The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-03
Our News Summary.

r OF IL may De l III nearer home,
Nearer now, than think.
Our News Summary.
james w. Duncan whose sentence
for fifteen years to hard labor in Fort
Pulaski, was announced in our dis
patches yesterday, is an old Wheel
ingite.
Few speeches tomorrow anywhere,
but plans everywhere for fun and social
enjoyment. Remember the pro-
gramme on Wheeling Island fair
Maggie Mitchell, who has PLAYED
several times in Wheeling, is so years
old.
ALI the serfs in Russia will be free
by August!
The Oldest and bitterest beer in LON
don is now called "Mo:her-in-Law."
Miss Anna Dickinson is spending
the summer at Rye Beach. She lectured
l53 times last season.
The editor of the Bowling Green
Gazette objects to the regular trans
mission to him of agricultural circulars.
DE says: 1--WE are no animal propaga-
tist-horsist we are nOt-as n cowist
we make no pretensions-as a sheepist
we claim no hOnors-and we are hog
ist to very limited extent"
Inc ShlSdlE.S Ol lne SdInuen District,
South Carolina, are complaining of the
loss OFF,, 100 gold watches, besides 'pecks
of silver spoons, etc." taken by Sher-
mans bummers. Why didn't they stay
and defend 'em? They had no right to
presume upon the honesty of men whom
it was their special delight to denounce
as thieves" "bandits," and "merce-
naries."
There is great crowd of visitors Mt
n NNnFF NTHn
walker, proposed to carry his wife and
child across, but the people would not
stand the fool-hardy attempt.
The Chattanooga county IN. w
Agricultural Society is going to offer
premiums on babies this year-Sl5 for
the best, and $40 for the second best.
Connecticut sets great store by the
services of her Governors, and accord
ingly pays them the extravagant sal
ary of 81, 100 year.
The first circumcision ever perform
ed in Utah was lately executed on "A
Hebrew child in Salt Lake.
The corn crop in West Virginia will
be fully average.
"A prominent Fenian Centre from
Ireland has just arrived in New York.
He reports rising imminent.
President Johnson's family will
soon go to Long Branch, n. j., and the
President Will join them, as soon as
Congress Hdjourns.
Smoking after-dinner cigarettes is
becoming fashionable among Partisan
ladies and they have little spittoons
set in diamonds.
The notorious Pollards of Rich
mond are having family quarrel
One of them is searching for his broth
er-in-law, armed with II revolver, and
absurd apprehensions are entertained
that blood will be shed.
"A lively contest for travel is going
on between the railroads along and the
boats upon the Hudson. The day
steamers have reduced their fares and
now carry passengers between Troy
and New York for so cents.
The indianapolis people will mix
things i'll their next lecture course.
Among the lecturers announced are
Alex. II. Stephens, Fred. Douglas, Ho-
ratio Seymour, Wendell Phillips, John
B. Cough and P. T. Barnum.
"A couple were recently married in
Dallas county, Ia, out of doors and
upon horseback; and for n wedding trim
started across the plains with $50 cattle.
"A man in Titusville refused $50, 900
for his interest in $50 barrel oil well.
and the next week, n well being struck
in an adjoining lease, it subsidized into II
Is barrel we'll.
-"Dr." Mary f. Walker predicts fe-
male suffrage and office holding in this
country within the next ten years, and
thinks the Southern States will lead OIL
in this great reform.
1t is believed that the railroad will
be completed from Chicago Uiu Omaha
to "a point 100 miles beyond Fort Kear-
ney by April next, if not earlier.
Ia i
who had always been above suspicion,
cut the throat of her newborn infant
with pen-knife.
The Chicago police, at one fell
swoop the other night, arrested four
hundred persons, all proprietors and
patrons Of free and easy concert sa-
looms.
There is much suffering among the
poor of Berlin, great numbers being
thrown out of employment, and crowds
of these people assemble in various
parts of the city clamoring for work
and menacing the authorities; but the
most helpless are the wives and children
of the called-out reserves, many OF
whom will be dependent OH private
charity.
Perhaps the most remarkable we'd
ding anniversary on record has lust
been celebrated ut Olmutz, Bavaria. A
land proprietor of that place gave fete
in honor Ofhis golden wedding, and the
united ages of husband and wife
amounted to two hundred years. He
was lO3 and she 81, and they were mar
ried in 1891.
Captain Hudson will leave in few
days for Europe in his three-masted
ship only "a feet long. He has made u
trial trip'nt New York with her which
proved very satisfactory. She is con-
structe from an IngersOll life boat, and
Is regarded as fire proof, water proof,
and worm proof.
The San Francisco street railroads
are unpopular through advance OF
fares, and people are taking revenge by
paying in greenbacks, which the courts
So far sustain. The railroads threaten,
II this goes on, to adopt the national
currency all around in their business,
and so go far to popularize it in that
community.
Over "a 900 people have visited Mr..
Lincoln's grave at Springfield, ILL.,,
since the removal of the remains to
Oak Ridge" The vases and smooth
ed stones of the tomb are already writ
ten over in pencil with the autographs.
The telegraph in Switzerland is the
property of the government. An office
is established in almost every village
and the charge is uniform, one franc
for twenty-five words, irrespective ol
distance, and it yields "a large revenue.
An effort to break the will of Mrs.
Juliana Gardiner, bequeathing nearly
all her large property to her daughter,
the widow of eX-President Tyler, has
been made in the New York courts by
other children of Mrs. Gardiner; bnl
the supreme court decides that the will
is valid.
"A Texas editor, reviewing the civil
rights bill and the Texas papers that
pretend to approve, says: - We've
buried the hatchet-yes, and we've eat
en- dirt enough to cover it forever; but