The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-21


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Winnie Ream has s6IIsd for Enropa,
to get mp her ten thousand dollar
statue of Lincoln.
New Orleans leases her markets
annually by auction; and this year got
over $3.50, 900 for them.
The bishop of Oxford has had him
self photographed in the posture Of
Denedictons much to tie disgust low
ehurchmen.
Hon. Horace Greeley has purchas-
ed no pew in DR.. Chapfn's new
church in FifEh avenue. New Y0rl,
paying 500 premium therefor.
The English sparrow has been
thoroughly dUmestieated on Central
Park, SeIF York. FIocks of one thous-
ana may often be seen there.
The Philadelphia school teachers
want more pay. II is now 1900 for
female assistants.
-As yOu value your eyes, don't put
out kerosene lamp by blowing down
the chimney. An explosion Is very
likely 10 be the result OF doing so.
The annual leasing of the New Or
leans markets, which took place few
days since, brought into the city treas
ury the handsome sum OF $50, go.
The -four mills OF Louisville, KY,
turn out 200 barrels OF -four daily,
consuming annually 5,0gJ,O 600 bushels
of wheat.
Two Sunday school teachers fought
in a Church in Chicago recently, and
were fined s. tor il next day.
Gov. 4. J. Hamilton, of Texas. has
located IN Harrisburg, Pa, and will
soon commence the practice of law
there.
In Columbus, Ohio, according to
the police reports, there are fifty-six
brothels and 257 salyers and dram
shops.
Mr.. n. P. willis, who was reported
10 be 50 seriously low in health, has
improved. He is ''up and at it again, u
pen in hand.
About 5000 British troops are now
stationed in Ireland, chiefly in the
southern counties. This is about the
number stationed in Ireland in 1873.
On the Sd Of January there will be
London, which is TO occupy ten miles
in length, of men marching six abreast.
Within three years the Continental
Bank Note Company has made at New
YORK 200 national bank, bond and
treasury note plates, from which have
been printed over 1905, 600 impress
sIons, representing a large amount of
Government Issues. The work has
been executed without the loss of "A
q al N4r 10 fasf
either by error, dishonesty of EN-
pIoyees, or by counterfeits.
Feathers are now all the rage for
trimming in Paris. Formerly plume
or narabout was worn in the bonnet,
now the whole person is covered with
them, just like the sayages of the new
world. Sportsmen cannot supply them
IN suthcIent quantity. Feathers of the
peacock, partridge, PiHtadO, pheasant,
jay, blackblrd and pigeon are all seized
on with eagerness, and even the ducks
of the poultry yards are plucked to sat
isfy the caprice OF the fashionable
ladies.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
caused great commOtion among Chi
cago merchants by decision to the eff
feet that warehouse receipts are not
negotiable. Hitherto they have passed
from hand to hand among commission
iHSi' anu were Leiully purchased by
banks the same as bank notes or other
negotiable paper. The result of the de-
cision will be that the transfer of all
grain or other property in warehouse,
Will have actually to be made, or the
transaction conveys no esponsibility.
"A man at Hannibal, No., is rather
fortunate as to episodes" His second
wife has Just presented him her third
pair of twins in twelve years, his first
wife having produced two pairs, that
were born on the same day of the week.
the same day Of the month, in the same
month of the year, at the same hour Of
the day, and all weighed exactly the
same number of pounds.