Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-19
WI EEIING VA FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 49, 1885, :
THE INTELLIGENGER.
NEWS SUMMARY.

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A Paris letter says the extravngances in fe-
male dress at the French Court exceeds any
thing Of the kind ever known there. An income
of $4,000 year scarcely suiIices to dress equal
to the requirements Of the court An American
lady, whose husband was rich, determined to
outshine the Empress at one of the receptions
She nearly ruined her husband, but she accomp-
lIshed her object, and was called the best dress
ed woman of the party.
A London paper states that within the last
few days all the steamboats, coming from French
ports have brought large numbers of French ref
ugees, who having been implicated, more or less,
in revolutionary attempts in 1s4s or 1851, are
afraid to remain in their own country, with the
prospect of the immediate passing of the tyran-
nous "Law of Suspects" under which myriads
of Frenchmen will be at the mercy of any police
man.
THE feeling in favor Ofa general bankrupt law
appears to he growing in New York, and many
of the prominent presses and business men are
its warm advocates. 1t is suggested that the
defects of the act of 1871 can be avoided and u
system of bankruptcy formed, which will do jus
tice to both debtor and creditor. 1t is thought
that President Buchanan's plan for putting the
banks of the country through the same ordeal
as individuals when in difficulty, Will be inclu-
ded in the scheme.
IL the House of Representatives, on Monday,
the bill granting pensions to officers and sol
diers of the war OF 1912, and those engaged in
Indian wars, came up as the regular order
Mr.. Savage, of Tennessee, moved that it be COM
mitted to the Committee of the Whole, and be
made n special order for the 22d, 23d, and gath
days of April next, and this was agreed to,
der suspension of the rules, without count.
This movement is considered an indication of
favor to the measure.
sharp and wealthy farmer of Macoupin
county, ILL.,, not many miles from Brighton and
Miles Station, has on hand, it is stated 300
bushels of choice wheat the crop of 1885,
Last year he refused $I,75 per bushel for it
He held on for 50. He has now contracted to
deliver it at the railroad at 73 cents per bushcl
- The r,e-oo- f1,rl uentl, the 4tn instant,
ner Rockingham, Richmond county, n. C., as
was feared has proved to be the Rev. Mr.. De-
ruelle, the faithful and jealous agent of the
American Bible Society. He leaves family at
Princeton, New Jersey.
The Van AnLurgh equestrirn troupe, at New
York, has lately been much increased by the
accession of Madame Tounaire, who performed
here in Wheeling about a year ago, decidedly
the greatest performer of the age. Her weight
is two hundred pounds.
AMONG the sufferers by the late attempt to as
sasinate Louis Napoleon in the Rue LepeIlitier,
was Mr. Haas, an American merchant. He
died from u wound in the head, on the 25th of
January
TnENE has recently been heavy fall of snow
in Egypt. Such an occurrence is not within
the recollection of the oldest residents of the
country.
The result of the recent Court-AInrtial upon
Col Sumner, at Carlisle Barracks, was the ae-
qltittal of Col. S. upon both the charges prefer
red against him by Gen. Harvey.
CAPT CHASE, the bark Roebuck, from Rio
Janiero, reports that yellow fever was prevailing
there among the shipping to a greatexteut when
he lefl, Jan. &c.
A Petition fourteen feet long, signed by
great number Of property y-holders of Hudson
City, for its annexation to Jersey City as the
Fifth Ward, was sent to Trenton on Tuesday.
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How THE FAM EuGEN1E WAS UNEXPECTEDLY
KIssED.-The Paris correspondent of the New
York Courier relates the following as positive
fact:
At the moment when excitement, alarm and
confusion were at their acme, circumstance oc-
Cured of the most comic kind to the intended
victims Of the internal machine. The Emperor
bad Just stepped out Of his carriage ON the pres
sing invitation Of I4Anet, and had turned, shock
ed and horrifed. to contemplate the one hun
dred aud fifty people who were writhing around
him, when lac felt his hand grasped by an un-
known man, oFnpparently low rahk in life, who
warmly congratulated him on his escape
Thanking the man hurriedly, the Emperor re-
sumed, as I have said above, his regard of the
sufferers aud gave orders for attention to them.
His intrusive felicitntOr turned from him in
equal haste, took the Empress in his arms, law
Iished on her his compliments on her escape and
kissed her dozen times. When the Empress
entered her box, and ecounted the incidents OF
the explosion and its consequences, as far as
she was concerned, she added, "And was kis-
sed with warmth by some person. but by whom
cannot conceive" ''It was no doubt, the
e.Ta friend trho shook m7 hand - said the Pm.