The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-06
News. OF: il,,. The. Day. iIIll, g

n Forty thousand persons were confined
inthe New York city prison last year.
The wise ones think they have found
the bones of n giant thirty feet tall, in
Adams county, Miss iEf'ZaH.iILs
The longest railroad in the world is
the Grand Trunk OF fiCanada-from De-
,troit'toaP Portland miles. b Ee.i4
A young man recently died in Lon
don from the effects of fascination pro-
dueed by a water, snake is.ii
1t is proposed to-tse the old rebel
prisons at Point Look Nd, as a
hospital for totally disab abled soldiers.
T Anlattempt is being made at Paris TO
reduce the coinage of Frahs Italy, Bel
gium and Switzerland TO a uniform
standard. d....--s--l..sii8i, fs,iiusisGe
A young woman in Ladywood. Eng
land, recently gave birth to q, child and
burned the infant to death in her mis-
tress' kitchen fire. ...si = n9I, iiuEi "a
The Chicago Tribune denies, by an
thority, the city gossip. that Speaker
Colfax was to marry Lieut.. Gov. Brossls
daughter. sWho comes next? .iiit
The Sigma Chi, n college secret socie-
,ty, recently held a convention at Pitts
-bnrghf Pa; to reconstruct the southern
chapters, which have been suspended
during the war 81 n iili ,.slis liisaf's3
~ The commerce of the great lakes
during 1865 amounted to IS, ,000, 600 BUSH
els of grain, 1000, 600 hogs, 500, 900 cattle
and. 200, ,0OO, 600 feet Of lumber. Where
does 1T all go to? .da;
An Irish nobleman was Surprisingly
eoErect7in his weather. predictions last
SUMMER. For this Winter fie had pre-
1icted an unusually severe one to COM
mence the first of December. There's
where he misses it. ..,,, s,s.r- =. iir i
Is The prospectus of the, trEngfish and
2American. bank;l with capital of
eI 500, 600, has been issued In England
1t, is, chistIy intended 70 transact credit
and exchange banking business In
iGreat Britain and America. 80 :
The United States has 10000 public
schools giving q scholar from every
five persons!i England and Wales have
46. 600 schools, and a scholar for every
s, ,S6 persons, while in Scotland one sew
enth of the pleop ple go 70 school, isa
lr.iR Roger Al. Pryor, of Virginia, is living
in, New York, Where q disting gpished
Union man has loaned him money
months, on condition that he shall stick,
to business and let politics alone. is7el
TnyA New y orker recommends as,a per-
feet Atlantic telegraph cable a hollow
one. This, he says, VIII not touch the
bottom, but viii lie In dead water, as 1t
rs mnch lighter, and VIII not be suh=
iectedlto so severe strain inipaying
ont. VI saI . .ea7l q 10 lf,iIisa =isi73 *
- "A shrewd confectioner in Waterbury
has taught his ;parret .toHsayS' pretty
ereaturen to every lady who enters the
Fstqre. o His epstorn isl rapidly ncreas-
Iang.ft XII ~ " Il, ,7g9 3 40 ais3.l ! %
The current price of, hacks in New
York for New Y Fears day was 40 EACH
and they ii ere rec That - ~, 2
i-zTom; Thumb, hay ing neglected ito
make, q return Of his income to the
Ehgnsh shcommissioners has been dooml
ed to pay a tax on s6o, zoo a year
1t is said. to be the opinion Of John
Heehlfn, who .hns recently returned 70
this country thai public opinion 3
against prize fighting on both sides of
the Atlantic ll slili.iI J.