The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-09
WHEELING WEST va FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY
NEWS sUAIlLARY.

NEWS sUlIMARY.
Odds and Ends From All Sources
Condensed From the Mails.
The New York charity ball netted
over $50, 600, ,-.-f7
In Australia undertakers announce
funerals over their own names.
Ten per cent. has been established as
the legal rate OF interest in Georgia.
The Syracuse salt men are lobbying
to secure an increase of duty on foreign
salt. 1aF..il- s11s,.j =. g
Nearlyall the three-cent currency has
been redeemed, and no more of it will
be issued. anii'1 7 .Ha94 E III !.
A ..stag" ball was recently enjoyed
by a Brooklyn engine company, all to
themselves.
Alta recent sale OF relics in Germany,
a chair, which once belonged to Vol-
taire, brought S400. sa7
Peru has Joined hands with Chill,
which amounts to declaration of war
by Peru against Spain.
The money issubssribed which is to
connect Burlington, Iowa, and Niilwau-
kee, by rail next summer.
The losses by fire In the United States
for several weeks have averaged half
million of dollars daily. Isll0 81
| All the Minnesota Indians, except
those engaged in the massaeres OF 1862,
are anxious for peace with the whites.
Oysters are so high in Paris that the
people have combined to abstain for
awhile, and SO bring down the price.
Minister Adams has been elected hon
orary fellow of the London society of
antiquarfes, in place of Edward Ever
cit. -y 49,. ..,.,r..-g ~
BY keeping steadily drunk in Missou-
ri for one year, a divorce may be secured
without fail. What a premium on
drunkennessl sl---=t------
Ship-building at New York was dull
| at the close of the war; but is reviving,
and none of the new ones are sailers,
Nevada is on the eve of adopting the
national currency (greenbacks); and
things are working towards the same
result in California. f.-,. l-,7y NJ
Ten thousand "notices to quit have
been given to tenants of houses which
are to be pulled down to make room for
new streets in Paris. ---.-..-.
Hundreds of diseased hogs, sheep and
cattle are sold daily by the Chicago
butchers, and the customers, finding 1t
out, mildly protest.
A queer item for winter: Judge Nc
Neill's house in Middleport, Ind, was
struck by lightning, a few days since,
and badly shattered.
One days, record in the Chicago courts:
Three divorce cases. three seduct1ons,
one bastardy, one rape anda numerous
collection of,wife- -beatings.
Colonel Basil Duke, formerly of st.
Louis, is said to be preparing life of
General John Morgan. 80
The number of Hamburg-American
steamships is to be doubled in anticipa-
tion of great rush of German emil
grants to the United States, this year.
Fruitpreserving houses, costing about
$50, GOO apiece, are being built in Roch-
ester and Buffalo. They have been
very successful in Cleveland and De-
troit.
New York will have fewer inhabi-
tants next summer than now. Large
numbers offamilies are eengaging houses
in the country in anticipation of the
cholera. 1+59+
Kelley, who holds the rowing cham
pionship of England, has accepted the
challenge of Hammil, the American
champion, to row for the championship
of the world
The grain elevator building at st.
Louis, recently completed, has capac-
ity OF one and a quarter million bush
els. Another, just like it, Will be erect
ed this year. "a. ..lrl-l-.
| A New York waiter girl expressed
her Indignation at a poarder's imperti-
nence by smashing plate over his
head. To add to his chagrin, the land
lord made him pay for the crockery.
The last thing out for bonnets in the
street, is said to be "brown velvet
dice box, with little dead woodcock
perched over the forehead of the wear
er, trying to peck out her right eye"
They calculate In France that rust
will compel a renewal of their IRON
clads once in five years. Sometime,
perhaps, we shall know how to make
| iron, by a simple process, impervious
to rust.
,puematic dispatch company for the
metropolis is awaiting incorporation in
the New York Legislature. The plan
works finely in London, and transports
all. sorts of parcels in quick time. Sid
sl.atino rinIxs have had an enormous
patronare in the larger cities this win-
ter and music, pyrotechnics, CREASED
pig races and mberless other expedi-
ents have been employed to bring 1t
about. SIS
"A JiDcoly, memorial flag of silk and
ele0antlv enbroidered Inns been made
by the workmen at LYONS, France, to
send to this country. The stars are set
in silver and the stripes are foot wide.
AL konrshit, Yards now It costs about
sim ners ton fof build. n shin such as
could have been produced for $50 a ton
before the war. No wonder that our
harbors are still crowded by foreign
The marina i1ossea In, .Januarv show
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