The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-27
CURRENT ITEMS.

The Mint coined $685. i'll gold an
81, 521 in silver i'll March.
An Illinoisan has, within two years,
married four wives and buried three of
them.
The Mohawk river is very high, in
consequence of the melting of the snow
in the adjacent weeds.
Jeanne Dessite, the French girl, who,
in lSG6, received NJ. Monthyon's prize
for virtue, has just gone to swindiing.
The Alabama Republican dominates
for President Salmon P. Chase, for Vice
President Richard Busteed.
The National Bank of Deposit, New
York, was robbed last Wednesday night.
The amount lost is not yet made public.
Massachusetts, has borrowed $1,000
600 for twenty years, at four per cent.
Barring Brothers, of London, negotiated
the loan.
Several families in Springfield, Mass,
have rec emily been made seriously sick
BY eating unwholesome oysters.
Twice as much money is spent in New
York annually for amusements as for
educational purposes.
Ia Gosfeld, Essex county, Michigan,
last Wednesday, while Spencer Daniels
was at work in we'll, a large stone was
accidentally dropped from the surface
upon his head, and killed kim.
On Friday n rural green complained
to the Albany Police that one Edward
Jones had swindled him out of SIS in
betting on the peculiar manner of open
ing tobacco box. They "larfed him
TO skorn.n
An Englishman at Westerly, X. l..
named Pond, desiring TO make his sui
eide horrible, set fire to his bed and
stretched himself upon it, Monday at
ternoon, but was rescued by his neigh
bors before he had been Scorched 10 his
satisfaction.
Spring Grove, tho cemetery of Gin
cinnati, at present contains four hun
dred and forty-two acres, including o
recent purchase of one hundred and
thirty acres BY this acquisition it has
become fifty acres larger than any other
emetcry in the United States.
Silas Wilson, second mate of whale
ship, entered house in New London
last Tuesday, having nearly three hun.
bred dollars in his possession. Every
trace of him is lost at the house, tho in
mates of which were very angry when
inquiry was made concerning him.
Three drunken men, in a fit of bravo
do, attempted to ascend West Peak,
MeriIeu, CT, during the storm OF last
Friday. One of them fell twenty feet
from the rocks and was nearly killed,
and all were found and at last brought
home almost frozen to death.
In Marion, Alabama, on the 10th,
Bob White, a negro, called his wife out
of church. She did not obey his sum-
mons 40 promptly as he desired, and
when she left the building he shot her
dead. Bob had "got tired of her, any
how" he said, and wanted TO marry
another. He is in jail.
The Newark. New jersey, people are
out of patience with the steam man, and
the Courier of that city says: "When
will this humbug, all about an iron
boiler in smock frock, be done With
That which is called 'he steam man
never did, and, in all probability, never
will, walk tho length of his nose"
Mr.. L. A. Routhe, editor of paper ut
Versailles, Kentucky, saw part of the
elephant at Louisville Oh Tuesday
night. lie was passing along ab.ut II
o'clock, con his way TO stay with sick
friend" when he was seized by three
men, gagged, and his pocket rified of
two hundred and eighteen dollars in
Money and some papers.
The body of Robert L. Scott that
came ashore at Wsukegan, Mich, from
the wreck of the Sea Bird, had several
thousand dollars about it. When found,
the pocket-book was on the beach afew
rods from the body, rihed of its con-
tents. A valuable diamond pin was also
taken from him. -
The Greencsstle (Pa.) Echo tells of
remarkable deposit of unused bullets at
a spot on the banks of the Conocochea-
que Greek, where they can be gathered by
the hatful after rain. 1t is conjectur-
ed that there may have been An arsenal
there in colonial days, or that an ord
nance wagon may have been upset in go.
ing down the bank for the purpose Of
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