The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-26
CURRENT ITEMS.
Yandsrbilt,s income is s4G,s53.

bOnnerS income TANKS ueAI W AsSOA .
Alice Carey is called the Queen OF
Clubs.
The Tycoon wears feminine smile
and no hat.
Judge w. s. Oldham, an eminent
Texan, is dead.
impeachment is christened the Lost
Cause, junior"
The run of shad in the Delaware sc
far has been poor.
Chicago is to pay 100000 for the
support of its public schools next year
Patti don't attend rehearsals. She
sends her brother-in-law to whistle heI
part of the score.
A certain blonde mustache in Gin
cinnati measures ten and half inches
from tip to tip.
Sixty ocean steamers ply between
New York and European and North
American cities.
Two bushels of rats were found III
tie vat of brewery recently seized by
revenue officers in Philadelphia.
The lady worshippers of st. Albans
complain that the continual kneeliug
in the service Injuries their silks.
A Scotch s.atistician is frightening
the people of Glasgow by demonstrating
that they drink one thousand tons OF
dirt every year with their water.
A gander at Fort Wayne, Indiana,
charged upon two timid young ladies
and frightened one of them into con-
vulsions, few days ago.
A Pennsylvania paper says Forney's
"Occasionap letters are written by a
"young man not twenty years old" from
"meagre notes."
In the Cole -Hiscock case, there were
FIVE farmers and one city man for con-
viction, and five city men and one
farmer for acquittal.
A tipsy man in Connecticut thought
locomotive made too much chin music
and dashed in to split its bugle. Only
one round was fought.
A man in Western New York has in
vented machine for checking barrels
of freig ht of any kind as they are rolled
on or off the cars.
A boy was whipped until he faihted
at public school in Boston one day
last week. 1t is time that MassaChu-
setts should civilize her school teachers.
The GAIL England Eleven" cricketers
are coming to this country in the fall,
aud will play series of matches in New
York, Philadelphia and Boston.
Thad Stevens, for the last twenty
years, has taken half an hours rccrca.
tion each evening by betting $50 at faro.
So says an eulogist of Thad. in the Chi
eago Journal, which is truly loyal pa
per.
A boy in Addison, Steubon county,
recently slept two hours and half
while standing square on his feet When
awakened, he dropped to the floor as
though he had been heavily struck.
An ancient maiden from Nantucket,
who has been under treatment in the
Boston hospital for an ovarian tumor,
obtained sudden relief last week. The
tumOr was lively and of the female de-
scription.
The Association for the Prevention OF
Gambling in New York report thirty
two clerks and employees of mercantile
and banking houses caught in gambling
houses during the past month.
"When the oak is in leaf before the
ash, it is said to betoken dry summer"
"If this is correct" says an English pa
per, "the present summer will be a fine
one, as the oak has taken the lead this
Gear."
Mrs. Kemble, it is said, has just re-
ceived the bequest of pair of gloves
worn by Shakespeare while performing
upon the stage, which have successively
been the iRestimable treasure of Gar.
rick, Mrs. Siddons, and q lady of rank
lately deceased in England.
At Portage Lake, Houghton county,
Michigan, few days ago, two miners
were killed by an explosion of nitre-
glycerine, which they we're warming
over stove; and third met his death
the next day, in an adjoining mine,
from the explosion of acartridge Of the
same material, which he was about to
use in blast.
David r. Harrison, bank-note en-
graver of New York city, has recently
been apprised of the fact that he is sole
heir of fortune equal to SlI,0OO,OOO
in United States paper currency, the
bequest of his uncle, formerly an East
Indian merchant. The fortunate lega-
tee is seventy years of age. resident
of Harlem and the head of large fam
lily. He has been for many yeats in the
employ of the American Bank Note
Company, aud was, heretofore, in very
moderate moneyed circumstances.
The springville IN. W Journal gives
the following account of poisoning
case: "The family Of Adam Ferrier,
consisting of five persons, living two
miles southwest of this village, were on
Thursday last all taken sick at the
same time. The family all ate from a
pudding made from the milk of dis.
eased COW, which died soon after being
MIXED. The oldest daughter, twenty
years of age, died. Two or three of the
family are yet very sick, but hopes are
entertained of their recovery"
The Supreme Court of New York city
has dismissed a suit brought against a
life insurance company, on the ground
that the conditions of the policy had
been violated. The person insured went
to Virginia, there contracted disease
peculiar to the climate, and died. The
company claimed that this visit to.the
South was the direct cause Of his death,
and this plea was sustained by the