The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-21
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
An Sorts ofItems Condensed from the
Ti4 Mails.
Leayenworth, Kansas, has 10000
Queen Vic will open parliament in
| person.
Business at Washington is wretched-
1y dull. -,
Robert Burns youngest son recently
died in England. E
"Hangman" Foote is living in retire
ment at Flushing, Z. I.
A man in Dubuque, Ia, gets $1,000 In
law of fellow who seduced his wife.
Oysters in England are seven times
dearer than they were two or three years
ago.
Forty acres Of land in Doniphan Co.,
Kansas, have this year produced 29O0
bushels of corn.
A French savant thinks the root of
the lucern plant is complete substi-
tute for rags in the manufacture of pa
per. e 5g
9e Railroad accident insurance compa-
MES are becoming almost as numerous
as the accidents. .frlI .-. &
A st. Louis lady who used belladonua
to give brilliancy to her eyes at the re-
cent great ball, is now blind in conse-
quence. .Iaai.i sr-a Er8 e
Stock thieves are busy in Ohio. Ono
farmer recently lost n large hook of
sheep, and was unable to find any trace
| of them. el.-- El--4d -lr 1IHa
Prairie fires, causing immense dam
age, have occurred recently in Iowa.
In one county over 1000 tons of hay
were burned. a et8 $50
A paper to be printed in Chinese will
soon be started in London to circulate
IN Chtnai and advertise European pro-
ducts there.
Old Santa Anna lives Mt st. Thomas
in the West Indies, and some American
naval officers recently danced at n
great ball which he gave.
The English army is to be supplied
with linen shirts, on account OF the
scarcity of cotton, and the Belfast linen
men are therefore jubilant.
A woman has just got $500 damages
in New York for injuries sustained
while she was getting out of an omni-
bus, the driver starting too quick.
The brilliant festivities of the English
court are soon to be resumed, after an
hiatus of four years-to the immense
qualification of the aristocracy.
More than $500, ,OOO, 900 in bullion will
be produced by the mines in this coun-
try, this year. 1t will come handy
when we get back to specie payments.
Two more gold mining companies
have been organized at st. Paul, Minu.
The largest assays are reported at $500
per ton, and the excitement is at fever
heat.
The latest novelties of Paris fashions
are jewelry made in theancient Egypt
ian and Carthegenian style, and hiero-
glyphics stamped or worked on ladies'
dress or crinolineI
More than million children are en-
ployed in English manufactures from
twelve to eighteen hours per day, igno-
rant and debased, without opportunity
of becoming educated. f
The Detroit penitentioly has been de-
nounced by grand Jury who have
been sitting upon it. Indifferent food
and barbarous punishment are the gist
of their complaint. g.
The owners of the Congress and EN-
pire springs, at Saratoga, have contracts
| for all the water they can bottle in the
next ten years, the business amounting
in that time to millions of dollars.
Joe and Bill Benton went to New Or
leans with a fiat boat of corn. Joe
| wrote to his father thus; "Nu Orleens,
Gune 5-Dear Dad markets is dull and
The most extensive brewery in the
world is at Dublin, Ireland. It em-
Ploys three hundred men, and turns out
about $4,000 hogSheads of beer per day.
Each workman is allowed quart
daily. The brewery was started in 1880.
The Missouri Legislature has passed
4 a law permitting the pardon OF we'll
behaved state prison convicts, when
their sentence is three-fourths expired.
| I0V.fu Fs,f,, nNr-. u r.,
pardoned after fifteen years, if they are
Exemplary. 1 e.i
There is singular uniformity in the
number of marine disasters occurring
| in the first eleven months of every year.
| In 1868 there were 40; in 1864, 424: and
in 1865, 41S. The losses reported this
year amount TO twenty-nine millions OF
dollars. ,ytd ,.P-l1-l a
A nice, inoffensive old man named
Golf was horribly butchered in his
house at Sharpsville, Ind, few nights
ago, his head being entirely severed
from his body and then hacked and
disfgured. he was so unfortunate as
to bea loyal man in vilely disloyal
district.
An American who was asked by a
naughty Englishman to bound his
country, thus replied: "America is
bounded on the north by the aurora
poheSI1 Urea l4s' on Inc east oy the rising sun,
on the west by the procession of the
equinoxes, and on the south by the day
| Of judgment"
A man at Cherryville, Hunterdon
county, N. j., who was pronounced in
the last stages of consumption, insisted
on having his body opened. The sur
geon did It reluctantly, took out a sack
of matter weighing five pounds and
three-quarters which was attached tC
one lung, and the man is now recover.
ing. IT .ts
Thad Stevens, the old "war horse" is
now TvoIs ~ IN his 7Sd year; he was born in