The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-14

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in the world. q. Incompatible Mr..
Dibdinl o, most sweet-natured Chris
tian!
All Sorts OF News---A General sum
mary Condensed from the Mails.
The Louisville Journal has raised its
subscription price To Sl2.
The Lincoln monument association
has SIS, 600 in subscription.
Missouri counts up $4,000 immigrants
In the last two mouths.
The Indiana Legislature Is talking
about licensing railway engineers.
The average of railroad accidents for
the last six months Is twelve month.
Steel dust is fatal. Workmen at the
Sheffield cutlery works areold at SOand
die before 80.
The birds Of every kind disappeared
from Constantinople while the cholera
was raging there.
The Illinoisians are complaining of
dry weather and falling wells, bad be-
ginning for winter.
A female suffrage amendment TO the
constitution has been introduced into
the Indiana Legislature.
A magnetic bank-lock without kcyor
key-hole and impossible TO pick, Is
among the recent inventions.
A car has been patented for carrying
oil in the bulk. IL will hold 100 gal
long more than can be shipped in
cooperage.
Albany feels cheerful over a cleansing
the boaTd OF health have promised 10
no - Il n
Anak, the French giant, stands eight
feet i'm his stockings, weighs 4S0 pounds,
can Lift GOO, and is daily growing more
powerful.
Mexico has had in the last 40 years
q different forms Of government, lin
Guiding 81 republics IS presidents,
and over 200 revolutions.
A mineral spring with water much
like Nichy has been discovered on the
farm where was fought the first days
Gettysburg battle.
There are "a Lake Superior copper /.
mining companies with 100000 shares !
all told, and an aggregate paid in CAPT I
tai ofthirteen millions.
The girls ont West-Old maids, prob I
ablv-are forming anti-tobacco societies I
marry any man who uses the weed.
4 young lady at Chesterfield, Morgan (
county, o., was recently shot dead by /
the accidental explosion of gun, just
as she was kissing her lover to bid him .
good bye. -r.'
A divorce case even more disgusting
than the Strong and Harris cases is on .
trial at Upton, Iowa, wealthy banker
Of that place suing for separation from
his wife.
a coal bed. eleven feet thick, was re-
Gently penetrated by bOrers in noun
tain near sheffield, Pa. II Is 30 miles
nearer Lake Erie than any workable
bed yet discovered.
Prof Agassiz has found near hun
dred new species OF fishes in South 1
America, and il In high glee. He and
his party will explore all the lower half
of South America.
During November 20,S7O immigrants
landed in New York, 1879 of whom
were Germans. The arrivals In the
first eleven months Of this year num-
bered is, lOi, including 1896 Germans.
Two members of the French academy,
Drawing all dangers, are hard at work
dissecting the bodies of cholera victims
with view TO ascertaining the cause OF
the disease and cure for II.
The Governor of Mississippi has been
invited In think ola scheme of shorten
ing the Mississippi river, so that the dis
lance from Cairo TO New Orleans would .
be 900 instead of 1900 miles.
without any change In the value Of
gold here, greenlIacks have fallen l0c on .
the dollar in san Francisco. or from 7jc .
10 6jc in gold. IL is cheaper, therefore,
to buy gold here than TO sell greenbacks /
there.
The cattle disease has largely increas- I.
ed the price of beef in England, and the I
butchers are abused for working up dis /
eased cattle and horse flesh in sausages. /
Beef-eating Johnny Bull is really in l
distress. "a. III
Chili's foreign trade amounts 10 el6,-
OO0. 600 annually, much OF II being in I
copper. No wonder the English and /
French capitalists were stirred up by a
blockade of her ports and that Spain /
had to withdraw il.
The Delaware peach growers lost I
slOO. 900 last season by the failure of the 1
Delaware Railroad TO transport all their /
peaches to market, as 10 had agreed To I
do. They are therefore bringing suits .
against it, and winning them.
Gov. Bramlette has sent To the Ken
lucky legislature the resolutions of the
Vermont legislature faYoring negro
suffrage, and condemns them strongly,
denying the right of Congress, the pres
ident, or any one, to make the negro
voter.
A bill is seriously pressed in the Mis-
souri, legislature that no officer in the
confederate army shall hereafter be adj
dressed by his military title unless the
ward rebel" is prehXed to il. Thus
Gen" Price will be unlawful; but
"rebel Gen" Price would be just right.
The New York Round Table having
berated Gen. Grant for assOciaiing with
such fast men and sporting characters
rs George Wilkes, the latter comes down
upon the Round Table by calling its
editor n Bohemian pole-cat, cracker
nibbling scribbler. "A foul harpie, and
other pleasant epithets, which fully
show the justice of the Round Tables
original statements.