The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-20
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Head Center Stephens will be a
Cincinnati next Thursday to address
the Fenians.
General Shields will, it is said, con
test with Frank Blair the glory ant
honor of representing Missouri in th'
Senate. ss-aa
Nearly 81 200, 900 had been received
up to the 10th for licenses by the New
York Excise Commissioners, who have
extended the time of closing drinking
saloons to the 18th inst.
The waukegan, Illinois, Patriot o
June 10th says: 'The crops of every
kind are looking finely. Grain and
grass are growing apace, and corn is
coming on finely, under the influence
of frequent showers, and warm, sun
shiny days." iH
Foreign travel continues very large
| from New York. The steamers that
left there on the 10th were crowded, and
| state-rooms continue to be engaged long
| before the time of sailing. The pros
pect of trouble seems to increase the
desire to go abroad this season.
In Memphis, on the 18th, there was
considerable excitement over II report
that woman on Poplar street had the
cholera. Upon medical investigation,
! it appeared that from too much drink
ing of buttermilk, she had u severe ut
tack of cholera morbus.
The biggest fish ever caught in the
western country was hauled out of the
Mississippi, opposite st. Louis, on
| Tuesday evening last, in a seine. II
measures six feet nine inches in length,
and weighed sixty pounds. II looks
| like shark, and has forty teeth in its
head.
One hundred and twelve miles OF
.RaiIrOnH were
completed and examined by the Gov
erument Commissioners to-day. The
track is now being laid at the rate of a
mile and a halfper day. The road will
be finished to Fort Kearney, 200 miles,
by October.
The storekeeper at Nashville, who
sold the green tea which poisoned Mrs.
Powers, has been arrested for still of
fering the same to the public. Two
boxes of tea were seized, and the con-
tents, being examined, were found the
same as that bought by Mrs. Powers.
The Judge refused to admit the store
keeper to bail, and gave him in charge
of the city jailor.
The Nashville Union of the 18th
SAYS: ga short time since, the Tennes-
see Oil and Mining Company COM
menced boring Newman well No. 2,
and Yesterday Intelligence was received
in this city that oil had been struck of
n very excellent quality, that fifty bar
reIs had been pumped out by handi
and that, as soon as the proper tanks
are constructed, 200 barrels day can
be taken out.
One hundred and thirty-four fire.
men, in the employ of the city OF Gin
cinnati, have each been presented with
a policy in the Columbus Accident In
surance Company for $500, in case OF
death by accident, or SI2 80 per week
in case of disability by accident. The
policies cost Sl5 each, making a total
cost of 50 ,010, which sum was generous
City.
"A lady died in Hartford, Conn,
last week, under circumstances which
could hardly be accounted for by her
physician. A post ,,mortem eXamina-
ton was held, and in the lower part OF
her body, surrounded by the intestines,
was discovered eight or ten plum
stones, lot of fish bones, some egg
shells or other hard substances, which
had lodged there and formed large
ulcer, which was the cause of her
death.
The Third National Bank of Gin
cinnati was victimized out of 50, 800, by
an Englishman, who arrived in that
| city noJ long ago, provided with what
passed-fo first-class credentials. He
| deposited tin box at the bank, in
| forming the cashier that it contained
800. 600 in gold, and, about week after
ward, he borrowed 50, 500 in currency,
| and that was the last seen of him. The
box was opened on the 18th, and found
! to contain No. shot. rr aA
"A steer was recently photographed nj
Indianapolis, Indiana, which was sew
enteen hands and three inches high
fifteen feet long, and weighed four thou
/ i 1,.n1 nd nfT VI NJ n a
| pounds. He was raised in Shelbyville,
| Indiana. The owner said he was of the
| common stock, and declared his inten-
| ton to increase his weight to five thou
sand pounds. He was taking him to
| Cincinnati, where he meant to exhibit
him for a time, after which he intended
| to take him to New York, where he
would place him on permanent exhibit
ton. He is said to be the largest steer
| in America, or perhaps in the world.
The Evansville Qnd.) Journal OF
| June 18th says: ebay before yester-
day, two men, hired horse and buggy
at Madisonyille, KY, for the purpose OF
going to Henderson. Not intending to
| return. negro man was sent with
them 10 drive the horse back. Before
| they reached Henderson, they murder
ed the negro by shooting him, and
threw him out at the side of the road,
| then drove into Henderson, and obtain
ed all the money they could on the
horse and buggy, which they left at
| livery stable. 1t is not known whittier
they have gone. 4frr- ...-
4 poisoned three sick children, giving
| them mlaudanum, supposing it paregoric,
Before the mistake was discovered they
were too far gone to save their lives
| The lady is rich, and these children
4 would have been her heirs. Foul play
\ is believed to have occurred, and sus,
| picion rests on "a young man, "a distant
1 relative OF, the lady, to whom her prop
/ erty will now descend. He is thought
i to have changed the bottle of paregoric
! for laudanum, knowing 1t would be adj
| ministered to them. No proof, how
l ever, exists strong enough to justify his
arrest. 81 -7'-'
4 President Roberts, accompanied by
Major Haggerty, arrived at the Metro
\ politan Hotel, Washington, early
| Saturday morning. The object of his
4 visit is to induce, the radical members
4 ofboth Houses to give their support tc
i resolutions repeating the neutrality
]laws. He has had long conversations
j with Senators Wilson, -Nye, Wade anc
l Stewart, Speaker Colfax, and Congress
men Wilson, .Grinnell and Orth, all o
whom are said to have expressed warm
sympathy with the cause he represented
j James Stephens has been visited By
large numbers ofgthe rank and file o
Fenian organizations since the failur'
ofthe Canadian invasion scheme. Meet
4 ings of the Sweeney circles advertised
to be held in Washington have been in
definitely postponed, and the members
are now coming over to join the party
advocating direct assistance to the mel
! in Irelands Stephens had private
4 conference with different centers oil
4 Saturday. afas,s auatE E1n7f