The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-07
CURRENT ITEMS.

lawyer or doctor.
There is but one good harbor, Fernan-
dina, on the Atlantic coast of Florida.
The first stone of the western abut-
ment pier of the great Mississippi bridge
was laid Wednesday.
The Winter Garden Theatre in New
York has been changed into a store, and
stands waiting for an occupant.
A gentleman in Evansville, Ind, re-
ceived paper by mail Wednesday from
New York, which had been on the road
ten months.
There is mysterious talk of new
gold mining region, superior to Cali
fornia in its best days, found within
fifty miles of Louisville, Ky.
! New York is getting to be highly
moral city. A hackman was fined ten
dollars the other day and his license re-
voked, for swindling customer.
A Louisville vagrant, who had been
fined regularly every week for drunken
ness, requested the magistrate to fire
him by the year at q reduced rate.
Lincoln, H., says the Bloomington
boasts of man with feet
l5t inches in length, 5 inches in width,
and 16 inches around the ankle. Ex-
elusive of the feet the man weighs l3O
pounds.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
is building bridge over Dale Creek,
west of Cheyenne, which will be nearly
two thousand feet long and over one
hundred and ten feet high.
Fanny Kemble gave her first reading,
since her re-appearance in New York,
on Tuesday night. The receipts of her
reading amounted to SlllG.
The President has withdrawn from
the Senate the nomination of Colonel
Greene, of the Boston Post, to be sub
treasurer at Boston.
One dress-making establishment in
Boston has adopted the French fashion,
and male modiste fits the garments of
its fair customers.
The marble columns Of the building
in Philadelphia, once used for the Uni
ted States Bank, are to be given away
to be recut into soldiers monuments.
George Wood, of Brattleboro, YER
mont, has tanned or broken seven hun-
lred and twenty-four colts in the course
Of his life.
Many of the wells in New Hampshire
are drying up. Unless rain visits the
State before many days, and a general
thaw, there will be great want of wa
ter.
Lowell, Massachusetts,, is 20 longer
entitled to special prominence as the
"City of SpindIes." Fall River exceeds
it by 4O,O46 spindles.
Ii is reported in letter from Dresden
that in the singl" diotrict of Gunbin-
pen. there are 10000 families without
food or fuel.
The Belfast .lge says the experiment
Of building wire fence by roadsides to
prevent the snow from drifting proves
to be successful. All the roads OF Maine
are to be lined with them.
A woman with L child in her arms
was few days since soliciting charity
from door TO door in Bridgeport, Conn.
She wanted, if possible, to raise money
enough to get her child's photograph
taken.
4 large grey eagle took hold of boy
near Leon, Iowa, on Saturday, and
would have banqueted on him in his
home had there not been an
expert gunner by, who shot the ferocl'
Gus bird.
California pays her judges larger sal
aries than any other State in the Union,
$1,000 per anRum. Louisiana ranks next
aud Massachusetts, next, at S5OOO and
$1,000 respectively.
The Maine bays aud haEbors are frozen
up to a greater extent than for 30 year;
The Georges islands even
have a solid icebridge ten miles long to
the mainland.
Benevo!encc has not wholly died ont.
A ragged little girl in Brooklyn picked
up a wallet containing six hundred dol
lars the other day, and running after
the lady who dropped it, restored the
property. For her honesty she receive
a reward Of one cent.
Isaac Fulton, of Madison, Indiana, fell
across a log in a saw mill, Tuesday, and
the circular, saw taking hold of his
clothes, brought him against it, and he
was sawed in two at the waist, one part
of the body falling each side of the log
c. S. Peck, Of Williams county, Ohio
met a fair but frail damsel in Toledo
recently, who robbed him ofsl50O. The
papers speaking of him as cattle dro-
yer. the revenue assessors locked the
matter up and found no such name on
the license books, and arrested Dir. Peck
for the omission, which adds still more
to the expense of halfa days frolic.
Juneau and adjoining counties of
Wisconsin, raised S9,OOO,OOO worth OI
hops the past year. As high as 5000
10 $4,000 were realized from FIVE or si1
acres of ground, and great excitement
has sprung up in favor of their cultiva.
tiou in that section. 1t is estimated
that the amount to be planted this yeaI
will require $1,000 people to pick them
IL is said that the Wisconsin hops are
superior to the imported Bavarian.
The Marshall tTexas) Flag says San
born Pearson, colsrsd supervisor of reg
istration for that district, was not per.
mitted to vote. When he went up to
deposit his ballot he was asked to show
his registration papers, he threw him.
self back on his dignity, and declared
in his opinion, his being supervisor OF
precluded the necessity OF
but the judges conldn't see
il In that light, aud Sanborn was not
70 exercise the right of SUI.