The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

Twenty-fOur newspaper signs may DC
seen from the Park railings, New York.
Bonner says that one of the best
things about the new Ledger building
is the fact that it is all paid for.
Thomas Haywood last week killed
four wolves and captured four alive.
out in Green county, Ind.
A quarry of fine variegated marble
has been opened in JonesborO, Union
county, Illinois. The stone is. said TO
be of great beauty.
A certain house in Troy is furnished
from top to bottom with rosewood. The
owner, five years ago, was a sutler in
the army.
The British consular establishments
now employ 254 persons, at salaries
ranging from 500 TO $4,000 in gold
per annum.
Agang of workmen were busily en-
gagged all Sunday night laying down a
new railroad track in Printing House
square, New York.
DR.. Winship, the strong man, has re-
Gently married. He has found cords
strong enough to hold him at last.
Mrs. Lois Goss, ofLevant, Me-, ninety
years of age, has cut three teeth of her
third set during the past winter.
The presentation to newly married
lady, by her husband, of a washboard,
mop, gridiron and pair of fatirons, is
sufficient cause fer divorce IN Illinois.
Samuel Close, of Greenwich, Conn,
is veteran Democrat, 65 years old,
who, since he was twenty-one, has vO-
ted for State officers every year.
The hearts of gentleman and his
wife in New Haven were made glad re-
recently by the arrival of little stran'
ger who weighed one and a half pounds
Eastern young ladies waylay their
masculine friends for pictures to fill
their photograph albums, and with ir.
reverent candor christen the compile
ted collection "the rogues' gallery"
In Belfast, Me-, are said to be two
beautiful twins so perfectly alike that
their mother herself only distinguishes
them by embroidering on the ribbons
around their waists the names, Martha
and Mary.
1t is estimated that the wheat crop OF
California for the past year will be
twenty million bushels, barley ten mil
lion bushels, oats two and a half mil
lions. Some anxiety is expressed of an
insufficiency of tonnage for exportf
Youatt, the well-known veterinary
surgeon, who has been bitten eight oil
ten times. by rabid animals, says that
crystal of the nitrate of silver rubbed
into the wound will positively prevent
hvdrophobia in the bitten person or an
imal.
An old ragamuffin, Leonard Kimball
I of Talmeck, Mass, quarrelled with and
beat his wife most shamefuliy, when she
left his bed and board on account of his
cruelty; he begged her to return; she re-
fused-whereupOD, very sensibly, he
went out and hanged himself -.
Mr.. Weed thinks it is to the honor ei
Senator Wilson that "while other Sena,
tors have made fortunes and bOsght eI,
peusiye mansions in Washington, he il
the same poor man that he was when
i twenty years ago, he left his workshop
to serve his country.
The Springfield, Massachusetts,, Rtpnb
licdn says: One of the veteran lobby.
lists of our Massachusetts, Legislature
remarked, the other day, that there
were one hundred members in the House
who paid only poll tax, and that ht
/ scould buy the whole Of them for S5(
! apiece. The gentlemen works in the in
terest of the tunnel, and doubtless
! spoke the truth.