The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

The art of photographing in cOlors is
q success in France.
The Grant clubs in Connecticut are
very much demOralized.
A German Democratic paper is pro
iected in Dayton, Ohio.
Business in Chicago is said TO have
sprung up with surprising vlgor.
Helena City, Montana, claims to ex-
port SlO, 100000 i'll treasure annually.
Diamonds are found in Montana
some of which are of very great value.
Texas papers are filed with details OF
robbsries perpetrated in various parts
of that State.
An estimator estimates that $4,000
photographs day are sold in New York
city.
Acunning workman in Trenton, n. Y.
has invented salt cellar and napkin
ring combined.
Anna Dickinson has abandoned hel
lecturing engagements, her voice having
failed.
The Boston Five Cent Savings Bank
has on peposit s6,736, 500 65, owned by
4G,l59 persons.
An English traveller bias discovered
soUe fossil oysters in the vicinity OF the
pyramids of Egypt.
A New York thief stole diamond ear
ring from the ear of a lady in Fifth
Avenue stage the other day.
Abyssinian swells edo up" their hair
with butter, and carry umbrellas to pre-
vent the sun from melting it.
Within the last eight centuries fam
ines have occurred in Russia, on the
average, once in every six years.
A hend in human shape stuck broom
into the bronze hand of Edward Everett
in Boston the other night.
The public lands in Alaska are said to
extend to 365, 000, 0G0 OF acres. Many Of
these acres are preserved in ice.
The death of one of Barnun's Albinos
leads to the discovery that it was born,
not in Madagascar, bnt on Long Island.
A bouquet of roses, pluckod from an
open air garden, has been presented to
the editor of the New Orleans Picdyune
Young New Workers are flying kites
this spring, fashioned in the sem
blance of crows and other birds upon
the wing.
The Grenada (Mississippi) Sentinel
has seen in that region "a greater num-
Der Of white men handling the plow
than e ver before"
The dissrnsioxs among the Republi'
cans IN Florida still continue, and it is
feared they will lead to the defeat OF
The new constitution.
Gable dispatch informs ms that the
Car has kindly consented to wait for
pay Inpnt of the Alaska bill until ou'
impt achWent aflictIons ale over.
English cIicketers are excit, d over
tho expected arrival al u band at Aus
traliAu aborigines, no are sad To ~,
marvels of skill IN that athletic sport.
There is q waste of twenty five per
cent. on the coal product of the world.
Whoever puts this wasted dust into
burnable shape will do the world a
service.
There is a river in Illinois known as
the Cache, which pursues a mesnder-
Ing course of $50 miles, while the dis
only So miles.
The Boston and Albany Railroad have
engaged negro laborers to supply the
men who struck at Boston last Satur-
day. They pay them ten cents more a
day.
Two granite blocks, weighing 220, 900
pounds each, have arrived at Washing
ton, from Maine, for the new State De.
partmsnt. The price paid is $4,000
each, payable after they are cut aud se'
in their places.
A cooperative brewery is the latest
proposition in Dubuque, Iowa. We
fancy the difficulty will be that among
these who consume sufficient to induce
them to 20 into such an enterprise,
there will not be enough capital to pro-
cure even the barrels.
An Indian mutiny Is threatened, but
not among the SepOys. Ritualistic
practices by the English army chaplains
IN Hindostan are occasiOniDg great ex-
citemert aud discomfort among Her
Majesty's Christian troops, aid discip-
liners said to be seriously inperilled.
The "Union White Boys in Blue" is
the name of an organization recently
formed at Indianapolis, to counteract
the intrigues of that secret order known
as the Grand Army of the Republic,
aud TO assure the people OF Indiana that
thSir rights at the bailot-box would be
protected.