The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

The Brooklyn editors and reporters
are now forming base ball club.
Many English lawyers report an in
come from 5000 to SlOe,OOO year.
Oil has been discovered in San Anto-
Mo, Texas. and boring has commenced.
Miss Chaplin, pretty, but twenty
eight, breaches ut Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
The Duke of Nassau has S26O,OOO
worth of wine for sale.
Basil Duke has gone to tobacco
weighing in Louisville.
One million dollars will be expended
in building in st. Paul this year.
Hogs are dying in Maryland from the
effects of eating locusts.
There are seventy miles of street rail.
way i'll New Orleans.
Eight thousand candles are consumed
weekly i'll excavating the Hoosac tun-
mel.
Frederick Seward is said to be writing
the life of his father, the Secretary of
State.
The grasshoppers are pretty etfectu-
ally cleaning out the crops in Northern
Texas.
IL is estimated that the annual eX
penditure for eorsets in England is not
less than million pounds sterling.
A suspension bridge is being thrown
across Niagara river, just below the
Falls, to give visitors an lawful view"
The Cincinnati Enquirer says the Rad
icals will lose Is, 300 votes in Ohio by
impeachment. A rather low estimate
we think.
Mrs. Judd, of Divorce notoriety, used
81" two hundred and sixty-tive times in
her Bridgeport lecture.
In Glouster, Massachusetts, they have
an oyster which weighs 234 pounds! A
"dozen raw" of that size would make Il
hearty meal, unquestionably.
In New York, last week, Church's
"Andes" sold for $1,000: Durand's "Beech.
err" $4,000, and Leutze's Columbia"
$3.50.
Tom Sayers' property, which has been
in litigation between several broods of
children, has been awarded to what is
presumed to be the legitimate lot.
The Mormons of Salt Lake City are
fighting the grasshoppcrs. They tnru
L. LII l,,- ln,r
catch the insects in sheets, sleeves and
sacks, and burn them.
A young lady in Chicago recently all
swered personal by personal in
terview, was hustled into close carri-
age and hurried off, and only gained
her liberty by fortunate obstruction
which smashed the vehicle and let her
out.
The following epitaph may be seen in
the cemetery of parish in the environs
of Paris: "Here lies Madame N,
wife of NJ. N, master blacksmith.
The railing around this tomb was man
ufactured BY her husband"
The skeletons of eleven mon aud two
women were fond on the 2lst of April
last, on Gull Island, off the Newfound
land coast, which prhved to be the re-
mains of a portion of the crew of the
BrigantinesQ ueen, lost near there in De-
cenber last.
man who gives his name as George
Henry Martin has been arrested in Ham
ilton, CIV, on suspicion Of being one
ofthe perpetrators of the recent express
car robbery on the Hudson River Rail
way, in which, it will BE- remembered,
the express messenger was OverpOwered
and upwards of 100000 in money and
u. 5. bonds taken from the safe.
A professor of elocution visited u
young ladies' school in Pittsfold, Mass,
recently, and while giving rec itation,
a party of Irish laberers near by, hear,
ing the noise and thinking mailman
was in the house, surrounded the build
ing for the purpose of catching him.
With great difficulty an explanation of
the inmates convinced them of their
error.
The Chicago Tribune tells the follow
ing story of the Convention: "Some
amusement was occasioned in the Sher-
man House saloon by the discovery of a
prominent Massachusetts, prohibitionist
drinking whisky straight. In his own
State he enjoys the reputation of being
n thorough tempefauce man, opposed to
the manufacture and sale of the stimu-
lating beverages. A friend observing
the lapse of virtue accosted the delin-
quent with the remark, What, Judge,
surely yon are kot drinking liquor .
We'll, oltlfellow,' was the reply, pro
hibition, you know, is good thiag in
the Old Bay State, where the whisky is
d-d.bad, but in Chicago it is o. K, and
does fellow good. Name your med
icine'n -