The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-17
nIsCEnI.ANEoUs TTEnG.
News and Gossip.

Several people over at st. Clairsville
Will get SIG, 600, each, by the decision In
the Steenrod will case.
The Capital question RACES between
the Buckhannon and Clarksburg pa
pers. aai ~ asF 7f7 =
John T. Vance will contest the
election of James II. Trout, as Sheriff,
in Mineral county.
Dan Rice has been worsted in a
conflict with his s'sacred cow" She
threw him over the fence.
AT least five hundred millions of
the rebel bonds are held in England.
Two hundred patents are issued
weekly, 10000 having been granted dur
ing the year. .
-'Letters from He'll" is the title of a
recent London publication.
There is great scarcity of minis
ters in the Church of England.
Twenty per cent. more marriages,
in Ohio, this year, than any year before
or during the war. 9ad
-At$150 a bale, the South will realize
from her crop of cotton alone about
S225, ,O00, 900. .
"A New York paper says:-The issue
is narrowed down to the proposition,
"Wtll the excluded States accept the
amendment under President johnson,
or wait for General Grant,"
Another son of a British peer has
gone into business. He has become a
stockbroler. -
DIR. Russell, the special cOrrespon-
dent of the Times with the Austrian
army, has returned to London.
The enmity of the Pope to Free
masonry has caused a rapid increase of
the number of members of that order
in France and Italy. People are Curl
GUS to know what IL is that the Pope SO
bitterly condemns. -.
Rev. DIR. Hallock says the following
Is the best way to write for newspapers:
"Say the most possible in the least
space. Pitch right into your subject.
Make the title and first sentence so that
1t must be read; and SO OF the second,
no matter what has preceded or is to
follow"
The Norwich Conn., Bulletin calls
the New York Herald the s'only sue
cesstul comic paper that this country
has ever produced" ;" -'rs,.ar .slf =
Walnut and hickory nuts, and
every kind OF mast, are more abundant
In several of the western States this
season than for several years.
The New York Tribune called upon
right" They seem to have cast them
right and left.-LoWisviLLe Journal.
The following is going the rounds
as Domestic Drama: Scene 1. Moth
er in the cellar splitting wood. Scene
II. Daughter in the parlor singing to
Clarence Fitz Noodle the pathetic bal
lad Of "WhO shall care for mother
When cats wash their faces bad
weather is at hand; when women use
washes to their compilations 1t is a true
sign that the beauty of the day is gone.
Indiana farmers expect to have
heavier hogs than usual, this season,
the abundance of the corn crop enabling
them to feed longer.
The financial editor of the New
York Independent thinks that prices
nave not yet attained their maximum,
ana that they will not do SO for long
time to come.
Many men who were in the rebel
service during the rebellion have en-
listed In the regular army.
The wild geese are winging their
way Southwark, which is a reminder
of cold weather at hand.
The authorities of Macon are OBJ.
liged to furnish from six to ten collins
per day to bury negro pRupers.
James Russell Lowell, in announ-
cling the last of the "Biglow Papers,"
gracefully lets his mantle fall upon
THAT genuine and delightful humorist,
Rev. Petroleum v. Nasby."
1t is to Mr.. Motley, author of the
Dutch Republic" that the American
people will look, writer says, for an
adequate history of the great rebellion.
The star of the demi-monde, Mad
anne, has returned to Paris from
her season at Baden, where she realized
the trihtng sum of ], 1,15O, 900 francs.
The Prince of Wales has shot two
stays (atter they were driven to him by
the keepers.) Blood will tell.
The average weight per day of the
mails passing into and out of the New
York postof1ce is thirty five tons.
AN Irish schoolmaster wrote the
following copy for one of his pupils:
ldIeness covereth man with naked
ness" :. -
MIR. Swinburne in his new book is
always talking Of scorching kisses, and
says of one of his peculiar heroines, =
Leave my lips chared." ]"
One OF his critics suggests that there
ts parallel to this in literature, in the
case of the well known monkey who
married the baboon's sister,
Smacked his lips and then he kissed her,
She set up yel1P'
The Rev. r.Spurgeon, in a recent
sermon against Ritualism, declared
High Churchism to be bastard Poperv.
and Broad Churchism dishonest, infi-
deity. The great danger TO the Church
came, he said, from within, and not
from without. He deprecated legal in
reference, however, and recommended
prayer.
A WAR ANEcDorE.-The Baton
Rouge tI,a.N Advocate of the 9Th iDe+o,,t