The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-14

TGNGlplS VI NuSGJllS uHnNhC bNhS y
New York last week were 81, 745, ,999, OF
Oregon has elected the first Repre-,
sentative TO the Fortieth Congress-
Republican. sr-
! Silver has been discovered on farm
near Greenville, Augusta county, va.
and old. miners pronounced the zdevel'
opments very rich.
The approaching war in Germany is
bringing the Germans off from their
Fatherland, and il is estimated that
200, 600 of them will leave for this coun'
try during the summer.
The Commissioner of Pensions isen'
gagged in preparing circular OF exPla'
nation ofthe recent act of Congress re-
specting increased pensions. 1t Will be
promulgated in u few days.
Mr.. Robert Carroll, of Winamac, In
diana, has n natural curiosity-a sing
ing mouse. II is small and almost
let black. 1t sings like a canary bird
and is the wonder of every beholder..
There is such dearth of physicians
/ and Surgeons in the Austrian navy that
the Government offers to engage oung
men who have not yet completed theiI
medical studies.
Judge Barrett, Commissioner of Pen.
sions, is engaged in preparing instruc'
Etions and forms applicable TO. the new
supplementary pension act approved or
the 9th instant. a
Mrs. r. E. Noah, widow of the late
| Major Noah, and one of the proprietors
! of the Sunday Times newspaper, died
lately at her residence in New York,
aged fifty six years. .--
It is understood that Hon. John
Minor Bolts, of Virginia, has consent
ed TO deliver an Grafton at Patterson
Park, Baltimore, on the approaching
! Fourth of July. .s.- t ~ 8
The Senate has ordered the printing
j of fifty thousand copies of the Report
| of the Committee on Reconstruction
The House will probably order the
printing of n similar number.
J. II. Eddy, of waukegan, ILL.,, has
sheared thirty -four pounds ofwool from
two lambs, few days over fourteen
months old. The bucks fleece weighed
eighteen and a halt pounds, and that o
the eve fifteen and II half pounds.
A young man in Troy, ate at one
meal on Thursday, 25 eggs, and the
local papers are puzzled TO know what
the anatomical construction OF his stonl'
ach can be. At latest accounts, the
| pormandiZer was still alive and COM
planning of being hungry.
A fatal duel was fought recently in
the environs of Paris between two Off
GERS of the garrison. One of them was
killed on the spot; the other had his
breast pierced, tbs believed mOrtally
| The Doctors horse, as he was leaving
the field, took fright, threw him against
a tree, and killed him on the spot.
A nnmbero of young Germans engaged
in commercial pursuits, are compelled
TO leave London, having received orders
to iOin the Prussian and Saxon armies,
If they do not obey the summons, they
lose The rights of citizenship. and any
property they:may inherit is forfeited.
A letter received recently at the Wal
Department from Arizona. Territory
gives the details of the murder, by ln'
dians. of DR.. Benjamin Fappan, sur
geon q. s. a., while on an inspecting
tour between Forts Goodwin; ano
Grant. HHa Hr - 4.-'la
Speaking of his mother, Gen. Scot
says in his autobiography, published
in 1864: III, in my prutracted career
[ have achieved anything worthy o.
being written, anything that my coun-
litrymen are likely to honor in the nexi
century, it is from the lessons OF that
admirable parent that derive the IN
spiration." ers-E
i Hastings, of the Albany Rnicke1'
booker, has received the first trophy o
the Fenfan war, in the shape of bear
lskin cap that was captured from one o.
the BritishiregulHrs during the recenl
'lfieht in Canada. 1t is exhibited, anC
"large crowds as eagerly gaze upon tnt
\ cap as if il was u British General IN re-
! gala that had been captured and stood
before them."
4 The British authorities of Calcuttt
have just completed a census, whict
shows that the city with its suburbs
contains one million inhabitants. 1r
the city proper, excluding all the grea'
suburbs, there are S7S, ,O66 people, o.
whom ii ,O67 are Europeans and Amer
| Eo,, II Ind N -33 ! FeAekS
722 Armenians, 40S Chinese, 1856
MussuInen, and 239, $50 Hindoos. They
live in 1896 houses and 42,9l7 huts.
The morals of the people of Evans
vile, Ind, must be sadly ydeteriorating
Judging by the. following from the
Courier. "It is bad enough in all con-
science that our young men ruin them
selves by drinking, but 1t seems thai
this destructive habit Is spreading
among the young ladies. Fancy drinks
are mixed up, containing brandy, WINS
kew, or other intoxicating liquors, moi
onIV at private parties, but AT the sodG
saloons frequented by the ladies"
BENJAMIN AIiffiin, Esq, long con.
nected with journalism in Pennsylva
mia. died in Philadelphia sunday even
ing; in the sixty-seventh year OF ms
associated with the Hon. simon Came
ron in the publication of the DOyles
town tow Democrat, and subsequently be
came one of the owners and publishers
of the philadelphia PennSytVdnidn, o
which John w. Forney was one OF TN
editors. 80
A wool test is shortly to take place a
Springfield, Illinois. The. secretary o
the State Agricultural Society Is IN re
ceipt of feeces from various parts
the State, preparatory 10 the test
scouriug them for the purpose OF ascer
ltainfug the exact amount OF clean WOO
q in each, and awarding premiums there
4 on. 1t promises to be an interesting
affair to both growers and imanuiac
tnrprs. All fleeces should be in tht
hands of the secretary by the ISL
July, as the committee who are 10 Su
perintend the securing Will be caileS
together very soon thereafter.
Mrs. DIR. Mary E. Walker was oI
Saturday again arrested in New 1orl
for appearing in a costume similar U
i thar known as the '1Bloomer" style
Il Amer having been subjected TO nHlner
= ous insults, and having been locked a.
for two or three hours, she was held L
hail in the sum of $500 to keep the peae
for, one year. This lady has received
regular diploma as a physician, seryet
for A long time as assistant surgeon II
Z the army; receiving from the Govern
j ment handsome medal IN recognitloi
of her services.
on the 9TH instant a tornado sweP
through the village of Bomberg, >. =.
4 5emoiishiug every thing in its track
4 trees. fences, ETC., and striking tn
building OF the Allen lodge, mt thn
time used as a school-room py MI
Robert Seabroek and his sister, com
Z pletely destroying it, burying IN 1t
ruins seven ofthe unfortunate ehildrel