The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-28

pardon the woman Trussell, who was
sentenced to years. imprisonment
for killing her seducer. iIlE,
Tho "Immortal ]. NJ" will "lift
the vail" at Tifhn, Jan. Sd, and Is ex-
peCted to give an account of his recent
interview with ]. d. at Fortress Mon
roe.
county, Ohio, which yields 600 barrels
of water in twenty-fOur hours, IS gal
Ions of the water making a bushel of
salt.
"A resident of Bucyrus, o., Is about
shipping to the Governor OF Georgia for
the poor of that State, six car loads of
wheat, six of corn, and six barrels each
of pork and beef.
"A Saxon lady, the wife of barris-
ter, lately committed suicide, in order
that her husband should get her life
insurance money, and free himself
from his debts.
"A genius of Jackson, Michigan, has
had patented reversible boot and shoe
heels, the merit of these being that
they may be changed SO that they will
wear evenly. liz
The town of Coburg, in Canada
West, was on Saturday night last
lighted up with new gus, made from
pine wood, bones, and refuse vegetable
and animal matter.
"A story is told of young man in
Freeport, ILL.,, who was crossed in love
and attempted suicide recently by tax
ing dose of yeast powder. He imme-
dintely rose above his troubles.
The sweetest word of our language
is love. The greatest word in our lam
guage is God. The word expressing
the shortest time Is now. The three
make the greatest and the sweetest
duty man can perform.
"A father out West kicked his dauEh-
ter's lover into the street, and the lover
revenged himself by causing a stick OF
wood filled with gunpOwder to be placed
in the old gentleman's stove-etfect to
be imagined.
A young man in Douglas county,
Mo-, last week, lit his pipe and threw
the burning match carelessly aside, so
Two persons were fatally injured by
the explosion, and the house in which
they were was very much damaged.
"A young man out West was en-
Trusted with the money to bring his
father homo good family sewing ma
chine. He carried off a neighbours
daughter to Chicago, married her and
brought her home, declaring she was
the best family sowing machine he
could procure.
Letters from Richmond confirm the
reports that the amendment is growing
in favor as the best terms the South
will be able to obtain. The disfran-
chising clause Is the point OF hesitancy.
Ihero IS ground for faint hope that,
after all, IA change will come over the
southern mind-but it must be con-
tossed that it is not very encouraging.
The Richmond Dispatch SAYS that
the owner of the farm known as Dutch
Gap, finding that the island made by
the cutting of Buffers canal could not
conveniently be put to use without
some means of communication with
the main land, is filling up one end of
the canal, in order to create causeway,
and the canal will soon be among the
things that were.
Two young fellows got to bantering
each other the other day, and finally
one of them exclaimed, "Well, there's
into an empty barrel" f'Oh, non
sense" exclaimed the other, "why
can't II" Because" dryly rejoined
the first, "it is au impossibility 10 put
hogshead into barrel"
Christmas in New York appears to
have been generally kept, both as a
holy and holiday. Evergreens and
rooms, and even milliners' shops, lager
beer saloons, concert halls and theatres;
but they were most profusely lavished
in the decoration of houses OF worship,
thronged by Christians of almost every
denomination.
The gross revenue of the Grind
estate will probably be $3.50, 900 next
year. 1t includes nearly 200 properties
in Philadelphia, consisting of stores,
dwellings, wharves, lots and farms, be-
sides valuable coal and timber lands in
Schuylkill and Columbia counties.
Some of the rents have been doubled,
others trebled. 1t is hoped the fund
will soon be able to support 1900 or
phans.
Rev. W. Fl. NIilburn, the blind
Episcopal clergyman, entertains some
hope OF recovering his sight. Eminent
oculists have informed him that SO
many are the new facilities for exam
lining tho eye, that in their opinion n
double operation upon the right eye
would enable him not only to distin-
guish objects, but perhaps read coarse
type. Rev. Mr.. Milburn intends going
to Europe in the spring 10 consult an
oculist at Berlin whose reputation in
that speciality is world wide.