The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

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have inflicted far less injury than
might have bee expected.
The Ohio river is being surveyed by
corps of engineers under command OF
General Weitzel. At present they are
engaged in laying out a route on the
Indiana side OF the river with a view
of making a report to Congress on the
feasibility of building canal around
the Falls of the Ohio. E.
Fire-proof muslin is an article at
present occupying the attention of sci
entific men. 1t is stated that concen-
trated neutral solution of tungstate OF
soda, diluted with water, and then
mixed with three per cent. of phos'
phate of soda, will effectually protect
muslins against fires.
Speaking ofthe great emigration from
Ireland of late years, Mr.. Shaw Lefe-
vre, in IL recent lecture in England,
said that were more persons of pure
Irish blood in America than in Ireland
itself.
Two locomotives have recently been
constructed by the Erie Railway Com
pany, at their shops at Dunkirk, which
are built with the water tanks around
the upper portion of the boiler. The
tender is thus left for the fuel.
We always like 10 record novel in-
ventIons. 1t is announced that at New
Lebanon, New Hampshire, the "Ameri-
can Patent Sponge Company" has start
ed factory for the purpose of "redu.
cling sponges to pulp, to be used instead
of hair in mattresses and general up
holstery." "as
After the greatest amount of conflict
ing testimony, as to the fate OF DR.
Livingstone, 1t is now stated In Eng
land that the latest intelligence from
Africa indicates "every rooability OF
DR.. Livingstone being still alive"
\ Polish Colony has been established
in Virginia, near spottsylvania Court
House. It is composed chiefly of ex-
He'd Poles, and is represented as being
in hourishing condition.
The laying of the telegraph, to CON
meet Florida with Cuba, began at Key
West on Saturday last, and, at last
accounts, was proceeding successfully.
This cable, 1t Is thought, if no accident
happens, will be in operation by the END
of the present week.
House rents have slightly declined in
New York, and one of the papers OF
that city reports that many houses are
empty. In New York another feature
of the real estate market is, that many
persons who hired large houses at big
rents, with the intention of sub-letting
the rooms to lodgers and others, have
been disappointed, and are heavy
losers.
The New York Commercial AdUerti-
ser, commenting upon the announce
ment recently made by the inventor of
a new system OF aerial navigation, that
all he now wanted was money, says
that il knows of several persons whose
talent is not inventive, yet whose wants
may be summed up In the same way.
The reports of the grape crop in Ohio
are very favorable, and the Cincinnati
Wine Growers' Association have cheer
ing intelligence from all quarters.
They announce, officially, that the pros
pect is, that the yield OF grapes this
season Will be unprecedented by any
year since 1859. Such is the report all
over the country. In most localities
the fruit hangs in heavy and perfect
clusters" =s..a z Ia .Ea. .Ah
Illinois being very poor State, and
not at all able to raise the necessary
funds for internal improvements, is
meditating a gigantic raid upon the
treasury at Washington. The Governor
OF Illinois has appointed a committee
"to present a memorial to Congress
concerning the necessity of an imme-
diate and liberal appropriation in aid OF
canal and river improvements in Hi
nois."
Our Western military posts, in 1864,
cost the Government S25, 600, 900, and in
1865, S57, 900, 900, of which last sum the
pay of the troops took only 81, $40, 900,
while the subsistence department swal-
lowed up S3l, ,523 $50, and the quarter
masters, S23, ,374 ,209. II Is stated that
Sl5O, 600 900 will scarcely meet the ex-
penses of the past year.
The Canadians are constantly in dread
of raids from the United States, organ
lied by the Fenians. In the provinces
the course of the new Intercolonial
Railroad is under discussion, and al
though a route near the border is the
most advantageous, yet the fear of in
surrections from the United States will
compel the adoption, at an increased
expense, of an interior line.
A small steamer has been built in
NJ, har hairur EN faat nd
her tonnage "a tons. The smallness of
this steamer is not the wonder connect
ed with her, but It is the fact that she
is to be sent to San Francisco, being
taken around Cape Horn, and she is
expected to make the passage by the
use OF sails. Her engine Is ten-horse
power, and she can carry fifteen days
fuel She cost s., 900, and Is to be used
as n family pleasure boat in the Bay of
San Francisco. I -l5f
Coolie labor has few advocates in
the South, but they are not numerous.
The press generally opposes the
scheme, and the New orleans CONNER
ciaL Bulletin is of the opinion, that "if
In place OF encouraging the immlgra-
ton OF coolies, we could encourage the
immigration OF hunoFeu Thousand
looms and spindles, we could impart
more value to our crop before II lett the
country, than If we increased the crop
itself by additional production.
According to the american Agricut-
tlraEis,, the present system of yoking
oxen in this country Is defective. 1t
thinks farmers never get the full power
of their working oxen under the pres
ent system Of yoking them, and that
any one who has watched fight be-
tween two bulls or oxen ought to be