The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-21


Our News Summary.
Turn out to the Union mass meet
ing at the Court House tonight.
There are nearly 600 prisoners on
the Dry Tortugas.
House rents have quadrupled in
Mobile since the war.
Marrying blood relation: A Mr..
De Bus has lately welded Miss Rissam.
VIII soon have another Thumb on his
hands.
Those little pests, the red ants, will
not trouble closets which have black
walnut shelves.
"A Galxeston, Texas, merchant won
a bet the other day by eating eighty
dozen raw oysters.
ALI the crack base ball clubs of the
West had tournament" at Bloom
ington, H., last week.
old Mrs. Porch, who lives in the
mountains of East Tennessee, is 12l.-
She is blind, but hearty.
Peas, 200 years old, planted in Dull
yerton, England, this season, have pro-
duced luxuriant crop,
We expect to hear an able and elo-
quent speech from Mr.. Woodman at
the Court House tonight.
New Orleans is the only city in the
Union that has paid larger income
tax this year than last.
Gen. John C.. Breckinridge and
family have arrived in London.
AT the book trade sale in New York
last week, one million volumes were
sold at an aggregate price of $500, 600.
George Trussell the owner of Dex-
tel" who was murdered by his mistress
at Chicago, the other day, was worth
$4,000.
"A new daily paper is to be started
at Wilmington, Del, next week, and
Will be the first daily paper ever pub
lished in the State.
The strongest argument in favor of
allowing marriage with n deceased
wite's sister is that one will thus have
only one mother-in-law.
The Prussians lost in the war 2,473
Killed, 5,34l severely wounded, 6,S65
slightly wounded, and 1859 missing,
making total of Is, ,259.
Mr.. Woodmau,I who speaks to-
night at the Court House, has the repu-
tation OF an excellent stumper. Turn
out then and hear him.
The Boston Post says that there is a
rumor in Providence, r. l., that the
wife of (nOt very distinguished
United States Senator is about to ap-
ply for a divorce.
Queen Isabella, of Spain, sleeps
uneasy on account OF conspiracy
against her life, headed by the son of
Gen. ortega. --e
Another gang of counterfeiters
has been discovered, extending through
northern Kansas, Nebraska. Missouri
and Iowa, and several of them, with
some excellent bogus tens, have been
nabbed.
"A young woman in Detroit, having
pawned all her valuRbles to get money
to buy liquor, left her son, a bright lit
tie fellow three years old, with rum
seller in trust, until she could obtain
money to redeem him. i5s
Capt. Webb of Stockwell, Ind, was
robbed of S2s, ,0OO-every cent he had in
the world-at Lafayette, Ind, a few
nights ago, by four men who sieZed
him in the street and gagged him. The
money was all in Il belt which he wore
around his person.
Until recently, collins were always
carried to the cemetery in Luxembourg
on mems shoulders. The innovation
of hearse has just been adopted by
the municipality, Notwithstanding the
strenuous opposition of the bishop, who
objected on both religious and flnan-
cial grounds.
--uOAil 1HrIS IlAt
Napoleon will get out of the Mexican
muddle as best he can, and adds: 81
am not sorry for him; ne did not boldly
take the only course that would have
securely established his Mexican EN-
pire--that is, he did not recognize and
aid the Southern Confederacy.
Leonard w Jerome and other rich
New Workers have formed the "Ameri-
can joclSy club" and have laid out a
fFnftinnF of
York, which they will dedicate, week
after next. The appurtenances are on
scale OF completeness and elegance
never before attempted in this country.
The real estate in the State of New
York is assessed at 81, 1876, ,4O3, ,4I6, the
personal property at 1884, ,S26, ,22O, max
ing an aggregate of 81, 1871, ,229, ,636. New
York county alone is credited with
S420, 800, ,SS4 in real estate and SlSl, ,423. :
Al in personal property, or 5000, ,7S4. .S55
in all, about two-fifths of the entire
State valuation.
The European gossipers say that
the pope IS to give up Rome as the capi.
tai OF Italy, preserving to himself the
Vatican and st. Peters, while Venetia
IS given over to the papacy as temporal
property; that the betrOthal of the
prince imperial of France with the eld !.
est daughter OF the prince royal of
Prussia will soon take place; and that
the sultan of Turkey takes so much in
terest in Napoleon's health that he has
ordered a daily telegram from Paris
concerning it.
Suicide is increasing in New York.
Within day or two an italian has
jumped through a second story win
dowi photographer has swallowed
prusslc acid for love, tailor has shot
himself through the head, a woman has
Jumped into the Eastriver, and another
woman has killed herself with Paris
green, The one last named had made
up set OF mourning clothes for her
mother and children, trimmed her hus-
Dand,s hat with Grape, and even pre-
pared her own burial clothes.
The great base ball game of the sea
son took place at Hoboken, N. j., the
other day, between the Aflantics OF
Brooklyn, the champions of the coun-
Try, and the Mutuals of New York
Fiiteen thousand people were present,
ana intense excitement prevailed. At
the end of the sixth innings the Mutuals
had tailed IL, and the Atiantics only 3.
but the latter turned the scale and
finally beat, II to Is. There were four
blind innings on each side, and the
game was one of the most "scientific''
ever played.
why JeR. Davis is not Released.
Much has been written in the Copper
head press in denunciation of Congress
for opposing the release of Jefferson
Davis on bail, but it would seem, from
the subjoined extrnct from letter
from Washington TO the Baltimore
Gazette, that Congress is f'endorsed,'
in this particular by no less person