The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

General Grants income is thirty thou
sand dollars year,
A COW in Missouri recently died from
over-exertion in tryiag to digest apOund
of nails.
Ex-Governor DennisOn, of Ohio, will
sail for Europe on the 25th inst. on i'm
portant railroad business.
Bachelors who will agree To take la
dies with them are dead-headed at the
Salt Lake Theatre.
Governor Chamberlin, of Maine, is to be
dined in Boston, there being no restau-
rant in his own State sufficiently sump-
tuous.
The Library Association of Washing
ton is out on all its lectures except that
ofAnna Dickinson. It's losses are hand
some.
The lovely and loyal Miss Anna Dick
inson is getting abused by the marrow
minded blockheads" because she don't
like Grant.
The Dayton (O.) Journal says recent
rains have added thousands of bushels
of wheat to the crop of the Miami Val
ley. Prospects i'll several counties
cheering.
A murderer recently executed in Ida
no is said to have assembled the scatfold
with smile OH his face. But then it
shonld be understood that he had but
recently married widow with eight
children,
A lady suffering from slight indis
position, told her husband that it was
with difficulty she could breathe, and
the effort distressed her exceedingly.
al wouldn't try, my dear" very soOth-
ingly replied her husband.
PaRck illustrates plump yOungSter
applying for the place of page, to whom
the mistress says: 81 wish my ser
wants 10 have plenty, but / don't allow
any waste" Page-"Oh, no, mum;
which I'd eat and drink till l busted,
mum, rather than Waste anything
num-
Mrs. Fanny b. Galloway, now editing
the Memphis AralGnche, in place of her
husband, announces that she may be
found in the editorial room, and if men
are not brave enough to defend their
rights, she will try to show what one
woman can do. Evidently the tone"
of that paper is not to be lowered.
Limburger cheese has been decided
to be nuisance in Pittsburgh. and q
grocer fined for keeping it in his cellar.
Complaint was made by citizens of the
neighborhood of tho stencil that arose
from the cheese. The grocer, who was
fined $50 and costs, has appealed to a
higher court.
A terrible accident occurred on the
louisville and Nashville railroad, about
two miles from Louisville, on Friday.
An abandoned woman, named Ellen
Burns, fell across the track while in a
state of intoxiGation, and the ingOinS
train passing over her, she was fi.erally
torn into fragments, which were strewn
twenty-five yards.
At the last levee in the White House,
q youth, about ten years of age, named
Walter wilkins, approached the Presi-
dent, in company with two gentlemen,
and reaching his hands to him, said: 81
love the President who loves the Con-
stitntion and ITninnn The President
said: God bless you, my boy" and
raising him in his arms, kissed him.
A Dutchman had two pigs-a large
one and a small one The smallest be-
ing the oldest, he tried to explain to a
customer, and did it in this wise: "The
little pig is the biggest" Upon which,
his vrow, assuming to correct him, said:
"You will excuse him; he no speak as
good English as me-he no means the
lite pig is biggest, but te youngest lit
file MO Is tA oldest