The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-19
Our News Summary.

THREE deaths from sunstroke up at
Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
YOUNG man put in the calaboose at
Steubenville, for throwing pebbles
against young lady's window by
moonlight, a Ia Romeo and Juliet.
UNION Conventions as follows over
the river: AT Stenbenville, August
14th at Cadiz, (JudiciaD August 22d (;
at Alliance, (Congressional) August
SIDNEY SMITH defines English BEN
evidence to be ga strong impulse on the
part of A, when he sees B in distress,
to compel G TO help him."
THE Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has decided not to collect the tax
of ten per cent. upon notes of State
Banks, imposed by the act of March 8,
1865, after July l, 1866, although that
clause is not repealed until the new one
goes into effect on the first of August.
THE thirty-first annual session of the
Erie Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, convened at Painesville,
Ohio, on Wednesday last, Bishop Ames
presided.
OvERPAID OFF1CERs.-The receipts of
the Second Auditors Bureau show that
large numbers of army officers have
fraudulently received pay several times
for the same months services. In one
case an officer was paid thirteen times
for one months services.
A CHURCH FEUp.-It is said that the
feeling between the .partisans of the
as represented by the Baltimore Con-
ference, and people of the Southern
congregation, is not as peaceful as is
required by the teachings of the Scrip
lures. Last week a certain Mr.. Sopee,
partisan of the Church North, took
possession of the meeting-house at
Clarksburgh, Nd, before the time OF
service, to keep it for Mr.. Hobbs and
his party. he barred the door to keep
out the enemy; but member of the
other side, Mr.. Lewis, got in by a win
dow, led Sopee to the door, and aided
his exit in very summary manner.
GEN. .MCCLELLAN.-Som spectators
have indulged in surmises concerning
the possiblet action of General Nc.
Clellan, on one side or the other OF
the present European conflict. Late
accounts furnish no data upon which
such theories can stand. A traveller
says he saw Gen. Mcclellan at Dres-
den, few weeks ago, and that 1t was
thought he would "break up his sum-
mer quarters and advance in the fall
as soon as the roads we're hard"
BEEoHER oNTHE EWAR.-Henry Ward
Beecher, at Plymouth church, In Brook
iyn, Sunday morning, made a few re-
marks on the present war in Europe.
BE hkened Austria and Prussia to two
thieves quarreling over their plumber.
His sympathy was with Italy first and
Austria next. The ultimate result OF
the war would be the great advance
ment of the cause of human liberty.
FREE BATH HoUsEs.-Some of the
public spirited citizens of Philadelphia
have established a free bath house,
where men, women and children can
be accommodated with baths at certain
hours. According to. the official fig
ures, during the month OF June the
public sin Boston were patronized
as follows: Men, q, ,S72; boys, II ,922;
women, 1854; girls, 6, ,69I. Total, 1Og,-
979, Only portion of the baths were
opened on the 1st of the month.
THE PORTLAND FIRE.-The burnt
district in Portland was accurately sur
veyed on Monday, and found to cover
an area of three hundred and twenty
seven acres, SO thoroughly burnt that
it is believed scarcely ten cords OF
the ruins. 1t is stated thai some seventy
children, have been born on Munjoy
Hill since the fire. -
WANT 10 FACE THE MUs1c.-There is
church in Vermont in which the peo-
pie cannot agree whether Is face the
pulpit or the choir during sing
ing! Some look one way, some the
other, and others, seemingly disgnsted
with the whole senseless quarrel, will
not stand at all. Much feeling seems
to have been aroused by the question,
one party insisting that they ought not
to;turn their backs to the pulpit, and
the other declaring that they would
face the music, as they had a right.
NEW YORK Cry FATr4RRs.-The
New York Tribune Is emphatic in
speaking of the Common Council of
that city. Hear It I'VE now give mo-
ttce that an earnest effort will be made
next winter to abolish the Common
Council of our city. 1t does nothing
but steali and IL does that on SO gigan-
tic a scale that the city can no longer
afford the expensive luxury OF a Com
mon Council" 80 t,auigsf-i
-Boilean being frequently called
upon by an idle, ignorant person, who
complained to him that he did not re-
turn his visits -'sSSSir,'' . said the French
satirists 1--WE are not upon equal terms;
you call upon me merely TO get rid of