The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-07
CURRENT ITEMS.

Strawberries are selling n NasnlnS-
ton at S. pint.
Chicago has caught "female high
way man."
General Longstreet has taken up his
residence in Huntsville, Ala
In Washington the grass is green,
aud erocuses and snew-drops are in
I bloom.
4 new plan for printing pictures
from movable types is called stigma
tyPy-7
Twenty one infants under one year Of
age died 10 Chicago last week.
/. The Queen OF the Belgians wants to
succeed Eugenie as the Empress Of
! Fashion.
/ Triehiua mas broken ont in Lansing,
Iowa, boarding-hous Fourteen sick
and three died.
The Massachusetts, Legislature talks
of striking fer higherwages-riE: $3.50
per diem,
/ About six million GollSrs areaGnually
paid by the Christian people OF the
United States in salaries 70 Our minis
I ters.
, Awomsu was fined $ Tor swearing
in the German ,angu lge, on Main street,
Buffalo. She will lie careful to swear
( in English hereafter
Twenty. four rings were taken from
the fingers of q young woman whose
body was dug out of TIE land slide on
NescviuS
The brewers of ST. Louis have sd-
vanced their rates two dollars per bar
rel, and the saloon keepers are holding
indignation meetings.
Robinsoa, the circus rider, has been
sued in Cincinnati by 4 mother, TO re-
cover possession Of her children, boy
and girl, who were being trained for
the circus
Miss Mary A. Levers, of Jackson
township, Wood county, Ohio, is twelve
years Old, and weighs two hundred and
Twenty-Five pounds, She is still grow
ing.
The Cincinnati Commercial uBder-
stands that the 9TH of May is the date
fixed for the Inauguration Of Ben.
Wade as President Of the United States.
4 lady at Union Springs got her feet
entsngled among her hoops in jumping
from 4 chair, and was thrown 10 the
floor, fractuIing ber hip bone.
Miss Maggie Mullen, the daughter of
wealthy parents in Chicago, attempted,
Oh Sunday, 10 commit suicide by
drowning, on account OF dIsappoint-
ment in iOye affair.
Mr.. Cogdell, of ST. Joseph, No, is
73 years old, las his sixth wife aud -
children, 10 each of whom he has given
a faTm, is Still worth over SlOV, 90, and
cannot read.
Hart L. Stewart, of ministerial and
divorce suiI fame, Is being tried al Chi.
capO an G,"LIo sha,E7s OF perjury and
conspiracy, preferred By one of the late
witnesses in the divorce suit-a common
prostitute.
Portland people. with eAcusable pride.
place strangers on the top Of the observ-
atory aud tell them to find ont the dis
rrict which the gIeat fire Of l-G6 devas-
tated. Almost every trace OF II has dis
appeared.
4 year ago A. D. Jones bought one
hundred and twenty acres of land near
Council 3!uFs for $1,000. Las; Friday
be SOLD il, for depot grounds for the rail
road. and al a profit Of $4,000.
Jokn Schneider. a blacksmith, of
Grand Rapids, Michigan, has had the
misfortune 10 los; an atfeclionate uncle
lately. The old gentleman died at
FrankfOrt-On the-Main, and left John
three million dollars.
young woman living in New York,
named Nina LudWig, committed sui
/ eide oD Friday, by eating the ends of
lucifer matches. The poison did its
work very rapidly, killing the poor
creature in few hours.
By last accounts of:he State lueLri-
ate Asylum at Bingham;oD. y. Y, there
had been applications for admission
from 81 clergymen, ~ judges, $40. rper-
chants, l2i physicians, 2iD gentlemen.
aud 1900 rich mems daughters.
The Seneca Falls COurier says a young
I woman living in that village, upon get
off the train going East, on Tuesday
night. Vas fall owed by some half dozen
rowdies. who basely assaulted a=d out
ragged her before she could reach her
home.
Tie Elmira .idoertiSsr tells story of
a young man in that city " no wss cross
iug the street when he stumbled and
fell, and q revolver that was in his
back coat pocket few cut upon the
pavement, was discharged as it struck
the ground. and shot car horse in the
neck.
DR.. Beebe, Of Chicago, was called to
testify in a case before the United
States Circuit Court at Chicago one
day last week, as a medical expert. He
refused to testify unless he received
fees as an expert, to the sInSust Of S25.
! The Judge decided that he was right,
aud tie fees were Paid.