The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-23

Frost has killed tomatoes, sweet po-
tatoes, beans and some OF the strawber-
.ries at Cincinnati. 7t-s.f5,5 i.e
Charts of the storms which pass over
France are published by the Paris OBJ
servatory and sold by subscription.
A bill is pending in tho British par
| lament to abolish Imprisonment for
debt, and the London Tfnesadvocates1 1t.
A new mineral has been discovered
in Chilli containing ten per cent of 10
dine. A cargo of it will represent q
fortune. 3-- ...ss5-zst- Il
The estate of NJ. d. Potter, the lately
deceased proprietor of the Cincinnati
Commercial, proves unexpectedly TO pe
worth 100000.
Four boys who had been sent to the
Rochester house of refuge, earned their
| liberty, the other day, by crawling
through a sewer 1000 feet long TO Sc
cureit. .t5 sto-r :.
Agents of planters in Mississippi and
other parts of the Southwest have been
at Atlanta, Ga, to hire freshmen, pnt
could find none; they were all engaged.
The Missouri supreme court has de
| cided that telegraph companies are not
responsible for errors in messages NOT
repeated in their blanks, unless wtlltul
neglect is shown. tist
Two Thousand Austrian troops have
|
pressed determination to Withdraw
| his forces. and probably since tSecreta-
ry Stewards protest reached Austria.
Charles E. Baldwin, swindler who
| has been making thousands OF dollars
| in Pennsylvania, by collecting money,
ostensibly for the freedmen's bureau,
has just been arrested at Harrisburg.
Half the mill owners in Orange conn
! ty, N. y, have been in the habit OF NIL
! ing up cavities in their burr stones with
1 lead instead of cement, and, as con-
sequence, their flour is poisonous.
ludDion, the Canadian champion, will
| play a match game of billiards with
| Deery,1 the champion of the United
| States, Mt New York, next Wednesday,
for the champion cue of America.
Numerous arrests have been nude
1 in Russia i'll consequence OF the recent
| attempt on the life of the czar. Twenty
students at st. Petersburg, thirty at
Moscow and many others have been
Thrown into prison.
The ground upon which Senator Fes-
| senden opposes the proposed per cent
! loan is hat IL will prove a failure, ana
that the government, after breaking
| down on a s per cent loan, Will be COM
pelled to have recourse to one at 9 per
cent. s'ssPsl -
A case under the civil rights bill has
| been made up in Baltimore. 1t rests on
| the fact that two colored women were
| put out of the public waiting-room in
the railroad station in that city, for no
other reason than because they were
4 not white. oJ = III osy a7-r l1s
Few people are aware that in June,
| 1851, the earth was forseveral hours i'm
Il mersRd in the tail of comet. The
4 weather was not Perceptibly affected,
fact which supports the theory that
| comets are composed of much rarer
particles than our atmosphere.
Newfoundland, though aboundingin
game and full of bogs and swamps, has
no snakes, toads, frogs or reptiles OF
| provinces there are plenty of them.
Perhaps st. Patrick banished them
when he did thatgood thing for Ireland.
The passengers of the cholera ship
i England declare that they were fed up
beef from cattle tbatwere diseased with
the rinderpest, and that the officers of
the ship sunk many barrels of
ties at the New York quarantine from
knowing its character. sa
After the assassination of Lieutenant
Blanding, at Meridian, Miss, the head-
| Quarters OF the bureau were burst into
j in the night, the assailants crying out,
"Get out of this place. you damned
| Yankees" They Immediately fled and
escaped, though fired upon by the
officers of the bureau. 4s1J
| Chestain Hampton, a horse theft in
| Richmond Jail, is amazing all the black
1 smiths in the region by the way he
smashes things and releases himself,
however heavily ironed., BE has done
it and defied them seven times, nppa-
rently with no thought of ofbreakingjHil,
but only for amusement.
Two ex Icon federate officers write in
the Memphis Post, throwing the blame
of the late riots chiefly upon the police,
who are nearly all Irish, and have been
in the habit of. treating the negroes
\ with great brutality. Rewards arenow
| offered for. the arrest of the leading riot
j ers, and they are leaving the city.
\ Grit Taylor, blind old man of so,
lliving at Berryville, Clarke county,
Va, heard II man named Patterson in
This (Taylor's) daughters bedroom, the
other night, and rushed in and killed
him, stabbing him six times in the
heart. Patterson. was u stranger who
had applied for lodgings and had been
admitted.
4 It is highly important to know, as a
German professor assures us, that an
atom of atmospheric air is Just 1887
huudred-thousandm millfonths of an
inch hip1thickneSS, and thai it weighs
fifteen ten-thousanths of a grain. And
to think that for every cubic foot of air
600, 600, 900 ofthese atoms! .tor5a l5is
Two rich Englishmen made a bet at
the late Paris races by which the loser
agreed to invite eighty beggafs TO his
lltable. The unlucky one kept his word /,
4 but previously, sent his brigade to ali
outffLting establishment where he had
them richly attired from head to foot.
In the evening all the eighty appeared
in the gorgeous saloons OF his lordship's
hotel.
The FeniRns.--Head-cent Stephens
Makes open Issue with the Roberts
Sweeney Party.
NEW York, May 2I.-The Sun learns
that the arrival OF Stephens, the Head
Centre, or central figure of the Fenian
movement, has rather widened than
shealed the breach between the two ans
ttagouisms, as the chief makes an open
Tissue with the Roberts Sweeney party,
and seems to go on with bus. ness on
! his own account, and says the Fenians
are asking each other what they have
gained by exchanging o'Mahoney for
Stephens. II Is said that the English
Government Is. regularly supplied with
quarters. :,
Correspondence has been published
showing the progress of the recent at.
tempt 10 reconcile the two factions oi
the Fenians. Col. Halpine is the first
: lintermediafory, and Col. o'Mahony
I was the first 10 make overtnres. Both
! President Roberts and General Sweeny
were successfully appealed TO in the
most pressing terms. The former de
clfned to treat with Col. Halpine, and
he-latter was unwilling 10 give up his