The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-10
CURRENT ITEMS.

IL is announced that Greedy has OK
perienced a change of hat.
The Haytien dollar is now said Ia he
worth Only tive cents in coin.
A parrot died recently in Durham,
England, ct the age of 10 years.
The Boston Journal suggests that
General Buffers last hobby is wool
ey" horse.
Boston has sent two million bean
poles TO the State of Name, within the
past two months.
Colorado offers husbands to thou
sand girls this spring if they will come
and get them.
A Western convict has been trying
suicide with pounded glass; Tie failed,
hut feels very unComfnrtahle'
The bricklayersof Chicago, who have
been paid 81 to 81 30 per day, have re-
Gently formed an association and de-
mand g.
The wheat harvest has commenced in
Mississippi and Arkansas. The first of
the crep was in the Memphis market
last Friday.
Complaint is made that the female
clerks employed in the dry goods
stores of Boston are insolent and unac-
csmmodating.
Southampton county, Virginia, man
has sold the strawberry produce OF ten
acres, in advance, for SlO.uGn, the buyer
furnishing the boxes.
There is a man in Delaware who has
had ffty-one children and three wives.
One ofthe latter and thirty of the former
are still living.
The Paraguayau Government publish
es a list of women who have begged to
be taught The use of firearms to assist
the army i'll the field.
Every man who visits Gettysburg
comes away with cane from the prem
ises. There is danger ofall the trees in
that section of country being carried off.
The wool crop of Mercer county,
Pennsylvania, is estimated this season
ut three hundred and fifty Thousand
pounds. A small portion of last years
clip IS still in market. The price OF
wool ranges ut about forty cents Fer
pound.
The Rev. Elijah Roberts, Of the Sum
msrville (Ala.) Adrertiscr, asks for in
formation concerning his daughter,
Eliza Ray, who was sent North 10y Cen
ersl sherman, in his raid through Geor-
gia, from her homo in Marietta, with her
FIVE children.
A theological gentleman, who always
gave authority for his quotations, COM
menced grace at breakfast one morning
by thanking the Lord that we have
been awakened from the sleep which q
writer in the Edinburgh Rtri7r has
called the image Of DEATH"
Sante- Beuve shocked even Paris by
giving dinner on Good Friday, where
at were present Renan. Tainc and
Prince Napoleon. Il is even stated that
ono of the toasts was "To Monsieur
Jesus Christ This was no worse than
the speech of Tbad Stevens about ian
Individual and Judas.
A young man sent his father in the
country his phstograph, saying that he
was poor and required money. The
father refused, stating that he could
not be very poor to be living Surround
ed by marble vases, rosewood furniture
aud choice flowers, IA his photograph
represented him.
Deep sea sounding Off the Island of
Sc. Croix, West Indies, reveal the fact
that no bottom is found Mt the depth of
5000 feet, only mile and half from
the shore, from which it is inferred that
ST. Croix is the apGx OF an immense
submarine mountain. Laying sub
marine cable in that vicinity Will be
difficult job.
A young girl, one of the Arab chill
dren under the protection of the Arch
bishsp of Algiers, states that she is the
only child left of FIVE in her family, the
other four having been successfully
killed aud eaten by their parents. On
search being made the bones were dis
covered in the cabin.
After the vote on impeachment it is
said that Fessenden and Nye met in one
of the Washington city cars. The con-
versation was short, sharp and decisive.
Nye made seine remarks about the vote,
which Fesssnden answered in an angry
tone by saying: "Yes, sir, you had not
the pluck to do as you thought right