The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-24
CURRENT ITEMS.
Spain is praying for rain.
New Hampshire fasts April ID.
Nau rOrlanns nwes S13 hnn 600.


New Orleans owes S13,5OO,OOO.
Copiugicide is new name for wife
murder. s.-gg . ss J
Wisconsin refuses State aid to rail
roads.
The interest on the National debt is
900 an hour.
Staten Island is said to he great
COW depot.
George Francis Trains lectures in
ireland are not profitable.
Coal has been discovered at fremont,
Nebraska.
Boston is experimenting with petro-
leum as motor on boats.
Boston is dissatisfied with the loca,
tion of her statue of Edward Everett
Michigan has seventy-three Republi-
can and thirty Democratic news
papers.
Business in Arizona is good. Mining
and agricultural intelligence is encour-
aging.
A wild woman and a nude is at large
near Liberty, Texas. She clubs with
facility.
Public education in Austria now in
cludes thorough development Of youth
full muscle.
The damages of the late storm in Chi
cago are estimated at S250,000 Over
forty houses were blown down.
Seven hundred dollars is the amount
of bail required of man whe commen-
ces a family in Chicago without being
married.
The oil refneries in Philadelphia,
emptying into the Delaware, threaten
to destroy the shad fisheries.
Careless handling of a musket made
sister shoot young brother in the
heart at Haverhill, last Thursday.
Mr.. George Peabody has taken lodg-
ings at Rome with sculptor Story, who
is to do him in marble.
The winter wheat crop in Michigan is
in splendid condition, the recent heavy
rain having brought it along finely.
The Germans of Cincinnati are sub
scrbing literally for the relief of those
who are suffering so greatly in East
Prussia.
Agricultural implements going South
form quite an item in the commerce
touching at Cairo just now.
Corsets and cotton saved the life of q
woman in Troy from the vengeful stab
of q jealous husbands dagger.
A paper has been started in California
for the purpose of advocating the
claims of Governor Haight for Presi
dent. >.
The keeper of store for the sale of
second hand goods in Bridgeport, Conn,
recently had an application from q for
lorn woman for an old coffin.
The real meaning of the words Min
ne-ha-ha is "Waterfalls"-the word
Minpo 10 water" and ha-ha is "Falls,
the act of falling and not Laughing
water
A Wisconsin suicide determined to
die comfortably, and accordingly, in
suspeuding himself from a beam in his
barn, took care to cover himself well
up in the hay, as the weather was very
cold.
Mr.. Lehman, of Ohio, has sold for
$500 a lot in Des Moines, which he got
for an old clock worth seventy-tive
cents when he moved back from that
place twenty years ago.
The Radical party in Pennsylvania
is likely to be divided by the action of
the Philadelphia Convention with re-
gard to Ex-Governor Curtin and the
Vice Presidency. The quarrel gains in
intensity daily.
Mrs. Clemens, tho widow of the late
Jcre Clemens, is now in Huntsville,
Ala, engaged in hunting up material
for n life of that eccentric man, which
she is now engaged in compiling, and
soon to be published.
The disconsolate sheriff of Randolph
county, Ala, Offers n reward of $500 for
handsome young friend of his, aged
Twenty-Five who has cheated him ont
of his money aud ran away with his
wife, an artless female of forty.
The Rump Senate is "high court of
impeachment" from the fact only that
Ben. Wade, Zach. Chandler and little
Spraguey often get on big high"
The Bedford Gazette suggests that the
letters &c. A. R." stand for "Greedy
Army Rats" If Horace Greeley is to be
believed the leaders of that organiza.
tion are greedy rats who never saw the
army.
A number of Radical newspapers neg
lect to publish that resolution of the
platform which endorses Geary. 1t
seems strange that they should over
look the "Hero of Snickersville" so CON-
pletely.
The late storm blew down OF damaged
sixteen houses at Chatham, Illinois,
forty-fve miles cast of Alton. Three
citizens were killed and five more ST.
riously injured. About forty houses
were more or less damaged in Illinois
town. An old hotel, built fifty years
ago by the French settlers, and regarded
rs historical relic, was completely de-
molished, the inmates escaping un-
harmed.