The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-22
mtsreIIaneons IfeIns.

The New York railroads are using
steel rails.
Arrangements are being made for q
speedy re-opening of the government
land Offices in all the Southern States.
Major General Eftz- John Porter has
been the guest of the Orleans princes
in London.
It is reported in New York that
young Ketchum, thetforger, Is to be
pardoned.
HBoston" Corbett, the slayer of Booth,
the assassin, has been engaged in re-
Yival Iabors IN Newark, n. j.
The Ohio papers report cases of the
spotted fever in Warren county. II
generally attacks children, and has
proved fatal in almost every case.
,By the last census of London it apr
pears that there are mora Scotchmen
there than in Edinburg, more Irish
than in Dublin, and more jews tnnn IN
Palestine. Isii,.g
The city of st. Paul, Minnesota, hay-
ing refused 10 settle u claim OF Sl5,O
presented by the gas works, its streets
and public buildings are consigned to
darkness.
Gen. ID. II. Hill, of the late Confeder-
ate army, is about to start a magazine
to be called, TIE Land aOe Lone. We
trust that the first number will give
accurately the boundaries of said land.
The manuscript of an elaborate
speech in favor of universal suffrage
has been found among thepapers of the
late Henry Winter Davis.
II Paris is still destined to give law in
matters of female attire, says the Pail
Mall Gazette, the days of crinoline are
numbered.
Hardly western exchange comes to
MS nOw-a-days that does not contain
some paragraph indicative of the rapid
development of home manufactures in
that section.
The bills of fare Mt Paris restaurants
now include American buckwheat
cakes % and 'tAmerican apple and mince
pies, (" and plnc4rds hang over the bars
announcing SAmerican cocktails and
smaShes."
Rev. George Gilfillan, the well known
author, Is undergoing trial before the
Edinbnrg United Presbyterian Pres
bytery for preaching on subjects more
secular than religious. 5.zi
II seems strange that the United
States Senate does not vindicate itself
beEorethe World by expelling Sauls-
bury, the shameless sot from Delaware,
who has twice, within two weeks past,
appeared in his place in beastly state
| oflntoxication. T 90 81 $50
Mr. Quibble, reading that sit has
been decided in the Court of Queens
4 bench, Dublin, that a Clergyman of the
! church Of England can legally marry
/ himself" observed that that might be
1 very we'll as n measure of economy, but
1 thar even iD the hardest times he should
/ prefer TO marry woman. ~
a trick OF New York butchers that
| the new board of health is asked to re-
form:-''ihsertins tubes into the fatty
| parts of carcass of meat, and particS
/ iilnrly sheep and lambs, nlsoYeal, and
| blowing il out full, often with the fetid
j breath of men who drink RUIN and use
tobacco, so that the meat is really con-
taIninated and rendered unhealthy"
An interesting novelty in medical
| Legislation Is pending in Pennsylvania.
II proposes to subject all young physi-
cihns to official examination before IL
/ cense to practiceis given them, and Will
deprive all unlicensed doctors OF the
power TO collect any billin law for their
services, while persons employing them
will have no recourse for malpractice.
Speaker Colfax's last reception" of
the season took place Thursday evening,
| and was uncommODIy crowded and
\ Brilliant Gen. Banks, Gen. Howard
| Thnd. Stevens, and Gov. Wood, of Ill,
were among the notahles present. Air.
| ColfaN Is receptions are the most popular
and democratic of all the social gather
| ings in WashingtOn; aud his mother
| and sister do the feminine honOrs of
his household with both taste and
grace. 81
a lad of II was supposed to be in
stnntly5 killed at Oakland, KY, on the
9Th ult., by being struck IN the head
with II stake. His body was buried in
a vault, and has ever since retained Its
| naturni appearance, and is lumber and
| warm. AS all efforts at resuscitation
| have failed, it has been given up as
dead, notwithstanding these singular
| indications to the contrary. The phe-
nomenon has attracted hundreds OF
visitors to the vanlt. ~
A iodger at the Lafarge House, New
York, who was robbed Of a watch, his
rings and scarf pin, and 500 in money
sued the proprietors, who defended the
case Under the rule of the house requir-
ing valuRbles to be placed in the safe at
the Office, The judge, however, decid-
ed that this rule does not apply to a
watch, or such jewelrY as a man usual
ly carries on his person, or to the
dinarily carry. 4 .ist,5 l,;,is .l',-.t.
The circumstancesi of the recent great
robbery MT New York make it singular
that il was not committed before. Mr..
Lord, the banker, is 81 years old, and
has had no clerk or assistant. His in
side safe has not been kept locked for
several months and he often carelessly
left the key to the outside onei the of
fee, when he went home. A million
dollars of the stolen bonds We're his
own, while the other $500, 600 belonged
to d friend. Mr.. Lord has several mill
lions mort, and seems TO care little for
the robbery, except as 1t affects his bu-
siuess reputation.
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