The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-27
CURRENT ITEMS.


Three houses in New York contain 4lO
persons.
Lodging on the fioor is one dollar
nig%tat Cheyenne.
lady skater in New York wears min
nature gold skates for earrings
Tickets to the horse dinner in London
were sold for about seven dollars.
There is danger just now Of the lean
ing tower ofPiSa falling to pieces.
Indiana Furnishes miscegenation
with 5000 fine and Imprisonment.
A Georgia spiritualist predicts that
we are to have no more Presidents
An Edinburg lassie recently received
& 100000 worth of wedding presents.
Professor Faraday's widow declines
the assistance proffered her in England
Charles Reade says that one novel in
z two years is as much as he can attend
TO.
1t is state.l that the New York Cen
trail Park has already cost over SlO,OOO,-
00O.
Two hundred cabinet organs per
month are made ut BrattlebOrO, Yer
mont.
Queen Vietoria's journal is to be print
ed with embossed letters, for the nse of
the blind.
An Alabama freedman applied to the
Mobile Savings Bank for 81 so rs the
price of his vote.
Ninety-seveu dozen of champagne
were drank at the grand ball of the
Mayor of Liverpool.
An old lady in Kansas will not allow
Z her family to read Bacon, she has such q
horror of triehinr.
The Governor of Colorado won't sign
bills of divorce, and there is a great
amount of suffering in consequence.
A lady advertised in tue London Times
for a goverRcss, and had to put in another
notice the next day to head off 200 APP
plicants.
A negro, undergoing his examination
as witness, when asked if his master
was Christian, replied, "No, sir, he is
member of Congress"
A Western editor, in order to stop the
annoyance of urchins begging for his
exchanges, has put the same price on
them that he retails his own paper for.
The Dominion Telegraph Company,
organized in Canada last week, has
fixed its headquarters at Toronto, and
made arrangements for 1000 miles OF
wire.
Mary Howard, OF Chicago, asked a
divorce from David Howard. In fifty
six minutes from the application the
thing was done aud they were made
twain.
A chap in New Orleans bought n
package at sale Of unclaimed goods
and discovered, to his chaglin, that it
contained the photographs Of negro
children.
By machine for making pins, re-
Gently completed by firm in Hartford,
Connections, it is said that between
eighty and ninety million pins can be
made in day of ten hours.
A gentleman in Illinois owns an es-
tate so large that he has three hundred
aud twenty miles of hedge upon it, He
n to SOW n new field of ten Thousand
acres for the first time this year.
The sum Of S35, 600 has been raised in
Minnesota, for the construction OF
works to prevent the further breaking
away of the Falls of st. Anthony, and
preserve the water power atthat place
Philanthropists in New Orleans are
organizing a society TO help needy per-
sons to employment and homes in the
couRtry, believing that to be better
course than feeding them IN idleness in
town.
In New York plan has been broach-
ed to receive quotations of the labor
market from all the prominent points
of the West, so that emigrants may be
sent ut once to the points where their
sarvices will he most in demand.