The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-28
NEWS sUaIaIARY.
Items condensed and Gathered from

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NEWS sUMMARY.
Items Condensed and Gathered from,
the maiIs.
Girnrdin says French revolution is
imminent, but Napoleon can'tsee II.
st. Louis is establishing schools for
colored children for the first time.
Amer March the house painters at
New York will take $3.50 for eight
hours work, If you please.
Baths of compressed mir are a new
curative ut Rochester.
Aqueer Organization for Paris is the
new club of st. MousSeline, formed by
a number of ladies who forswear all
costly fabrics and mean to make cheap
muslin fashionable.
The agitation of the Sunday paper
question is raging fiercely at Chicago,
the elergymen mixing in with mucn
learnestness. Tho IEi6tne'S Sunday is
sue is the aggravating cause.
The importations of foreign wool into
this country for 1865 show decrease OF
o.. ST. ,574 pounds, while there was an
increased importation OF wooden goods
amounting to S4,632,62O.
The western papers fear that the late
severe weather has greatly damaged
next summers fruit crop. The New
jersey peach growers are similarly APP
prehensive.
Gen. Geary, WHO'S likely to get the
Republican nomination for Governor
of Pennsylvania, comes out in a letter
for protection for home industry,
though he was formerly democrat.
The Memphis Audlanche, which is
witty as well as ugly, says: ITO An
drew Johnson, our patriotic President,
we look more than TO any earthly pow
err, to bring back the North TO the
Union"
Ten railroads are running in Califor-
MIA, the most important being the Cen
trail Pacific, now completed TO ColIax,
IS miles from Sacramento, and the San
Francisco and San Jose road, SO miles
long.
Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin, Illinois and Ohio have chosen gov
ernors from among their favorite repre-
sentatives in the army, and Connecticut
Rhode Island and Pennsylvania wil'
soon do so.
The Swiss, more than any other
European people, rejoice in the successl
full termination of our war, and are
going to send an artist over here for the
portraits of Lincoln, Johnson, Seward,
Grant and Sherman, to place IN their
national capitol.
1nuElOW NSeHut lOE G3AAS ~ AGSA4OAAe
of Albany, has Just sold his house in
that city for $4,000, and bought a fine
mansion of Mr.. Blatchford on Twelfth
street, near Fifth avenue, New York,
for $50, 600. He will reside. hereafter in
the metropolis.
The celebrated pacing horse, Kinney,
r., died recently at New Orleans. He
was valued ut $4,000, and his owners
once offered to bet that amount that he
could pace his mile in 2:l0. Kinney
was large roam, and one OF the most
remarkable horses of the age.
Most OF the st. Louis hog packing es-
Establishments have suspended business
for the present, on account of the scar
city of hogs.
Gottschalk's friends announce that
documents will soon be published that
all faint gathered by the California scan
dial.
Tho Mississippi is now bridged only
Mt Rock Island, H., and Clinton, Iowa,
but bridges will soon be commenced at
st. Louis, Keokuk, Burlington and Du-
buque.
Miners in the southern centre of the
Pennsylvania coal beds never get more
than $50. atom for their labor, and the
transportation to New YORK by sea
makes the cost per ton only g, 80. Max
ing all allowances for royalty, waste,
drayage, taxes, &C., the best anthracite
would afford a handsome profit to the
dealer in New Nork who would sell 1t
ut 81 ton. The regular price is $3.50.
A man who struggled himself into
a freight car at Chicago, the other day,
to steal free ride east, was found at
Pittsburgh, five days after, nearly fro
zen and starved 10 death. He Ind
plenty of dressed hog about him, but
couldn't persuade himself to eat it raw.
The Legislature of Colorado have
sent an earnest memorial to Congress,
praying for a vigorous campaign
against the hostile Indians and the es-
Establishment of department to include
| Colorado, and to be commanded by
Gen. p. L. Connor. now in command of
the district OF Utah.
The people of Troy, who keep up their
foolish opposition to the Albany bridge
even amer it is an accomplished fact,
find abettors in Albany. 1t Is gravely
announced that the Albany common
council will declare the bridge nui.
sance, that mob will destroy It, and
that the government won't make 1t a
post route.
The Denver Colorado Gdsette an
nounces that the Lyons process of ex-
tracing ores is great success and es-
tablishes the fact that so per cent. OF
the gold in the native ore can be saved:
A block of bullion, one-third gold and
the rest silver, Weighing one hundred
and tifty-seven pounds and worth Sl6,-
600 in greenbacks, has just been ex-
tracted by this process near Denver and
shipped TO Chicago; and other blocks
are soon to follow
A quantity OF land on Fulton, Will
liam, Dutch and John streets, New
York, was given IN 1I22 to the eollegi-
ate Dutch church by a worthy old
kntcSerbocker, since when IL has APP
preciated SO muSh that 1t Is valued at
four millions of dollars. Buildings
have been erected upon 1t under leases
OF q years, which will soon expire, and
as the church proposes to double the
rents for the next2l years, large num-
Der of building owners are holding in
dignntion meetings TO "cuss" the ava
ricious Dutchmen.