The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

a NEWS SUMMARY.
The special census of Nebraska taken
last year showed population of 40, 900,
and it is now believed to be $4,000. .
Two children i'll Chicago have been
poisoned by putting card photograph
in their mouths. One has died, the
other is very low.
The rinderpest is bad, but throwing
orange peel on the pavement is the
rindest pest. r..
The Washington correspondent of the
1inti-i Slavery Standard has had n vision
of the "Scarlet Woman" sitting upon
scarlet throne erected upon the ruins
of the American Republic. He
shouldn't eat late suppers.
The German Methodlsts of Texas
sympathize with their loyal brethren
North, and intend dissolving their con-
nection with the Southern churches as
soon as an opportunity offers.
The Treasury Department holds the
following national bank securities:
For circulation OF national banks-.S3l6,G 57 500
Por deposits OF public moneys. Sl,aOS,5OO
96l 300
A wool grower made the statement at
a late convention in Vermont, held on
a bitter cold day, that every rag of
clothes he had on was made of foreign
wool, while he had ut home three clips
of wool from his own flocks which he
could not sell.
The cost of assessing and collecting
the internal revenue of the United
States for the last year was 81, 769, 666,
or about 2H per cent, upon the amount
collected. Massachusetts stands first
amount collected. The per cent. of
cost in Massachusetts is LAG; in West
Virginia 5.l7; in Old Virginia I1.95; in
New Mexico Sl.90.
HOTEL PRICEs.-The hotel proprie-
tors of New York are to hold II meeting
this week to consider the expediency OF
reducing the price of the board. If the
hotel keepers can safely. see their way
to that conclusion, it is probable that
many other interests will follow their
example. The restaurants also are
thinking of something of the same kind.
During the twenty-four hours follow
ing the alarm of fire ut Pixies Opera
house, in Cincinnati, 1896, S63 gallons
of water were used over and above the
ordinary consumption of the city. Dur
ing forty-eight hours 7,0OO,0O0 gallons
were consumed-all this immense vol
ume of water being thrown upon the
burning mass by the steam fire engines
THE TAX ON INCoNIEs.-A dispatch
from Washington reports thatthe Ways
and Means Committee have agreed to
continue the exemption of tax on in
come at six hundred dollars, adding
fifty dollars to the exemption for every
child in a family, up to fifteen in num-
Der.
The General Conference of the NJ. f.
Church South, will meet at New Or
leans, on the 4th of April. 1t is ex-
pected that the session Will last for near
ly month. About twenty annual con-
ferenceS will be represented, and the
delegates will number one hundred and
thirty-seyen. -s
Among the moneyed New Workers of
the 9th district are VIM. b. AstOr, who
pays tax on an annual income of ST.
300, 600; John I. Lord, Sl26, 5S5i Samuel
Lord, 1888, $50; Jas. Lennox, 112,921; G.
H. Marshall, Sl27, 112; Cornelius Van
derbilt, S576, ISL; ]. d. Bradford, Jr.,
SOS, l50; NJ. L. johnson, $500, 1856; Jos.
Sampson, Sl53, S4s; Samuel Willets,
S252, 233; @. v. S. Roosevelt, Sl0S, $50; E.
White, Sll1, 1916; w. r. Nermilyea, Sl19,-
925; John G. Greene, 1856, 1854.
The Buffalo Courier, to illustrate its
caution against fright on account of the
pork disease, says that lady in that
city, after reading the accounts of the
trichnia in swine's flesh, last Thursday,
threw away all her lard, hams, sausage
meat, etc, she had laid up for the pres
ent years supply.
The New York Evening Post does not
abate its hostility to Louis Napoleon.
In nearly every issue it argues that the
French Emperor is deceiving us in ref
erence to his Mexican policy, and that
we are permitting ourselves to be "bam-
boozled." -nf-
A NEWSPAPER. 1t was Bishop
Horns own opinion that there was no