The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-17

News Summary.

! Major General Henry W. Benham, OF
Meriden, ca 9nnecticut, who was only
Capt. Benhatn under Mcclellan in West
Virginia here, at the outbreak of the
war, has been ordered to the command
of the COAST defenses, and has estab-
lished his h4 4adquarters at Boston. HE
has won high reputation as an engi-
neer during the rebellion.
Queen Victoria is expected to go to
Germany it August, where there is to
be family meeting, and the inaugura-
ton of a statue to the late Prince AL
bert, for VIII tom, as London high class
journal said the other day, ''she is still
pleased to mourn
The NasATiIlFs tf6szetse reiterates that
Gen. w. T! Sherman became a commu-
meant of the Cs 6pFte Church Just be-
fore enteriFg upcHetfye service in the
At the Chicago Fair, one day, after
the wives bf Generals Grant and Sher=
man had been introduced to the people.
the crowd called for the wife of General
Hooker, but the old bachelor had no
wife to introduce. He said he hoped to
haye one when next he visited Chicago,
Fighting Joe" is betrothed to a fair
Cincinnati belle.
Hon. Oai ikes Ames, Congressman from
Massachusetts, returns his YEARLY in
come at $500, 900.
Blondi9 is said to be performing
some most wonderful feats in Paris, and
attracts immense crowds.
The weather is dry and hot in Scot
land to au unprecedented degree. The
mouhtaf1 streams are drying up and
the sportsmen are in despair.
A paper published in Utah attributes
the Indian difficulties in that region
entirely to the Mormons, who studi-
iously labor to show the aborigines that
the Americans, as they call all who are
not Mor1hons, are the enemies of the
red men.
The consumption of beer is rapidly
increasing in the United States. In
1850, thel amount sold was eight mil
lions of barrels. In 1864, the quantity
used had Increased to twenty-four mil
lions of barrels, or about an average of
barrel 4piece for everybody.
The New York DoiE3t Meas, edited by
John Mitchell prior to his arrest, and
now by ben. Wood, says that Robert
r. Lee a4d William T. Sherman are the
only. two really great men developed
by the war. De jttstibILS non CIiSplttGN-
dem est.
President Johnson's name was duly
hissed aPd hooted by the young snobs
and SweIls OfOXfOrd University at their
annual 1Commemoration''- they
claim an immemoriaI right to behave
like blackguards in the expression of
was that of John Bright, John Stuart
Mill, and every man and thing not
identified with class interests and the
conservation of abuses.
1t is said there are persons, who live
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. keep their
carriages, and have a box at the opera,
and yet only return an income of six
huTcreIIt dollars. filis fs=jecoseIy nc-,
counted for by the. fact that every man
has a right to deduct his house-rent
from his income, and by the supposi-
ton that each one of these persons de-
ducts the rental of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
The little boys of Troy now amuse
themselves in the streets by playing
the new and popular game of jeff.
Davis,i as follows: Each in turn put
an old hoop-skirt and bonnet, runs
awayand is pursued and captured blythe
others representing the Union soldiers,
who, amid great noise and confusion,
contne him a prisoner in some unfor-
tunat9 neighbOr's area, and laugh at
him through the bars until the occu-
pants of the house chase the rogues
away
During the last week there were re-
leased from prison stations sol rebel
prisoners, making total of 1891 dis
charged by President johnson. There
are now none but sick prisoners left.
Tho words of the poet HalIeck,
None knew thee but to love thee,
None name thee but to praise,
can'twen be applied to the poets name
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