The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-21
orr NEWS sUnMARY.
An sorts Of News Cleaned from the
Nails.

A woman in Detroit cooking cod
fish found diamond in IL
Charcoal laid on burns takes out the
sting.
The tender fruits in Indiana are badly
injured by frost.
The cattle plague makes poultry Dig
thing in the British Market
The import duties received at Homo
In1n last wear amounted to 81 ,sO5, SOD
PALMYRA (N. Y porker, Weighing
I 1850 pounds, grunts in Barnum's sly.
Stammerers can always sing and
swear, without any interruption from
their malady.
Tie Sierra Nevada mountains OF Cal
ffornia have more snow, this spring.
than for years past
Mai. Gen. NegIey announces himself
u candidate for Congress from the End
ennsyIyania district.
OF 5O,Es5 children born in Paris, last
year, the frightfully large number OF
II ,S6s were Legitimate.
That coal viii retail in Philadelphia
for 6y5Ot to 81 a ton, next summer, IS
confidently predicted.
Outin Nevada, vegetation is so scarce
that a bunch Of thistles and two null
len stocks are called agrOve.
Birching, not logging, has been pre-
scribed for The British navy lads under
Is, by the lords OF the admiralty.
a little brown fish, without eyes,
was recently pumped out Of an oil well
at PithoIe, from a depth of GIG feet.
Two-thirds of the town elections in
New York have taken place and give
(he republicans a gain Of "a supervisors
The swollen Kalamazoo in Michigan
has swept or half its bridges and done
great damage 10 grain warehouses.
The last Yankee invention is a ma
chine for picking cotton. II Is said to
he a big thing.
A hearse wouldn't be thought very
pleasant lodgings, but a Nevada loater
recently slept in one every night for SIX
weeks.
A vine grower made s., So last year
from five acres of Island soil in Lake
Erie. He rHised q, SEQ pounds OF grapes
and made 600 gallons OF wine.
Rx-rebcl Commodore MauEy, who IS
thick with Macmillan, has been sent
by Max TO Europe on important bust
ness.
English statistics prove that Pauper
idiots are twice as numerous in the ag-
ricultuTal as in the manufacturing dis
tricts.
A western paper suggests as an i'm
proyeIneut in Bibles the preparation OF
a leaf or two in the family record" for
divorces.
Raw mutton or beef, given with di-
luted alcohol, in small doses, are now
used in the treatment of consumption
in France.
A steamer was chartered for S1O, 600 to
go from San francisco north TO Pingetss
Sound in order 10 attach "a saw mill and
lumber there.
The demand for tickets for the great
bal d'opera at New York, April 8 IS
immense and Maretzek keeps 1t SO by
selling them very charity.
The public gaming-tables ut Baden
BADEN are to be suppressed; with them
goes one OF the chief fluctuations and
distractions of the place.
The Boston Adcertiser goes in for hay
ing disabled soldiers sell newspapers,
and give the newsboys a chance 70 go
TO school and grow up good boys.
Our duties on woods are now to &C a
pound, and the growers are combining
| 10 carry them up 10 10 and l2c pound
and 10 per cent al UdLoTem-
The great event Of the evening at q
recent costume ball in Paris was a
1 qundrille in which the gentlemen were
dressed as leopards and the ladies as
/ gazelles.
A house adjoining General Grants
new residence in Washington belongs
10 Alfred Lee, respected colOred man
and flour dealer, worth 100000,
Sir Morton Peto, the English railway
king who used pair of good eyes In
| this country last year, has just pub
lished work on the prospects and re-
sources of America.
Smallpox is very common all over
the South, among white and black, ana
little pains are taken TO prevent It's
spread. It is very dangerous travelling
that way for this reason.
| AspinwalYs threatened opposition
[ line of steamers for California has been
{ bought of. The Pacific mail steamship
company's popularity and purse were
/ too much for it.
| The Lake Superior country is calling
loudly for n union with Wisconsin or
/ formation into a separate State. Its
4 connection with the rest Of Michigan Is
unnatural and inconyenient.
CIeveland's water Is spoiled by the
/ petroleum refineries; even its summer
/ Ice is impregnateti with oil; and it pro
poses to extend pipes far out into the
lake, after the enterprise in Chicago.
Cough has completed his lecture sea
son leaving 1000 applications untitled
/ A UraceIess scamp at st. Louis lately
4 robbed him, but Cough was lucky
4 enough 10 recover most OF the property.
An English physician has advanced
the theory that idiocy is invariably
caused by Influences acting on the in
/ dtVidual at birth, and Omen attFibuta-
| BILE 10 the want OF the infants natural
food.
The salt consumed in this country an.
nuaIly amounts TO 2s,0OO,00 bushels
half OF which we import. The native
product is increasing, and ten years
hence we shall entirely salt ourselves,
A fearful landslide at Pittsburgh,
I Sunday night, covered the Connells-
Vile railroad track for 100 feet with
rocks weighing something like 6,0OC
! tons apiece, and completely crushed u
i large building used as a rolling mill.
| A self-loading ship has been invented
\ by u skilfuI French mechanician. Ey-
4 erything is done by steam, with only
| two men to superintend, and the en-
| tire work of loading or unloading is
done in forty minutes.
A warm-blooded maiden at Seymour,
/ Indiana, whose affection for a young
man wasn't reciprocated, fed him secret
ly some love powders and nearly pol
sOned him to death. Now the cruel fell
flow sues the warm-blooded for DANA
ges.
Upwards of 100000 have been posi-
lively subscribed In England to the new
stock OF the Atlantic telegraph compa-
ny, and the public Will be urged to
I subscribe $3.50, COO more. Then the new
cable will be completed and submerged
this year.
The new French minister has been
very generous and brilliant in his con-
trf6ntfons to '-societyT at Washington.
His weekly receptions have been very
elegant and popular, and kept up