The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

ports an income of Sl23, 900.
A musician in Tennessee has vented
his feelings in "Bloody Morn Polka"
Judge Lafontaine, of Alymer, Cana
da, has been impeacbed for forgery and
incapacity.
Fare between Boston andSNew York,
about $50 miles, 50; AID that brings
rush of travellers.
A lady who died in Lynn last week,
aged s5, had as a watcher the night pre-
vious to her death her twin sister.
Some of the respectable ladies of
Cleveland have been detected in steal
ing dry goods. 1t is called "mania."
Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, has
a salary of six thousand dollars, and
four singers at his church have thou
sand each.
Fashionable ladies in New York have
adopted the Paris fashion of carrying
their parasols hung on one side of the
dress like a sword.
Twenty-seven Republicans and five
Democrats have thus far been elected
to Congress from the reconstructed
States.
An exchange notices the fact that the
Sandwich Islands eruption killed as
many people as are killed by one of our
railroad or steamboat accidents.
Some of the Fifth avenoodles are
now dressing their male servants in
scarlet breeches and cream colored
coats, in imitation of English snobbery.
The Rev. S. NJ. Merrill, who was re.
Gently dismissed by the Troy NJ. E. Con-
ference for. su ndrY irregularities" is
said to have received $1,000 call to
preach in Tennessee.
"How long does it take to get pho
tograph after you leave yoar measured"
was the serious inquiry which Cape
Cod maiden made in Gloucester, Mass,
gallery, recently.
A Republican lawyer in New Haven
il credited with the remark that "the
evidence against President johnson is
not enough to justify sending a vicious
hey to the reform school"
Jennie Sanders, servant girl en-
ployed in restaurant i'll Chicago, was
fatally poisoned last Thursday night, by
put in dish of oysters by a
fellow servant, who was prompted by
jealousy.
The Rev. L. p. Glover, of North Ad-
ans, Mass, is about to prosecute man
who reported that he used opium. Per-
haps the offender Judged so from the
sleepy sermons of the offended.
A scoundrel named John B. Lewis,
about forty years Of age, was found
in n barn near Shelbyvillc,
KY, few days since, with a young girl
of fourteen, whom he had abducted
from the house of her parents in the
vicinity. He was arrested and she re-
turned home.
A young American lady, said to be
from Cleveland, Ohio, has been arrested
at Dresden; on charge of infanticide.
If she should be convicted of the charge,
she would be sent TO the penitentiary of
Waldheim, which is considered through
ont Germany as one Of the worst on the
whole Continent
,,,,,am n Astof. VINO reP"r'e "" ""
Of nearly Sl,0O0,OOO per annum,
We ~s.--.yAr ksown to perform but two
acts of liberality. One of these was the
gift to Fitz Greene Halleck of SlO,OOo,
and the other was the addition of two
lots worth $50, 900 to the Astor Library,
by means of which that institution was
enlarged.
A favorite way of disposing of chill
dren from one to four years old, now-a-
days, is to place tub of water, 50 they
can have convenient access thereto.
Then step out for five minutes, and the
work will be completed on return.
From the record of our exchanges we
estimate that about ten week are thus
cut off.
An exchange says: A hen has the ca
pacI:y of laying six hundred eggs.
Usually they lay few the first year;
from three hundred and twenty to
three hundred and seventy in the next
three years; and the rest from the fifth
to the ninth year inclusive. The true
economy, therefore, it will be seeB, IS
not to keep hens after the fourth year.
At a fashionable wedding the other
day the officiating clergyman made
ludicrous mistake. Placing himself in
front of one of the two groOmsmen,
he came near uniting him and one of
the bridesmaids in marriage in place of
the bride and groom. In fact he had
progressed half way through the GER
emony before the mistake was discoy-
cred.
The most absurdly ludicrous instance
of "preseuce of mind" ever recorded, Is
that of Portland, Me-, man, who was
awakened from his slumbers by burg
lar, the other night. He went to the
door and coolly informed the impudent
fellow he might have ten minutes IN
which to leave. The rogue took excel
lent advantage of the liberal offer, and
secured many valuable articles which
he must have left on any shorter notice
Rmcacy Of Prayer.
Our self denying friends, the political