The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-21

"A LdCI OF REGtt eIES EllCduCe~4s 5l3Olt-
ing that France expects to take part In I
the coming war is that Able Lame, the /
first chaplain, has been made
chaplain in chief of the army. This
priest served as chaplain in the Italian
war of 1853 and WAS at the battles OF
Magenta and Solferino.
The western wool growers were be-
fore the Commute on Ways and Means,
on Friday, in full force. They were
protection, and desired the Committee
TO FIX the rate in the new tariff on inn
ported wool at D per cent. It is not
believed that the Committee viii agree
to so high rate.
The Pittsburgh Dispdtch says the
country around that city is vocal with
the singing of the locusts. On every
tree and shrub they are perched, where
they sing the live long day. 1t is said
they arenot as plenty now as they were
the last time they visited the surface.
AS to how this is we cannot say, but we
feel convinced that there is sufficient
quantity up now to do considerable
damage.
"A little girl aged about twelve years,
was recently arrested in Chester county,
Penn, charged with attempting to de-
stroy the lives of the family in which
she was living. She mixed powdered
SAd55 Win L1EAL AOD4I CaAbE0
them terrible suffering, and but for
timely medical aid they would have
died.
"A formidable riot broke out at City
Point, Virginia, Monday night, between
the soldiers and the residents of that
place. a large number on both sides
were wounded. In the melee there was
general robbery OF stores and dwell
ings. The citizens took refuge in sight
NJ RfnhrnnnH The cause of the riOt Is
not stated.
On Tuesday morning 20 pounds of
gun cotton exploded in part of build
ing No. 90, Crosby street, New York.
The windows of the front building were
shattered by the conclusion, but the
damage to property was small. The
further making of gun cotton in that
vicinity has been interdicted by the IRE
commissioners.
"A colored woman named Pendy
Miles died near Waynesburg few
days since, aged los years. She was
once slave of the grandfather of Gov
ernOr Foreman, of West Virginia, and
in 1914 was manEDitted by that gentle
man "Eor her faithful services and kind
ness towards his children"
"A few days since man named Mich
olas Firesinger, residing at the Codorus
Foundry, in Codorus township, York
county, accepted a proposition To drink
ten glasses OF lager beer in ten minutes,
il comrade paid for them. The lager
was produced and drank within the
time specified, but Immediately there
after he complained of illness, when he
was carried into building attached to
the foundry, and left until the fol-
lowing morning, when he was found
dead.
The Norfolk Cva.) old Dominion
has the following: 1.-THE celebrated
blockade runner Chickamauga was
sold at the navy yard on Monday for
$4,000. This is cheap as the vessel
originally cost 500, 600 in gold, when
built in 1861, at Observation-Disclosures
in England. It will be remembered
that the Chickamnuga was sunk at
Wilmington last year, when that place
was evacuated by the Confederates.
AT a spiritual CIRCLE the other
evening a vinegary lady asked: lis
the spirit of my husband present."
when an answer came, "he is" She
n meS% .:V % hap55y y AS %Sh @ are
YOU. John ~ ain HI" It is further
related that the vinegary lady threw
lamp at the mediums head, which had |
the effect Of solving the problem of
squaring the circle.
The owners of Nitro-Glycerine OIL |
now stored in the city of New York 1
dow land within few miles of the city, |
for the purpose of manufacturing il. |
Their buildings will be far removed /
from any other structures, and an ex-
plOsion would injure only such persons /
as were employed in their mandatory,
and destroy no property except that of
the gIycerine owners.
Gen. Fisk has made an elaborate re-
port TO Gen. Howard upon the condi-
lion of affairs in Tennessee and Ken
lucky. He says that during the month
of May 77,l77 rRtions were issued to Il
white persons, and 2, 400 10 freedmen.
He has ordered the distribution of an
aggregate of 10000 rations for June, at
least tWo-thirds OF which will go to the |
whites. The people of Kentucky, he
thinks, are indisposed to properly care
for the aged and fndrm freedmen, and
their support viii for time be bur
den upon the Government.
i'm all Europe, probably, about
three hundred and fifty millions of our
securities, national and otherwise, are
held. 1t is not expected that a large
amount of them win be returned in
of European war. On
the contrary IL is argued that the Ger
mans and Italians will seek security
for property by transferring Il to conn
tries remote from the complications of
the conflict, and foremost for both safe
Of all nations, stand those of the United
States.
The Columbus, o., Journal says that
Governor Cox has been invited 20 call
an extra session of the legislature to
ratify the reconstruction amendment TO /
the Constitution, and has responded an
that he would reserve his de-
cision on the matter until after the as
sembling OF the Union Convention, to
have hapn held on "Wednesday and |
wonld be governed by its advice.
"A mass meeting of President John
sons friends was held at Frederick, Nd,
on Saturday. Drunkenness and rioting
were the order Of the day. Numbers of
returned rebel soldiers were in attend
anee. and cheers for JEFF. Davis, Mosby,
Beauregard and other noted rebels, were
repeatedly given at the meeting and on
the streets. Montgomery Blair and
other Copperheads delivered speeches
on the occasion.
On Sunday night, 10 a house in
Philadelphia, when all was still and /
hushed, the police We're attracted by a |
head projecting from a dormitory VIM
dow, and an arm springiug heavy
rnttie. The police came into the house,
where they found the family trembling
with fear OF assassination or of robbery. |
The police reassured the trembling
householder, and made dillgent search
throughout They found, in the par
lor, n strange cat, extremely anxious
70 get out; and about this was all the
hubbub. The paterfamilias went to
bed feeling as cheap as a broken-back-
ed. chair at street auction.
"A case somewhat similar to the
Parknan-Webste affair WIS attem pit
ed recently Mt Mitchell,s College in st.
Louis, occasioned by money matters.
The parties were two professors Mitch