The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-03
CURRENT ITEMS.

Chinese birds uests are eaten in Paris.
Little PATHS fortune is estimated at
100000.
Eggs are selling at one dollar and
twenty cents per dozen in Utah.
A young woman in Indiana has been
arrested for horse stealing.
Chicago will put down twenty miles
of Nicholson pavement this summer.
A little child of Mr.. Doty, of Sails
bury, Conn.,, died recently from eating
matches.
Several witnesses complain that their
testimony has been garbled in Buffers
bribery report.
The Boston Post styles Grant and
Colfax "the victims of the Chicago
Convention"
A calf of lead color and covered with
wool is being reared in West Chester,
Penn. 1t is but few weeks old.
A lady of Fauquier county, Va, was
paralyzed few days ago from excessive
nse of hair dye containing sugar OF lead.
Only few days ago Wade cursed
bitterly because he was bored with ap-
plicants for office. Now he curses be-
cause he is not.
The old Mormon Hall at Nauyoo, Hi.
nois, was destroyed by fire a few days
ago. The hall was very large one,
aud was bHilt by the Icarian Com
munionists for dining room.
A young lady in New York has had
thirty simmer dresses made for the APP
preaching summer season. She says she
is determined to be belle.
One of the chosen freeholders of Ho-
boken, N. j., weighs four hundred and
sixty-five pounds, and is considered
man of some weight in the community.
Over $4,000 day are spent in the
lOl7 "policy shops" of New York city,
averaging over $40 at each office. The
agents receive q commission of III. per
cent.
Horace Greeley had but one sou, q
precocious child, who died many years
ago. His two daughters, Gabrielle and
Ida, are aged respectively niue and
nineteen.
General Grant and Speaker Coltax
will, it is announced, start about the
first of July for Colorado. They expect
to be gone for two months. The trip is
solely for recaperation of health.
II would give character to the cry,
"The colored troops fought bravely," if
we could how say, "The colored laborers
work industriously"; but few have the
mendacity to claim this.
A sick actor named Goodman, was
Kissed at the Bresdway Theatre, in New
York, the other evening, the audience
sapposing his weakness was drunken.
ness, and in 45 hours afterwards the
poor fellow was dead.
A prairie farmer in Illinois advertises
for contractors to break up four thou
sand acres of prairie land for three dol
lars an acre-heuses and lumber for
stables furnished. The advertiser has
q forty thousand acre farm. .r..
A woman horsewhipped another in
the streets of Troy, the other day, for
riding with her (thslwhipper's)h usband.
This is more sensible than the practice
of sggrieved misunderstanding. Cow
hide is better curative for lechery than
cold lead. ...r.
Two thieves in Pittsburgh met y gen.
tleman walking the streets late at night
with box under his arm, and under
took to show him o hotel. They re-
heved him of the box and ran off with
it. The gentleman was q naturalist,
and his box contained four rattlesnakes.
A Indian came to a certain agent in
the northern part Of Iowa, to procure
some whisky for young warrior who
had been hitten by srattlesnake. "Four
quarts repeated the agent, with much
surprise, cas- mach as thatr "Yes,"
replied the Indian, "four quarts-snake
very big"
One of the New York papers, in dra-
matte criticism, remarks of an actress
that the Scare of mass of very beauti-
full black hair seems still to occupy her
study and exhaust her talent" 1t should
be mentioned to her credit that she
takes rs good care q it as though it was
her own. a
Two colored boys, aged IA and l6
years of age, got into fight in Mem
phis, Tenn, on the 10th inst, in the
course Of which one fred pistol point
ed directly at the head of tbe other.
The wonld-be murderer fed, while the
wounded boy fell sif dead. Upon ex-
animation it was found that the ball
had entered the forehead. but Was d.
verted from q straight course by the
skull. and plowed its way over the
head. He soon revived and left for
home.