The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-16
GeneralNeys summary.
Superior gas is made from petroler

General News summary.
Superior gas is made from petroleum.
New York has already received S75,-
600 from liquor licenses. ..---,=.
Miss Bateman is severely i'll and has
quit the stage for time.
Two or threeexpedition for Montana
are fitting out at ST. Paul, Mimi.
Queen Victoria will be forty-seven
| wears old on the 24th inst.
A new vehicle in Paris is christened
the Egotist, because it holds enly one
The Boston Post calls the prevailing
style of tilting hoops the "htnderpest."
William Daily died at New York, the
other day, Mt the great age OF one nun
dred and six years.
A muscular Cincinnati boy threw a
common ball 175 feet, in,the air, against
a church spire, the other day.
Englishmen are reported to be travel
| ing around in this country and en-
gaging all this seasons make OF cheese
at 20c. 49, ir.s. 4955, ,zt,
The Detroit Press says that, while the
newspapers are trying to kill General
Cass with softening Of the brain, he
stubbornly improves in health.
The teachers Of the freedmen at Mem
phis have 1efG for the North, believing
that the schools cannot be safely opened
again atpresent.
The young man who saved the life OF
the emperor of Russia has received
/ 600 600 francs and a large tract of land,
besides fine house in st Petersburg.
Judge Abell OF New Orleans has de-
cided the civil rights bill null and void,
because the present Congress Is uncon-
stitutionally constituted. SO there we
are again.
Isaac Toucey has written letter to
| Senator Sherman, denying the state
ment5 that he (Toucey) scattered the
navy before the rebellion broke out.
He Tells where the the ships were, but
nobody cures now. rs51t
While an adultress was paying fine
| for her crimein st. Louis court, the
| other day, her husband drew a revolver
and shot her fatally through the head.
Hethentried to kill himself, but was
prevented from doing so.
The great rush ofstravel to Europe:
this summer, is doubtless accounted
for, in great part, by the fact that a per-
son or Il family can cross the ocean,
spend Two or three weeks in visiting
| places of interest on the continent, and
| return, for small part of the cost OF
pleasure excursion that would occupy
| the same length of time in the United
| States.
The excise law, which has just gone
into operation at New York, says that
all LIQUOR stores shall be ''completely
and effectually closed" between mid
night and sunrise; but Justice Ledwith
| has discharged dealer, arrested for
violation of this prohibition, on the
ground that no sales were proved after
! mid night, They have very pllable laws
in New York. = iEZt-tts ~
'-'tYou have lost your baby, I hear"
said one gentleman TO another. Yes,
poor little thing! 1t was only five
months old. We did all we could for
it. We had four doctors, put mustard
poultices all over it, blistered its head
and feet, and gave IL nine calOmel pow
| ders, l=eched its temples, had it bled,
and gave it all kinds of medicine, and
yet after u weeks illness it died."
The New York chamber of commerce
has agreed to memorialfze Congress
not to put II tax of five cents pound
on cotton, on the ground that 1t would
be ruinous to cotton culture in this
country, and if persisted in would lose
us the monopoly of the markets of the
world.
Gov. Curtin of Pennsylvania, who
will retire from the office next Decem-
Der, will have served two terms of
three years ench. He is now the only
| Governor in service elected before the
war, holding on little longer even
than Gov. Andrew of Massachusetts
and Gov. Buckingham OF Connecticut.
Doing business "upon honor" once
| the noblest feature of New York trade,
has become dangerous and few dare
trust to it. Even the chamber of com
merce is not nowtan Endorsement OF its
members, as no question of mercantile
lcharacter, honor, or even honesty has
| for many years been made test OF
membership. aaa
A slime show of surface oil, which
created much excitement at Fishkill,
N. Y, awhile ago, and which was made
by iudiciousIy pouring crude petrole-
ium in certain marshy places, Induced
the purchase of the lands at high
Company" which has just found out
how it. was gulIed and has sued for
$4,000 damages. 6fLll0 me sa.l.7
The San Francisco AitG California,
of April I'd, says: "The visit OF the
| 'Colfax party TO California was one of
the best things which ever occurred for
our State. It has awakenedan interest
| in behalf of the Pacific States which
will tell for our benefit for long years
to come, and has done more than any
| other single event to make known to
| the world our wonderful resources, ag-
ricultural, mineral and commercial.
A Paris correspondent tells of a lady
| riding in an open carriage ina crowded
street, and wearing a very small bon
| net with very large artificial vegetables
upon it. An ill-fed horse behind, de
ceiVed by byappearances, stretched out his
neck and nfbbled. The lady shrieked
and there were Gshreeks of LATER" from
the theartless pedestrians, while the
horse, hopeful and hungry, bit deeper
into the deceptive provender, and final.
/ ly bit off all the back of the head-of
hair and things-of the lady. -
The latest wonderful spiritual story
comes from England. A gentleman
was asked if he would like TO call a
spirit. "I should" the gentleman re-
piled ssNVhose2" asked the medium.
t'Lindley Murray'sW Lindley Muir
rays ghost appeared erect, right
/ through the table. The gentleman
| shuddered. All trembled. The me-
dium was visible affected. 'Are you
the spirit of Lindley Murray ?n asked
| the gentleman, astonished in his own
/ courage in thus addressing a visitant of
| the lower world. eyes, I arew boldly
responded Lindley Murray's ghost.
Poor Lindley Murrayl1
LORD GBosvEsoR IN THE wEsr.-A
correspondent of the Boston Post tells
the following good story Of Lord Gros-
yenor's experiences in the western part