The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-18


l can only say that it has been pro-
nounced superior to any coal oil pro-
duced in this country, and only euunlel.
If equ9led, by the Scotch boghead can,
mel. Ihnve had machinest to test IL
in his polishing machine, $500 revolu-
tlons minute. He says it is not equal
10 lard oil for such quick motion. but
1t is superior to any petroleum he has
tried and TINT he has used 1t from many
wells; has more body and lasts longer
than any petroleum. The quality of
tho oil surprises all judges of oil, it
being SO much heavier than its thick
ness would indicate. There is very lit
Gator In crude state, yet produced"
News OF the Day as Cleaned from the
MHils'"-All Sorts of Odds and Ends.
The New York World says: "The
largest months BUSINESS of dry goods
ever transacted in the metropolis was
during the thirty days ending Septenl-
Der 10th, 1865. The city was swept clear
of cotton goods, and so importunate
and ineessant were the orders. that the
manufacturers have been asking and
getting from sixty to one hundred per
cent. upon the cost value of their goods.
LUZ AAAss Nato AOO EOtlNl " luSI, ana Ifllue
hns come to sudden and unexpected
pause. Retailers have discovered that
consumers won't stand the enormous
advance in cotton goods, AS compared
with the early summer prices, and so
they refuse to huy. Prices have rece-
ded already, and there may be, and
ought to be, tumble. With an album
dance of raw cotton mt moderate
price, and the mills all over the country
in full blast, there will soon be goods;
enough ut fair rates, If consumers will
hold upH little. Manufacturers cannot
expect 70 get thirty-five cents per yard
for prints which cost them only sixteen
cents, for more than u month nj IL time.
Consumers do right i'll Striking against
so enormous profit"
a DEVOTED WIFE.-NIrs. Lee, of
Philadelphia, whose husband was CON
victcd of fraudulent enlistment some
weeks ago, and pnrdoned by tho Presi-
dent, but Immediately re-nrrcstcd on
other indictments for the samc class of
ottenses, was again mt the White House
wednesday morning, petitioning for
her husbands full and final pardon,
From her rndiHnt cnuntcnancc, MS she
lelL thc Executive mansion for tho At
torncy Generals office, her suit Iyns
pronounced successful.
He WAS DIsMIssED.-NIr. Thomas NJ.
Key, Democratic candidate for the Su-
preme bench in Ohio, is not the Kew
who was cashiercd for saying sit was
not the gamef to beat the rebels. But
1t appears he ardS dismissed for some
cause. The Army Register for 1863 mt
the War Department, bears this record:
'Ihomns NJ. Key, Ohio, dismissed
dent"
AT Pittsburgh, the other day, three
men went into n lager-beer saloon, and
two commenced catching all the flies
therein, while the third ate the insects
aS fast as caught, on II bet that he could
eat them quicker than his companions
conld eaten them. They were arrested
and fined 80 each for the fun. n
THE SOCIAL EVIL IN PuILADELpIIIA.
THE police of Philadelphia made n
midnight descent, one night last week,
on twenty-One disreputable houses in
that city, and arrested one hundred
and twenty-three persons, of whom all
but three We're females. The miserable
| women were marched with military
| precision through the streets, and they
sang deiinntly jovinl and other songs.
They filled the stntion-house to over
lowing, and magistrate had to be
| walked up to nttcnu to them. They
We're tried, one ut n time, and the pro-
/ prletorS and mistreSses We're held to
| bail for their appearance to stand trial
4 ut Court. II Is snid that the police OF
\ Philadelphia intend to break up the
peculiar institutions of that city, but
! whether they cnnsucCeed in e,Stinruish-
| ing "the social evil" by spasmodic cru
sades of this kind, is another question.
Orders have been served upon several
of our fancy goods dealers, prohibiting
them from exposing to the public or
/ oIterlng Tor sale engraYings, plates, or
4 pictures of the assassin John Wilkes
Booth, or the notorious guerrilla leader
Sue Mundy, on pain of fine and i'm
Prlsonlnent.-LoW Journal.
The Atlantis -Intelligenceg states that
an excellent movement Is in progress
in Georgia to cut up n thousand acres
into small treeholds, and sell them to
occupants who will work the land, The
true and rapid prosperity of the Soutll
lies in this direction.
A line of small steamers has been
placed on the Illinois and Michigan
canal, between Chicago and Peru, II
Is soon 10 be increased TO n daily line
OF Governor Brough, the Louisville
Journal says: For many years, in the
old Wing and Democratic times, he was
n Democratic editor, and an exceeding.
ly effective one. We had many sharr
and some rather savage tournaments
with him. Sometimes, though no
ofteL, he wns witty. We remember nj
instance. He WINS n very corpulen
gentleman, and one day we assailet
him with this little coupiet:
II flesh is grass, as people say,
Then Johnny BrOugh's load of hay
1 suspect 1 must be-" replied Mr.
Brough, "from the way the asses mr.
J nibbling at me, -, q
( The generals and soldiers are bein,
well cared for throughout the country
[ In Ohio general heads the republicSI
ticket and another general oppose
him: In Minnesota, general head
} the Union colunIn; in Iowa, n colonel
In New Jersey the democrats have Gen
Runyon as their standard bearer. Il
> Pennsylyan four gallant soldiers mr.
running for prominent offices. In 'Ney
YORK the democrats have nominnte,
Gems. Slocum and Patrick. IlGI
The receipts of the Western Uniol
Il Ielegraph company for July, 1865, wer
$685. ,S54, and for the corresponiinl
: month last year SlSI, I,28s, fncreas
S5s, ,5f6. The. total earnings from Jonu
, ary to July 81, 1885, Wera 81, nj. .5IC
and for the same time in 1854, 81 ,l4S. ~
2 Increase $3.50, ,2IO.