The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-26

-Tennyson goes about looking un-
commonly like an old Guy, with luna
tic long hair, an insanely romantic
cloak of ancient build, and horribly
demented hat.
| "A frisky and wealthy dame of sixty
summers, in Chicago, has just bigam-
lied with three husbands. The report
speaks of her as still very beautiful
woman, and uncOmmonly "well pre-
served"
ALI that remains of the Mecca we'll,
Musktngum county, Ohio. yielding two
hundred barrels per day, for one twen-
tietb of which 5000 was offered and
refused, is board inscribed, "Mecca
Well. No Smoking Allowed on these
Premises" and tank full of rain
water. The Schaffer, California, Ex-
celsior and other wells are also de-
serted.
The underpinnings of royalty are
giving out. The Prince Imperial of
France has IN abscess in his leg, and
the Princess of Wales has bad knee.
The Culpepper Observer says that
the wheat crop in Virginia was never
more promising. The farmers are busy
with spring work, but more white men
are in the field than negroes.
The Land Office returns for March
show 36,0l6 acres disposed of; 32.O9l
acres of which were to actual settlers
under the homestead law.
The time Is at hand when our min
listers should remember this from Josh
Billings: 81 always advise short SER
mons, especially on hot Sunday. Ifa
minister kant strike lie in boring forty
minutes, he has either got Il poor gimIet
or else he is bor1ugi in the rong place."
were disappointed in getting passage to
the United States on board the last
three steamers from Queenstown.
The London. Times declares that 1t
is "the intention of the Queens Gov
ernment to withdraw, at no distant time,
all British troops from the American
Continent"
"Sam, why am members OBJ Congress
like de fishes ?" "I don't meddle wild
de subjec', Pomp." why, don't you
see, nigga7 Dey's so fond OBJ debate" J"
-Surratt is to be tried in June.
Attorney General Stanberry is at
work preparing his opinions of the Mil
itary Bill, and the duties of Military
officers in relation to it.
"A divorce case, on the ground of
adultery, implicatinga a prominent jour
nalist, occasions much gossip at Pitts
burgh.
Among the advertised letters at Fall
River is one to the "proprietor ofthe
best hotel in the clty,h and the Post
master is boarding round Il week with
each to decide to whom it belongs.
Washington county, Pa, is bound
to attain a murderOus celebrity. On
Tuesday evening last, Capt. Boyle, of
Somerset township, was attacked by
robbers and so badly beaten that he
will probably die. -Four young men
have been arrested for the offence.
Dispatches were received at the
State Department I thursday from Gen.
Dix, at Paris, wherein he is represented
AS looking upon the complications be-
tween France and Prussia as of most
serious nature.
The crops in Texas are looking re-
markably we'll.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has re-
Gently been in Macon, Ga.
"A French railway company is get
ting two thousand passenger cars.
-Gottschalk makes money in Chilli,
and Injuries no innocence, for there is
none there to iDjure.
in 1910, Maine had only one cotton
mill, now she has more than twenty,
Will OUO1OVO
-"Jeems, my lad," said hopeful
father to his son, "keep away from the
gals. Ven you see one comm, dodge.
Just sHch creature as that young 'un
cleaning the doorstep on t'Other side of
the street, fooled yer poor old dad, Jem-
my. Don't cast yer eyes that way and
wink. If it hadn't been for her, you
| and yer dad might have been in Brazil,
huntin' dimuns, my son.
-Gossips at the London tea tables
talk about the second marriage of
Queen Victoria.
= The Leavenworth Conservative
states that Mr.. VIM. Lockheart, far
mer of DeKalb county, Mo-, has fallen
heir to S2l9, 600 in cash and real estate, by
the death of an uncle in Galveston,
Texas. The property consists of busi-
ness houses in the city OF Galveston,
L. 600 cres of land on the Brazos, with
SIS, 600 in gold and silver.
General George B. Mcclellan is
now somewhere on the Mediterranean
with his wife and child. Mrs. McClel-
Ian is in very bad health. The General
expects to return home next fall.
The pleasure of doing good is the
only one that never wears out.
"A clergyman gave a toast that was
not very gallant, at late firemen's
celebration: "Our fire engines-May
they be like old maids, ever ready, but
never wanted ~
"A young man employed at the roll
ing mills at Bethlehem, Pa, fell heir
to an estate in Holland valued at $S,-
100000.
The Richmond Times expects soon
to see Frederick Douglass stumping it
in Virginia.
"A Cuban gentleman has horse
which runs one mile in a minute.
| "A father and son in Rutland, VT,
have held the same office for "a consec-
utive years.
The mania for large farms in Cali
fornia is dying out.
Lemons grown in Florida weigh
over pound each.
-Greeley's "Conf1ict" has sold to the
extent of 122 ,327 copies.
-Cocoanuts are used as waterfalls by
Alabama ladies.
The tobacco trade of New York city
amounts to over S10O,OOO,O00.
| =" Turkey-egg complexion" is a
shade mentioned in Tennessee.
Charles B., youngest son Of Fred
clerk in the Freedmen's Bureau.
"A newspaper correspondent says
that Chicago employs 1000 trade drum
mers, Boston 5000, and New York 6OOO.
Other cities are supposed to make up a
round of 10000.
"A Canada judge occupied thirteen
hours in charging the jury lately
Their verdict was rendered in five min
utes.
About the first of June look out for
bubble bursting. On that day the
new Bankrupt Law goes into opera
ton.
"A western "local" asks this oues-