The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-12
CURRENT ITEMS.

Wild ducks are plentiful along the
Hudson this spring.
The flftieth snow-storm for Pittstield,
Mass, appeared on the I'd day of May.
There are one hundred and sixty
three faro banks in New York and
Brooklyn.
A census of Detroit has Just been
completed, and shows 66,S53 inhabi'
tants.
A firm Of shoe dealers at Mattoon, H.,
rejoice in the name of "Puffer & Puff
Carpets are now sold at more reason
able prices in New York, than at any
time since the war.
A laborer in Maine, while piling
boards, broke his neck by falling Il dis
tance of only two feet.
A canary bird in Portsmouth, n. H.,
has reached the age of seventeen and
still sings.
Vesuvius is said to have reformed. 1t
seems to have abandoned its violent
conrses, and has very nearly quit smok-
ing.
Miles O'Reilly has bought tobacco
farm of seven hundred acres, about six
ty miles south of Richmond.
George D. Prentice, of the Louisville
journal, is dangerously i'll. His wife's
death was a shock that almost prostra-
ted him.
According to the London correspond
euce of the New York Times, the Prince
of Wales met with very cold reception
in Ireland.
A young girl in st. Louis took lauda-
mum because ber lover failed to invite
her to the circus. A stomach pump
saved her life. This is not Il circus adj
vertisement.
The Patrons of Husbandry is the
name of a secret society among the
farmers of Ohio. 1t has seven degrees,
and its lodges are called Oranges"
A sufferer by an English railway ac-
cident has recovered four thousand dol.
lars damages for "agony endured in the
anticipation of an untimely end
James Gordon Benefits elegant coun.
try mansion at Fort Washington has a
gilded dome, which, when the sun
shines upon it, can be seen for miles,
looking like ball of fire.
A curious observer in crowded
horse car in Boston, reports that five
ladies who were offered seats accepted
them without returning thanks for the
courtesy.
The wife of Mr.. $. V. Woodbride, of
Coli nsyille, Conn, has a peony plant,
now in thrifty condition, which Sc
longed to her great grandmother over
one hundred years ago.
Mr.. Hayes, of Cleveland, kale L bet
the other day that he could cook aud
eat rat; and by cooking it and eating
il won the wager. One Of the guests
tasted of it, and said it was really gUou.
Some Now York incomes: Robert
Bonner, S23S,i1l; james Gordon Ben
nett, Sl6z, 900; Moses Taylor, S293, 900;
DelmonicO Brothers, $4,000; August
Belmont, S94, 900; Robert Hoe, 500, ,9jl.
Austria is about reorganizing her ar
my. Every Austrian from twenty to
thirty-four years of age will now be
compelled te serve five years in tho re-
serve, and four years in the laudwehr.
The brilliant editor of Chicago pa
per remarks that half of the people who
attend musical entertainments in that
city "dou't know the difference be-
tween a symphony and a sardine.'
George Francis Train having prophet
ically disposed of himself as President
of the United States, makes this predic-
ton: "Before many years England will
Lc Republic, and Benjamin Disraeli
the President thereof"
Intelligence has been received Of the
death of Baron Won Holstcin, who was
shot in the head in a recent duel near
Berlin. He will be remembered as the
gentleman whose name was connect
ed with the little pleasantness
which prevailed not long ago in the
household of a distinguished Massachu-
setts Senator.
The Kansas people have found way
to circumvent the grasshoppers. 1t con-
sists in turning sheep upon the wheat
to eat it down. go that when the insects
come and find nothing they leave in dis
gust. The wheat RECEIVERS from the
feeding of the sheep, but if the grass
hoppers go over it they take root as well
as stalk.
The pastor Of the Vernon Center
(Connecticut) Church, on recent SUP
day, noticing several in slumber, stop
ped in his sermon, and announced the
hymn, "Rouse thee, sinner, from thy
Sleep" and, at the conclusion of the
reading, remarked that they would omit
the singing, and went on with his dis
course.
The two chief curiesities Ut the Della
van House, Albany, just now are, first,
the member of the Legislature who took
$50, 900 from the Vanderbilt party to
make report in their favor, and then
S2l 900 from the Drew. Erie side to vote
against it; and, second, the one solitary
member Of the Legislature who had
been so careless as TO have the lobbY
money traced directly into his pocket.
The result of the late municipal cleo
tion in an Indiana town is announced
6y the local paper with half a column
of stunning head lines, Of which the fol-
lowing are samples: ant. Carmel de-
Glars the rebellion a crime; treason to
be made odious, and traitors impover-
ished; Republican majority thirty; the
great reaction lost in the Wabash; the
country perfectly safe"