The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-30
Genern1 news summary.

General News Summary
Butter is 81 per pound in Mobile.
Barnum's last is l96-Pound baby.
Strawberries promise abundnntly in
New Jersey.
An iron rolling mill of large capacity
will soon add to Milwaukee's industry.
Freightinow goes through from st.
Louis to est, Joe" without breaking
bulk.
Europe will dispose of ninety million
gallons of petroleum this year-three
times more than in 1864.
The hay and oat crop in Illinois will
be short this year, but wheat looks fine
and never promised better.
Hamil, the American champion
sculler, is training daily in England
for the international match in June.
Gen. Joseph L. Johnston has been
elected President of the Alabama and
Tennessee River railroad, with $4,000
salary
Bayard Taylor and George Boxer, the
Philadelphia war poet, are going over
the plains to Colorado for summer
excursion.
The car drivers in New York render
valuable services to the piclpockets by
putting out the lights Mt night, and by
OLner little uccluenIS.
AS usual, government sold surplus
army pantalOons at auction at Fortress
Monroe for soc. pair, and the purcha-
A merchant of Cork has brought an
action of 10000 damages against II
magistrate for sending sixty policemen
to search his house for Eenian arms.
Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, will
found and endow II home for retired
actors mt Philadelphia, on his return
from California. 1t has long been u
pet scheme of his.
A "chemist" in London, for fee of
five shillings, returns u method for adj
ulterating butter, fat, tallow or suet,
and potatoes. The result is only half
butter.
The Duke of Hamilton finding his
valua BILE herd of Ayrshire cows in dam
down to his coal mines, where they en-
joy perfect immunity from the plague
which RACES above.
The Teutons have the largest brains
of any people, and the ancient Austria
lians and Peruvians the smallest. The
average negro brain contains nine GU
bic inches less than the Teuton.
A medical professor OF some distinc-
ton has been compelled to recommence
the laborious studies of six or seven
years, from having lost his memory by
an attack of typhoid fever.
The crown prince of Denmark has
paid visit to NJ. Theirs to thank him
for his eloquent defense of Denmark, in
his recent speech in the French corps
legislatiE.
Indiana, like Pennsylvania, will
have grand flag presentation on the
Fourth of July. Thousands of veter-
ans will meet in convention at Indian
apolis on the same day.
The New York chamber of commerce
figures out 2S3 vessels, with tonnage
of 1S2,3O7, captured by rebel privateers
during the war. The value OF property
thus destroyed was $50, ,0Ss, 900.
A Teuton mt Lafayette, Indiana, re-
Gently drank 81 glasses of beer and TWO
glasses of whisky in one day, and then
drily remarked that he could have-tak-
en- good deal more if he had felt par
ticularly thirsty.
Wheat advanced 34c. at Chicago in
the first nine days of May and in the
subsequent eight fell 29c. The price is
now soc. a bushel higher than il was a
year ago, while gold remains about the
same.
No martyr, early in the war, was
mourned so much as Ellsworth; yet no
chanicsville, Saratoga county, n. Y,
and the fence around it is in a shame
fully dilapidated condition.
Probst, the Philadelphia murderer, is
puzzle. A month ago he passed sleep
less nights in terrible mental agony;
but now that his fate is sure, his rest is
unbroken and Indifference and equa-
nimity remarkable.
The art of hardening copper so as to
make it equal to the best of steel was
known in SOlomon's time, but has since
been among the lost arts. A Mr.. Dis
man, of Upper Saudusky, o., says,
however, that he has re-discovered it.
A Chicago man had to get writ OF
habeas corpus, the other day, 10 recover
his wife from her stubborn ma. As
men in Chicago are ottener interested
in other peoples wives than their own,
this extraordinary proceeding made
great sensation.
Lemuel Cook, the last of the revolu-
tionary heroes but two, died in Claren-
den, orleans-connty, N: Y, Sunday
night, at the age of 102. He was born
at Plymouth, VT, entered the army al
the age of IL, and got an honorable dis
charge at the close of the war, signed by
Gen. Washington.
How to purify rancid butter: Put ii
in a cylinder, the sides of which are
pierced near the bottom with small
holes; then place the cylinder in water
and screw down on the butter closely
lifting cap. It will be forced through
the holes in long, fine threads, and be
completely purified by the operation.
UNBoLTED FLOUR THE Mosr HEALTH.
FUI.-HayiDR been raised in a 1000