The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-27
NEWS SUMMARY.


odds ana Ends Condensed from the
Mails.
The Paraguayan war gives promise Of
an early decease.
In list of venerables in western
paper Secretary Welles is stated to be
19 years old.
The California Feninns reject o'Ma-
hony and his congress and cleave to
Roberts with his senate. e.---
st. Georges church at New York,
Rev. DR.. Tying pastor, which was burn
ed last fall, Is to be Immediately re-
built.
There are 2l6,s55 pupils enrolled in
the public schools at New York, but
tho average daily attendance is only
81, ,502.
A man in Pittsburgh, Pa. has made
arrangements to feed 1000 persons per
day at the average price of 80 cents a
meal. ~
Prof. Bowen says one quarter of the
coal mined is lost in the breaking pro-
cess; but the consumers have to pay for
it all.
Several men have been arrested atSt.
Louis for systematically robbing the
Ohio and Mississippi railroad of freight,
worth 500, 900 altogether. be- II
A Chicago court has decided that in
terest on debts in the rebel States can
not now be collected mp to a later date
than the biginning Of the war.
The DOWNTOWN insurance companies
OF New York received S27 500, 600 In pre-
taikss one and half per cent. of it.
Now the war is over, and her soldiers
have become private citizens, Massa-
chusetts is growing excited over the
mntter of letting them vote, when they
are in the field.
The aggressives who continueto fight
the Philadelphia Press for publishing
on Sunday, threaten to start new dali
Iy on large double sheet and with
$500, 600 capital. -...
The workmen in the Schenectady loco
motive works to the number of 400 or
500 are on strike, on account of the
announcement of a l2H per cent. reduc-
ton in their wages. JS
The opposition in the French assem-
bly, have decided to direct their princi-
pal attention to the Mexican question,
at the approaching session. Louis Ma
poleon better "get out of that"
While a negro boy was recently on
trial at Huntsville, Mo-, on the charge
of stealing watch, a negro girl came
up, confessed the stealing, and was SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment.
Out of 66 cases of sudden deaths in
vestigated in Europe only two were
caused by heart disease, the commonly y
ascribed cause of all. Nine occurred
from apoplexy and 46 from congestion
of he lungs.
The old Fulton street church at New
York, where was originated the daily
prayer meeting in 1857, which is still
kept up, has got to give way, and the
site will soon be occupied for business
purposes.
An improvement in macadamized
streets is to fill in cement with the
stones, instead of dirt, and this makes
a surface impervtousto water, and hard
and smooth. The same process makes
excellent walks.
The area of the States that attempted
to secede was 725,955 square miles, OF
| about 5000 square miles greater than
the area of England, France, Spain and
Portugal and the Germanlc confedera-
ton combined.
The abundance of horse thieves in II
linois, has led to the organization OF
horse insurance companies, which en-
mails insured by them, and compensate
the owners If they fail to do so.
st. Louis is urging new wagon roads
across from the Upper Missouri river
to Montana one from Sioux city; which
would be 300 miles long, and the other
from the mouth of Muscle Shell river,
which need be but $50 miles.
The old price for a stage ride from
Denver to Central City in CoIorado-s
long day up and into the Rocky Noun
tains-was S25. Now there is a SHARP
competition, and Holidays line il
down to 81, and Butterfield, S to SO.
The Russian government has placed
a war steamer at the diposal of the Col
Inns telegraph company, and has given
instructions to the Russian officials
everywhere to afford every possible
assistance to the company in its opera
tions.
Senator from California because his
friends held the balance ofpower be
tween Governor Low and Mr.. Sergeant
who were more prominent candidates
| and each of whom was bound that thS
other should not succeed.
The libel suit of A. T. Stewart, the
big new York merchant, against the
National Police Gazette, is noelikely tC
amount to much. The defence claim
that Mr.. Stewart is not the man refer.
red TO in the article, and decline TO intro
duce any evidence or contest the case.
Arrangements have been made to put
a first class line of ships upon the route
between New York and San Francisco
via Aspinwall, in which W. a. Aspiu-
wall; the founder of the Pacific mai
company, will take leading part. The
service between New York and Aspin-
wall will be performed by first clas,
propellers, and upon the Pacific by the
| side-wheel astar steamers" running be
tween New York and New Orleans
The opposition starts with eight first
class ships, four side-wheels, and foul
propeIlers, and lively time Is prom
Eised.
Mr.. George Love, Of Athens, Harr1: