The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-16
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"A verdict OF $4,000 has been OBJ
tanned against the city of Columbus,
Ohio, by one a. G. Crawford, as dam
ages for injuries sustained by falling
into an excavation in the streets.
-"The United States Democracy a
new party with an ancient and fish-like
odor of State sovereignty, organized
Saturday evening. .lI
Three hundred acres of good land,
lying within three miles of Cortnth,
Mississippi, weer sold few days since
at auction, being a trustees sale, for IS
cents an acre.
The most recherche social event of
the season in Cincinnati was recent
supper given by Il. Buchanan Read,
at his new studio, to the artists,
students and literary characters of that
city.
The Knoxville Commercial remarks:
''Manufactories are daily coming in
this direction, and we are getting our
share of them. Rolling mills, foun-
dries, sash and blind fActories, carriage
and wagon makers, and many others
of like Importance, are in full opera
ton here"
English journals, among the secu-
liar press, are beginning TO take alarm
at the spread of MormoniSm in Great
Britain, where it is now recognized that
Brieham's emissaries are engaged IN
most faithful work of proselyting. An
immense emigration to Utah is to take
place this summer. .t...rH-
Boston, with population of 200,-
600 has a valuation of four hundred
million dollars. Providence. with
population of sc, 600, one fourth that of
Boston, has only one fifth of the yalua-
ton, or eighty million dollars. They
are, however, in proportion to popula-
ton, the two richest cities in the United
States.
1t seems certain that the present
system of tssoundinG" car wheels by
striking them with hammer, is of no
use whatever in the determination of
The accident on the Pennsylvania Cen
trail road, Friday evening, took place
scarcely three minutes after the broken
wheel had been sounded" at Gallitzin.
"A rich deposit of Camel coal has
been discovered on Cabin Greek, Ka-
nawha county. The tract of land con-
tains ten thousand acres, and is stored
with this valuable coal; the vein from
which the specimen was taken being
eight feet in thickness. The tract lies
only about two miles from the Kanaw-
ha river, along the bank of which, and
on the same side, the Covington, and
Ohio railroad is to pass.
"A young girl, named Molly Mohan,
accompanied one of the Fenian regi-
ments from Wisconsin to the field as
its 'daughter." She is sixteen years
old, the daughter of a Union soldier
who died of wounds received at the
battle of South Mountain. She is said
to be highly educated. She wears u
short wooden dress and trousers, on
which is embroidered the Irish harp in
silk.
p. T. Barnum has introduced bill
likely to be made law by the Connec-
ticut Legislature virtually resembling
the statute dxing the legal rae of in
terest at six per cent, by leaving par
ties to make such written agreements
as they deem proper, in other words,
that the use of money shall be allowed
| to obtain its own market price, and fol-
low the natural laws of supply and de
mand. A law like this has worked to
a charm for two years in Rhode Island.
Anna Dickinson, in u woman's
rights meeting at Boston lately, gave
some "reminiscences of her early life.
She had done hard manual labor, had
sewed, taught, copied letters, stood
in the store, worked in the Mint
before she chose the platform as
profession. Miss Dickinson brought
down the house by the statement that
the first money she ever earned was by
scrubbing walks in Philadelphia, and
that she was actuated to undertake the
labor by determination to obtain the
means to buy ticket TO hear Wendell
Phillips lecture,