The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-29
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pardon the woman Trussell, who was
sentenced TO years imprisonment
for killing her seducer.
The "Immortal j. NJ" will ''lift
the vail" ut Tiffin. Jan. Sd, and Is ex-
pected to give an account of his recent
| interview with J. ID. ut Fortress Mon
roe.
There Is a salt we'll In Tuscarawas
county, Ohio, which yields 600 barrels
of water in twenty-four hours, 30 gal
Ions OF the water making bushel OF
salt.
A resident of Bucyrus, o., Is about
shipping To the Governor OF Georgia Tor
the poor of that State, six car loads oil
wheat, siX of corn, and six barrels each
OF pork and beef.
A Saxon lady, the wife OF barris-
ter, lately committed suicide, in order
that her husband should get her lie
insurance money, and free himself
from his debts.
A genius of Jackson, Michigan, has
had patented reversible boot and shoe
heels, the merit of these being that
they may be changed 50 that they VIII
wear evenly.
The town OF Coburg, In Canada
West, was on Saturday night last
lighted up with new gas, made from
pine wood, bones, and refuse vegetable
and animal matter.
A story il told of u young man In
Freeport, H., who was crossed in love
and attempted suicide recently by tax
ing dose Of yeast powder. lie imme-
diately rose above his troubles.
The sweetest word of our language
is love. The greatest word in our Ian
guage IL God. The word expressing
the shortest time Is now. The three
make the greatest and the sweetest
duty man can perform.
A father out West kicked his daugh-
ter's lover into the street, and the lover
revenged himself by causing stick OF
wood filled with gunpowder to be placed
in the old gentleman's stove-efiect to
be imagined.
A young man in Douglas county,
Mo-, last week, lit his pipe and threw
the burning match carelessly aside, so
that it fell into an open keg of powder.
Two persons were fatally injured by
the explosion, and the house in which
they were was very much damaged.
"A young man out West was en-
Trusted with the money to bring his
father home u good family sewing ma
chine. lie carried off "A neighbours
daughter to Chicago, married her and
brought her home, declaring she was
the best family sewing machine he
could procure.
Letters from Richmond confirm the
reports that the amendment is growing
in favor as the best terms the South
will be able 10 obtain. The disfran-
chising clause is the point OF hesitancy.
There is ground for IA faint hope that,
after all. change will come over the
southern mind-but II must be con-
icssed that it is not very encouraging.
Tho Richmond Dispatch says that
! the owner OF the farm known as Dutch
Gap, finding that the island made by
the cutting of Buffers canal could not
conveniently be put To use without
some means of communication with
/ the main land. is filling up one end of
/ the canal, in order To create causeway,
and the canal will soon be among the
things that were.
Two young fellows got to bantering
each other the other day, and finally
one of them exclaimed, "Well, there's
one thing, you can't put your head
| into an empty barrel" son, non
sense" exclaimed the other, why
can't -" Because" dryly rejoined
the first, "it is an impossibility to put
n hogshesd into barrel"
Christmas in New York appears to
have been generally kept, both as n
holy aud holiday. Evergreens and
/ flowers decorated parlors and ball
/ rooms, and even milliners' shops, lager
| beer saloons, concert halls and theatres;
but they Were most profusely lavished
/ in the decoration of houses OF worship,
] thronged by Christians OF almost every
/ denomination.
The gross revenue of the Girind
estate will probably be S33O,OOO next
year. 1t includes nearly 300 properties
| in Philadelphia, consisting of stores,
| dwellings, wharves, lots and farms, be-
sides valuable coal and timber lands in
| Schuylkill and Columbia counties.
Some of the rents have been doubled,
others trebled. 1t is hoped the fund
will soon be able To support 1900 or
phans.
Rev. ". III. Milburn, the blind
/ Episcopal clergyman, entertains some
| hope of recovering his sight. Eminent
oculists have informed him that so
many are the new facilities for exam
lining the eye, that in their opinion a
double operation upon the right eye
would enable him not only TO distin-
guish objects, but perhaps read coarse
type. Rev. Mr.. Milburn intends going
to Europe in the spring 10 consult an
oculist at Berlin whose reputation in
that speciality is world wide.