The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-17
CURRENT ITEMS.

DcNoiiy 1uSASA 10 SAN 80
ines.
The election in Louisiana begins to-
day.
Frost blighted the fruit crop at Nash
Vile last week.
Austria paid $4,000 to get Maxi
milian's body back.
Monograms in the place of door-plates
are the latest style.
Florida is producing two pound
lemons.
The French troops in Italy now num-
Der $500.
Wheat in the Shenandoah Valley is
locking finely.
Hartford's book business last year
was S3,0OO,0O0.
One of the Abyssinian captiVes, q
lady, has written for side-saddle.
Bethel, Connecticut, has eighty Sep
tuagenarians in population OF 2OOO.
The Cleveland skating rink pays 80
per cent. dividends to the stockholders
The Tailors' Association of New York
has OH its rolls 63l members.
The Mormons expect 10000 emigrants
from Europe thisseason.
East Tennessee reports the wheat crop
unusually promising.
A cotton manufacturers convention
is to be held in New York on the 29th
inst.
The peach buds in Southern Ohio are
reported nearly killed by frost.
Only one gold watch is reported for
taxation in the whole State OF Georgia.
Mr.. Dickens is said ts have sent home
$4,000 in gold, as part of his profits.
C. M. Norton, colored, is candidate
for Congress from the First District OF
Virginia.
The buffalo gnats have appeared In
Northern Mississippi, and are doing
great damage to the live stock.
Official documents show that ,743, ,49l
men have been killed in battle, in the
last fourteen years.
The French astronomers want their
observatory removed from Paris, on ac-
count of the .jarring of the streets.
The grading and track laying os the
Union Pacific Road has been com
menced. The snow is nearly all gone
Thurlow Weed confesses to having
sent ''his mite" to help the Radicals in
New Hampshire. The "mite" was
$4,000.
Austin Henry was fatally shot by his
son, in Pike county, Illinois, on the 9Th
instant. The circumstances of the
shocking crime are unknown.
A reunion of officers of the army OF
the Potomac is proposed to be held at
Gettysburg, about the lst of July, to
celebrate the anniversary of the battle
at that place.
A large cave has been explored near
Bentonville, Arkansas, to the distance
of nine miles. One chamber is six hun
dred feet wide, and three hundred feet
high.
One hundred dollars per acre are
made in North Carolina by the peanut
crop this year, while the cotton plant
erS have not funds to procure mules OF
supplies.
A Frenchman, who was arrested in
ls49, for crying "Vive pEmpereur," was
sent to prison the other day for shout
ing "Vive la Republique." The judge
told him he must not only learn what
to cry, but when.
A reconstructed Arkansas coroner
charged reconstructed jury that they
were to find out whether the deceased
met his death "by accidence, by Incl.
dence, OF by. incendiary." The jury
rendered verdict of death "by acci.
dence in the shape of bowie-knife."
The Lebanon, Kentucky, Clarion tells
about remarkable coincidence" which
occurred there on Saturday, the "coin'
cidence" consisting in the fact that
while the house of Mr.. Lanham was
burning down, Mr., Lanham's wife, hav'
ing taken refuge in the garden, there
and then gave birth to son.
George Vestal, young Quaker whe
was conscripted into the Confederate
army, presistently refused to perform
military duty, though every means were
resorted to, even the bayonet was ap
piled without effect. He was finally
courtmartialed for insubordination
and confined in Castle Thunder at Rich
mond, where he remained until the
downfall of the CoHfederacy.