The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-10
NEWS sUainiiARK.,

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Daylight garroting is the sensation in
The hotels at Washington areE doing
a very slim business for this time of
Speculators are buying beef at Mon
treal at 81 per cwt., and shipping 1t to
New York.
Several skating tonrnaffients with
goldmedal prizes will tax place at New
York, next week. ti.il .fpefFia iiii-'1 "a =
The Chicago money market continues
tighta 10 per cent. is the least rate for
fiFst4class paper. ,f;.,.,, ,f,.,
The western railroads are charging an
averge of 70 per cent. more for treighti
than they charged in 1850. ri4 1lsiYGsq
The echamberlainiofL London has been
lecturing to prove that the Pilgrim faith
ers didn't persecute the Quakers.i o%ns'
A pony express has been started in
New Orleans for the quick and cheap
delivery of fsmall packages In any part
of the city! % p 81 u. r. : ~.
Mrs Tom. Thumb had a narrow es-
cape nom burning to odeath by her dress
catching fire during a recent hibition
in England. s,,5,,Tlri-..5., Il.,l .-,gsl. q
| Eityrfour new postal money order otfi-
ces went into operation Monday, all ex-
cept Winterport, Maine, located in the
West, Northwest and South. .isIeul
Many ,ooloted women and children
are making asdoIlar n day by, digging
out bullets in the soil about Peters
burg, and selling them for old lead.
Two young men of Washington,
Wayne county, Ind, were recently ar
\
young ladies and attempting their
ruin. .'i! "is't- -, H..
The eonfectioners ofParis have agreed
with missionary society to insert ex7
tracts from religious works in their
bon-bonS instead of sentimental mot
toes. ~. 49, =. l.af & nifTd J74I3
The Cincinnati Germans are exceed
ing wroth against the southern planters
who are engaging German 1aborers at
starvation contracts to work on their
plantations. aJlscs II s'-.a han ;tg5i
Remnants of the rebel ram Merit
mack, now at the Portsmouth navy
yard, are to be made into a set of furni-
ture for the Office ofthe secretary of the
navy at Washington. --' 20
isAunt Judah" a venerable negress
who has been one of the institutions Of
Lafayette, Ind, died recently, aged Ito.
She was once a servant in President
M6dison's family. ..Fs if,.t
While all our streams are unusually
low, England IS suffering from floods.
The Thames has been OVERLOOKING its
banks, and much damage has been done
along Its entire length. 81 ..lsi1....1 ~
It Is proposed to hold at New York,
next fall, an American exhibition of the
articles to be sent to the worlds fair at
Paris next year. There will be similar
exhibitions at Berlin and st. Peters
burg. aEsH' 'tgs i-li.s5 sHsiit
8, The French go in for big guns: One
frigate, fitting out at Brest, will be
armed with $50 and 300-pounders,g and
the monitors and iron-clads will be
similarly mounted. They will doubt
less be as fatal at one end as the other.
1t is now considered the thing for the
young nobility of England TO lido the
United States;" and peers sons will
soon be plenty on, our shores. The
young Marquis OF Lorne, heir to the
dhkedom of Argyle, is coming ina Few
weeks.
The question OF improving the Hud-
son and ChamplaIn canals, so that YES
sells of considerable tonnage may pass
from the lake through the Hudson to the
sea, is before the New York Legislature,
with a prospect of a favorable decision.