The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-25
GENERAL NEWS Summary.
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FT,l Mails. ~
"A lady once remarked that "careless-
ness was little better than a halfway
house between accident and design"
The greatest organ in the world-the
organ OF speech in woman; an organ,
too, withouta stop. = ..'7l5
May not bird who sleeps upon the
wing be said to occupy a feather bed 2
When isia prison-doOr like an escaped
thiefH When it's bolted,
Miss Anna Dickinson, in her lectures.
makes good many Hhits at husbands,' y
We guess she will never get a chance to
make one at a husband Of her own.
A well-to-do farmer of Randolnb
Wis, hung himself in barn, leaving n
slip of paper on which was written !:
ben Miller is the cause of my death,
He has cheated me out of my farm. %
Love not thy children too unequaIly;
or, if thou dost, show it not, lest thou
mike the one proud, the other envious,
and both fools. If Nature hath made n
difference, it is the part of atender pa
rent to help the weakest. That trial is
unfair where affection is the judge.
The st. Joseph Union estimates that
not less than fifty thousand have been
added to the population of Missouri bV
immigration within the last sixty days,
A correspondent writes from Calves
ton, Texas: "Cattle are selling within
fifty. miles of here Mt one dollar and a
ha1fper head, and at this price thousands
of beeves can be bought" -faosHd2 -
A report from Texas represents that
spirit of restlessnesS seems to have
taken possession of the people. Every
road is said to be filed with movers in
search of new homes and fairer pros
pects.
How many amusing and ridiculous
scenes should've eiwitness in this world
if each pair of men that secretly laugh
at each other were to laugh at each 9TH
er aloud.
Artemas says, Gas for the Wards,
they air known all the world over, and
every big city will in the blessed Union
has all its little divisions called after
them. In New York and Boston there
is the fust Ward, and the second Ward,
and so on the one hundreth Ward, and
in Paris and London, and evPrywhere,
we are hOn0red with the same remem-
brances. guess that's sum honor. And
even down South, its more than proba-
BILE, they've some Wards in their small
villages; and we are SO popular that
even the workin apartments in the pen
itentiaries air named in the same way"
John Bnght's adhesion to and con-
fidence in the Russell ministry of Eng
land is an assurance that liberal pol
icy, far IN advance OF previous ones,
may be expected. No man in England
has done more for parliamentary reform
than John Bright, and the efforts the
conservatives nre making to prove him
a disappointed office-seeker, will fall
short of their object. ID, ,.-,..z
James Madison, who has been called
1.-THE Father Of the Constitution was
the Secretary of State who announced
the twelfth amendment to that instru-
'ment. His proclamation bears date
September 25, 1904. After more than
sixty years Mr.. Seward has the rare
satisfaction of announcingt the adoption
of the anti-slaYery amendment hy the
requisite three-fourths of the States.
A great ten months, excursion is
planned to leave New York in May in
a first-class steamer chartered for the
purpose. England, Ireland, France.
Italy, Russia, Egypt, the Holy Land,
and in fact all countries of special in
terest in Europe, Asia and Africa, will
be briefly visited. One hundred ex-
cursionists at $500 apiece will be taken.
The proposed trip, as ordinarily made,
would consume two years and $1,000 in
gold for n single traveller.