The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-12

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in western freights and general traffic.
Sixty gold watches and much other
valuable iewelry were recently found
buried in cemetery ut Montgomery,
Ala.
The New5YorlS firemen have been pre-
sented life and accident insurance poll
cies by the resident fire insurance COM
panies.
Vigorous movements in opposition to
the gas mOnopolies are in progress at
New York. and Brooklyn, and "a 'tgas
consumers protective association" IS to
be formed in each city.
Mr.. Pile, formerly city surveyor of
New Orleans, has obtained n Judgment
against Gen. Butler for $1,000 in gold,
given Pile by the municipal authorities
and grabbed by Butler.
Punch thus sums up the ins and outs
of the case at Washington, in AN unu-
sually clear statement for an English
writer on our affairs:
"s;ays johnson, To hold that the States Of
Were out OF the Union Is sim"
Says Congress, .wa'al, guess If they never
There ami no call for letting 'em in.'"
The Philadelphia Conference meets
on March l4th, in Philadelphia.
Pope Plus the Ninth is again report
ed to be seriously ill. ~ -lr- H#
Large quantities of cotton are arriv-
ing ut Norfolk from the distant South,
to be shipped to Europe.
Three hundred thousand dollars of
the Fenian loan have. been taken in
New York since Saturday week.
1t Is reported That Archbishop Nc
Closkey, of New York, will refuse abb
solution TO all Fenians.
Colonel Preston n. Harrison LEFT Ma
con, Georgia, a few days ago, with Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, en- route for Canada,
where the children of Mrs. ID. are ut
school.
A wealthy Boston gentleman has
signified his intention of adOrning the
public garden at Boston with an al
iegorical statue in honor of the intro
duction of ether.
A field of wheat buried under an ava
lanche in Switzerland for twenty-five
yenrs, proceeded on its growth as soon
rs the snow had melted.
John Gordon was lately conveyed to
the Toronto Hospital to have n surgical
operation performed, but dreaded it so
much that he cut his throat and died.
The navigation of the western rivers
is in danger of being impeded by sunk
en- steamers. EOrty-fOur have gone
down in Red river alone since last
June.
c. w. Howard, and Judge Shaffer, of
California, have the largest dairy farm
in the world. Their farm is on the sea-
coast, twenty-five miles west of San
Francisco, and covers Al 600 acres.
The Emperor Nnpoleon's recent
speech, consisting of one thousand sew
en- hundred and eighty-Tour words,
was transmitted to the farthest part of
France by telegraph in little over half
an hour.
The kentucky Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church North is
now in session at Covingtun. Thirty
ministers, seceders from the church
South, have been admitted to this Con-
ference.
The seizure of cheap Canada suits of
clothing in single packages for owners
wear still continues ut the western
ports of entry, the express companies
furnishing the officers with full facili-
ties.
SENTENCE OF DEATH Committed
Joseph Mathews, who was TO have been
hung in New York, for shooting and
killing John King, has had his sentence
commutcd to Imprisonment for life.
AT Saratoga new road to the lake is
to be opened this year. 1t is 10 be Il
boulevard two hundred feet wide, mac
ndamized and equal two any of the
drives in Central Park, witlGpNnlks and
shade trees. ssa
.'Do not pity him; he is guilty.
Harsh and revolving words! lie is gull
ty, and 1t is this that draws out my ten
derest compassion.
The first institution vouchsafed to our
race was the Sabbath: the next marri-
age. So give your first thought to
heaven, the next to your wife. f
The wiuning-post to the race of life is
a slab of white or gray stone, standing
out from that turf where there is no
more jockeying.
Beautiful was the reply OF. n venera-
BILE man to the question, whether he
was still IN the land of the living: "No,
but am almost there"
A Missouri paper announced n short
time since that the wife cropin Gascon-
ade county yielded $4,000 gals" The
next week the editor cane out with an
"erratum-for wife read wine"
''NIammn," said little Nell, chad the
governess ought 10 tiog me for what
did not do?" 'No, my dear child, why
do YOU ask?" because she flOgged
me today when I didn't do my sum-"
"well, fnrmer, You told rs your place
was n good place for hunting; now we
have trHmped il for three hours ana
late, as general thing, the less game
there is, the more hunting you have"
That man is not good enough for any
place who thinks no place good enough
for him.
DIR. Chaplin says; The cause that
never made a fanatic never produced II
martyr. & 'A
Air is n dish on which one feeds every
minute, therefore it aught always to be
fresh.
Why is the assessor of taxes the best
man the world2 Because he never
undertakes anybody.
a lady who edits a newspaper in one
of the western States, says that the pop
ularity of her journal is due to the fact
that people arc always expecting she
will say something she ought not to.
Jones says PERSONS character de-
pends n good deal upon his bringing
up. For instance, says he, man who
has been brought up by the police sell
dom turns out respectable.
To HAVE really good coffee, that
strengthens and stimulates, the bever-
age must be strong, strong in distinc-
tion TO wenk; not dense enough to bear
an egg. Persons of weak digestion