The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-15
NEWS sUnMARY.
odds and Ends from all Quarters Con.
densed from the Malls.

~. denSed from the Mails l.i,!.
General Grant isn't goingto Europe,
as was reported. 81
A smart young woman in Chickasaw
county, Ia, has been appointed notary
public. n.
House robbers in gangs of four or i've
ply their trade at. Cincinnati in broad
daylight. ','is T -,s:.'5.''
The st. James's Hotel at New York,
owned by an estate, is to be sold at auc-
ton, February 2l. ,.i.t
The palm was once n symbol of inn
mortality; now it furnishes hats for the
western markets.
5Gunpowder,is manufactured in Prus-
STA from wood, on something like the
gun cotton principle.
Mr.. Plunket has shown himself a
good enough billiardist to take the
Championship of Pennsylvania.
A German doctor who lived to be 100
says he did it by always sleeping with
his head toward the North. 11 Il M
Quincy. nl.) people are staring atthe
first coach ever manufactured in that
city, and but just made. ,4srz.,l Ia
There Is a large demand for horses
and mules at Cincinnati, to go on
the southern plantations, and prices
rule high. Es ssAas-i .gpaE :afr
There have been eleven boiler explo-
sions within the last month, four hum
dred and ninety-three persons, being
killed. 4 Carelessness caused most of
them. : ~ AAS1 49, =
The oil fever is raging in Alabama,
anda well is being sunk on Capitol hill
in Montgomery. Nearly fifty cornpa-
MES are organized.
The Wisconsin producers have carried
their war against railroads into the
1of ho 70 1fSh ank
of freight tariffs there.
The Queen offered Lady Palmerston
peerage in her own right, but she de-
clined it, thinking it honor enough to
be merely Lord Pal l's widow. itSefi ~
Professor, Hough, of the Dudley OBJ
servatory at Albany, says the barOme-
ter attained last month the greatest
hight ever known lin't this country.,t
There is a great drought in the Rhine
district, and in the river itself there is
so little water that several vessels have
been stranded near Dusseldor ~, +.
The japanese are sending silk worm
eggs to the Lyons manufacturers by
way of San francisco and New York,
in order toayoid the less, safe though
more direct route by sea.
The bal masque of the Arion Ger
mani society, one of the annual insti-
tutions of New York, took place with
great magniffcence at the Academy of
Music on Thursday evening. Five thou
sand people were present. IIc
Old wall paper, several layers thick,
gets blamed for numerous cases of ty-
phoid fever at Rochester. That is what
makes tlefWhite House'unhealthy; pa
per which was laid in Madison's time
was lately stripped off.
An old man from Texas, named Ro-
gers, who was going to Chicago with his
daughter, few days ago, was taken in
the night from his berth in an Illinois
Central railroad sleeping car by several
desperadoes, who; robbed him Of large
amount of gold and threw. him OF the
train. He has since died.
adelphia, the heaviest banking house
in America, now consists of jay Cooke,
William G.. AIorehead, Henry d. Cooke,
81. @. Fahnstock, Pitt Cooke, John w.
Sexton and George c. Thomas. The
last four entered the. firm January lst-
judge, Van Dyke, of New Jersey,
didn't get re-nominatedSb by Gov. w ard,
because decision of his that the State
has no right to sell monopoly the
privilege of carrying people across her
soil hurt the feelings of the Camden and
Amboy people. to whom erythtng In
New Jersey has to bend.
The lower bEanchs of the New York
Legislature had a sharp debate, Friday,
upon the right OF q minority of com.
mittee to report. Speaker Tremalne in
speech; claimed that it was not by
right but by especial favor that minori-
ties could be heard, and had sharp
fight with Speaker pro tenn Eittlejohn,
who maintained the opposite view and
carried his point
notwithstanding the abundance Of
oil strikes; the protroleum prospect Is
far from good. The expense OF sinking
well has increased, in a year from
ing one has increased from SO TO $50 per
day. AT the same time the price of oil
at the wells has decreased from $40 TO s.
barrel. No well is therefore worth
much nnless 1t yields 20 haEnels q day,
and not one in fifty does that. About
pays at all, - :. sle...i, Z Il
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