The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-13
CURRENT ITEMS.

Saratoga, n. Y, has gone Democratic.
Lettuce is already in the Alton, ILL.,,
market.
Springfield, o., is to build a sl0O, 900
hotel this summer.
Stctson's st. James Hotel, in Boston,
is to be the largest in the country.
Over 100, ,OOO, 900 fares were collected
upon the New York city railroads last
year.
The city election of Brighton, n. j.,
has been gained by the Democrats.
zsThree-fourths of Jefferson, Texas, has
been burned to the ground.
The Irish in Springfield are emigrat-
ing to California in large numbers
English paupers increase in number
at the rate Of $4,000 year.
The British navy is being supplied
with life-boats propelled by steam.
A stone cover over the Seine, on
which to erect houses, is projected i'll
Paris. s..Ht
Cincinnati has given over eighty
thousand bushels of coal to the poor this
winter.
The late Charles Kean was the first
manager who took strolling company
round the world. .s-..e
A tract of good Virginia land was re-
Gently sold at 81 per acre.
There are 5000 servant girls out of
employment in New York city.
January was the coolest month in
Minnesota for forty-eight years.
The Radical Republicans have made
a pretty clean sweep of county officers
in all parts of Tennessee.
An ice gorge at Rock Island has
flooded portion of the city and done
considerable damage.
A recently married youHg man says he
did not find it half so hard to take a
wife as get the furniture.
California is to have a paper in the
Russian language for the six thousand
persons of that nationality in the State.
The Kentucky Legislature has fixed
the time for olecting Representatives
to Congress in November next.
A young couple i'll Oxford, n. Y, who
were married last Christmas day, were
buried together last Sunday.
A feminine quarrel in Philadelphia
was recently decided by one smashing
a kerosene lamp over the head of her
antagonist and burning her to death.
A woman in Pesth, Hungary, has con-
fessed that she beguiled and murdered
sixteen men to get their money.
At recent sale of autographs in New
York, George Washington's brought s.,
and Tom Paine's 81.
A company has been organized to con-
struct ditch sixty miles long, to con-
duct water to mine in Colorado. 1t
will cost over two and quarter mil
lions.
At the last meeting of the American
Institute Farmers Club in New York,
it was stated that ofcattle alone $780,
000,000 worth die annually in this
country.
In a county in California three thous-
and people have been indicted for wit
Messing a prize fight, and the sheriff is
travelling about arresting the entire pop
ulation.
A society of MormOns, numbering
about fifty, including "young men and
maidens," has been organized in New
ark, n. j., with the intention Of emigra-
ting to Utah in the summer.
There is said to be an uneXampled
run of shad in the North Carolina sounds.
Upwards of sixteen thousand nets have
been set, and the fishermen are exceed
ingly jubilant.
A lady in New Orleans petitions the
City Council 70 pay her fare to Wash.
ington, where she expects to receive
s625, ,OOO, 900 from an English estate. 1t
all depends on her getting money enough
to go to Washington.
A horSe-hesh banquet is to be given
in New York city, to follow the exam-
ple of Paris and London. 1t is to be
hoped that if horse-hesh is introduced
in America, it will cause a reduction in
the price of beef.