The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-30
CURRENT ITEMS.
Shelbyyille, Ind, licenses whisky
shops at $500 each,

SnelDyVlll6, Iuu.i HCenSeS "uiShJ
shops at $500 each.
Magnificent sapphires are found on
the Eldorado Bar, in Montana.
Peto owes one railroad the h2roic sum
of $50, 100000.
Barnum would advertise the "steam
man" as the Colossus of Roads,"
The Saturday Rerie,r charges Mr.. Sew
ard with san habitual tux of oratory."
Nine Partisan actresses are worth
100000 each, acquired unprofesSion-
ally.
A French woman in Nashua, n. H.
has given birth to five children within
twenty-five months.
Brigham Young is widower to the
extent of five wives, fallen a prey to
pneumonia.
In Searcy, Arkansas, Il pair of twin
girls were born few days ago, each
having twenty fingers.
There are l79 ocean steamers belong
ing to the port of New York, with an
aggregate tonnage of 233 ,6l8 tons.
Henry J. johnson has just married his
former wife, Mary j., in Cleveland, after
year of divorce and separation.
A grand nice of Benedict Arnold is
said to be now employed rs lady clerk
in one of the Executive Departments
in Washington.
A Nashville paper, unwilling to COM
nit itself, headed city item about a
man committed for attempted poisoning,
probable Fiendw
Somebody once asked friend of the
Duke of. Wellington how the Duke
spoke French. "Just as he fights
with the greatest intrepidity," was the
reply.
A writer in the April atlantic advo-
Gates the establishment of an old peoples
gymnasium, to which no one will be
admitted who is under IS years of sge.
The Mexican press and judiciary have
discovered that the law against traitors,
under which Macmillan was tried and
executed, is unconstitutional"
An assignee in New Haven: Connect
lieut., in thirty different cases of bank
ruptcy, reports the aggregate assets of
the thirty bankrupts at the princely
sum of Sf10.
The Canton (Mississippi,) Citizen
solemnly warns planters that the sud
den rise of cotton is q trick Of the spec
ulators to make them plant cotton in
stead of corn.
A writer complains that General
Grants father left off his paternal and
piOus performance just before coming
TO that critical point in his career
his first drink.
Durisg mirage in Green Bay, Wis
coAsin, the other day, objects sew
eral miles distant were brought so
near as to seem only few rods from
the persons who observed them.
The employees of the London under
ground railroad had dinner the other
day, at which a director made speech,
telling them to always bear in mind
the three S's-Siguals, Safety, Swiftly.
There are no longer any babies born
in Chicago, if we may credit the an
nouncemeut in local sheet, that "du-
70 ring February 229 young gentlemen and
S24 young ladies were born in that
city"
The managers of the impeachment
have had the face, or the faces, to get
themselves photographed in coniunc-
tiOn. Anything tending to make them
zee themselves as others see them should
be encouraged.
john Paul writes: Though Washing
ton may be likened to Sodom and Go
morrah in other wickedness, it certain
ly can not be called a city of the plain,
so far as women are concerned. Pretty
ones are tho rule"
Two of our illustrated newspapers
gives pictures of the opening of the
court of impeachment for the trial OF
President johnson. In one of them the
Chief Justice is depicted with whiskers
and in another without.
The "outft" of Laramie, the new rail
road town at Fort Saunders, consists OF
200 Inhabitants, all men, twelve hotels,
fifty drinking saloons, two drug stores,
six physicians, two printing offices, and
an undertaken.
A great racing week will be held at
the Buffalo trotting park in August, at
which $4,000 will be awarded, inclu-
ding $4,000 to horsebwho have'never
beaten 2:30.