The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-16
IE THURspAY MoRNINa 1880


sentedi the West Virginia delegation at
fsnllaaelphia, on the Committee Of Gre
EThe State Soldiers Home over at
Columbus has 1855 inmates.
E-1s60-X, or, In other words.
Demas Barnes, of Brooklyn, returns an
income of $50, 1874.
IButter is Zoe. a pound at Philadel-
--a1-.s--.-.=-=ss
All the Danish troops are 10, have
reported In Canada.
z IA New York alderman lost S24, 600
at faro the other day. =.
+. The Illinois State, Fair will fiji up
t y last week OF SePtember, at Chicago.
Two Philadelphia incomes: Joseph
Harrison Sl47, 1S4, B. 81. Moore $780,
IAN armless shoemaker at Cincin-
natl does the finest kind Of seWed work
with his toes.
"A South Carolina woman recently
died after subsisting So days on moth
ing but water. s5 tailr .Ii
Budlong, the Geauga county, Ohio,
cheese naannfacturer, has failed with
$40, 600 liabilities 81
The garroters have suddenly. re-
snmed the practice of their profession
with much zeal at Chicago.
"a peddler in Arkansas attempted
improper liberties with a lady and was
pitched into a well where he died. =
Two citizens of t'incincinnati have
bought the exclusives right of photo
| graphing scenes in the Mammoth cave.
The new Catholic cathedral at In
dtanapolis, Ind, Is to be crowned with
1 a hiUhnF N " OfhoF
lea.
Judge Brockenbrough, well known
to our Wheeling people, is Professor OF
Law and Equity in Lees college at
Lexington. Va. 80,
--Ag girl IL years old, has been arrest
ed in Paris, for trying twice to kill her
mother and sister SO that she could
drink their blood. ai
"A child wasrecently born at White
Pigeon, Michigan, with one head, two
noses, four eyes, four ears, two mouths
and two chins.
"A young physician of Atlanta is
being put through course of law for
failing to cure a case of smallpox, as
he had promised.
--Guerrilla Moseby is rusticating at
HaVersack, MI, where party of his
friends recently complimented him
with an entertainment. H4is
Putting cat into hot oven recent
~ cost woman near Manchester, Eng
land, forty shtllings, which she was
fined for her cruelty.
"A young Baptist minister named
Frost, who Is six feet four inches tall,
and weighs 800 pounds, is the clerical
sensation at Saratoga, just now.
Nearly three millions of dollars
were received at the various places of
amusement at New York, last year, and
Barnpm's took the most of any. M
THE Western Pennsylvania coal
dtggers have just gone to work after a
three months strike. They were paid
BIG bushel, wanted and now ac-
cept A. III ss- 80 .ds.siI5l & s5i
The news from the minor German
States is given in the journals of Faith
er-land under the pretty little heading
"Mitteleuropa Observation-Disclosures"
Some curious genius has discover
ed that out of our thirty. millions of
people two millions write their names
with s'Hon." before them, What is
fame2 -
"A thousand of the Irish peasantry
in the vicinity of Valentia were enter
tanned in grand rural fete by the
Knight OF Kerry, in honor of the lay
ing of the cable. .rli-t-t
There Is new counterfeit twenty
five cent piece; in which Mr.. Fessenden
has black eye and the last two letters
of the word assistant in the left hand
corner are transposed. i5a
Asa Packer lately gave $500, 900 to
found an Episcopal college at Bethle-
hem, Pa, but refuses to have It called
after himself. He suggests Lehieh
University as the name.
The reform league of London, after
the Hyde Park riot, marched to their
quarters, singing this parody of the
John Brown song -
'''WeT hang Sir Richard on sour apple
AS we 60 marching on.
Glory glory hallelrJahl
81 As we marching onE'' 90 sss2
t.-Morrissey carries his war against |
the Saratoga hotel keepers so far. that |
he swears he will build there the |
largest hotel in America, to cost mil |
lion dollars, of which Commodore Van |
derbilt win put in $500, 600. To punish
the Ialands, the price of board will be |
reduced to 50 a day. About the time /
that hotelis finished nobody will 90 to |
Saratoga but blacklegs.
-On account of the rivalry between
the routes across the plains, the nunie-
Tous stories OF Indian massacres should
pc taken with several grains of salt,
The last batch say that the Indian war
has recommended near Fort Laramie,
and that 80 white men have been killed,
Fort Conner, three forts on Powder
river and several trains destroyed, and
numerous minor aepredations commit
ted. 'is
THE virtuous spasm. of the New
York police has caused a great fiutter-
ing among the .picSpo ckets, many of
whom have already been arrested.
The chief inspector made speech to /
them, told them plainly that the bnsi- |
ness must be stopped, and that IL 1t was
necessary to kill q few OF. them, he had /
as Lief do 1t as not; Hereafter no more /
compromising with them-relea easing |
them on condition that they return the
stolen property-wi be allowed.
The usual story about peaches |
regretfnlly inform MS that there won't |
be moro than one-fifth of a crop in New
jersey, Delaware and Mary land. That |
is plenty, for q cholera season.
i'4aForty students recently ended a
political discussion by a savage fight
with fapi6fs In d forest near otenbug. |
Twenty fought for Prussia and twenty |
for Austaia. They took along a SURGE
on, and let enough blood to Keep him
busy! u.
William Connolly, of Franklin,
Vehango county Pa, 90 years of age, 4
Is IN Pittsbnfg, Pa, setting as a Juror
in the United States Court. He is one
of the men who have seen and remetn-
her an about Washing ton and his COM
patriots. 49,. "A
Among the recent HinVentionsp in
France which have been, brouRhtiito 4
light by the recent discussion on the
le7guni iis'one which fires twenty
pals g minute and has q musical box
necessity of regfmental bands. -
II. ETltryf, t,11,t 4 -. = "A