The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-11
CURRENT ITEMS.

Detroit has female boat club. How
they man their boat is not told us.
A New York dry goods concern has
$50 clerks, of whom three are paid Sl0,.
600 a year each.
Prince Alfred's visit cost the Austria.
lians a million and half dollars and
doctors bill.
A gentleman is to build 500, 900
church at Yonkers, as memorial of his
deceased wife.
Eggs bought in Canada for fifteen
cents per dozen are shipped to the large
cities of the United States and retailed
at thirty-tive cents per dozen.
A conductor on the Union Pacific
Railroad has had twelve arrow wounds,
and has been twice scalped, yet situa-
tions on the road are in good demand.
A lady seventy years old, in Berlin,
Hardin county, Iowa, recently surprised
herself, her husband and the neighbor.
hood, by giving birth to lively nine
pounds boy.
The Associated Press report of the
proceedings of the Democratic National
Convention was made by ten shorthand
writer's, under the direction of Mr.. Geo.
II. Stout.
The cherry crop around Gle veland is
q failure. This comes from neglect of
an old valued variety, and propagating
new kinds which are tender and of less
value.
The Jews in the Northwest have start
ed an Israelite organ in Chicago. 1t is
printed in German and English, and is
devoted to the literary and social ad-
vancement of the Jews.
The Leaveuworth (Kansas) CONNER
cial says that A. T. Stewart, of New
York, has purchased half block in that
city, and intends to erect mammoth
dry goods house, at an estimated cost of
Si50,000.
| Twenty-three distilleries in Chicago
manufactured Sl47 barrels of whisky
between the 1st of January and the 1st
Of June, according to the returns made
"a fraction over two barrels day on
the average.
George Alfred Townsend, in his let
ter to the Chicago Tribune, says that
Forney's Washington Chronicle is for
sale, and that the attaches of the paper
do not receive their salaries regularly
now.
1t is stated that Plymouth Church,
New York, cOntemplates the appoint
ment of deaconess, and that several
ladies of that church have declared
themselves ready to accept the office.
Gladstone has brother. He made
speech lately at Liverpool, in favor of
the policy of his distinguished brother,
and the result is the suggestion of
"society for the suppression of injudi-
cious relatives"
Single ladies of uncertain age will
take u hint from the announcement
that only three of the two hundred
women who were shipped to Washing
ton Territory last year now remain un-
married.
The Des Moincs Register gets off the
following hint which should be effect
ual "Some folks have q curiosity to
know why their morning paper is so
damp when it reaches them. Probably
it is because there is mu ch due on it,"
In 1861 Grant said that his "tastes',
did not lead him to the Presidency.
Tilton as authority, it is safe to inquire,
do not Grants "tastes" rather load him
to the bari
1t is estimated that within the last
twenty years the Irish in the United
States have remitted to their friends
at homo nearly f15,0O0,000 or S75, ,O00,-
600 in gold.
The Scioto (Ohio) Gazette says: Two
yeung girls, daughters of Mr.. H. IIeibel,
OF Waverley, were drowned in the lake
near the distillery, on Monday last.
They were playing at the edge Of the
water when one fell in, drawing the
other with her.
The truly loyal Arkansas Legislature
has enacted that no man shall keep q
stallion who can't or doesn't take all
the oaths necessary to DO voter. This
looks like establishing a monopoly for
Grant and his horse friends.
A young widow in Nashua, N. H., ad.
vertised for husband, and was speedi-
ly successful in obtaining one just to
her fancy, frem Indiana. She convert
ed her property into cash, and started
with her cOnsoler for his my thical home,
only to lose both husband and money
at q way-station, where the train stop.
ped five minutes for refreshments.
Linseed oil and saw dust will produce
spontaneous combustion. Recently
some linseed oil was spilled in a drug
store in Indianapolis, and saw dust was
sprinkled over it to soak it up. The
saw dust was placed in barrel in the
yard back of tho store. The next morn
ing it combusted, burned up BRIGHTLY,
but was discovered and the fire put ont
without damage.
A child one year old, daughter of II.
D. Heath, Of Lebanon, N. H., while at
play lately near stove, on which was
hook for hanging some Of the stove
furniture, fell and struck on the hook
with his eye, which penetrated the eye
lid and came through near the eyebrow,
fairly impaling the child on the hook.
Although making bad-leoking wound
| il is thought the eve itself did not re-