The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

Every member of the New Haven po'
lice is married.
Virginia City, Nevada, has a paper
styled the .ScGlpiRg Knife.
Minnesota papers say that the Falls
of st. Anthony are wearing away.
On the 18th inst, S0,0C0 rat skins
were shipped from st. Paul, Mimi, for
New York.
Sugar making has commenced in the
vicinity of New Albany, Iud., and the
flow of sap is good.
The cost of taking out homestead OF
l60 acres in Wisconsin is Sl4, says the
Chippewa Falls Union.
There being FIVE Saturdays in this
month working people should have FIVE
paw days. This will happen again in
1896.
In GAINESVILLE, o., a few days ago
Mrs Nathan Humphrey fell into the fire
and was burned to death.
The Second Adventists baptized a
young lady in Salisbury's pond at Wor-
eester, last Sunday, after cutting through
ice fifteen inches thick.
Milote Barker, a Saranac Lake hunter,
has sent to the New York market this
winter 395 deer, or about % 900 pounds OF
venisOn.
4 girl, aged thirteen years, named Su
san Trout, died in Columbus, Ohio, or
Sunday, from lockiaw, caused by oveI
exertion while skating.
The Revolution says, "lf we must have
either Grant or Chase, may the fate'
give MS the latter. Let us at least have
sober man with some fixed opinions
The Budd family, in New Jersey
claim an English chancery estate val
u9d at Sic, 100000. They are as likely to
get it as the Jenningscs are To get their
inheritance
A young lady somnambulist in St
Louis attempted to enact in her SLEEP
the tragedy of novel she had read in
her waking hours, by stabbing her sis
ter with a table knife.
A steam sawmill i'll Bristol, Indiana
is managed by man and his two
daughters. One of the girls is engineer
and fireman, and the other helps heI
father lift the boards and roll the logs
General Chambers, of Louisville, had
daughter born to him on his seventy
fourth birthday, and the members OF
the bar expressed their admiration by
presenting the young lady with a silver
cup.
In San Francisco it is noticed, as Que
Of the effects of the accession of Russian
America, that large quantities of choice
Siberian sables have been received in
that market at one-half the former
price.
They had no feas in Salt Lake City
until recently family of Chinese pass
ed through the city and left a supply
for the town.
The bed of Copper Creek, fifty miles
west of Fort Sanders, is literally cover,
ed with petrified cells, from Is TO 30
inches in length.
Kirkland, Ohio. once an important
seat of MormoniSm, has still small
remnant of the faithful, who worship in
the original temple.
Mr.. E. w. Clark, at Poughkeepsie,
was matched to skate = half mile in
seventy seconds, and won in sixty-elght
and half.
A pack of scoundrels in the vicinity OF
Xenia, Ohio, are engaged in going about
and wantonly destroying stock, Grip,
ping horses, cutting harnesses, &c.
The Frontier Indcr, of Fort Sanders,
saws 1000 Indians are on their way to
the Sweetwater mines, aud are getting
ready to fight again on the opening ol
spring.
Anative canoe, made from the hide OF
the sea lion, brought from Alaska, is.ou
exhibition in Washington. IL will be
placed in the museum of the Smithso-
nian Institute.
Ten years ago uewsboy obtained
control of his business on one Of the rail-
roads leading from New York, and from
the proceeds of that business has paid
$4,000 for residence on the Hudson.
A railroad from Toledo to Pittsburgh
is confidently predicted. If all the pro.
jected railway schemes of Northern Ohio
are carried out, there will be no room
left for ordinary highways.