The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-15
CURRENT ITEMS.
Ohio has the spotted fever.

Ohio has the spotted fever. T
Chicago auction sales for l566-sl, ,767-
57l.
Romero is a candidate for the pres
idency in Mexico.
California owes 1926, 500 less than
she did four years ago. iF
Mr.. McMullen bit off Mr.. Ford's nose
in Cincinnati.
John C. Breckinridge has gone to the
Holy Land.
A French professor is having q Chi
nese grammar printed in Germany.
Cheyenne has added clairvoyant
physician to its other elements Of civi-
liZation.
Leap.year balls are quite common in
the West, and leap-yesr sleigh rides in
the East.
Western grain merchants are about
to build an elevator at New Orleans "a
cost 100000.
Uptown New York streets are to be
numbered anew, on the Philadelphia
plan.
Texas is abandoning cotton in disgust,
and planting castor beans, broom corn
and sorghum.
A black and tan terrier is the idol Of
New York, for killing two hundred rats
in four minutes
A New York gentleman proposes to
give 100000 to Presbyterian found
ling hospital.
Among the Stationery" obtained by
Radical Congressman are bath tub
and curry-combs. ~
A lady in Louisville cut her throat
rather than starvs to death. She GER
tainly was entitled to q choice.
Thousands of acres of land in the yi-
cinity of Atlanta, Ga, are offered for
sale at from 81 so to $40 per acre. a,
Mrs. Hippendorf, of Cincinnati, pre-
sented Mr.. Hippendorf with four little
Hippendorfs, Thursday.
1t costs the Pennsylvania Legislature
s272 per hour to have it's debates re-
ported.
The New Orleans PicdyuHe says the
freedmen begin to see that freedom does
not mean idleness.
Honduras is rapidly being depopu-
lated by the terrible ravages Of the
| cholera.
European gossips are now declaring
that the Prince Imperial is not Louis
Napoleon's son.
They have masquerade balls in New
Orleans at the Opera House at the close
of the operate performances.
A man died at Stonington, Conn, the
other day, aged Is, who for forty yearS
had taken no drink but cider.
Some thief stole piece of Grape aud
white ribbon from 'he door of house
in which child lay dead, in Baltimore,
Saturday night.
Nearly every physician in New York
has under treatment one or more broken
bones or sPrains caused by slippery
sidewalks.
Fifteen thousand three hundred and
! ffty-one new buildings were erected In
Ohio last year, worth nearly $40, ,000, 600.
The Minnesota House of Represents
tives has enacted that eight hours shall
be legal days work for females and
children under eighteen.
Five years ago New Haven negro
lost his child, by death, and the bereav-
ed African has been begging money for
funeral expenses ever since.
The Wisconsin Legislature has pAssed
q wise law, to prohibit the locking Of
cars while in melton, and prohibiting
the use of kerosene in lighting cars.
An cold Confed,7 who was shaved
clean Of both arms in the war, was mar
ried near Mt. Carmel, yirginia. 'Hs
drives a horse by holding the reins in
/ his teeth.
The French Prince Imperial, who is
a great subject ofgossip, lie said ts BE
losing his beauty. His nose is loag,
his eyes are gray, and he is shelf N
stature. 70
| 1t is said by an Indiana paper that
upwards Of ten thousand persons have
become church members in that State.
as the results Of the reyivals eIperienced
there. 9
The mayor of st. Louis has vetoed q
bill repealing the Sunday liquor Law.
passed by the councils Of that eity.
He says he would sign q bill ALLOW wing
the billiard saloons to be kept open 81
Sunday.
A Cleveland clothes dealer played the
pleasant joke of locking mp q eustomer
and refusing TO let him ont until be
/ made . purchase. A fifty dollar 6ne
was the result
Near the Sierra Nevada last winter,
the average level Of the snow was 81.
teen feet full, and forty -four feet and
seven inches fell during the " inter. The
drifts are often sixty feet high, and Ia
one or two instances were twenty tsel
higher. -