The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-24
NEWS SUMMARY.

R. q T. Mears, of Steuhenville, have
dissolved partnership. Mr.. Rob't Mears
goes to California, while the latter will
carry on business as usual.
The income tax for 1865 is to be as
sessed on and after May lst.
Look out for counterfeit fifIies on the
Iron City Bank of Pittsburg.
a cotempOrHry speaks of the spring
bonnets as 'dilapidated, fap-jack look
ing concerns."
The Oneida Mills, in Carroll county,
Ohio, owned by Mr.. Totten, were burn
ed last week.
The Steinway piano men are pushing
that instrument vigorously into popI-
lar favor throughout the country, by
their liberal advertising policy.
Wonderfully rich gold discoveries are
reported on the north shore of Lake Su-
perior.
An organization to distribute medi-
cines among the poor who are sick with
cholera has been formed at New York.
Among the recent arrivals in Rome
is the Russian gentleman who discov-
cred the codeX ON Mount Sinai, alleged
to be older than the CodeX Vaticanus.
He is sent to Rome by his Government
to examine the latter and compare it
with the one lately found.
According to NJ. Chevalier, the use OF
opium in England is increasing enor
mously. The quantity now used is
certainly enormous. In 1S45 the con-
sumption was 3s,2 ,229 pounds; in 1858, it
was 144, ,2l5 pounds.
DIR. Lancaster stated, at recent in
quest in London, that infanticide is
greatly on the increase in that city.
The inquestS in his district in 1868, 1864
and 1865 were eighty-four, one hundred
and one hundred and fourteen respec-
lively.
A vineyard was lately sold by auc-
ton at Gevrey, in the Cote dor, France,
at the rate of 5000 an Hcre-the high
est price known to have been given in
that country.
The bill allowing an increase in the
passenger fare on fast trains ofthe New
York Central railroad has been passed
by both Houses of the New York Legis-
lature and needs only the Governors
signature to become n law.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune says that the old heads
among the republicans, such as Colfax,
Stevens, Boutwell, and Wentworth,
think Congress cannot safely adjourn
till December.
The tendency for appropriating an
other mans horse properly is exces-
6lkGlY 1Olll 4LDAGtaoO III y
The Chief OF Police of Louisville re-
ceives daily kilograms from all parts OF
the State, announcing fresh raids of the
horse thieves.
The "Penple's Line, !" which conveys
passengers from Covington, KY, to
Louisville, in the same State, refused,
on the 18th inst, to carry "A company OF
United States soldiers to the latter point
because they CHANGED to belong TO a
culored regiment. When these men
were t'clIatteIs" there was no difficulty
in freighting them.
For the last three months letters post
ed and prepaid in England to persons
in frankfort, have been stolen almost
daily. The post bill and checks they
contain never come TO light, while the
bank notes, of course, are used. Non
franked letters have not been taken,
The postal authorities have hitherto
failed to detect any of the parties.
DIR. Lage, of Lyons, France, has made
discovery of Questionable utility-the
artificial production of wens. As usual
the unfortunate rnts are the victims tC
this new phase in the development ol
science and human progress. The wens
are produced by the Introduction o.
certain metallic sulphates, and the phi
losopher has succeeded In conferrinE
some remarkable ornaments of this de
seription on his four-footed fellow ami
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