The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
Jerusalem has population of $4,000
inhabitants.
Victoria will visit Germany in the au-
tumn.
Deaf mutes give theatrical exhibit
tions at the Prague Asylum.
1t is proposed to erect spacious and
elegant Masonic Hall at Fonda.
A man living in Pittsfeld, Mass, says
he has lost $4,000 at faro within 10
years.
General Lee has been quite ill, and
his general health is said to he declin-
ing.
David Dudley Field is the largest
land holder in Stockbridge, Mass, own
ing 922 acres.
Great Britain used more than 10000
tons of sugar last year in the manufac-
ture of beer.
George Francis Train has commenced
to issue paper from the English prison
in which he is confined for debt
The saw in South Carolina mill was
lately broken to pieces by striking q
twenty-four pound shot, imbedded in a
pine log
Sturgeon objects to hearing man
pray half an hour, and then concludes
by asking the Lord to pardon his short
cOmings.
The Detroit people complain of the
abundance of lizards in the water, and
much indignation is heaped upon the
Water Company.
Miles O'Reilly, whose Tyre has been
so long silent, is writing song for the
Citizen, entitled johnson Go Bragh."
The New Orleans Bee says that since
Chase became Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court, the Judges have been paid
their salaries in gold.
A flock of pigeons covering space of
twelve and half miles in length and
fifty feet in breadth passed over Well
vile, TiOga county, Penn, one day last
week.
In San Antonio, Texas, they arrested
woman, the other day, for wearing
the breeches. Suppose that were done
here, who would he left to take care of
the babies.
To eradicate vermin from fowls APP
ply little kerosene undcr their wings
BY means of swab. and the verRin
will quickly disappear. Set fire to it.
About six per cent of the New Jersey
salt marsA has been reclaimed, and is
new the most productive land in the
State, but 275'O00 acres of such land re-
main as nature eft it.
"Mr. Foote," said lady to the IA
nous comedian, "do you ever go to
church :" ''No madam" be replied, "not
that see any harm in it,"
There are already sixteen countries
on the continent of Europe which have
accepted horse as an article of food; and
in Paris alone are twenty-five shops
opened for the sale of horse beef.
Says the New York Sunday Courier:
"In view of the many millions of PEN
MES the new wooden pavement is going
to cost our citizens, it is proposed To
call it the Nicholson pavement"
A convention of Unitarian clergy and
laity in Essex county, Massachusetts,,
have lately given in their adhesion to
the practice af admitting women to
the priestly office on an equality with
men.
Senator Yates condition has been
such that, since the impeachment trial
begun, he has been rarely in his seat
and has not once voted. His friends,
, both at home and in Washington, are
insisting that he shall resign.
A prominent member of the Repub.
lican party had been selected to intro.
duce Miss Dickinson to the audience in
Philadelphis, but learning that the lee
turer would take stand against Gener-
al Grant, he declined to act, and Miss
Dickinson introduced herself to the
audience.
James A. McMaster, editor of the New
York FreemaR's Journal, sent the follow
ing dispatch to the Beast, while he was
delivering his opening speech on I'M
parchment: "Charge Andrew Johnson
as you did Bingham, with the murder
OF an innocent woman, and the Demo-
Gratis will sustain you on that issue"
81 A large, masculine looking woman
Eve feet and eleven inches high, fifty
two years old, coarse featured, with
homely wart on her right cheek, has
been "going through" the hotels and
boarding houses of New York and Phil
adelphia on an unusually large scale.
Her depredations within few weeks
are computed to reach the value of 500,
900.