The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-24
CURRENT ITEMS.

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for ninety. sight days.
The Alaska Herald, printed IN kus-
sian and English, has been started IN
Alaska. HF.. 81. ...l-
Boston men have made one hundred
thousand dollars by shipping rrm 10
Liberia.
Earl Rose, of the big telescope, Is to
have public monument IN Ireland
A general revival of business in the
West is reported in the newspapers OF
that section.
"Baboonery" is the latest name APP
plied TO one OF the Southern cOnven-
tious. We suggest "hippopotamnsery.'
The New York printers have contrib
uted 10 the Artemus Ward MOnuHent
the sum Of $1,000.
,l- One phase of the extremes OF life Is
seen on q street in RoxbLry, Mass,
where a cradle and coffin factory are
located side by side.
The printing of the impeachment
tickets alone cost six thousand dollars.
To print the trial as Pub. Doc. will cost
one hundred thousand dollars.
At christening party in Belleville,
N. j., the other day, there were present
three great grandparents and two
grandparents.
A man in Maryland died of chicken
cholera last week. That is, the chicken
died Of that disease, and the man atethe
chicken and died too.
Three young girls were sent to the
House of Refuge, in New York, two days
since, for enticing child from its
mothers door for the purpose of steal
ing its clothes.
A wo-dollar-and-a-half gold piece
was found in the entrails of a club
bought in the Richmond market the
other day. There has been tremen-
deus rush for that sort OF fish ever
since.
A gentleman in Jefferson City, Mo-,
kicked negro prowler out of his house
the other night-the rascal protesting,
as he cleared the front door, that he
wasn't a member of the Legislature and
didn't want to steal anything.
A healthy boarder at one of the Indi'
annapolis first class hotels is reported as
having eaten eleven hard-boiled eggs
and q couple Of scrambled goose eggs
for his breakfast the other morning.
The grasshoppers have entirely de-
stroyed the wheat in the Texas coun-
ties of Bell, Williamson. Cornell and
McLennan. The pests are all over
Northern Texas, and it is feared that
D the wheat crop will be destroyed
throughout the entire region.
The New York Times said something
in a tone of irony, which an Augusta
paper failed to "take." This obtuse-
ness nettles the Times into exclaiming:
"The people of the Southern States are
probably not all fools, but a very large
proportion of that class of the pOpula
ton seems to have gone into the busi-
ness Of editing newspapers"
Chicago anticipates another sensa-
tion-Mrs. Belden applying for divorce,
on the ground that her husband has
spent half a million of dollars OF her
money on other wemen and in general
q, debanchery. He will reply, charging
her with too much intimacy with sun
dry distinguished perSOnageS at Wash
ington.
q Miss A. Harris, of Winston county,
Mississippi, last year raised bale of
cotton weighing GO pounds. The en-
q tire work of planting, cultivating pick
ing and ginning, was done by herself
The cotton was sold few days ago for
sl92, bringing four cents pound above
the average market price, ON account of
its superior quality aud cleanliness.
Charles W. Lawson, the youngest son
of Mr.. T. v. Lawson, of Warren, Hi
,aois, twenty years of age, committed
suicide in his fathers house, last Tues
day morning at Z o'clock, by shooting
himself through the heart with rifle,
having previously tied y string about
the trigger, placed the mnzzle against
his body, and firing the weapon with
his foot, BY means OF the cora. no mo
tives are known for the commission OF
the act.
Young America in Boston is up to the
times. A chap of years, after dancing
the German. the galops aud other fash
ionsbls dances at one of the halls the
other afternoon, stepped into crowded
horse car and wanted to know in bois-
terous tone if there wasn't anybody
gentleman enough to give his lady,
Miss Smith, seat. Somebody was, and
and the girl-fve years old-was lifted
10 4 seat, from which her legs and feet
stuck out like two little pegs.