The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-15
NEWS or THE DAN.

Itenns Condensed from the Mails.
The National Union Bank of Phila-
t-deiphia on Wednesday announced a
dividend of forty per cent, clear of
taxes, out of the contingent fund
twenty per cent. payable in cash on de-
mand, and twenty per cent. in the stock
of the bank at par. s,lt ~ -
The Detroit Free Press says that
'lS7, 500 bushels of potatoes have been
4 purchased in that place for shipment
by twelve of the principal buyers
This at an average price of As cents per
4 bushel would foot up S60,sT5. ,q6l s.
A Richmond paper says that some of
the leading capitalists of the North,
! afterlYisiting Richmond and seeing the
condition of affairs in Virginia, have
Ebegup the formation of "Loan Associa-
tions;" with sufficient capital to make
liberal loans. -. illlE7
It is difficult to have a straightfor-
ward answer from a Highland witness,
\ One of the Scottish judges, weary of the
| eyasions and circumlOcutiOns of such a
one, said to the interpreter, "NIr. Mac
wheedle, do desire the man to say Yes
or No, If the Gaelic Language admits Of
that subtle distinction"
1 An Indiana farmer, recently deceased.
I
forty bond to be applied to the extin-
guishment of the national debt. Were
he alive, itwould crafty him, probably,
| to know that his money would pay the
interest on the debt for exactly tIUo
NIiTittcSI % aai 7e alr-t
The French papers tell of the baptis-
NAL dress of an infant in Paris, on
which the embroidery and lace cost
\ $lS 900. We fancy that most of the
dressmakers there must be firm pedo-'
baptists. 5
Buffalo is to have first class opera
house. -
20 France produces a hundred million
pounds of beet sugar annually.
The hog crop of Western Illinois will
not be half as large this year rs usual.
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, is
likely. to succeed Judge Catron on the
Y. S. Supreme bench. aET.
''The patriot Palmerston-was he
saved Z" is the interesting title of n
pamphlet just issued in England.
Cold weather makes no difference
with the cholera in Florence, and it has
reappeared at Alexandria and TTebi-
zond after having entirely ceased. a.
A pretty woman, whose dress was
iscRndnlously low i'll the neck, was re-
Gently Missed out of the stalls of Lon
don theatre. If she had been ON the
stage, no objection would have been
made.
England has a revolution imam un-
expected quarter. The little Island of
Lundy, celebrated for its grdnite, and
| always the home of pirates, refuses to
allow shcriffs or policemen to land on
its shores. tEa 'tsD
AT recent. prize fight at Helena,
! Montana Territory, 81 rounds were
fought and night compelled a suspen-
sion of hostilities. No less than 2500
people Mt So apiece, including several
women, witnessed the contest. as
What becomes of all the three cent
| pieces Since the first of June this
year, seven million four hundred thou
| sand of the latter coins have been Is
sued from the mint at philadelphia;
but one is very rarely seen in circula-
ton.
| An elegant tablet and monument are
to be erected at Westminster Abbey to
Lord Palmerston's memory. The spot
whore he lies is now indicated by piece'
of cardboard, on which is the simplei
inscription, ''Lord PalmeTston's grave.y,
The current statement that the cotton
| manufacturers were making u dollar
i.out of every. pound of cotton they
worked UP has produced the counter
statement that a pound of cotton makes
three yards of cloth, that production
and raw material cost Gle, and that the
cloth is now selling at 32c wholesale.
Poor fellowsl how cheaply the manu-
faCturers do have to work ) ...l
The Journal of Opinion is the name
of a paper just started in New York.
1t Will reproduce articles from leading
American and foreign journals, and
thus give picture of public opinion.
The Whig says that since June 18th
the U. s. Commissary has distributed
520, 400 free rat!Ons in Richmond, and is
now distributing 1000 week. Cruel
government, isn't il? The poor are to
| be turned over to the city authorities.
How they are then to be provided for.
Heaven only knows, the Ttiig says.
The New York Tribune coins the
word "yiatricide," from Ctdtor, trav-
eler, which it applies TO the slaughter
iof railway passengers.
| (. A flock OF wild geese kept pace with
l a train of cars ON the Hudson River
Railroad, going about thirty miles an
hhour, the other day, for ten miles, when
they changed their course. =.
ABoston correspondence of the Spring.
field Republican gives publicity to the
report that Henry Ward Beecher in
tends quitting the pulpit md entering
tinto politics as profession. The World
suggests that it would be more of n
novelty if' announced that he is about
abandoning politics for the expounding
of the Gospel. aa ~
JEFF DAVIS F,KNILY.4A Montreal
Correspondent of the New York Herald
gives the following account of the FAM
ny of JEFF. Davis, now living in that
city, and in poor circumstances:
1 i'It consists of Mrs. Howell, Miss
4 Howell and Willy Davis. Margaret
| Davis is ut the Sacred Heart convent,
int LenOxVille. Owing to the sudden
fall to nothing of therebel paper money
the family found themselves five thou
sand dollars less in funds than they ex-
I pected to be, and were in consequence
1 very much straitened in means-so
much so that they had to leave house
bwhere the charge for living was small,
/ to go into another one where it was still
smaller. Master William Davis is a
fine boy of four of more years of age.
He looks a little like his fatherE, the
l nose promising to be aquiline. His
forehead Is a very good one, OF Miss
4 Margaret Davis and Master Jefferson
very little is seen in this city. They
are both described as fine children, the
| girl being nine years of age and the
/ boy about seven, the latter resembling
his father in some features. AS may
4 be imagined, the family are very warm
4 on the matters of the late rebel cause.
4 The yonng lady is particularly so; and
the two boys, with boyish bOldness,
| speak very freely, and now and then
4 indulge in little ebullitions Of anger;,
saying what they would do II they
were men,g66c. In regard to this, VIII
lily one day placed a row of apples ON a