The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-14
Our News Summary.



ted for Congress.
Tho bill to repeal the retrocesslon
of Alexandria has been defeated.
ANY person or corporation can now
build a telegraph line over any railroad
or mail route.
The national bankrupt bill is again
before the United States Senate.
The postmasters of the South were
in default 100000 or more, Of which
100000 has been already paid In, some
oft under protest.
Rev. Father GendremanD, a Catho-
lie priest, from Cumberland, was
drowned at Annapolis, on Wednesday.
The Plasterers' Convention met in
Philadelphia yesterday.
"A dark cloud, financially speaking,
is one that has no silver lining.
"A spirituallstlc paper in Williams
burgh, N. Y, publishes some verses
purpOrting to have been written In
1.-THE seventh sphere" by the assassin OF
Mr.. Lincoln, commencing, "Oh God,
what fiery WIVES Of hell across my
burdened conscience roll!" and ending,
"Ye horny age, ye thoughtless youth,
avoid the fate of John Wilkes BOothI"
The tariff bill is postponed in the
Senate until next December.
An invalid committed suicide in
Mobile a few days ago, because the
mosquitoes made life Il burden.
There are two American surgeons
having commissions in the Austrian
army.
The new Boston Directory contains
65, lS4 names, an increase of 1903 over
lust year.
I'm the present Congress there are
five Senators and twenty.eight Repre-
sentatives who have been school
masters.
Nebraska is no longer territory.
At the election last month she adopted
a State Constitution, by the small ma
jority of 100.
Daniel p. Peters Is the Chicago no.
tel keeper who was fined 81 400 for neg
leCting 10 put on revenue stamps on his
receipts for money.
The conservatives call themselves
Union men, but that does not make
them so. The blnckest negro we ever
saw was called "Snow Ball." and the
slowest dog we ever saw was named
"Swift."
Outside pressure is heavy in favor
of the bill for the equalization oi
bounties. II is expected to be before
the Senate this week.
Five hundred bank clerks have
been thrown out Of employment by the
recent bank stoppages in England.
The noon express train on the New
York Central railroad, Saturday, made
tne run from Albany to Schenectady,
40 miles, in thirty minutes.
The Chicago Times says: General
Logan Is u curiOus-looking man. He
wears long hair aud greases 1t, which
is proof that he is Il natural abolition
ist, and has at last found his level"
This is new thing on pomatum.
The oldest stove in America is sup
posed TO he that now in the Capitol OF
Virginia Mt Richmond, which is 9Gyears
of aye. 1t was made and brought from
England in l770.
Texas cotton news Is unfavorable.
The crop is estimated at about one
Hourth, being damaged by worms.
Some ofthe California papers have
Il standing head for divorces, and print
them in the same style as announce
ments of marriages, deaths and births,
"A Porto Rico letter says the slave
population is rapidly diminishing by
manumission. The sugar and coffee
crops were not more than half the av-
eruge.
An unfortunate Kentucky editor
thus addresses his delinquent subscri-
bers:
"Friends, we are penniless. Jobs
turkey was n millionaire compared
with our present depressed treasury.
To-day, II the price OF salt was two
cents barrel, We could not buy
enough to pickle jay-bird."