The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-23
NEWS sUMsLARY.

News Condensed and Gathered from
v 2, the Mails. : y
The pork disease has appeared at St.
Louis. ..r
Bewitching little Piccolomini is dy-
ing. Rheumatism has sadly distorted
her pretty features.
The rent panic at New York is subsi-
ding, and the ellandlords arc not near as
lofty us they were. @ - E-'A -
London will have 100000 inhabi-
ltants 20years from now, at the present
rate of increase. .t, -
A widow in England with two chill
dren has recovered $4,000 from a rail-
road for killing her husband,
The attempts made to raise sunken
| vessels in the vicinity of Norfolk and
Fortress Monroe have proved very sue
cessful. -s5s!st--i 4r'i ''" '' '''
The father of the fillibuster Walker,
before the warSa prominent business
man of Nashville, has been acting as
Idoorkeeper of New York theatre for
IS week.
The empress of Mexico has purchas-
ed at Jerusalem what is said to be the
site of the habitation of the Virgin
| Mary, and will erect a magnificent chat
eau on the spot. s.ii.. ,ssag1
The Hamill-Kelley rowing match,
between the champions of America
land England, is sure thing. Hanill
Twill go over in April and the first con
test will come off in June.
One of the lions of the skating sea-
son Mt the New York Central park was
man who had lost both legs,
but skates swiftly and gracefully with
"a pair OF artificial ones.
The inmates inethe debtors' prison
at Brussels publish a newspaper to
persuade the public that imprisonment
for debt isn't the. thing fora free coun-
tfy.f They treat the topic feelingly.
sAlehicaro doctor says the common
nngle worm is sometimes infected with
trichina, which have been, SO fatal to
pork-eaters, and that fowls, as well as
swine; become diseased by them. II li}l
New York city recently sued four in.
dividuals for an autograph letter OF
George Washington, written in 1IS5 in
reference to an address rendering him
the freedom of the city, and won Its
| case in a verdict Of S2050, the sum at
which the letter was valued.
Some men digging a grave inac ceme-
terry at Champaign, ILL.,, heard strange
noises and were so much frightened
that they. left in great haste. Their
story,induced others to make an inyes-
tigation, which disclosed that q return
ed soldier had been buried alive and
that the noises were his awful struggles
in his coffin. dl1i piiG .;s
i Dickens, Nicho olas NielxIeby did much
towards reformingthe abuses in Eng
lish schools; but much remains to be
done.i In their boardingrs grschools for
young ladies, the birch is publicly used
with great severity for. slight otfenses,
and sometimes with the lower limbs
entirely exposed; This shameful fact
is we'll attested. ,, J,5tsi ~
Willard b. Farweli, lately connected
withtthe San Francisco custom house,
has been appointed general revenue
agent in Europe, to study up; and ex-
pose frauds on our revenuefby false in
voices. BE has been engaged in this
service for the last year or two, and was
one of the agents in detecting the great
I frauds, In champagne and other wines
at San Francisco, Boston and New,
York.
George Bancroft and Caleb CuShingS
two fibhe most eminent living sons OF
| Massachusetts, were both born in 1900,
| and were both grad from Harvard
college in 1917, with high. honors. Both
Ehave been members of democratic cab
sinets, both have filed Important diplo-
matte statiohs, and have been defeated
as candidates for governor of Massa-
chusetts. Mr.. Bancroft received the
largest number of votes ever cast for
delnocratic candidate for the last named
position.do e'as f55ssi
KENTu5etiKY KENT 5tiY is in a bad way. Thereb-
els have come back in suficfent num-
bers to vote down the Union men, and
now have things their own way. The
Senate of the State has just refused by q
fvote of to 81 to ratify the anti-slayery
amendment to the Constitution. 1t is
of no great consequence to anybody but
themselves whether they raiify the
amendment. But we wonder If they
4 yet have learned that the earth moves
round the sun. What country. do they
A, ,WAsH1HegeG paper mourns the
determination of Mrs. Sprague's niGttHees
idGnsdates. at the last one she wore a
magnificent robe ofpurple corded silk;
the body, sleeves and skirt being trim
med with the most exquisite and costly
I white lace! A zsma1 pointed collar OF