The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-27
OUR NEWS sUaIlIARY.
Items by telegraph and Mail.

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Horace Greeley VIII lecture this
winter in the West.
The Jersey City police will have q
grand parade on Thanksgiving Day.
New YorkIs new insane asylum
Will go to Poughkeepsie.
The ladies of Brazil, on being In
Produced to q. stranger, insist upon be-
ing embraced. .7
1t is a great satisfaction to know
that the earth weighs just ,256, jos, ,07O,.
0O0, 600, ,000, ,000, 600 tons. -oig :.
q For eleven months neither rain nor
snow has fallen in Pekin, and the great
est distress prevails in consequence in
that part of China.
"A lady of Detroit sold her rag bag
for one dollar, and afterwards remem:
e oeFed S That she had deposited the sum
of $50 in it for safe keeping.
The "New York and Albany rail-
road to be run on the West side of the
hudson river, is projected, John Jacob
Astor heading the list of directors.
Lord Stanley considers the United
States the greatest military power in
existence.
The Duke OF Hamilton has broken
up his model farm in Scotland.
The last time George Peabody put
his hand IN his pocket, he pulled ont
$50, 600 to Mrs. Charles W. Chandler OF
Aanesville, o., who is happy to call
him uncle. A 1000 house was thrown
The trains between New York and
washington, which are now taken over
the river at Hayre de Grace, Nd, on a
steamboat, began yesterday to pass
over the new. bridge, shortening their
running time nearly half an hour.
Gen. Fremont has sold the South
west Pacific railroad in Missouri to a
company with that name for 81 800, 900.
Theitransfer is almost nominal as FIRE.
mont himself comprises most of the
company. = =, ,l.-'75., -
s,l-Bernard Barker, great friend of
the poor in Edinburg, Scotland, known
as the "king of the COwgate, y and one
of the celebrities of the city, has lust
died. His funeral procession extended
for. nearly a mile, from five to eight
persons walking abreast.
"A breach of promise suit has been
commenced at st. Louis against the
consul of the Netherlands, by Miss
Rurcell, who prevented his marriage in
tashionable church by publicly for
bidding the bans. The consul was sub
sequently married by magistrate.
"A wood cutter at Three Oaks, Mich.
was recently struck in the face by a
falling tree, which drove the bones of
his nose into his skull and portions of
his brain out of his mouth: yet the
persistent fellow was alive at last .ac-
counts. .,..,,....f- ~
"A man in Lewisburg, Preble coun-
ty, Ohio, having died Of delirium tre-
mems, his wife brought suit for DANA
ges against two men OF whom he had
been; accustomed to buy liquor. The
county court awarded her $500 from one
of them and 5000 from the other.
The gavel used by the grand mas
ter at the masonic ceremonies at Balti-
more, Tuesday, was the same that was
used by Washington, when, as grand
master, he laid the conversions Of the
capitol at Washington in 1898. It is
made ofstone and capped withgold.
An orphan asylum, with an endow-
ment of $3.50, 600 left by Isaac Taylor, is
soon to be founded at Racine, Wiscon-
sin. Taylor began business at Cleve.
land, o.. by backing boots, when an
orphan of nine years, and afterwards
acquired a fortune in the Wisconsin
lumber business.
in England there are 651 "proyident
societies." established on the co-opera-
tive plan. and possessing an aggregate
capital of nearly four millions OF dol
lars. Groceries, meat, shoes, clothing,
coal, flour, and even farriery, are incl1-
ded in the plan upon which these soci-