The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

oCCIlCk soy iiNch ''At ~
sign of the millennium.
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler will spend
the summer in Europe.
The income of Ex-Governor Brown of
Georgia, is Sl3,51S.
Professor Leinbach is constructing an
aerial ship at Bethlehem, Pa.
The doors of the Episcopal churches
in Hartford are locked during service.
The discussions among the Republi-
cans in Florida still continue.
Gov. Brownlow will be one of the
cheerful elements of the Chicago Con
vention.
Eight per cent. of the Atlantic cable
receipts comes from the American side.
The Jail ut Monmouth, ILL.,, is now
empty, but the Sheriff advcrtises that
it has been thoroughly cleaned and re-
fitted.
The Tennessee Legislature passed
law during its late session, increasing
the tax on marriage licenses to four dol
lars.
A conscience-stricken thief in Maine
recently returned a bolt of cloth, on
which was written Rum took it, So
Der thought brought it back"
General Sherman in writing to q
friend in Columbus, says of the Kansas
hotels, that "their price is three dollars
a day-board and lodging extra"
Work is to be resumed on the new
bridge at Niagara Falls this week, and
it is expected that the floor will be down
about the lst of June.
An epileptc Michigan convict sleeps
FIVE days at nap. He eats nothing
during these periods; and no means have
been invented to keep him awake.
A FIR ench paper states that an asaly-
sis Of suicide shows that married men
aud women are more liable to make
way with themselves than bachelors
and widows.
A German woman in Hartford car
ried her rheumatic husband on her back
to the polls, to vote tho Democratic
ticket. The crowd made up purse of
$500 for her.
During the storm on Thursday in
Louriuberg, Richmond csunty, n. c.,
Rev. John Il. McKinuon aud Lauchlin
MeLaurie were struck by lightning and
instantly killed.
Rev. S. II. Tying, Jr., has again been
cited to show cause why he should rot
be suspended from the ministry, for
preaching in a Methodist meeting
house, which he did immediately after
his admOnition.
A Washington correspondent is con
WINGED by careful observation, that, in
lobbying scheme through Congress,
female beauty is far mOIe potent than
brains or bank notes.
A party of Spanish brigands carried
off an old man in January, settling his
ransom at $4,000. He has just been
found in the depths of huge cavern,
where he had been lodged and fed for
more than two months.
The Pope said, in conferrisg the car
dinars hat upon Prince Lucien Bona
parte, that he did so mot only TO re-
compsnse his services, but also to hon
or tire generous nation so devoted to |
the Holy See, and the illuStrious sover-
eign who has rendered such brilliant |
service TO the Papacy."
A freedman who left Charleston,
South Carolina, for Liberia, few
months age, writes back the most glow
ing accounts of matters and things
there. He says he "never felt free un-
til be reached the colored mans own re-
public" and is quite rapturous in de-
scribing the luXuriant fertility of the
country. He advises all his friends to
Join him in the new Gland of promise"
There is story of man who bought
lot of hogs in Illinois and drove them
slowly to Chicago. He was compelled
to sell at loss of $500. Returning home
he was asked by his neighbors what
were the profits of the operation.
"Well,r said he, II reckon didn't make
much money out of the trip, but had
the company Of the hogs doom"
In the town of Milton, Wayne county,
Indiana, the other night, party Of
about twenty women, with the assist
ance of four or FIVE men, visited Cranes
and Bratton's whisky shops, broke
down the doors with axes, demolished
the furniture, and spilled the fiery fluid
In the street This action is supposed
70 indicate a prejudice in the. minds of
the MiitoDian amazons against the bus
mess of whisky selling.