The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-10
. CURRENT ITEMS.

Tue engine bouses In New YORK are
to be supplied with libraries.
Seven hundred and seventeen Mis-
sourians are enjoying the Inequalities
of the State in the penitentlary'
The Picayune says business is improv-
ipg in New Orleans. The streets are
busting with somsthinG oftheir won't
ed animation, and there are large
number of visitors in the city on bust
ness.
Anegro delegate offered, u resolution
in the Georgia Convention to the effect
that mo man or woman, of either race,
beaIlOWed to intermarry unless he and
she, the contracting parties, wants TO.
At Clay Banks, Mich, u few days sine
n woman named WinderkaRick, having
some outdoor work to do, locked mp her
four children duriug her absence. Soon
after her departure, they obtained some
matches, set the house Oh hire, ana be,
ing unable to escape, they were all
burned to death.
A man in Cbillicothe, Ohio, heard
commotion in his hen-rOost the other
night, called out "who's there" receiv-
cd mo answer, and fired into the dark
ness. The next morning q dead negro
vas foEnd with chicken under his
arm.
A professional beggar in New York,
who made living by sending out her
little girl barefoot in the snow to at
tract pity and pennies, was naturally
indignant when the poor innocent was
taken to comfortable house ana kept
there.
Some three weeks ago very large
aagls made a sweep at goose in Ca
woods Gap, three miles south ofSaltNllle'
VIZ, hut not having taken good sight,
as a hunter would say, overshot the
GOOSE and impaled himself upon snag,
Producing immediate death. lie meas
ured seven feet from tip to TIP OF his
wings.
A rich and reckless Connecticut wo-
man recently ran off with young doc
tor of matchmaker husband (who was
afraid of her) TO whom she had decided
about halt of her property Gnherlted
from her father) on condition that he
xvould ..loake no FUSS accompanying
her to the cars and kissing her good.
bye.
Flake. of the Galveston (Texas) Balls
tin. writing about the National Banks,
profanely heads his article II know that
nv Redeemer liveth." If he refers to
redemption by the National Banks he
knows q deal more than people gen
orally.
The Baily Post, the organ of the De-
mocraey Of Western Pennsylvania, de-
elares in favor Of the nomination of Hon.
George III. Pendleton for President, as
the only outspoken representative ofthe
policy ofpaying the national debt in ma
tionai nioney-greenbacks for bonds,
and eqnal taxation.
Cough has identified and recovered
spoon stolen from him in Massachusetts
by burglars. There are several spoons
still in the hands of burglars in Aassa-
chusetts.
A few days ago q lad found skiff
- floating in the river at Jefferson City,
Mo. Besides a revolver and some other
articles. there were three fingers sew
ered FROM a mans hand found lying in
the skiff. which were sneared with
blood. Nothing further was known
about the mysterious affair.
A Mr.. Simpson, Washington lawyer
was recently robbed on reaching Paris;
in the course of the trial the judge said
to the prisoner: "The police found on
you an overcoat and a pair of panta-
looms whieh--an incidest fatal TO You
bore the owners name written III full
on the pockets. The Americans are IA
people of foresight, and they are right
in being So"
On Thursday and Friday, Lieutenant
General Sherman was the guest of Ma
,or General Sloeuui. at the latter's res
2 idenee, corner of Gates and Clinton
avenues, in Brooklyn. He remained
very quiet; his presence was known tG
few, aud he departed tor Washington
on Friday night, inst US the news he was
in the city had got abroad, and as ar
rangemeHts were being made to give
Z him "public reception
THE highest financial authority in the
English press, the London Economist
says Of the system () of taxation fol
which we have to thank the Republican
party:
every sort of industry-almos. every
Mind of available and conspicuous act
is seized upon and taxed. 4 Rinety-ninH