The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

river aresubmerged.
Ninetyone journalists fought duels
in Paris during the year 1867.
The gnss crop in Pennsylvania viii
he the heaviest cut in ten years.
"Whisling taught in six lessons is
ADVERTISED in Connecticut. .r..
A Portland lady has used thirty-One
miles of spool cotton in twelve years.
Phereare but fifty-three stockholders
in the Unieu Pacific Railroad.
The Detroit Post says the bull that
butted the impeachment locomotive IS
Trumbull.
Sandu,ky ships over 200 tons of fish
per weeE, mostly white fish.
Last week viii be historical. Among
other great events Forney resigned a
fat Office
The Lowell Courier defines the "prom-
ised land" to be the alternate sections
of the Ptcific Railroad.
Awoman living in Decatur, H., last
week sold her blonde hair to a New
York dealer for thirty-fve dollars.
A Cincinnati paper says recent
breakfast at hotel in that city con-
sisted of tea and toast and six brandy
cocktails.
The prohibitionists of Boston have it
in contemplation to build a hotel to be
conducted upon the total abstinence
plan. The house is to be of medium
size.
In Springfield, Ohio, it is said, four
hundred new dwellings will be built
this year to accommodate the increas-
ing population drawn thither by manu-
featuring interests.
The crop reports from Arkansas and
West Tennessee are very encouraging.
The corn is nearly knee-high and of
good color. Cotton has good start
and is very promising.
The approximate earnings of the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail-
way, for,the month of April, amount to
S774, 104.l6-expenditures SALT, ,554.36.
The scholars in Minneapolis school
thought the water froR, R,their well tast-
ed queerly for a few days, and so insti-
tuted an investigation, which brought
to light dead baby.
A young heiress in Fort Wayne, Ind,
has hired as servant girl, to escape
the opportunities of a brother-in-law,
who insists on connubliung her to a dis
tasteful suitOrr
There was recently grave consulta-
ton among the workmen in one of the
Concord IN. H.) carriage manufactures
they could couscientiously
work upon the construction of circus
wagons.
The New Jersey Legislature talks of
imposing an annual tax of one dollar on
each bachelor in that State who cannot
prove that during the year be made TIVE
bona fde offers of marriage, and was re-
fused.
A curious case, il is reported, is to be
tried ia Paris. A man who wished to
commit suicide, but had not the nerve,
hired asother to blow out his brains for
a small sum of money. 1t is to be tested
whether this was murder.
There is a man in bridgeport, Conn.,,
over seventy years of age, who has
spent but six and n quarter cents for
liquor during his lifetime, and that
amount was assessed Hpon him at mil
TRY parade to pay for wetting down the
officers commission.
A Savannah dispatch says: "From
reliable authority, it is now understood
that the Georgia Legislature will he
of three parties, Democrats,
Radicals and Conservative Indepen-
lents. The latter hold the balance of
power, and their proelivitics thus far
have been decidedly Democratic. Mr..
Gordon and United States Attorney
Fitch will probably receive the Demo
cratic nomination for the United States
Scnatorships."
81 am Democrat every man in my
is q Democrat, and when l
shan be convinced that this war has
or its object any ether than what have
or the Government designs
ising its soldiers to execute the pur-
poses of the abolitionists, / pledge you
ny honor as a soldier that will carry
ny sword on the other side and cast my
ot with that people. ."-Cotonel .. s.
Graat IN 1861.
Wales little seduction affair in Frank
tort has been hushed up. The resem-
blance of the baby to Wales is explain
ID as accidental. The father Of the
young girl in question has recently
added a large amount to his balance in
bank. He says relative of his in
California died recently, bequeathing
him that sum, His neighbors are cruel
enough not to believe the stony. ..
The Paris papers recently recorded
the fact that whilst workman, to save
the life of drowning man, had thrown
himself into the Seine, and was swim
ming to his rescue, which he accom-
plished, passer-by, apparently watch
ing the proceedings, stole his watch.
The Emperor read the paragraph, in
quired into the facts, ascertained their
and the name of the workman,
who a day or two ago, was much amazed
on receiving a handsome gold watch
and chain.
A Afrightful crime has been commit
ted at Arnancanla, Chilli, which has
great sensation among all
Glasses. Some wretches managed to in
troauce themselves in the middle of the
night into the house Of an Indian named
Trangu, situated near the new fort Of
Hueqaen, about . league distant from
Angel, and committed the following
A woman Of fifty years of
age killed by cutting her throat; one of