The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-26

up at Sydney, Australia. Attached 10
twill be hotel with two American
bars" Va -.-r --- l-t..
/ A little cherub out west, who is three
and half years old, weighs 132 pounds.
Higgings is his name and Barnum Is to
have him. .----
The -Goyernor-Genera1o of Canada, In
great trepidation, has postponed the
meeting Of the Canadian Parliament
till May, from fear of the Fenians.
Artenlus Ward utters scathing male
dictions on Wisconsin town where he
lectured. His agent took S2,S7 at the
door, while Artemus took the measles
inside. s.
The ambassador OF Morocco, who
recently arrived in Paris, brought with
him, as present To Louis Napolean,
six splendid stations and magnificent
tiger. ---.-.--.--. .....--...-..
The receipts of the thirteen principal
places of amusement at New York,
during the last six months of 1865, were
s665, 5,551, a gain of SOS, 600 on the preyt-
GUS year. - 5... -.-..f .-..,..l ii .I..s
New York gossip says the Bound
Table has about paid its expenses TINS
far, while the Nation has fallen S, 600
behind. The HerGLd'S profits last year
were 100000. q
Almost every sizable town in the west
is holding its convention for the discus
sion of the omnipresent transit ques-
ton. Some work ought to result from
so much talk. at4
There are fifty-four million acres of
land in Minnesota; twenty-four mil
lions are unoccupied, and open to set
tiers under the Homestead law. Good
farms are cheap there.
The London underground railway is
3h miles long, and cost over &442, ,945-
more than two and a quarter million
dollars per mile. Even Mt that enor-
nous cost, it pays seven per cent.
Cholera has been raging with fearful
violence in the depths of Mont Cents,
among the myriads of workmen en-
ployed in the tunnel. They died like
sheep; many hundreds, too, ran away.
The total number of emigrants land
ing ut New York in the last three years,
and the number of Germans among
them, are as follows: 1868, 155, ,223; 49,
26S; 1854, 1S5, POS; IS, ,929; 1855, 2OO 900; ST.
SOL. '.-.,.
Lemuel Cook, one of the two survi-
wing revolutionary pensioners, is now
residing in Clarendon; n. Y, with his
son. He is 10Y years old, and is able to
write without using spectacles.
Samuel Adams said, in 1857: I" In
monarchies the crime of treason or re-
bellion may admit of being pardoned,
or lightly punished, but the man who
dares to rebel against the laws of a Re-
public ought to suffer death"
From Havana intelligence is received
that much disappointment is caused by
the non-arrival of Mr.. Seward. The
Captain-G General had fitted up his coun-
try seat for his use.
last week skated twenty-eight miles in
one hour and forty minutes. So says the
Detroit Tribune.
The Southern newspapers are daily
becoming more disloyal in their tone.
s., s.. Brooks, Sr., who founded in
Cincinnati the first daily paper over is
sned west of the Allegheny mountains,
and Whoihas been connected. with many
of the papers in the West, died recent
ly at Quincy, Ill.
The king and queen of Portugal had
to put up at a hotel during their recent
visit to England. The inhospitality
lately. shown to distinguished visitors
by the English court is causing much
unfaYorable comment.
The bursting of steam-pipe made
intense excitement, during recent ser
vice in tho great cathedral at Quebec.
The building was thought to be on
fire and there was great rush for the
door, during which several persons
were injured, iTIt
Princess Anna. I.Murat, who was recent
ly married with great pomp at Paris, TO
the Duo de Mouchy, was born in Bor-
dentown, n. j., during the long exile of
her father, Prince Lucien Murat, who
lived in that town several years in ex-
treme poverty.
They are building houses in Phila-
delphia with the dining room on the
floor above the Parlors, instead of the
floor below. Another Quaker notion Is
kitchen and dining room In connec-
ton with banking house, for the ac-
commodatfon Of the officers and en1-
ployes. q s,sla SO .-.s5'e .
There are all sorts of small newspa-
pers in New York, advocating particu-
far interests. Among them are the
Cock Tail, the Billiard Cue, the B0ipting
Alley, the Cock Pit and the Rat Terrier.
Even the bagnios of the city have their
advertising mediums.
Alarming Intelligence to the butter
speculatofs: Butter is declining in all
the western markets. AT Cleveland u
Is dull at 2sa30c for the best tub and
roll: at Chicago the best dairy brings
only 2Sa3Oc, while fair firkin Is 23a25c;
at Milwaukee the best roll Is as low as
22c.
The rapid growth of trade between
San Francisco and the Sandwich Is
1 bu6 4aSt bhAt
| a few years ago but one vessel q month
piled between San Francisco and Hon.
oIula, while now there are three regu-
| lar lines of packets and one line OF
steamers, besides extra vessels frequent
ly dispatched.
A United States Senator to succeed
Garret Davis next year, will be elected
by the Kentucky Legislature at its pre-
sent session. The prominent candi-
dates are Joshua F. Bell, Major Gen,
\ Rousseu, Madison @. Johnson, Thomas
e. BramIette, George III. Yeamans, Al
/ fred Allen, Ex-GoY. Robinson, and Ma
jor Gen. Thomas Crittenden.
Since the introduction of gold ceftifi.
Gates the Treasury Department has Is
sued so, ,0O0, 600 Of that exchange, $H,.
1 500, COO OF which has been redeemed
leaving Sc, 500, 600 outstanding.
In the House of Representatives OF
Monday, after the reception of severa
| minor bills and reports, Mr.. Nibloet
offered a resolution endorsing the Pres
/ ident's policy, ''as did the country lont
/ ago. of refusing to receive bribes II
the shape Of presentation horses ant
carriages. General Sehenck approved
the resolution, but thought It a person
al reflection upon members OF Congress
who had free railroad tickets in thei
pockets. The soft Impeachment causet
much merriment on the floor and II
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