The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-11
CURRENT ITEMS.


The Buffalo Courier calls Bingham the
Congressional lady-killer.
Boarding houses are beginning to in
wade Fifth Avenue, New York.
A rainbow was seen just before sun
rise, in New Haven, Il few mornings
since.
Ben. Wade, like many other Washing
tOuians, eats but two meals day.
Prof. Anderson has daughter who
beats the Japs with the butterfly trick.
Kit Carson was born in Norfolk, Va,
if we may admit the claim of the Jour
RGl, of that city.
1t is said that the New York dandies
of the" no6lest class" now send to Lon
don for their boots.
A woman horsewhipped another in
the streets of Troy, the other day, for
riding with her (t%e whipper's) hus-
band.
Fifty petitions for divorce in Hills
borough county, New Hampshire, have
been entered for the consideration OF
the Court now in session.
When Lolita was serenaded at her no.
tel in ST. Louis recently, half a dozen
politicians appeared at various windows
and underworld to return thanks.
A woman in Indiana, the other day,
ls,orooI tr,,, bnr bnahanl of tan
o'clock on Tuesday morning, and in fif
teen minutes afterwards was married 10
another.
An Indiana Judge recently decided,
in fishing case, that if n man owned
ten miles of a river bank, it wonld not
give him right of property i'll n single
fish until after he had caught 1t.
In Button, Indiana, on Sunday, son
of Peter Studebaker, eleven years old,
was drowned while bathing in the Wa
bash River. He was seized with cramp
and sank before assistance reached him.
A half.breed was put III Jail in st.
Cloud, MINI. He forced the door open,
and walked out, aud carried away the
bed on which he slept. We suppose if
he had been full breed, he would have /
marched off with the Jail aud all.
On the 10Th of April, His Celestial
Majest y, the Brother of the Sun, who is
tender youth of fourteen, enjoyed the
sweet privilege of picking ont awife
from 100 virgin candidates who offered !
themselves at the palace.
A census just taken in Chicago makes
the population 240,000. The result was
reached, probably, by cpunting the num- |
Der on populous street, taking that as
the average for equal spaces through
out, and then adding fifty per cent. for
errors.
4 company lately formed in New Or
leans is manufacturing twenty tuns of
ice day, and will soon be able to
double the quantity produced. The ar
ti6cial ice is sold at three-fourths of a
cent per pound-being about one half
the usual selling price OF Northern ice
before the establishment of the manu-
facture.
Secretary Seward has at length found
foeman worth of his steel in the En-
perer of China. who writes a letter to
our Government covering twenty feet
in length by two feet in width of royal
parchment. The odds appear heavy,
but we bet our bottom dollar on Sew
ard. he will either beat the Emperor
Of Chlna's best, or perish.
A Justice i'll California recently fined
q man sixty dollars, with the alterna-
tive of one months imprisonment, for
throwing stones at Chinese women.
The same iustic2 had recently punished
q prisoner severely for knocking down
Cinnamon in the street-a favoIite
amusement with old CalifOrnians.
A picture in the last number of Judy
represents two little girls talking to
each other over the title, Not TO be
beaten" The first one says with pride
on her brow: "Ah, my mamma has a
carriagep And the second one replies,
with more pride on her brow +: "Oh,
that's nothing; nay mother can take her
teeth out aud put 'em back again "
In New York William Roche was re-
Gently indicted and placed on trial for
diyulging the contents of a telegram
without the cOnsene of the company.
"Pshsw,' said Mr.. okey Hall, the Dis !
trict Attorney, ~ move, your Honor, !
that he be.dischsrgea. II don't believe
the time of the court should be wasted |
in trying this man for what Congress
has been doing recently by wholesale"
Mr.. Roche was accordingly discharged. |