The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-31
our News summary.

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lMexico-fiour is S45 a barrel.
In Ohio they proposed law proyt-a
ding for gas inspections.
A woman is on trial in Paris for muir.
dering sixteen women. ~ anEa.Ittl
The Newburyport Herald describes
the woman with four husbands as be-
ing "firm SET" She ought to be.
Hottingner, whose death is reported,
left fortune of about twelve million
dollars. r.
1t is said Gen. Buffers report to the
Committee on the Conduct of the War,
will contain his reply to Gen. Grant.
They are getting up financial crash
| in Richmond-high prices, glut of
goods, nobody buying and so on.
Loungers on street corners or in front
of churches are now arrested by the
Philadelphia police every Sunday.
A comic singer recently put his ser
vices up at auction at GLASGOW. A
concert saloon proprietor bid him on
for G335. .s .si.is.s. ~
A lively SUNDAY closing" fight is In
progress at st. Louis. The Germans
go for open work, with a prospect OF
Succeeding. ..-r.
Lord PaImerston strongly favors the
Fenians through Cincinnati medium.
The British government will doubtless
take notice.
Frank Leslie, at his establishment In
New York, publishes eight illustrated
periodicals, and keeps forty engrayers
constantly employed. ,...... ... ...,
The Tycoon of Japan has given the
Emperor OF France 5000 cases OF silk.
worms. The japanese worms make
nicer silk than any other kind -.as
Milk has been engaged for the public
institutions at New York for so per.
quart from April to October and 90 for
the rest of the year. p. 1a one
A recent tornado did great damage to
timber and houses in Montgomery
county, Ind, and killed four persons
and bruised twenty others.
The New York balls, last winter cost
as much as the expense Of the general
government under President Washing
ton. yti,at.-.-s1
The sales Of four leading firms in Salt
Lake City ("GentilesiO last year were
one million and a half each. One con-
Germ sold 1904, 900 in boots and shoes. y
An Irish paper concludes biography
ms follows: ''This extraordinary man
left no children, except his brother,
who was killed at the same time"
The ice in the lower end of Lake Erie
Is as firm as at any time during the
winter. From Buffalo to point some
distance above Erie, the ice is a solid
mass from shore to shore.
1.-THE Prince Imperial gets on the
Throne of France, he will do more than
any Prince in succession of his father
has done there for more than two GEN.
turtles. u.--
The Government uses one-third of the
printing paper made in the United
States. The Government printing now
ordered will not be completed for two
years.
Freights from the Missouri river to
Colorado are expected to go down to 10
a pound this season. From st. Louis
to Montana, by the upper Missouri.
they are from IL to 13c.
At a recent great steple chase, near
Liverpool, thirty horses started, all the
fayorftes were beaten, and the winner
was a gaunt outsider, whose owner
quietly pocketed SlS5, 900 by the race. 20
A man named Myers, of Houston,
Texas, the Telegraph says, has killedin
his life (he is so years old) 5000 deer.
His average for many years past has
been go per year.
Trains, nothing but trains, are worn
for evening, three yards iong-ior
nant queen again, and ladies' dresses
are growing longer and wider by every
mnil.-Pdris Letter.
An English married lady has con-
suited her lawyer on the question,
whether, having married her husband
for his money, and that money being
all spent, she is not widow and at lib
erty to marry again. al ula
The enormous profits of the national
bank note company OF New York have
come out in recent law suit. During
five months in 1868 1t paid dividends
from it's accumulated surplus earnings
Amounting to $40 per cent. The $50
shares OF the company are now worth
S735.
The AngIo-American Times says that,
| in the month of December, four vessels
from California arrived at Swansea, in
Wales, laden with ores to be smelted
/ there, which, taken at an average val
ne, would be worth $780, 600. So much
more metal is extracted at these smelt-
ing works than at the mines, that 1t
pays good per centage to send them,
and large business is done in this line,
particularly in the reduction of ores
from Nevada The Swansea firms are
also now trying to attract the ores OBJ
tanned from the Lake Superior mining
; region to their works. "i -