The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

The Cretan fair, in Boston, Melted
$4,000. ....
The Feniap Father Mcmahon il very
i'll in q Canadian Jail.
CYRUS w. Field has life insurance pol
icies 70 the amount of $4,000.
Tho irrevereut negro Ministries of New
York are burIesqulnS Dickeus.
The St. Cloud bridge across the Mis-
sissippl is completed, and teams cross.
Darcy MeGe+'s brain weighed oDIy
half an ounce less than Cuvier's, the
largest on record.
Il is proposed to put up commence
rative tablet on the precise spot where
Darcy MCGEE fell.
Mr.. L. Cunard denies the statement
that the steamers Cuba and CRY Of
Paris are racing across the Atlantic.
A little boy WAS sLCt dead by his
brother at Geneva. H., few days ago,
whise playing soldier.
john Bright said lately: "If visited
the United States, the excitement and
the labor would simply be my death"
Mrs. H. Bige, OF Hartford, Connect
cut, pays taxes on Sl32, 422; Mrs. Eliza
beth H. Colt Oh S699, PIG, and Mrs. A.
Warburton on 1917 $50.
A Paris tobacconist advertiseS that
he wants "a few good defOrmed girls"
Fashions do change. a short time ago,
it was "aubnrnn hair.
A lady, started ont of sleep by some
one trying to enter the house, cried out,
Who is there?" Your late husband"
was the reply.
Fat is now the rage in fashionable cir
cles! Ladies cultivate it. They are
devouring vast quantities of butter,
mashed rose leaves, aud such like.
The united height Of the family of
John Bell, at Crystal Plantation, Maine
consisting of father, mother, two sons
and three daughters-sevcn IN all, IS ~
feet.
Some of tho Western skating rlrks
are to be kept open all summer, parlor
skates on n smooth floor compromising
for the veritable steel and ice.
Brigham Young'S English converts
can't get money enough to pay their
passage to Zion, and they content them
selves with siShin' for Zion.
One year ago, Mr.. Bennett, of Fulton
City, Illinois, hung himself, anES last
Saturday night, Mrs, Bennett commend
rated the anniversary by hanging her
self.
The Oldest doctor in the world, Prof.
F. Verdugo, ofSalamanca, Spain, died
lately, aged lO5 yeara. He had prac.
ticed medicine eighty years; number OF
victims not stated.
Greeley is in favor of having Nye, of
Nevada, appointed Secretary of the
Treasury, assigning as his reason. that
"Nye can borrow more money, and pay
back less, than any nan In the United
States
A young lady living near Boston, re-
Gently attempted an imitation of the
White Fawn dances, for her friends
delectation, and received serious inter
nal injuries In tue posturing. which
threaten her life.
A flock of pigeons covering space of
twelve and half miles in length, and
Atty feet in breadth, passed over Wells
willie. Tioga county, Pennsylvania, one
dav last week. Tho flock, in flying, as
sumed the shape of an arrow from
"long bow"
Among funny theatrical wants pub
l;sbed in one of the London papers is
The following: "Wanted for the sum-
mar months a good Juvenile and light
comedian. first heavy man; parties
arcnstnned TO the sensation dramas
preferred, that can keep sober Tor theif
business"
In Page Valley, Virginia, few days
ago, two brothers, Joshua and Simeon
Grimsley, had dispute about title 10
some land At night, Joshua, with a
loaded musket, waited on the roausiue
for his bruther- aud ou his appearance
shot him through the heart.
Lemons must be very expensive at
Washington, and the Senators a very
dry set Mr.. Cragin explained the APP
nronriation of $4,000 for miscellaneous
arnsnsss by enumerating, rs If the
eh;sf items. the fitting up OF the
marble room, and the Lemonade the