The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-04

j. Marshall Crawford.
Banks is not going to the Holy
Land-on the contrary, he has gone to
Massachusetts,.
Mrs. L. NJ. Child has a new book
nearly ready-"A Romance of the Re-
public"
Walt. Whitman is preparing to send
his Barbaric yawp over the roof of the
world again.
-Erastus Brooks Is travelling in the
South. He was last heard of at a press
dinner given at Atlanta.
Rev. Petty, of Iowa, eloped with
another mans wife, leaving Mrs. Petty
and six petty Pettys.
Head Centre Stephens is really In
Paris, and it is charged that he is in
occult connection with the English EN-.
bassy.
"A country paper says Rosa Bon.
heur is worthy to be ranked with "the
old mistresses."
Chang and Eng are back in North
Carolina, and claim to be the true Union
men of that State.
1t proposed to build an immense
Mississippi steamer that will be al
most entirely safe against snags and
fires.
Queen Victoria denounces the at.
tempt of old women to rejuvenate theil
looks. Another proof that she is NOT
setting her crown for anybody.
-Major-GeneralP Patterson of Mexico
and Bull Run, will celebrate the ami.
versary OF the battle of Cerro Gordo by
a dinner at his house in Philadelphia
-Spurgeon had a congregation o.
twelve thousand at IslingtOn, one Sun.
day, when only twelve persons were
present at two other churches in The
same place.
"A panther with her two cubs, at
tracted by the crying of an infant, sud
denly made her entrance into DhOuse
near Black Mountain, N. c., short
while since.
Persons who have communications
| to make to Chief Justice Chase will dc
well to bear in mind that they mus
prepay the postage, as he does not enjoy
the frankIng privilege.
An extract from n Mormon tract
reads thus: "What shall be the reward
of those who have forsaken their wives
for righteousness sake7 A hundred
fold of wives here and hereafter."
-Ristori, it is said, has made S27O, ,OOt
clear profit by playing los nights during
her visit to the United States. Wha
other calling in life pays like this?
The New York Gazette says George
William Curtis is not the editor o.
HdrpeT's Weekly. He merely writes
some of the editorial articles.
Rev. j. G. Blair, LII. D.. formerly
of the Ohio University, now of Parkers.
burg, West Virginia, has been elected
Principal of the Sedalia (Missouri) Sem.
mary.
"A Wisconsin paper, the Barabot
Observer, has observed a bearded wo,
man, whose name Is Holmes, whose
chin is frfnged with a beard three inch
es long.
"A lady tainted few days since in
the cars. A medical gentleman present
who went to her relief, exclaimed
HAS any gentleman a flask of whisky
or brandy?" Over thirty pocket pistols
flashed in the air at once.
As some young men at Greensburg
Pa, were jumping, with bricks in theil
hands, one of them lost the weight from
his hand as he leaped. 1t struck by.
stander on the head with such force as
to cause his death in a few hours.
The Michigan papers say that II
what the farmers and fruit-growers say
is a just criterion, that State never had
finer prospect for a heavy fruit crop
Wheat promises better than at any time
within the past five years.
Some of the banks in Boston have
been in the habit of taking receipts in.
stead of notes for loans, by which large
amounts were saved on stamps. In one
instance two cent stamp was used
w lNnPn fhn n G fa mr.
ing to $3.50.
"A country Paperin Kentucky prints
this marriage notice: Married, up
Mr.. William Williams, of Williams
port, to his cousin, Miss Lizzie Will
liams. For particulars, see small BilLs.'
The testimony of colored people in
suit where both parties were white,
has jnst been admitted in the Munich.
pal Court at Richmond, Va. 1t is the
first instance of the kind, under a new
law just passed by the Legislature.
"A novel method of advertising at
tracted very general attention at Paw
Paw last week. Long strips had been
printed with the exhOrtatiOn, Go and
hear B. F. Taylor tonight" One OF
these was fastened upon the "narra.
tive" ofa goat, which was strolling
about the streets, and did the business
efectually. ALL
AN INCIDENT.-On the last occasion
when Charles kean played Louis NJ,
in Edinburg, at the Theatre Royal,
after the attendants had proclaimed,
1.-THE King is dead" a devout Irish
man exclaimed, "And may the Lord
have mercy on his guilty sowl I" as for
the moment he thought that the scene
was real.
The Fredericksburg (Md,) Herald
tells of merchant who had pleasant
April-fool joke all to himself. He gave
$40 counterfeit greenback to coun.
try boy whom he did not know, but
who, while the merchant was out, pass
ed it upon his clerk for SOC worth oi
sugar, receiving 80 so in change.
Madame Catalini vas pious, but
not humble. When a French Journal
ist assailed her, she resented the as
God," said madame, "has given to a
mortal such extraordinary talent, as ]
possess, people ought to applaud and
honor it as miracle. = it profsne to
depreciate the gifts OF eayenw
Mrs. Tyler, widow of the late ex.
President Tyler, is now on visit to
the Virginia peninsula, with the view
of seeking the improvements of her
plantations and estates on the James
River. She will visit the Davis family
and the village of Hampton, for tie
purpose of renewing old acquaintance
and trien iship. -
"A mother, trying to get her little
daughter OF three years to sleep, one
night, said: ---..-
SAnna, why don't you try to go tc
"I am trying" she replied.
"But you haven't shut your eyes,"
swell, 1 can't help it, 'um's come un'
buttoned.
"A little boy at North wilma, Jefer,
son county, was killed by singular
accident on Thursday last. Mr.. Wood
had butting ram, and the boy was
amusing himself by putting the handle
Of a pitchfork through crack in the
barn door for the ram to butt against,
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