The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

Cuba will have only halfits usual to-
bacco crop this season.
Negro witches are being arrested in
Cuba.
The Newark IN. J.) carpenters are on
strike.
Darcy McGee's heart weighs seven
teen ounces.
A female Ku-Klux Khan has been or
ganized in Georgia.
The business depression is worse than
ever.
The ls9 policemen of Chicago made
22,52S arrests last year.
The new st. James Hotel, Boston,
boasts sixteen miles of bell wire.
The Minnesota Historical Society has
on exhibition the carefully tanned scalp
of "Little Crow"
A vitriol thrower i'll California, who
put out his victims eyes, gets fifteen
years in the penitentiary.
Ons hundred and fifty thousand Eng
lishmeu, in India, govern and fleece two
hundred million HindOOs.
1t is estimated that there were two
millions of hides shipped from Texas in
1867, valued at four millions OF dollars.
At New Harmony, Ind, the lightning
embraced Mrs. Pearl and melted the
wires of her hoop skirt.
A man in North Oxford, Mass, killed
four hundred and twenty-five feet of
black snakes in cellar last week.
The proposed new opera house in
Louisville will be four stories in height,
will comfortably seat 1900 persons, and
will cost Sl25, 900.
The Methodist Sunday School Mission
ary Society of New York owns, clear of
debt, ST. 600 worth of real estate.
The undertakers at Richmond who
exhumed the remains of General John
H. Morgan, found them in an excellent
state of preservation.
In two days last week 500 dozen ducks
we're taken from the Illinois river to
St. Louis. Some of them were sold as
low as as cents dozen.
The Pennsylvania delegation to the
Democratic National Convention, it is
said, will vote solid for the nomination
of General Hancock.
The Baptists are declining in Yer
mont. Thirty years ago they had one
hundred and tweaty-eight churches;
now they have nincty-nine.
The Kentucky tobacco crop in 1867
which is now coming into the market,
is of q very superior quality, and the
receipts during the past fortnight have
been large.
A Washington dispatch says official
advices from Alaska intimate that an
attack upon Americans in Sitks is con-
templated by the Indians and Russians.
and massacre is imminent unless the
troops are reinforced.
Tie famous Barataria Bay, in Louisi-
ana, once the resort of the pirate La
6tte, has become lately a base of op-
erations for smugglers. Custom officers
attacked party of contrabandists at
the bay, the other day, killed one,
wounded another, and broke mp the
gang.
Two ship owners of Cleveland, Ohio,
had little scrimmage, on Thursday,
in which one lost his left ear, and the
other portion of his right cheek. The
chap minus the ear has brought suit
against the other for damages, claiming
5000 as the value of the lost auricle.
Canton, ILL.,, has a haunted house.
The ghost of lady who was killed on
the railroad at Centralia last summer,
is disturbing the denizens Of her former
abode in that city. They first hear the
rumbling of the cars, then TIVE whistles
sound, then comes crash, followed by
shrieks and groans.
At Salem, Indiana, on Saturday night
q young ruf1an named Henry Clark,
shot and fatally wounded Mr.. George
Tell, an old and respectable citizen.
Clark also shot and seriously wound
ed young man named Buens
Vista DHnham. The murderer was ar
rested and put in Jail, but fears were
entertained that he would be taken out
AID hanged by the exasperated people.