The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-20
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Bonner, the Ledger man, reports an
income OF Sl65, 900.
The Kanawha river is quite low,
but yet uavigable.
The Parkersburg TmsS is trying to
revive interest in the Horse Neck oil
region.
1t is said that there are 81 oil wells
in operation in Blue Rock township,
MuS6ingum county, Ohio.
The aggregate shipment of wool
from;roledo, Ohio, this season amounts
10 $4,000 pounds.
The reason why Marshal Benedek
did not want any newspaper cores
pondeuts with his army is now quite
obvious.
Isaac Broom, the Pittsburgh artist
and SCULPTOR, is engaged upon a marble
bust of the late Alex. Campbell, of
Bethany.
Judge Tlden, of Cleveland. has de-
cided that shaving on Sunday morn
ing IS work OF necessity
Reagan, formerly JEFF Davis Post
master, has turned his attention from
mails 10 females, and has got married.
The steamboat lines between Bos-
ton and New York now carry about
! $1,000 paSSengersla month.
The habitUal use OF onions as an
I article of food Is said to be almost Ger
| tain protection from cholera. even when
| in immeiiateicontact with it.
Mr.. \. T. Stewards new residence
I in New York, now nearly completed,
will eclipse, it is said, any private
building on the continent, and will
cost, without any furniture, $3.50, OO0.
The counsel of a New York gam
| bier, who was on trial, took the rather
unusual ground of defence that il was
quite necessary to keep a certain num-
/ Der of faro banks always in operation
4 in the city.
The Mobile Register, in a gush of
Think what il Will be in future years,
/ TO boy of the present generation. to be
/ able 10 say, 1 was educated by Robert
/ +. Lee"
An official in Chicago bought a
/ ticket in lottery for the purpose of OBJ
I tanning evidence against the proprie-
tors and iudicting them. The ticket
happened TO draw thousand dollar
/ prize. and the officer is inclined not TO
J prosecute.
The rule about rivers dividing
kingdoms does not hold in Europe.
! The Danube, for example, flows
through two Kingdoms and two en-
[ pines. II begins as Protestant rivulet,
[ becomes Roman Catholic, and finally
1 turns TURK
in Cedar county, Iowa, recently,
two husbands traded wives, the one
giving the other 81 800 TO boot. The Cit
liens, not liking such mercenary mat
rimony, booted the boot-Eetting huS-
band and his ill-Cotten wife out OF the
county. but permitted the bootless one
I to remain.
-''Sunset" Cox having been SANDER
ously accused of keeping a shaving
! shop in Washington .. E., ''fOr shaving
/ notes, buying mutilated postage stamps
and suing out musty claims,"} the
I etfulEent chandelier of Ohio denies
/ II, and says he is merely a lawyer of
l New York, which place he likes and
| proposes TO stay in ''all his born days"
/ The Weekly T'dttleT is the name of
a new paper just started in New York,
/ after the model of the Ledger. 1t is ed
I tied by Mr.. Cheney, formerly a solicitor
/ in Boston. He dislikes law, and has
turned his attention to writing novels,
/ debating, editing, and believing in
/ SpIritualISm.
. AT the celebration of the Fourth of
( July at Hinesburg, Vermont, the fol-
/ lowing was one of the toaSts offered ::
/ The Productions Of T'srmoRt-Men,
I women. maple sugar and horses.
Z The firSt are strong the last are fleet:
The second and thru remarkably sweet
And all uncommouly hard to beat
A wandering paragraph SAYS that
I CarUzZi- Rucchi, the prima donna.
found the revenue officer wanted her
income tax on the $4,000 in gold she
received last year. The tuneful Tuscan
suddenly discovered that she had bust
( ness il Europe, but was overhaUIed on
I shiPbOard. She paid the tax finally in
a hne melo-dramatic gust of passion.
Some one who has been to see Miss
! Augusta J. Evans says: "She lives
about four miles from Mobile, in "A
modest, unpreIending cottage: vet
evidences OF taste and refinement are
everywhere visible. We were agree
bly, disappointed in her appearance and
manners She is easy and cordial in
her manners, with mirth loving diSpo-
SlIou. and entirely devoid of peian-
try or OStsntatiOn. We were told bv a
leading publisher that she has still I'M
wear!ed assiduity. and Is now engaged
on = new novel, which will be ready
for publication in the fall
1t i stated that a huge practical
joke which will last a year, was lately
played il Buffalo. The Republican
Mayor being absent the Democratic
Council elected Mayor pro. tenn.
winch latter gentleman withdrew all
the Mayors appointments and made
new ones from the Democratic ranks.
The Council confirmed all the new ap-
Polntments. and the Mayor pro. ten,
confirmed the proceedings of the Coun-
ell