The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-03
QUE NEWS sUlIaIARY.
Interesting Items Gatherod from

Grant has shaved of his!whiskers.
The spotted fever RACES in Ohio. o
Cholera still rayages Southern Rus
sia. a6b i=qa
The French sayants predict a hotsum7
mer.
Railroad travel is light all over the
There are 81 III public billiard tables
in Paris. r..
Some of the English papers say Mr..
Bancroft is Fenian.
The Fenian Sisterhood will hold a
fair in New York this month.
The eight-hour bill has been defeated
in the New Jersey Legislature.
The; southern Express, at Brazos,
Texas, has been robbed of S75, 900. .4il
Illinois produced 5000, 600 pounds of
cotton last year Il. +. ..tl l-3.I 3 70 .ra
"Footlight Flashes" is the title of a
Forthcoming theatrical book. s.trs-
When you have no observers be
afraid of yourself,
The Western papers are singing the
dirge of the peach crop. A H 1
The new Atlantic telegraph cable will
bear strain of 15 cwt. TO the ton more
than the old one. r~ -r
There is mercantile firm in South
New Market, N. H, named Freeze q
Furnace. .-,.ft,.r'.
A cotetnporary suggests as an amuse==
ment to young ladies on wet afternoons
to knittheif eyebrows! ''-sa3'4 70
Fenian Sisterhoods are much nicer
things than Brotherhoods, and far bet
ter armed for conquest, --.-
! It is not half the trouble to learn in
youth that tits to be ignorant in your
| old age. JsNaap .7ifI31 tA4 etA-t't
A young lady personated Mexico at
| a recent masked ball in Paris. Her
dress was gold colored satin.
Gen. Bidwell, of California, member
of Congress- now, raised 81, 900 bushels
of wheat last year! 1il' i.1s -'=its'li 'iti ~
THE bridge over theiMississippi!a at St.
Louis, will have one span of 600 feet
and no span measuring less than 200
feet. ga slrylg 1u5 oi nnliilli2s ,'i"1 S.14luas
The, New. York Tribune calls upon
Congress to pass a bill making it a pc
nal offense to use such q word as "do-.
nate" ...-, -ts,,,-,
81 never was ruined but twice, said
wit; anonce when / lost a lawsuit, and
once when gained one.n
Mrs. Swisshelm is s'paying attention"
to Miss. Anna Dickenson. 1t will be
good match. i.. -.2s
,Gottschalk's friends at New York
have the documents which clear up
that California scandal.
Disastrous fires have been raging in
the woods of the turpentine section of
North Carolina, near Newbern. j l-- -is
Miss Spafford, of Rock ford, ILL.,, who
was engaged to Col. Ellsworth, the fa-
nous zouave commander, has married
Mr.. Brett of Boston.
No tcarriage" yells in the Chicago
depots: "A hackman was fined IS in
that city, the other day, for soliciting
passengers. lfE stt IF
Herr. Szerezel, n Bohemian only %
years old, has mastered 80 languages,
and is especially conversant with the
Asiatic tongues.
The railroad from Schenectady to
Athens, on the Hudson, has just been
completed. 1t enables passengers from
the west to avoid Albany and so miles
of travel in going to New York.
The project of paying the national
debt by subscription, which was SO pop
ular with the New York Herald last
year, is now having run in Italy for
paying the debts of thta country.
A copper and nickie five cent pieceis
talked about at Washington, to sup
plant the five cent currency: Retire the
shinplastersl by. all means, but give us
the siller''in place of them.
a New orleans paper says: eve
had the pleasure, yesterday, of inspect
ing beautiful set of silver spoons"
We believe silver spoons are scarce.
there. ,,, .-,-5-..
Al Young. woman in Roanoke county,
Va, recently dropped dead from fright
at meeting her brother, whom she had
mourned as dead for three years.
The Strong divorce case is likely. to
amuse the New York public again, Mrs.
& bax nv St1a6 for a IiTnnT1v Nphila
the still unsettled proceedings are in
progress. --.-,
Theelection of, Mazzini, the revolu-
ZIONIST, to a seat in the italian Parlia-
ment, has made astir. in political cir
cles at Florence. The government will
try hard to keep him out. % f,sss.
Two wooden factories, three manufac-
tories of farming utensils and many
other shops will be erected at Law
proposed to dam the Kansas river for
power: ' '--''., -''.,',,ii i.,'5.i ~ .t'
Josephine was passionately fond of
musk, though Napoleon strongly OBJ
jected, and her dressing room at NAL
maison is still redolent with its odor,
spite OF years, scrubbing, paint and
aquafortis. % ----,-...--...--...- 5.t-b 4.
The Mississippi has been shortened
fifteenmiles by the high water break
and No. 1O2. The planters just below
suffer in consequence, but those above
are benefited. I'll r.fl.-. fs.EsI
Our consul at. Tobasco, Mexico, has
discovered the remains of two cities,
which he thinks have been unnoticed
since the CONQUEST. One, he thinks,
from the -vastness and grandeur of the
ruins, was Cintla, the ancient capital of
Tobasco. f--
The grain receipts, which are as cur
rent among the Chicago grain dealers
as green backs, were forged in a couple
Of instances aud for the first time, the
change was the consequence. The
guilty parties were promptly. arrested.
The, subject of yartesian wellsis at
tracting e considerable attention in Utah.
The recent Legislature appropriated
s., 900 to aid in the completion of the
one at st. George, and n like sum to aid
in the completion of the one started
some time ago in Salt Lake City.
Though Russia is the greatest corn
growing country in Europe, partial fam
ines are constantly occurring, and
often while the corn is rotting on the
Lground in oneprovince, the Inhabitants
Poor roads and few railways are what
is the matter, .sa,7sl 4
Some of the English life insurance
companies are refusing to insure liquor
sellers, on account of the extraordinary
risk. The rate ofimortality among them
is as high as so in 200, while the rate
| for trades considered unhealthy, such
as tailor and shoemaker, is only 10 in
1000. as't5 N3af
DR.. John Lee, an English philanthro-
mist died recently. at his seat near