The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-06
OUR NEWS BUMMARY.
Item4by ToIegraph and Mail.

"a uNe4Y lIQe may beAexpeCted In
Baltimore o-uay at the election.
The Mississippi Legislature has
passed a bill appropriaffng $50, 600 to
supply wooden legs TO maImed soldiers.
There have been eight thousand new
buildings erected In Chicago within the
past twelve months, at a cost of nearly
zoos, 900. i'ss,a,-' -i-z-a.ss- 80 -lsas.l
"A dissolution of the British Parlia-
ment is expected next spring or sum
mer. The reform agitation will effectit
5--Patrick Carpenter was kicked to
death by his wife in Edinburg, Pa, last
week. n ~. 7ai.ss5g sds -
Accounts from all parts of Iowa
indicate that settlers are .docAing in
fastert than ever before. There is great
scarcity of houses in all the cities and
towns; and farms are in demand.
1t appears by official statistics that
the number of marriages in Ohio for
the year ending July 4, 1866, is full
twenty per cent. above that in any one
year either before or during the war.
( "A woman in Detroit, married seven
years, recently gave birth to four
children at lime. She has attained
her present proficiency by arithmetical
progression, producing one, two, three
and four in regular graduation. 81,
Marble has been discovered near
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, The vein is thirty
feet thick, and is said to rival Italian
marble in its hDeness and delicaOy.
"A Louisville paper says, in the four
cities of Cincinnati, st. Louis, Nash
Vile and Memphis, the deaths from
cholera since August LIST number over
seven thousand. In the midst of this
quadrilateral of death the escape of
Louisville Is little less than miraculous.
The debt of the Border States ut
last advices stood as follows: Missouri
$50, l99 $50; Tennessee, S25, 267 ,S47; Yir-
ginia, 81, 03l ,3l6; North Carolina, 12,
81, 500. The State of Tennessee bor-
rowed the money to meet its last pay
ment of interest. The other States arc
now funding the past due and matur-
ing coupons on their bonds, and hope
to resume in the near future. The first
payment to be made by Virginia under
the proposed settlement with her cred
itors VIII be in July, 1867.
"A young Illinois lover procured a
license without consulting his inamo-
rata. Explanation being made she
grew very angry and told the young
man "that the county clerk could not
sell her for dollar, neither could any
body else ?" She remains single.
General Lee accepts the notes of all
students who are unable to pay the fees
at Washington College, believing that
young Lleu "uO E6G6lN6
under such circumstances will pay
when able. Perhaps this is one reason
why the number of applicants has
reached eight hundred. = etH7
The Narraganset Indians wanted to
vote for Lincoln, but they were not al
lowed. They now rejoice that they
didn't. Their joy atyoting for Lincoln,
they say, would have been darkened
by the sorrow that we had voted for
Johnson" 4ieH EHuI n-h
ILoI the poor IndIan!'
u Lower the poor Andrew.
Subjects for conundrums being
nearly exhausted, one desperate Joker
has gone back to our first parents, and
inquiries "Why was Eve not afraid of
the measles Because she'd ADAM"
There is an unusually stupid cop
perhend in Peterborough, New York,
who listened attentively to the reading
OF one of Petroleum v. Nasby's letters
describing the Presidents western
journey, and then growled out in much
disgust; "WhRt in Heavens name did
Andy want such a blasted fool with him
for Z"
"A Wall street "bulr' tried to whip
two clears" at New York, the other
day, and got pitched into the gutter for
he had losta diamond pin in the scutfle,
and a small telegraph messenger had
the pleasure of carrying off the $500 re-
ward that he offered for it. thai
The presidents of Illinois colleges
hadla conference at Chicago, Tuesday,
and discussed the subject of a union of
all the colleges in "A society and perma-
nent organizations; the propriety of ask
ing aid of the Legislature TO educate re-
turned soldiers gratuitously; the ex-
pediency of short scientific courses of
study, and the expedienCy of female
education. -.5
"A notable instance of the capacity
of the colored man for civilization Is
found in the statement that the negro
barber of the Ottawa House, Montreal,
absconded last week, taking with him
from $4,000 to $4,000 in borrowed
money, 800 in jewelry, and $500 in
clothing. Hewas traced into Vermont
by one of his creditors, but the sharp
thiefs wife had taken another track
with all the plumber in her possession.
st. Joseph, Missouri, is excited over
the question whether negroes shall ride
on the newly introduced street cars.
1t is said that Senator Badger, of
North Carolina, once received from
Daniel Webster this odd letter of intro
duction: l.,lll.l5
Dear Sir: l present you my friend,
Hon. George Il. Badger, your equal and
the superior of las! h .ll7ls.set o. -
Yours, very respectfully,
Etr.ss uDANIRI, WFBSTRRD