The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-10
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In Lee, Mass, eggs are sold by the

In Lee, MASS, eggs are solu ny Vho
pound.
The st. Louis bridge is to have the
largest span in the world.
The Virginia papers are attracting
attention to gold mines in that State.
There are five hundred and seventeen
miles of railroad in Texas.
1t is anticipated that the berry crops
in the vicinity of Norfolk, Va, will
bring 81, 900, 900 this year.
Paris, with population of 100000
souls, has 100000 manufactures, doing
S675, ,OO0, 900 of business yearly. a
The proposed underground railroad
in New York will, it is said, cost over
two millions per mile.
A Williamstown Mass baby named
Quinn, scalded itself to death Oh Tues
day, by pulling teapot from stove.
The Union Pacific Railroad trains
now run regularly, and the fare is to be
reduced from S51 so to $50 90 from Oma-
ha to Cheyenne.
Chicago has invested $2,OO0,000 in
street railroads, but they have paid no
dividends for some years, the officers
say.
A Bostonian offers to build bridge
to East Boston, worth one million dol
lars, if he can have the tolls, which will
be $500 per day.
"Ma, did folks use to use silver pieces
to make change when they bought
thingsp "Yes, dear; but it was before
you were born"
Miss Maggie Mulliu, sweet damsel
of Chicago, jumped into the river be-
cause she could not get her favorite fell
ler. She was fished out alive.
A fellow in Newburyport has been
boasting that has brother IL feet high.
1t turns out that he has two half-broth-
ers, each 6 feet high.
The counsel for the President do not
think the trial will continue beyond
next Monday week, and it may end be-
fore that.
Washington politicians are surprised at
the failare of negro suffrage in Michi-
gan, that State having been heretofore
considered uncompromisingly perpen-
dicular on all Radical issues.
Major Mason, of San Antonia, Texas,
has promised to turn over to the civil
authorities the soldiers who murdered
DR.. Cunningham recently, as soon as
the grand jury finds t:ue bill.
An admirer of one of the dancers at
the Boston Theatre threw a silk dress
pattern 90 the object of his alteration,
last Saturday afternoon. Was this a
genuine compliment, or a "sarkastical"
hint in regard to drapery!
The Red Wing (Minn.,) Republican re-
ports the drowning at that place of two
young men who had been making visit
TO the floating abode of fallen women,
moored to the shore opposite Red Wing.
At Houston. Texas, reoently, lady
cowhided Foley, proprietor of the Saz-
arac saloon, till the blood came, and
made him beg her pardon on his knees,
for making insulting inquiries OF a ne
gro concerning her character.
The Boston Post says: Nine ladies in
ten in Boston wear corsets. The tenth
does not; first, because she don't need
them; aud, second, because she don't
like to be squeezed. The inference is
that the rest do like it-and the more
the better.
A man, notorious for his good luck,
bought an old desk at an auction house
in Louisville, and, on examining it af-
ter it was delivered at his house, found
in one of the drawers n roll of bills
amounting to $4,000 - Confederate
money.
While repairing an old building i'll
Brooklyn, last week, a rats nest, lined
with S250O in bills of the Mechanics
Bank of Williamsburg, was found un-
der the flood. The money had been
lost in 1852 and came thus strangely to
light.
The Guernsey (Ohio) Times says that
throughout the county sheep are dying
in great numberS-sone farmers losing
as many as 100 of their flock. The
cause is attributed to want of proven
der, which, owing to the severity of the
winter, is inadequate.
4 shocking accident occurred in the
town of Rome, Michigan, on Wednes-
day, at Wells shingle mill. A man
named Russell had his head completely
severed from the body by being caught
in some of the betting about the Werks.
His brains were scattered in all direc-
tions, and his body presented most
horrible and sickening sight.