The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-15


in Indian will grow this year. '''2
There is ice in. the Illinois river, and
there is no bridge at La Sale, where
one stood a week ago.
A kiss cost man in Buffalo $50, be-
cause he stole it in the street from a
lady who wasn't willing. L-GEl-tL-
Navigation in the Hudson has been
resumed between Newburg and New
York. Albanyw will have to waita little
longer. f -lf i7,-s
The Pennsylvania Republicans say
80, 600 majority He is very popular
with the soldiers. t. s,4rrrs2 z,-af'
The Queen of Spain's baby cannot be
said to occupy a nameless grave. 1t had
100 of them. f5r1ts-a = Z u
In Wisconsin every is for John
son, the democrats and republicanse cor
daily uniting in his support. M a-l II
'rYoull find ground at the bottom.
nv dear,n said man to his wife
when she fell in the river. ..l.E.
Prentice says don't marry woman
who has been oftened widowed. 1t is
but dismal piece of land she settles
upon her spouses. sls.tzs slsf7z
The receipts from the sales of Gov.
eminent property disposed of in Alex
andria, Virginia, on Tuesday and
Wednesday last, amounted to over
$4,000. -.s=3
The general talk in Mississippi is that
the planters are all trying to raise cot
ton to buy corn and meat with, instead
of making the corn and meat them
selves. ..5..+,.5
The ePhiladelphians propose to change
the name of Broad street, the most aris-
tocratic thoroughfare in the city, to
Lincoln avenue.
uOI,o a ,.n aIuarffafncr 1Arapant-
ives and cures for the incurable pork
disease, ana there will soon be scores
ofnostrums for the cure of cholera.
There is the trif1e of twelve hundred
thousand dollars unaccounted for in the
Erie canal receipts last year. No won
der that the canal offices are considered
fat, SGD
Sir Frederick Pollock, lord chief
baron of the British exchequer, is S5,
any judge in the history of English ju-
risprudence. -
More experiments on the New York
Central railroad confirm the opinion
that peat may be used to much advan--
tage as fuel Tor locomotives, us we'll as
stationary engines.
Freight for the plains is starting in
large quantities from st. Joseph, Mo.
A class of medical students number
ing liz were graduated by Columbia
College, New York, on Thursday night.
Here are some of the comfortable div
idends made by Pennsylvania railroads
during the past year: Delaware and
Hudson railroad 81 per cent, Erie and
Northeastern tLake Shore) 25 per cent,
Oil Creek 20 per cent, Philadelphia and
Reading 10 per cent, Delaware, Lack
wanna and Western 15 per cent.
The chief detective of the treasury
department says there are 20 different
counterfeits on the fifty cent currency
note.
The workingmen of New York are
taking measures to appeal to the LeGis-
lature for relief from exorbitant rents.
A placard declaring that 100, 600
pairs of patent leather boots are want
ed for the Fenian army, before st. Pat
rick's day, is extensively posted at
New York.
Rents in stores and offices at New
York have declined 80 per cent. since
February i. Furnished houses may be
rented for the summer at low rates, on
account of apprehensions about the
cholera. -.
Among the great tunnels of the world
is that which connects Camagli whilst.
Marguerite, on the road betweeg Genoa
to Ciiivart. 1t is 8, ,050 yards in length,
and is just completed.
Prentice says if you want to get IA
or.from a man feed him. A man, like
n horse, can't be managed till he has a
bit in his mouth.
Persons travelling on the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad may save trouble
and expense by carrying a set of grave
clothes with their baggage.
Two musical curiosities have appear
ed in Paris-a young Italian lady with
a fine tenor voice, and n Mexican who
plays the flute and piano at the same
time.
Various works are promised respect
ing Shakespear's silence about certain
things, as "Smoking," "Scotchmen,"
"Silver Spoons" etc. We ought to
have another work concerning his
silence about the negro question.
in the Peabody building in, London,
with all the necessary appliances, and
is only about sixty cents, and the same
proportion is charged for more COM
modious apartments. --,.-.- ,s.-rlI
The Lexington, (Va.) Gazette denies
the statement that Gen. Lee visited Ar
lington during his recent trip to WASH
ington, or that he purchased pictures of
Grant and Lincoln while in that city.
A blushing bride of sixty, who had
been married but six days to gay
young man of sixty-four, committed
suicide by taking laudanum, at STAN
ford, England. Cause-jealousy.
A large number pr good looking
Young women are employed by the
British Governments as detectives to,
ferret out Fenianism. Already large
number of convictions have been had
on their testimony. It is confidently
inserted the whereabouts of Stephens
himself will be discovered through
their instrumentality.