The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-23
CURRENT TiTEMs.
Gustave Dore plays the fiddle.

Gustave Dore plays the fiddle.
1t costs ten cents to cook an egg at
New York restaurant.
A select party of Trojans propose
holding herse feast the coming week
Two hundred and sixty Londoner;
killed themselves last year.
New York is receiving supplies ol
early vegetables from Bermuda.
Intiammatory rheumatism has gol
John Morrissey in chsncery.
There are over TWEEN ty-fve Thousand
postotfices in the United States.
The proposed statue of Commodore
Vanderbilt is to cost S25e, 900.
The Jewish Temple is to have the
finest organ in Louisville; cost, 10000
The amount of gold watch tax paid
by North Carolina last year was only
sic.
New Albany, Ind, contributed Sl4 ~
to the Artemus Ward monument.
There are 100000 more females in
Massachusetts than males.
Paris numbers 10000 walters who
serve in its restaurants or cafes.
The Quincy (Ill.) Herald gives fiat
tering report of the prospects of the
peach crop in that vicinity.
The length and severity of the win
ter have driven the wild fowl much
farther South than they commonly go
A man in one IF the Hartford cotton
mills opened u bale of cotton the other
day and found wallet containing
$4,000 in Confederate bills.
The census of Hayes City, on the
Kansas City branch of the Union Pacific
Railroad, shows a population of 1900
The first houses were put up only last
September.
The recent fluctuations in Erie stock
have made and unmade some fortunes
for individuals. One gentleman made
$50, 900 in one day, and rther lost $780,
600 in single day.
1t cost the candidates for coroner in
West Middlesex, England, three thou-
sand pounds each te elect one of them
and the value of the office is but three
hundred and fifty pounds year.
The Winona Democrat, speaking of the
biography of General Grant, by his IA
ther, now being published in the New
York Ledger, says: "SinGe the days OF
Abraham and Isaac there has not been a
worse attempt by father upon the life
of his offspring
A demonstrative trial trip Of twenty
miles, by the steamer Island City, burn
ing liquid fuel, was made down Boston
Harbor on Saturday, several Govern
ment engineers and other scientific mel
feeling interested in the experiment. be
ing on board The trip was very sue
cessful, the results attained being even
more satisfactory than those Oh the
Government steamer Palos.
The wholesale merchants and brOker'
of Indianapolis have formed an organi
ZatiOn for offensive and defensive action
with IL view to mutual protection
against worthless ensto...o"e anu ag'llnS'
discrimination detrimental to their i'll
terest by railroad companies, &c.
The Nashville Times has a particular
account of child ten years of age, with
three arms. The third arm grows from
plate of bone, firmly uniting the
shoulder blades, is ''well defined limb
with appropriate and well defined
bones, Joints and muscles, and applied
by its little owner to number Of
strange uses"
During the past winter thousands Of
crows have been shot on Staten Island
The excessive cold weather and heavy
fall of snow prevented them from OBJ
tanning their accustomed food from the
swamp lands, and they resorted to the
beach, where they have been shot il
large numbers. Very many of them ar,
blind, which is supposed TO be owing
90 the severe cold or hunger.
The Cleveland papers mention au
alarming prevalence of insanity there
The number of maniacs belonging t.
Clevelasd and Cuyahoga county, in tin,
asylum at NcwGurg, the county Jail
and known to be at home i'll the care OF
their friends, is reported ut one hundred
and eighty.
In the southern part of Kentucky, W,
are told, the frozen wheat is showing
signs of vitality, and the farmers ar,
greatly encouraged. Many fields whicl
seemed to he hopelessly ruined are nov
fresh and green with the resuscita aztec
blades. Hopes are entertained OF "a ful
crop.
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