The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
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Stewart, the New York dry goods
prince, owns four theatres. szrt
DIR. Nelaton's practice in Paris yields
him 500, 900 per annum. , gtu
Brooklyn, the city of churches, is to
have new $50, 900 theatre.
A perfect epidemic of sueing for debt
has broken out in Tennessee.
Italy, the land of golden. sunsets and
classic memories, has struck lie.
A man has been sent to prison for
seven days for begging Of the Prince of
Wales. tiE ii -
This is very moony month. There
will be two full moons, while February
won't have any. -. -
Railroad trains have been crossing
the Missouri river at Atchison, Kansas,
on rails laid on the ice. {n,ul no ~
No less than $4,000 worth of the oil
| of peppermint was made last year in the
little village of Three Rivers, Mich. l-
The project of a ship canal, connect
ing the Hudson river with Lake Charn-
plain and the st. Lawrence, Is again
agitated. ir.y-...t65 .,-aff
There is a new comet, a little fellow,
visible for a few nights only, He will
call again in the course of several thou
sand years. .5-3as1
'"tAn American IS only an English
man rather more Sharpened," says Sir
Morton Peto, who was able, during his
western tour, to see the point. 55ga
Z. Pickpockets are the most regular at
tendants of the Chicago daily prayer
meetings. We regret to add that their
object is professional, not religious.
The national watch company of Chi
Il Nasa
| of watches at Elgin, Ill. Gail Borden
has set up big milk-condensing fac
tory there.
Twenty instances of body snatching
have occurred recently at Chicago, and
/ three men were caught In the act, a few
nights since. The cemeteries are all
guarded, at present. .fir5
An oil well in Eagle creek, Overton
county. Tenn, has sent up column of
oil ten feet high since it was struck.
/ What makes it remarkable is the fact
that the well is only 70 feet deep.
4 The Emperor Soulouqne of Hayti,
/ having been banished from his place of
exile in Jamaica, has fed with his fam
lily and suite to the island OF Curacao.
His empire isn't worth much to him
Just now.
The dropping from the sample bags
Tin the London corn exchange cover the
floor and fill large sacks daily. They
i are gathered up and sold and are In
SO much demand that they are extern
sively counterfeited. faf--.
A cotton mill-a new thing for the
l 'west-is soon to be established at
| Bridgeport, Ill, by Chicago capital and
| Massachusetts brains, $1,000 for the
former being subscribed. 1t will run
4 by steam and get coal delivered at S2 q
ton. as ~: asstI s
.liIThe western farmers complain that
4 it takes three bushels of corn to send
one 100 miles to market, 100 bushels to
| get pair of boots, 1000 to get suit OF
clothes, and two tonsto get ton OF coal.
But then, corn is plenty out there.
T. Great sport and speed is expected
from series of races making up be-
tween Lexington's celebrated sons, AS
lteroid, Kentucky and Norfolk, three OF
the fastest horses in the country. The
races will take place at Louisville, Gin
cinnati and Saratoga.
Most. of the fire insurance companies
of New York are passing their nyIiEial gsnel
Il generally are suffering severely In
II Buffalo, last year, the companies receiV-
ed 1920, ,4S0 in premiums, and paid out
81 ,931 500 for losses.
There is great falling off in the re-
ceipts of live hogs at Chicago this sea
son, anu u corresponding 0eCIGdSO ~
the number of shipments. Many old
packers are doing almost nothing, and
the business of every firm in the city
is much smaller than it has been fol
many years. a $50
A Norfolk paper advises its readers
with letter, purporting to be written
in sober earnest by man who has seer
and conyersed with j. Wilkes Booth
7Iwho, he declares, is still alive. and wai
never caught after President Lincoln,s
assassination. But he says his consti
tuition is good deal shattered, which
is doubtless true.
Winter sports in the West: A bull
astray from drove of cattle met maj
on the ice of the Mississippi river a
st. Louis; mischief and wrath was IL
the animals eye; the man turned z
run; bull after him caught him; tool
him by the slack of his breeches on hi
horns and tossed him up three or foui
times his length in the air, and left him
| sprawling on the ice in the rear; while
bull went on and pitched into anothel
man who, more courageous, undertook
to " take the bull by the horns, " ant
got the worst it, having an eye goug
ed out, and otherwise severely injured
The states Interest I'm Internal Inn