The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

Pittsburgh has eighty-two incomes
that exceed 10000. Two of thc num-
Der are over 100000.
All the prisoners, but one, in the jail
of Franklin county, Vermont, escaped
on Friday night.
A book printed by Benjamin Frank
lin in 1894, sold at auction in New York
last week for 5000.
Ladies now ornament their -handker-
chiefs with large monograms III the CEN
tire, the letters embroidered in different
colered 81 Tx.
The New York lfail says that many of
the prayer books of a certain "hish"
church up town have looking glasses
inserted 10 t he inside of the covers.
Dr.. @. w. Pearce, of Magnolia, Ar
kansas, was poisoned recently by TAX
ing a quantity of the extract of yell
low jessamine, mistaking 1t Tor brandy
1t is reported in New York that Mrs
Langdon, sister of Mr.. VIM. d. Aston,
has begun suit against her brother
for the recovery of property valued ut
several millions.
A ceuain aristscratic residence IN
MadisoifaveRue, New York, has car
pet on the drawing room ofvelvet. or
namented in the centre with large
monogram. 1t cost $500 to rapport.
They are building new opera-hOuse
in Hartford, Connecticut. It's exterior
dimensious are to be 50 by l20 feet, and
the auditorium 30 feet square. 1t will
have seats for goo people.
New Orleans adviccs speak eucour'
agingly of the prospects Of the sugar
crop Moro land has been planted this
year than last. and the yield promises
to be good. The product last year was
only 10000 hegsheads.
At public exhibition and distribu-
tion of prizes to sohool children in Ma
pies, some days ago, it was stated that
the school attendants in that city now
number II ,000, against 5000 under the old
Bourbon rule.
an amOrOus coal merchant entered
the sleeping apartment ola lady at the
Henry House, GAINESVILLE, Tennessee, a
few nights ago, aud if the pistol of tho
lady had not missed fire he would have
received something entirely different
from what he expected.
The Brattleboro (Ct.) Episcopal rec
tor reprimanded the sexton severely for
recent offence, saying that he "wanted
him to distinctly understand that he
was in no case to toll the bell for any
enc not belonging to the Episcopal
Church."
II is stated that ushers are to be at
tached to the Washington through
trains from Jersey City, New Jersey,
who will attend to seating the passen-
gers. The seats are to be numbered,
and tickets issued accordingly, the
same as for reserved seats in the thea
tire. ..
There is a young man living in Madi-
sen county, Wisconsin, not yet twenty
one years of age, who measures in his
stocking feet six feet and seven inches !!
and he is not done growing either
They also have in the county young
lady-aud a goyd looking one. too-who
is six feet, one inch and eighth of An
inch tall.
Mr.. w. j. Boothe, of Mt. Vernon, Mis-
souri,, in digging q we'll, at the depth of
eighteen feet encountered limestone
rock. Eight feet more passed through
This into a cavern fourteen by sixteen
feet, and eight feet in depth. Small
apertures led from this room east and
west, but they have not been explored.
The latest testimony in the Judd di-
vorce case in New Haven was much of
IL too indecent for publication, and
would mako ont Mrs. Judd perfect
prodigy of corruption. The witnesses
testify to gross indecencies with half a
dozen men, and worse than that with
two or three. One thing is certainly
proved, that the minister and his wife
and all their connections are wretch
eddy disgusting and uncomfortable set.
The achievement of the man who swal-
lowed set of teeth in the neighbor-
hood of Dayton, is thrown in the shade
by that of q boy mentioned by CORES
pondent of the New York Times. The
boy lived-and died-in Orange coun-
ty, New York, some years ago. A post
nlortem examination discovered a clock
key, a silver spoon, and pair of spec
tacles, lodged in the esopmgus. He
bad Evad for same time with these sim