The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-29

Peaches are offered for sale in New
York az the rate Of about 81 each
"A grand tournament is TO take
place near Centreyille, Nd, on the 4th
of July.
The clerks Of New York City have
asked their emPloyers.to be allowed TO
quit work Saturday evenings al ? p. M,
during the hot season.
"A Iatorer named John Haley, who
had just drunk several glasses of cold
wafer whilst greatly heated, fell dead
In the street in Baltimore on Tuesday-O
"A vicious youth named Lewis Por-
ter, aged about nineteen years, has been
committed to the Cambridge (4id-) Jail,
charged with attempting 70 kill his
mother
Five years ago man in the Ohio
State prison succeeded In making his
escape. A few days ago he returned
and expressed desire 10 serve out his
term.
The newly created degree of Doctor
4 in Physical Science has been conferred
upon Erasmus W. Smith, Esq, Of New
York city, by the Council of UNIVERSE
/ " Of New York. This Is the first de-
gree Of the kind ever conferred in this
country.
-R. r. Boiling, the conservative
Union candidate for Clerk of the Court
OF Appeals of Kentucky has formerly
withdrawn in favor of Gen. Edward III.
Hobson, the unconditional Union can
| didate. The Louisville Journal there
fore announces that the Union party in
Kentucky Is now a unit. Gen. Hobson
Is the man who captured John Morgani
On Monday, says the Erie Dispa6ch,
four cars heavily loaded with coal got
loose on the Pittsburgh and Erie track
leading 10 the dock, and ran down the
grade a distance OF over two miles to
the end of the dock, cutting through a
schooner which was lying at the ter
minus of the track, and emptying
themselves into the lake.
Two DRoMIos.-A colored barber Of
st. Louis has been compelled to 90 into
Court to prove that he was not mem
Der of the Tennessee Secession Con-
vention, nor. Captain in the rebel
army. A white namesake of his had
enjoyed these experiences, and the au-
thorities finding some properly in To-
pela, Kansas, which belonged 10 the
colored Dromio, attempted TO confis-
cate IL.
-INcRNplARIEs AnRoAp.-The staafn
boat owners at st. Louis have organ
lied a levee police force to guard their
craft from the operations Of ineendia-
ries. Every steamboat contributes one
dollar a day while she remains In port,
for the support OF this police force.
"A washington Speclal OF We0neS-
day says: A gentleman connected with
the Senate was yesterday occupied in
taking the measurements of the differ
ent Senators, s.size of BRAIN" hight of
the cheat, &c, which occasioned consid-
eruhie merriment in the coat room,
where the proceedings took place. The
o1lect IS 70 get up substantial state
ment OF the intellect and physique of
the present Senate as compared with
those OF former years.
Inc New = oEl sspondent of the
new City Directory has a yervS S,nS,,srs
nesly ding NJ the Z. r. n. Y.is in the
shape OF an intimation that The old
Knfekerhocker families, who nride
themselves In peacock style upon n
long local pedigree, were moi of enough
cousequence n single generation ago to
Dc even mentioned By name in the Dr.
reetofy OF that date. Particularly huffy
ought the hlgl-feeling Stuyvesants to
be over the horrid statement that the
only one 81 tllelE name who graced the
pas.. z = thirty year old Directory was
one eter rluYFe ant, sll0ofnnkeF.H
Ana - WITH l1auy y others who then did
tcnEney -porgs q spite Or theIr names
and old eeneatoefes hlanffestly. fft
dos not nav TO 81 siiif7ls l{l1--fFl lie
fkes ~ he Old DifectoFy.'s