The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-02
NEWS suMMARY.
AN sorts OF Items Condensed and
30 ComnfIad From the Mails.

All Sorts or Items Condensed ana
in Compiled From the Mails.
France proposes uniform passport
system throughout Europe. ~
Goals selling as low at Pottsville, Pa,
as during the first year of the war.
Alta single gambling club in Paris
$500, 900 changes hands every MONTH
New Orleans pilots are getting good
living wages-Sl00O to $1,000 month.
The whole oil territory of Pennsylva-
mia might have been bought, a few years
ago, for 5000 1t is now held at
$3.50, ,OOO, 600. t as Hs@es-e
The railroad travel west to Chicago
is much larger than that east from that
point The excess this month will be
1000 passengers.
The best counterfeit script yet issued
is a close Imitation of the last 90 cent
issue. The printing is not quite as
good as that OF the genuine
The European pocket time keeper" T"
extensively advertised at 81, is sim
pie pasteboard dial arranged to tell the
time by the sun, and costs only ii few
cents. -lt sast
An imaginative man at New Albany,
Indiana, read about the cholera, was
impressed with the idea that he would
have IL, soon had all the symptoms and
wit hin 4S hours was dead.
Some high-heeled girls attending
Knox college at Galesburg, Illinois, re-
Gently had u frolic with whisky and be-
came stupidity drunk. "Moral suasion"
is needed at that school.
The government is breaking up its
camps of idle negroes. Those at Roam
oke Island and Newbern are to be takzz
en- into the interior, and distributed
where they can find work.
The largest distillery in America has
been opened at Louisville, KY, by New
lists. It is able to disttll a million gall
Ions of whisky every year.
In anticipation of sickness, this sum
mer, the Five Points house of industry
at New York will keep constant sup.
ply of beef tea and Indian or oat meal
Cruel, to be distributed gratuitously to
the sick poor. ---=----
Rebel Belle Boyd has sued in Eng
land for divorce from her husband, eX-
Lieut.: Harding of the navy. She says
the fellow is utterly worthless and DIS
sipated, which might almost he inferred
from his marrying her. Belle Is train
ing for the stage.
The cheapest and nnstiest molasses
in Cincinnati is boiled until 1t ropes,
cooled in pans, and when hard, broken
up and pulverized. Ground rye is then
mixed with it, after which it is boxed
up, each box being sold at eighty cents,
and labelled "Pure Essence of Coffee"
A conValescent soldier in a hospital
in Paris, while stretching himself, ex-
claimed, "Oh God." 4 young and
very pretty sister of charity ran up and
INQUIRED, HWhat would you God to do
to you? 1 am his daughter" Accept
me for his son-in-law," replied the
saucy fellow.
The joint convention of Baptists and
Disciples, which was in sessionin Rich
mond last week, adjourned on Friday,
without agreeing upon any terms OF
union between the two churches.
A National Cemetery has been COM
menced at Winchester, Virginia, which
is intended to contain the remains of
the Union soldiers buried in that por-
ton of the Shenandoah Valley.
The sultan of Turkey impoverished
his treasury, awhile ago, to pay for four
iron-clads ordered in Englnnd, but be-
fore he got them, they were SO strained
and otherwise damaged as TO be about
worthless. The contractors In England
have been sued but Will reply that no
large iron ships can weather a rough
sea. Ours can. tlf.s
The silver plate for which some of
the New York notabfllties is taxed are
as follows, in ounces w. B. Astor,
1894, L. Delmonico 2205, Il, Delaheld
2OOO, Hamilton Fish 1851, L. w. jerome
ll75, Morris Ketchum 25OO, George Law
100, Daniel Lord l09S, E. D. Morgan
27l3, Marshal O'Roberts 1878, Francis
Skiddy 220O, Peter Cooper 360, Daniel
Drew III, John A. Dix 5sS, w. NJ. Ev-
arts 571, D. D. Field 269, Rev. DR.. Gard
ner Spring $50, A. T. Stewart 10. Ben
jamin f. Butler doesn't live in New
York.
Unless cholera should seriously pre-
vail, there will be more travel between
America and Europe this year than
ever before There are now fifteen
regular lines from ports in the United
States and the Canadas, directly TO
England, Germany, France and the
Mediterranean, which altogether VIII
make 1914 passages, or an average of
ten per week out and ten back. The
per centago of accidents is now very
small, and less risk is run bya voyage
to Europe than would be on q fort
nights trip by rail. yTz-.t--s 1885,
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