The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-13
CURRENT ITEMS.


ths new constitution 1919 majority.
Musk rat Sighting is one of the fash
ionable sports OF New York city.
The Democrats have recognized the
white Boys in Blue" in Indianapolis.
Winfield SCOTS house, at Elizabeth,
n. j., has been sUld.tO $1,000.
There will be another royal baby III
the Prince of Wales household III few
months.
BarRum is going to farm and raise
stock-wooly horses, probably.
Ole Bull was choked with the dust
raised by applause in Bcechers church.
Forty cows are to be placed in Cen
trail Park, New York, and the milk sold
to visitors.
There are thirty-nine Jewish syna-
yogues in New York and Brooklyn, and
upward of 100000 Jews.
A Bridgeport man AYERS that be has
been cured ofdyspepsia by riding over
Connecticut railroads this winter.
A new Mormon Bible has just been
published in Plano. First edition 5000
copies. No advertisements inserted.
A medallion carpet, from the Paris
Exposition, is to be put down on the
parlor of lady residing on Fifth ave-
nue., New York, who paid Sll, 900 for 1t.
Radical Illinois wants the Senate TO
e1pel Dick Yates for getting drunk, and
send him bone. In other words Hi
nois wants her Senator ''sot" back.
Jackson higgins, of Galeshurg, Hi
nois, was killed by the sheriff the other
day, from whom he was attempting to
ESCAPE. He had been arrested for an at
tempted rape on his step-daughter and
for stealing.
Emanuel Cross WAS murdered aud
robbed by unknown parties, in Henrico
county, Virginia, near Richmond, last
week. This is the third mysterious
murder in that county within tue past
eighteen months.
Two Mr.. Pedens, of Kemper county,
Mississippi, were robbed of sl6O recent
" by negroes as they were returning
from Meridian, where they had gone 70
dispose Of their cotton. The negroes
were armed with guns.
A young lady from the country now
visiting i'll New York, writes home thus:
"Nobody isn't nOthin' now which
doesn't hole up her cloze and the hier
you holes 'em mp the more you are no.
ticed.n
As an emigrant train was passing
through Mt. Pleasant, Texas, recently
middle-aged couple stopped the wagons,
procured license aud were married in
the open street, after which they got
into a wagon and proceeded on their
journey.
A NEGRO who committed rape upon
Mary Sartin, white girl, in Pike coun-
~, Mississippi, recently, and attempted
TO cut her throat after accomplishing his
bellish desiga, has been arrested In
Wayn county, in that State, and lodg-
ed in Jail.
Some Of the carpet-baggers in Ala
bama have daughters. In Montgomery,
the other day, young female applied
to charitable institution for ticket
for soup for ten days only, for the rea-
son, as she said, "that by that time her
papa would be Judge, and that then
she would have no further use for a soup
ticket"
Garibaldi writes to the American
Minister at Florence: 81 hear from my
friends that Mr.. Seward has done me
the honor to include my name among
the agents of che Government of the
great Republic. As never had the
honor, beg You to request him to cause
nv name to be removed"
The military Governor of Georgia of
fsrs $1,000 for the first arrest and convic
ton, and $1,000 for each subsequent one,
of the principals and accessories IN the
murder of Ashbnrn. II is sal" that
number of sharp detectives are working
1T the case. >Nino white men and u ne
gro have already been arrested on sus-
picion, at Columbus.
At Magnolia. near Janesviile, Wis
consin, George aud Oliver Barrett, both
married, have Oeen living in the same
house. Their wives, as = matter of
course, have had frequent and violent
ouarrels, in which the men became In-
yolved. A few days ago the brothers
had some words about their family jars,
when George stabbed Oliver through
heart with o butcher-knife.