The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-21

CURRENT ITEMS.

Iowa isto have a new State. House, to
y 80. - cost s1,00O,ceO. IL I --.
Montana papers report that the Iu-
diaps are quiet on the Fort Benton road
Say "A The Mississippi riveris openabove and
~ below Lake Pepin. @,
The Government supports 7OCGreve-
nue. officers.
"A st, houis woman wants $4,000
, damages fer being called bad name
The Prince ofWales has taken his
vile to see the cda-caH danced.
The election in Connecticut takes
place on Monday, April 9th.
e 20 D Tho brewers of Galsna have rl sed the
price of lager 81 per barrel.
Hiram Sweet, of Nashville, raised
~ $1,000 worth of peanuts last year.
~.- Eggs are down to twenty-six cents 4
dozen in New York in spite of Lent. sol
A man in Bloomington, Md, while in
. ~ fit, fell into the tire, burned both eyes
out and one ear off. ,,...
Hoop-skirts caused the obstruction at
the Detroit city sewers Petticoats arc
at the bottom or all mischief.
Nipple molasses is putting in an ap-
pearaBce in Ohio and Indiana at only
s4or g so per gallon. 2
Heine says we are indebted to the
Jews for two thiHgs-bills of exchange
and Christianity
r' The Newark steam man is IN unmiti
gated humbug. 1t has not walked for
the very good reason SHAT il cannot.
Salt Lake papers are endeayoring to
4 prove that theirs is the only virtuouS
community on the continent.
Mr.. Charles NJ. Kennedy, of Bridge
pprt,Conn., has rescued twenty-eght
- . persons from drowning during the last
few months.
Iu Memphis, the other day, little
- son Oft p. Leake, revenue officer, drank
the oil ont OF sardinc box, became
sick and died.
rR' Ex-Congrcssman Wentworth, of Hi
nois, is President Of . poultry society,
- and enthusiastic about Shsnghaes.
Earl Derby's chaulbe,mad "cut" her
lover, the Earl's valet who felt SO cut
up abapt it that he proceeded to cut his
throat.
A notorious woman in Cincinnati has
tried to poison herself for the fifth
time, and for the fifth time has been
s.,, saved by a. stomach pump. 4,.
'., One Boston man of the Democratic
persuasion, paid for only twelve hats in
consequence of certain disappoint-
a. . hent in New Hampshire. p.
Senator Chambers servants in his
new $4,000 mansion, recently pur-
chased in Washington. are all dressed
.. in livery, with the initial &c" upon
their silver buttons. t
"A Toledo dog accidentally shut into
store-roem, has just come Out-a mere
81. shadow of his former self, after % days
aud nights offasting. For the last three
'..# weeks he had nothing but his bark to
IS gnaw on. hip .1T1tl
.I'a.I> There is said to be now about s. ,OOO,-
600 worth of American silver in. Cara
da; and u duty of fifteen per cent. has
y been imposed upon the, importation of
such silver coin into the provinces.
rsy5e Greenwood cemetery, the fashionable
49,. Newly burial place, had 5000 inter
o.a.@ meuts last year, and holds in all l29,4lO
bodies Its receipts and expenditures.
s'e' in 1857 were over quarter of 4 million
dollars. ......rs .,
At CofIeeville, MiSsissippi, the other
" day, Dr., Mcfarland seta spriug.gun in
ak.s eorn-crib to snoot thieves. William
So yi Wall. one of the family, forget about
o. the gu7, opeted the crib door, and was
shot dead. r..
They don't rotate out of office very
-..,, rapidly down in the Green Mountain
state. Hiram Barton, of SALISBURY,
III d was, on Tuesday h eek, elected Town
Clerk for the forty fourth consecutive
.time,s His predecessor was crowded ont
o" after his forty fourth year III the same
berth. ,.,...,, .,....- esd
Anna Bogart, in Chicago station
house, w Wednesday night, hung herself,
and was cut down alive; then she
thrust her head in a sink full Of water
al 2 10 drown herself, ahdwas itagge away;
..,,, 4. and finally set her clothes,son, fire at
the gas light, and policeman was Sc
lIa74 0yerely burned in trying to eStlngulsh
's,5. her. Like the immortal Webster, sue
10 still lives. ..,l>. 4 y .=.s-7''-
General George w. Tew, who has
VI,E2 madetew free with the fluids of the
si s' so5 State Of Rhode Island to the amount of
.sLss $1,000 declines tew be a candidate for
"A j. To rs-election as State Treasurer. He was
s1z5. ,noniinatedaby the late Republican Con-
y La ysHtion. General chorus Of all the cid
ladies' in "Little Rhody:" "Its tew bad
- H. xra nomin' tewlp