The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-25

! T. T-1AnstlIAnce men rom every w feSfern
] State, except Minnesota, have beer
holding a convention at Freeport
Illinois.
-Edwaid Wade, formerly member O.
Congress from the Cleveland District
Ohio, and brother of Senator Wade
died last week. sjss5rf 10 ..
"A large quantity Of shot, sails and
other material, sent to Copenhagen dur.
ing our war for the rebel ram Stonewall
have recently been surrendered to oul
fieet. q
Mustard, applied externally, as 9
in the Dublin hospitais an excel.
lent remedy for delerium tremens, and
even long nding insanity! M Fl
"A Memphis lady was picked up the
other morning very drunk, She ex.
planned that having the toothRohe she
had smoked strong pipe to relieve the
pain and it few to her head.
The contractorwho built the Phila-
delphia wigWam has paid a fineof S75
for erecting q wooden building in the
tire district, and will have TO pay $50
more If it isn't torn down this month.
"A rebel torpedo in Charleston ohar-
bprs whose location had been forgotten,
was SO uhkind as to explode the other
day and send vessel to the bottom
very uddenly. One man was drowned.
s-Afr. Sessaman, melancholy. lager
beer brewer at CassopOlis, Michigan,
is mourning the loss OF $500 and his
vile, both of whom have run away
with his son, the woman being the sons
step mother. .slgl - la,iS ~
IA cheese Weighing 81 tons, and
measuring 6 feet s inches across and s
teet thick, will be exhibited at a pro-
Vincial fair, to be held at Toronto next
month, Thirty tons of milk from
500 COWS We're used In making, it
a-Amammoth depot, to be the largest
IN the west, is going up at Chicago, for
tho joint use of the Chicago and Rock
Island and Michigan Southern and
Northern Indiana railroads. 1t will. be
542 feet long and go, feet high.
Dexter, who hasjust vindicated his
right to the title of the king of the turf,
is owned by.two Californfans who in
tend to show him in Europe. Napoleon
has made Inquiries which indicate his
royal desire 70 purchase Dexter and 1t
is quite likely that If he leaves this
country he will not return. ttuS
"A fellow calling himself ttCount
Sobieski, son of the late king of Poland,
exiled by the Russian Government p
has been robbing the purses oKthe Brit
ish nobility, and the hearts OF their
daughters, at greatirase. For the for
mer otfense he has got some more
s.exile''-seven years, imprisonment.
Napoleon has kept up an almost
constant communication with Maxi
milan since the cable was laid. He
can telegraph from Paris to Galveston,
Texas; and swift steamer carries the
dispatch from the latter place to Vera
| Cruz. Max can tell his master how uii
kind President johnson is about his
paper blockade. i .i.;s.sl4
Richard Storrs Willis has built him
a house on Belle Island in the Detroit
river, two miles from Detroit. Ie Is
Gothic, two stories and a half high,
with numerous. verandahs and bay
windows. The outside Is stone color,
and the inside is finished wholly in
natural woods, Waxed.9 The location is
delightfully."- rural
"A negro quartette club recently
serenaded a coloted beauty employed
/ at the house of a gentleman in st,
Louis. Their singing was superb. and
the young ladies. believing the singers
to be their beauX, shoWered bouquets
and love missIves. The error was not
discovered until pa went below to ask
them in to refresh. 3. ~. B., b
sg'-It is claimed that the ancient CITY Of
Ophir is found In that part of south
eastern Africa lying to the north of Zu-
lnIand. The tribe living in the locali-
ty allow no approach to the ruins, from
which It is supposed they procure the
materials for the manufacture of GER
tain gold ORNAMENTS they are in the
habit of wearing.
The Petersburg mine "crater' is
now in the midst of luxuriant corn
field, and Is itself planted in melons
and fruit trees. A correspondent who
has been there writes: t'LChe immense
excavation made by the explosion is
/ now nearly closed TO, the surface, as it
was converted to the use Of sep1ltpFe,
Hand contains as i was assured, about
two thousand five hundred dead
Most of the sleeping cars in this
country are owned by few patentees
who keep the upholstery and bedding
in repair, while the railroads furnish
| the motive power and keep the cars in
repair. "A sleeping car costs $1,000, the
annual expense of running It is about
4 5000, and as the average receipts are
$50 a day for each car, making $1,000 a
year, the annual profit Is $500. On
some railroads the profits are as high as
4 300 per cent. II f{Tifyf3l{4fl ffl7i
1.-The corner stone Of the Douglas
monument at Chicago will be laid with
Masonic ceremonies. AspealZersi stand,
to accommOdate 800 persons and to be
1 occupied by President Johnson and
the monument, and the grove, which
Will be appropriately decorated, viii
furnish convenient standing room for
many thousand Spectators. The grove
will be decorated with natural flowers,
and marble bust of Douglas and a
model of the monument will be placed
onia pedestal near by. a53isl
Amelia,n Brigham Young's latest
wife, is model woman for the Saints. y
Shells notional, 1mpeFiouSiand coduek-
tish, Rnd.Young pets 'herilik9 a child.
One evening a friend took tea with her
| and the Mormon prophet. After tea
they remained at the table eating nuts,
and Amelia threw her shells through
an openiwindow on thelopposite side OF
the room. Her husband said, ''Amelia,
don't do that put your shells by your
| piateiP s'I shan't do IL" replied the
fair one I'll throw them where I
! please and III do as / please, and you
may help yourself" And pulling her
/ guest by the dress, she said, tsCome,
let's go up stairs, and let him grunt it
OUT" .s rss.
The hangman In New York is a
considerate executioner. The HerdtI
/ says. 80 From long 1iexperfenco Mr..
| Isaacs has asoeFtained that men stand
| ing under the ga1lows, IL their atten-
ton is not otiierW wise dire ted VIII nerve
| themselves up and so extend the
muscles that It y almost imp ible 70
I break their neGlEs, and therefore their
sudetings are greatly increased. To
avoid this, and upon a truly humaili-
tartan principle, heendeaFprS to attract
Il their attention 10 Something else; and
| yesterday, in the case or Frfery, he told
| him that affer he drew the black cap
over his face he, wanted him1 Erieuy) TO
tell him II he could see him nod his
head, rs that would be the signal for
cutlon4 q QfcQuE 80 the prisoner look
Il nd a. and rr tI,ii n Il 50e ~ nfles q NrfoyTov