The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

The smallpox is epidemic among the
negroes OF Cuvington, KY
There is not 4 steam fire engine IN
Alabama, it is said, except st Mobile.
Only two executions have occurred
in Vermont within the last forty years.
A local Democratic Convention IN
South Carolina has nominated Wade
Hampton for Governor.
The WOrM accuses Mrs. S.wisshelm OF
Intentionally conduct toward MIS-.
6vuatUr ePr"S'Tv.
Nearly 100000 worth Of property
has been destroyed w fire IN Chicago
within the last five months,
Hon. Henry w. billiard is announced
as q Conservative candidate for Con
gress from the fifth district Of Ala
bama.
The body ola man, partially eaten by
buzzards. was found in the city park
at New Orleans, few days since.
The father Of Mr.. Gladstone, the EHs
lish statesman, though he died Baro
net, began life as cabin boy.
The present season has been exceed
ingly uAfavorable to mining in Neya-
da.
A church building at Amherst, Mass,
Is tn have a pulpit built Of the cedar OF
Lebanon.
Five cases of seduction and three
cases of rape were developed in Gibson
county, Indiana, lately.
The trains of the Union Pacific Rail-
road have not been delayed an hour by
snow this winter.
A New York woman. unable to pay
her rent, sold her hair and raised the
money with that. ..
1t Is proposed to erect u monument
in Milwaukee to Solomon Junea6, the
founder Of the city.
Forney has column of lamentations
over the Christian patriot Ashbnrn,
who was killed in a negro bagnio
wherein he was bOarder
Reports of the condition of tie crops
in all parts of Illinois and Southern
Wisconsin are, without exception, high
ly favorable.
81 came near selling my boots the
other day." said Scuttles to friend.
"Hnw so ~ "Well, / had them half
soled."
1t is estimated that young Boston has
thrown one Thousand five hundred boz
ouets ut the feet Of White Fawn ballet
girls. 1913 - - l->--- =. ~
The Brazilian government has order
ed 5000, 900 cartridges from the works
of Schuyler, Hartley and Graham at
Bridgeport, Conn.
A man residing on Cacapin Mountain
Va, has been attacked and killed by
wolves, after staying six ofthem with
an axe.
partridge recently shot al Rudolph,
Wis, was found to contain, when dis
sected, n live snake two and half feet
long. H -.r
The Natural Bridge Of Virginia is ad-
vertised for sale at public auction, on
the 25th of April The purchaser will
not be allowed to remove it.
"Pve got henery," lately said a sub
urban lady to her cousin. Dear me-"
said the cousin, ~ thought his Dame
was Charles Y
johnson county, Indiana, must be a
sweet, quiet place. Sixteen oft'e most
prominent citizens have been indicted
for murder. q,
VIM. Banks, who brutality murdered
his mistress in ST. Louis in August last
anil fed for parts unknown, was cap,
tured in Memphis Oh the Sd inst.
A novelist describes his hero rs ma
king love, "like 70 BONDED warehouses
inifames on on dark windy night, and
the fire alarm out OF repair"
Abont six thousand persons, Of both
sexes, sare employed in cleaning the
streets Of Paris. The daily wages of
the men average absut 81 cents, Of tue
women, 40 rsg bel
Nelson. Kicks, q colored divine Of
Cairo. Illinois, has got himself into
troaBle bS doubling his matrimonial fe- !
licity. Mrs. Kicks No. I has appealed to |
the grand jury.