The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-04


TO communicate any yivacity and va
riety to her conversation and her jad-
ed husband sits facing her, inert and
| yet restless. 1t is then that elegantand
charming woman-a fascinating wo-
man-would arouse that man, renew
his lifeS redouble his strength, and give
zest to his hours of rest; and 1t is then
that the wife, sacrificed to "woman's du-
| ties"--that is to say, toyhousehold cares
is incapable of refreshing her hus.
band and, with ever multiplying lines
on her face, with ever-va4 >ishing bloom,
with fast-fading beauty, is sacred and
honored only because she is a mother.
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ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
Odds and Ends Cleaned from the
i ~, F5.l aa1ls. ~ tI u q
The receipts from internal revenue
1 for the six months ending, December
8lst' amount to over one hundred and
seyeny-hye millions of dollars.
"A 1Btl will soon be introduced in
Congftss increasing the salaries of the
4 1Cabins ministers to Sl0,0 900 per annum.
Governor Vance has had the limits OF
his parole enlarged, and is going to
4 IiWiminEto to practice law.
Governor Worth has appointed Major
4 lWilliamH. Bayley his Private Secre-
4 tary. Gtts.I s..5,.,. is7l
MaximIian is trying to resume
friendly rsIations with the Pope.
I, The SALES of 81. B. Clafiin d Co., of
New York for 1865 have been, accord
ing to runors among the dry goods
men, $40, ,00, 600, against $40, ,0O0, 600 in
I 1854.
There 10000 cigar makers at New
York.
The fur business of New York
amounts to million dollars annually.
There ISIS new and very excellent
counterfeit 6 the $50 compound inter
est note. 81 ili..sa.s nH
A man in st. Louis, whose only pro-
/ perty is his Sife's, has sued for a di-
yorce with alimony. 20 os.aa s 4 I.-,-.
There is large quantity of debased
coin in the market, 50 skillfully filed
4 as to-be very hard to detect. tHl
The Paris ladies' wear great coats, this
winter, with black bodies and blue
sleeves, or otherwise parti-colored.
The Queen of England-poor woman
i-has had a special private fortune of a
quarter million pounds left her.
The st. Louis coal dealers, during the
late ice embargo ON that city, heartless-
ly put up their price from $4.75 to $25 a
The republican State committees of
New Jersey and Tennessee have been
congratulating each other on the .aboli-
ttion of slavery.
A poor blacksmith i'm Ohio recently
invested few dollars in two acres of
oil land, out of which, in a few months,
he made $40, 900. -,-,, A. r
The part payment of bounties by the
State back to the towns in New York
reduces the taxes of the latter to al
most nnthinaf 4,
A fat man in Paris sold his body to the
surgeons for 1900 francs, went on spree
with the money, died, and was immedi-
ately cut up. l-tsf
Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre, Is
such an admirable French scholar that
| he has translated several works OF
Dickens into that lang guage. sT
A New York bank is the lucky de-
positaryl of $50, 600 raised in aid of the
Irish rebellion, and which nobody is
now authorized to draw out.
A young lady who won 10000 thalers
ut Baden last summer, was made crazy
by her success, and is now playing
roulette continually in an insane asy'
:. 1um.
Fashions latest absurlity is the
Zebra" style of hair-dressing, which
consists of locks of different coIored
false hair intermixed with the natural
A heavy company, including many
wealthy Philadelphians, has beer
formed in Chester, Pa, for the manu-
facture of iron and steel by the Besse-
mer process.
The city. authorities of Chicago have
i given the whole lslaughtering business
| of the city, except the pork packing, tc
one firm, who will doit outside of the
city limits. ne, an. ~
OF 1e5, ,075 immigrants who arrived al
New York in 1865, S2,454 came from
Germany, 20, ,398 from Ireland, and 27,-
IA fsom England. The whole number
in 1854 was 1S2, ,9l6. u
The New York Journal of Commerce
henceforth suspends its tJunior" edi-
ton, and makes its other daily the
largest;in the country, slightly exceed
Ting the size of the New York Times.
The Atlantic and Great Western rail-
| way is second time in the London
market seeking for loan. Its bonds
| are now issued at 20, to bear per cent.
interest, and 1t is intended to raise
e6, ,O00, 900.
The Philadelphia Press intimates that
Stephens, the escaped Irish head centre,
is untrue to the Fenian cause, and that
his escape was connived at by the Brit
/ ish government. Not impossible but
rather improbable. ft t
The agitation of the Sunday question
| in Philadelphia has become quite brisk,
and Is directed principally against Sum
| day papers and horse cars. The city
pastors are the agitators and propose to
start State league. 5}if
After the war broke out, the ship
ments of gold from California to the
Atlantic seaports dropped off from
thirty-fiYe millions annually to twelve,
the difference going to other countries
on account of the rebel priyateers. The
tide has turned back, and $40, ,569, ,sT5
We're received in gold at New York last
year.
Both the United States Senators from
\ Colorado are decided radical repubii-
cans. Mr.. Chaffee was formerly a
banker In Michigan, and went to the
original national free soil convention at
Buffalo in 1s4s as delegate; he has liv-
ed in Colorado five years, has been
speaker of the territorial House, and is
now president of the national bank
there.
New York, with s05, $50 population
! has 47.62 per cent offoreign born people;
PhiIadelphia, with SIS, ,529, has 2S.93 per
cent; Brooklyn, with 1851, has 1922;
i Baltimore, with 2l2, ,41S, has 24.71; Bos-
ton, with III, 7,s12, has 1888; New Or
i leans, with I6S, ,675, has IS. 81; Cincinnati,
4 with 161, ,044, has 45.71; st. Louis, with
160, ,77S, has 1915; Chicago, with los, ,260,
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