The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-20
CURRENT ITEMS.


grees below zero at Presque Isle, Maine,
last Friday night.
Belgium furnishes the largest nnmber
of recruits for the Papal army.
Bear hunting is more lucrative in
Arkansas than cotton planting.
AConnecticut joker was recently fined
sl5 for playing ghost.
Napoleon has pulled down $4,000
houses in Paris, and put up $1,000 bet
ter edifces.
New Orleans hairdressers advertise q
preparation for Strengthening the hair
of Intelligent voters"
Mrs. Humphreys died last Thursday,
near Mount Sidney, in Augusta county,
Va, at the remarkably old age Of LOG
years.
District Attorney Martin, who shot
Judge Busteed in Mobile, has been ad-
mitted to bail in the sum OF $4,000.
Massachusetts, legislators are getting
board at the best hotels in Boston at
three dollars day, this winter.
1t is stated that Dickens has an offer
of 500, 900 in coin for twenty readings
in San Francisco, but it will not be ac-
cepted.
Judge Busteed is becoming promi-
nent rs a probable candidate for United
States Senator from Alabama.
1t is said that the water is undermin-
ing the Horse Shoe Fall, Niagara, and
that by-and-by the latter will tumble
cut,
A machinists' and blacksmiths' be-
nevolent cooperative association has
been organized in Patterson, NJ.
Rev. William E. Munsey has consent
ed to deliver the commencement ad-
dress at Randolph Macsn College, Va,
in June next.
Rev. Father Hartney, of Salem, Mass,
was thrown from a sleigh on Wednes-
day, and died of heart disease a few
minutes after.
General +. S. Carey, the great tenn
perance man, has taken to smoking
since he has got into Congress. Punch
es will come next.
"Forrest Hall" seven hundred acres,
near Chancellorsville, Va, has been
sold to Major Lord, or Maino, for SooUU.
1t belonged to Mr. Powers, of Rich
mond.
There have been collected in New
York for the benefit of the Swedish fam
inc sufferers $500, and $500 additional
has been subscribed but is not yet paid
in.
The Italian newspapers complain of
the great increase of brigandsge in
that country, the brigands frequent
" putting their captives to death when
ransoms are not forthcoming.
The United States steamer YaHtic,
Lieutenant Commander Quakenbush,
has been put out Of commission, her
officers placed under waiting orders, or
on leave, and her crew discharged.
A Nashville paper states that Presi-
dent johnson has purchased fine farm
of several hundred acres, containing q
superior mill site, in Greene county,
Tennessee, to which he intends retiring
ut the close of the term.
Robert Tyler, son Of the ex-President,
is editor of the Montgomery, Ala, I'D
rertisr, in which Office, an Eastern pa
per says, "his beautiful and accomplish
ed daughter, Letitia Chistiana Tyler, is
engaged in setting type"
There are thirty ladies and one hun
dred and six gentlemen employed as
telegraph operators on the line of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad.
Julia Ward Howe, seeing in Boston
the sign Charitable Eye and Ear Infr-
mary" expressed her surprise and skep-
ticism, saying she did net believe there
was charitable eye or ear in the whole
city.
Northampton, Mass, is so very dull
that tbs local paper calls for somebody
to come along with a churn or other
patent right to create little excite