The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-16
.ERsoF rHEDAY.

I va .zlaEws OF rHEDAT.
o e P ND fnH; M SsEfsf'sr from the
There are 1926 national banks.
The Pithole oil wells fill 5000 barrels
daily. ~ ssT5, 80
Insurance against burglars is the last
The careful Germans never killed
anybody on their railroads.
There were over HOO cases of small
pox in New York, last year.
A circle of earthworks is to protect
Toronto from the fearful Fcnians.
sCorn.in the West is selling in the crib
at from ten to twenty cents a bushel.
The Lake Superior mines produced
9971 tons of copper in 1855, gain of 9l5.
The Ohio Republicans bet heavily on
81, 900 majority for Gen. Cox. He had
1885. ~ a
The United States telegraph line has
reached Marshalltown, Ia, on its way
to California. ti. sh firifi5tI
The Southern Iliinoisians brag loudly
of their cotton crop last year, and Will
double II this. tuf +lgrd7
The losses of the fire insurance COM
panies of New York amounted last
year to $40, 1S9, 600, against SIS, So, 600 in
1864 . .-,'3F 3 sa'sfii
d The stove trade of Troy was immense.
last year. Sixteen thousand tons of
iron were used-and 10000 stoves sent
10 market.
Miles of tubing will soon be laid in
the Pennsylvania oil regions. This Is
becoming the fayorite mode OF trans
portation there. az4aesI.4t-
The ancient custom of .cryfng, the
hour' by night watchmen has been
kept up at Pittsburg, and it is now pro
posed to abolish it. iaf
6 A four acre bed of strawberries at
Macon, Ga, is in full bloom and fruit.
We, poor northarners, will have to wait
till June for 'em. ~ 'ati ti-
Queen Victoria always sends gift of
IS to any poor mother in her dolninions
who may give birth to triplets-One
pound per baby.
New York, for being wretchedly gov
erned, win pay So, ,96S this year,
which is over two millions cheaper
than the cost last year. $1,000
The selling of colored people in Del
aware for a term of years as a punish
ment for crime, is now n perfect tarce.
Four persons were sold a few days
since and brought from twelve TO fifteen
cents each, and their purchasers inme-
diately let them go.
This is the way man in New York
been empty for twenty years Attach
ing n rose jet to n water pipe on a cold
day, the water freezes as fast as II
comes through, and continues to do so
till the house is full OF solid ice.
The four tiunk lines from West to-
East are fighting harder than ever for
freights, and are putting their rates
lower than usual in the winter. There
isn't near the rush of freight which
overwhelmed the roads a few months
ago, and many OF them have hundreds
of idle cars. -fii'' -
/ A hypoehondriac of rank and fortune
in Ireland, fancies one of his legs ofone
religion, and the other of another. He
frequently puts one of his unfortunate
limbs outside the bedelothes in cold
weather, to punish it for its religious
errors. z..,..,ty
THE expiration OF the Trinity Church
leases, this year and next. will relieve
New York OF hundreds of pestilential
novels, which will be supplanted by
elegant structures. -i-.-i5atl.5t sf4-t
Gen. John w. Geary is most promi-
nently mentioned among the republic
cans as candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania. His record MS soldier
and n citizen is irreproachable.
Avery dangerous counterfeit of the
81 national hank notes was lately dis
covered and squelched in New York,
just in season to prevent its issue.
Spanish fowls for the table, Ham
burgs for the greatest number of eggs,
and Rrahmas for eggs in cold weather,
is what the Scottish farmer advises.
In Washington City there are up
wards of seventy churches, viz: Fiji
teen Methodist, nine Episeopnlian. nine
Presbyterian. five Baptist, three Luth-
eran, twenty colored, and say a dozen
of other sspersuasions." H4suf
1t is estimated that there are III New
York city only about 10000 church
goers, ofwhom one-half are Catholics.
A letter was found in one of the letter
boxes or Vienna, recently, addressed
TO the Infant Jesus in uenyen, to be
given TO st. Peter. 1t contained the
prayer of a child to have u great many
presents at Christmas.
The December returns of the western
railroads show diminished receipts
compared with the same time last year
as follows: zoe, ,so. ~.