The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-17

News by the cable this morning to
'he to'n' 4 IA a
The cholerjl az Cincinnati shows a
very slight abatement,
The BraEillians are TO have an Eek
position" at Rio Janeiro, to begin Octo-
Der 10 and end December 2.
"A daughter of the late John Bell,
OF tennessee, is the wife of notorious
New York cOunterfeiteE. -eza---z--
Richmond is trying to open Ben
Buffers Dutch Gap canal. What failed
III War may yet serve in peace.
"A Chicago boarding house keeper
ing behind them hundred hungry
and angry boarders, of whom they had
collected $500 in advance.
Queen Victoria manifested her roy
al indignation at "A lady for appearing
at court in "a very low necked dress, by
ordering her never. to present herself
again. Good for Vic.
"A st. Louis prostitute has sued and
recovered from the son of n rich bank
er money she had lent him to buy his
wedding suit and to pay for his dissi-
patton since his marriage.
"A den of snakes, in which there
were twenty-nine water moccasins, was
accidentally opened at a pond near
Lynchburg, Va, the other day. Sever
al of them were four feet in length.
A lump of ice, say ten pounds, placed
in well Will render its water delight
fully cool, and far more pleasant than
ice water from pitcher. The ice has
to be renewed once in about ten days.
The recent failures in England
promise TO bring even greater ruin to
Calcutta than the panicS of 1890 and
1882, when six great houses failed for
Els 100000, and paid only p per cent.
The Charlestonian ears are fatiGued
by the continuous rafting of teams
loaded with the rails torn up during
ShernIan's march. which are being sent
North to have the twist" taken out.
Gen. Henry NJ. Naglee is invited to
pay 100000 to Miss L. SchelI of Cali
fornia, for neglecting to marry her as
he said he would. Mary will produce
in court 100 of the faithless fellows
letters.
The new tory ministry of Britain
has appointed blind man and deaf
one as the leading administrators of
justice in Ireland. England has ever
been stone blind and stone deaf to the
Irish.
An actor lately died at Cincinnati
of cholera, and a brother actor became
so much alarmed at the sudden loss of
his friend that heg drunk, fell acci-
and was killed.
A German woman who arrived in
! Belleville, Ill.,, about n week ago, from
:he old country, was robbed of chest
containing Sl0,30O in gold and silver,
by some scamp whom she hired TO con-
vey her baggage.
The New York branch of the Freed
mems savings and trust company, n
savings institution, incorporated by
Congress with Peter Cooper, Gerrit
Smith and others for trustees, was
opened yesterday.
For the lovers of punch and persons
who expect TO have a fever: When
lemons are fresh and plenty, varnish
them with solution of shellac in
spirits of WINE, and they will keep into
the seasons of scarcity.
The Island of Valentia, the Irish
terminus of the Atlantic cable, contains
6OOO acres and 200 souls. The proprie-
tors of the former are the Knight Of
Kerry. Trinity college, and Col. Her
bert, of Mackeroom.
An unnatural mother at Chicago
who had quarreled with her husband,
took her revenge, the other day, by
firing the house in which was their in
FAINT child. The building was destroy
ed and the babe burnt to crisp.
The holders of stock in speculative
oil companies are trying to "realize."
AT New York one auctioneer sold at
one haul, recently, SO, $50 shares in the
Reno oil and land company for $4,000,
or about 10 cents a share.
DIR. Lyons, of Dublin, cures delir-
ium tremens by giving sixty grain
pill of capsicum or red pepper, " hich
soon puts the patient to sleep, the great
desideratum in cases of this kind, and
he awakes conscious and convalescent.
Joseph Inman and wife, of West
field, Indiana, have been arrested for
tying young girl naked TO a tree,
where, after scourging her with raw
hide whip, she was allowed to remain
untilthe sun blistered her fearfully. 4
Passer-by cut her loose.
Mr.. Bright's daughter was recently
married tO'William Stephen Clarke, a
manufacturer, in n Friends meeting
house at Rochdale, England, and the
people assembled outside cheered the
bride and bridegroom, and father and
mother Bright, as they came out.
The richest heiress in Paris, Mile
Heine, neice of FOuld, the French
finance minister. and of Heine. the Doet.
was married the other day 10 NJ. Michael
Ney, Duke OF Elchinger, and grandson
of Marshal Ney. Her immediate
down y is million ofdollars.
The efforts ofsome OF the gentlemen
at the Fourth OF July dinner in Paris to
make the walters understand them are
described as painful. A naval officer
was overheard to say to a waiter: "AIon-
sieur, donnez moi a fork sill vous
plat. And another inquired: ave
vous some vegetables"
"A young man named Lloyd visited
young lady at Frankfort, Mo-, whose
parents were opposed to his attentions.
While endeavOring to arrange with his
betrothed for their marriage, a quarrel
ensued between him and the girls par
ents, and he killed them both with a
knife, and fled, but was pursued and
arrested.
Mr.. Stewards appeal on behalf of the
| Fenians captured in Canada doubtless
secured them much more lenient and
considerate treatment than they would
otherwise have received. Mr.. Card
well, who held the colonial office in the
Gladstone cabinet, counselIed Lord
Monck, the Canadian Governor Gener-
al, TO this effect, and his successor,
Lord Carnarvon, has just written a
very mild letter on the same point.
Finance Minister Galtz resigned
his place in the Canadian cabinet, be-
| cause of the failure of the colonial par
Lament to pass bill making the
schools of Lower Canada as free to
Protestant children as to Catholic, by
eASLuuluS lIoH tneH all religious
teachings At present they are ali un-
der Catholic control, and while the
Protestants are taxed to support them,
their children cannot attend without
being taught tho dogmas of the Roman
church.
THE Piano-violin which is 10 be ex-
hibited next year at Paris, is in shape
like an ordinary piano-forte,. with an
extra box. The player performs as
usual, and no sooner does his fingers
touch the keys than the violin is heard
in unison with the piano-forte, Inside