The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-25
NEWS suaIMARY.
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Odds and Ends Condensed from the
Iaaiill.. r.-l. -.gs5 a. Mails. .,s,-s aHaoss 80
Turkeys in Colorado sell at Sl5 a
piece; in Utah at 81 to s..
Toast by brute: Woman, now and
forever, one and insuferable.
Crazy George Francis Train has set
tied down upon q 400 acre farm near
Omaha, Nebraska. ,! s.t,5iiga7s 5ii4
There is n famine in Bengal, and peo-
pie are dying of starvation. The rice
crop failed last year. 9 -
A ship canal across the peninsula
from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie is
talked of quite earnestly.
Carpenters are getting Sl2 per hour
for repairing damages to the boats in
iured by the ice at st. Louis. 5r,sI
An English saintess inquired of one
of the Salt Lake groceries if they "had
b'diTy box of c0nsecrGted lye.p. .,s1i- i-a1
Some of the women of Kansas have
p1emoriAlized the Legislature Of that
State for the right of suffrage.
The private secretary of the Governor
of Iowa is missing with S25 900 in State
bonds which don't belong to him.
Salisbury is proud that he was the
last Senator from slave State. Hewas
probably bred as an oyerseer OF ne
groes. Erl5at4q 4al .e5ltR q ~
The Tribune has got beet from CAL
ifornia, that weighed IS pounds origi-
nally, but has shrunk to AZ on the Voy-
age. i.aa olr ta9 gp9 "
!, Two underground and one second
story Broadway railroad bills have
been introduced in the New York Leg
islature.
The highest inhabited place on the
globe is. the post-house at Aneomarco,
In Peru, which is nearly IL, 900 feet
above the sea. 'a;a
More cotton is annually taken by
thieves in New York than is destroyed
by fire. Yet a single haul never e1-
ceeds thirty pounds. .,s4...7,
A recent dispute between. employers
and employees in the Middesboro tEng-
land) iron works threw 400 men out OF
employment.
A recent taiIor's strike at Columbus.
o., resulted in the strikers forming an
association and carrying on business
for themselves T- Nv d .rE.F
Fashionable ladies at the Washing
ton receptions allow their hair to fall
behind its full length, without fetter or
bond of any kind. - e ~ = sis-s
The United States Marshal in West
ern Missouri threatens to execute the
confiscation law, and has warned rebel
Gen. Price among many others.
There are at present 6S1 schools, with
1240 teachers and 65, 5,sS4 scholars in the
Southern States, under the direction OF
the freedmen's bureau. es1,es 7sg.i1
The receipts of the operas, theatres,
and amusements at Chicago, amounted
TO $3.50, 900 last year, an aggregate which
the papers claim can't be beat.
President Johnson's message was
translated into German. and published
in the New Frankfort Zeit1ai9-the first
message ever published there in'full.
Rents are high at st. Louis, on ac-
count of the numerous gambling hells
and other disreputable Adjustments,
whose proprietors snatch up all the eli
gible places.
In the New York courts the other day,
burglar was sentenced to % years i'm
prisonment, while a man convicted of
manslaughter was given only two
years.
DR.. Evans, the American dentist at
Paris, who cares for the teeth in most OF
the crowned heads of Europe, has been
appointed dentist to the Prince of Wales
and his wife.
The Nashville and Chattanooga Rail
road has sued its late President for
| 81 ,OO0, 900 damages, in permitting the
\ Confederate Government to use the
road and its machinery during the war.
The civil and military authorities at
| st. Louis are at loggerheads concerning
fellow whom the latter are holding,
Notwithstanding writ of habeas
corpus. The powerless judge has ap-
pealed to Governor Fletcher.
The Sudden indisposition" of public
/ singers and actors has been properly
treated in England, when Sothern (the
pay $3.50 for breaking an engagement
4 in that way. He is able to pay It, how
ever, as his income is $4,000.
The exports from France to the Uni,
ted States, especially of silks, wines
and porce1ains, are exceeding all form
er experience. Nothing approaching II
has been witnessed for years. Thous-
ands of packages are piled up at Hayre
waiting for steamers to carry them to
New York.
At the time of Senator Douglas de-
cease, his estate was SO encumbered that
it was believed there would be nothing
left for his family. Dnring the war,
however, the price of real estate In
| Chicago, which belonged to him, appre-
ciated SO in value that its sale paid all
his debts and left his family hand
some competence. 5
The Young Mans Companion, a
small volume of 472 pages, which
George Washington studied, when a
boy, was found in Virginia at some
time during the war, and is now in the
possession of New Yorker. WASH
ington's autograph, in a boyish hand,
appears in it, with the date 1I42, when
he was 10 years old. The book has
been rendered to General Grant, but he
| declines to accept it If its Virginia
owner claims it.
One of the old plans for disposing OF
the Mormon question is revived-that
of dividing up the territory and the
population among the adjoining States
and Territories Of Colorado, Nebraska,
Idaho and Nevada, and letting the
miners straighten out things. But sup
''moving OF" the Mormons find them
selves in a majority in one or more OF
the new Territories = What then7
Dnring the year ending May 30, 1855,
| the twelve estab blishments in Massachu-
sets engaged in the manufacture OF
calico and mousseline delaine turned
| 50, ,56o, ,4S4 yards, worth 81, ,954 ,69l. The
capital invested in these ablishments
amounted to 81. .222, 900, and they en-
ployed 2,506 males and ], ,I02 females.
A man recently brought a libel suit
lagainst the New York Sunday MereltT5l
| for printing statements prejudicial to
! his character. But 1t appeared in the
Testimony that the offensive article was
taken from evidence given before q
lease and allowed the defendants $25e
costs. The court ruled that the alleged
libel came under the class of privileged
communications. The decision Is inn
portank, being on a point never before
sdjs:dtcated in this country.
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Cheapness OF American Papers.
The Now York Citizen says that those
who grumble at paying four cents for
daily and ten cents for weekly papers