Union every few weeks.
Covering walls and ceiling with shaw
ings from wood Instead of paper is the
latest novelty.
Hon. John Morrissey is, it is said,
soon 10 give sparring exhibition in
New York in aid of the poor.
Cigarettes and Sevres spittoOnS at the
dinner table, for ladies, are becoming
fashionable in Paris.
The revivals in Indiana are said to
have caused ten thousand persons to be-
come church members.
A woman in England was recently
sent to prison because she went over a
bridge without paying toll.
A convict recently discharged at Au-
burn, New York, has served thirty years
in that institution.
The Hartford Courts have decided
that to clear sidewalks of snow is a
work of necessity and mercy.
The printers of Pittsfeld, Illinois,
have all been converted during the re-
cent revival at that place.
Two Cinnamon at Canton recently
committed suicide to save themselves
the expense of 4 law suit.
The North Carolina Convention has
adopted en- article exempting from ex-
ecution $1,000 worth OF land, &c.
The President will reply to the arti-
cles Of impeachment on Friday next
(hangman's day., by appointment Of
the Senate.
An infant child in Nashville, was play.
ing with scissors, when it fell, and one
of the points entered the side, killing it
almost instantly.
A western minister went to church 4
few weeks ago and took his seat with
the congregation, refusing to preach be-
cause his salary had not been paid.
Rumor says Louis Napoleon is now a
devotee to the American cocktail. That
is the only republican "institution" he
has ever favored.
The report started by Mrs. Lincoln's
friends that she is insane, is untrue. 1t
arose from the fact that she was living
in Chicago boarding house.
A country editor having heard that
King Theodore never sleeps more than
half an hour at time, has sent the roy
al Abyssinlau his paper for year.
A man in Auburn, Maine, put his two
hundred hens into hot house, and the
unsuspecting fowls, deluded into the
belief that it is warm weather, and the
season for business, literally overflow
with eggs.
Several days ago rich farmer, named
Fielding, disappeared mysteriously
from Galena, ILL.,, and, az he had large
sum of money in bis possession, it was
feared he had met with foul play. 1t
now turns out that he eloped with his
wife's niece, whom he had disguised in
boys clothing.
A recent writer upon the subject of
angling has devoted q great deal of
space in his work to prove that fishes
feel no'pain from fisA hooks. He thinks
that in this respect they are like insects,
who appear quite Indifferent to mutila-
tious that would cause instant death to
animals.
Forty years ago preparations were
made for marriage between q Mr..
Sheppard and Miss Polly shipp. For
some reason the wedding did not take
place. Polly remained single, and. in
Woodford county, Kentucky, the other
day, was finally united to her old love,
who has now reached the age of three
score years and ten. Polly is q lively
young creature of something over sixty.
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