The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-03
NEWS ANn GOSSIP.

SoV,NNh llptA SUM-
The hotel keepers all want Grant TO
visit them.
The negro troops are making good
Indian fighters.
Michigan is going to dtsfranch'se
priZe-tighters.
In Indiana man was recently ni-
vorced for the third time from HIS Nun
wife.
The Alabama claims elud" pay
mani ms SrmmcS used Ia elude fight.
-Grnut must have great deal TO
sav he has snid 50 little i'll tho course of
his life.
Washington has temperance
newspaper There is enough for il to
do there.
Daily "huckleberry trains" are run
from New Jersey into New York and
Philadelphia.
A cooperative knife factory has
been started by some sharp Connccti-
cutters.
New Jersey peach growers have
begun their annual cry of "shori
crops"
"A Savannah paper announces ON"
of lis contributors as engaged on JSt
dc spree.
"A hard drinker objects to putting
NuNtE Ill MS W hlSNN -
ems his spirits.
1t seems as il the incendiaries were
determined to entirely burn out tn"
city OF Concord n. II.
-EivethouSaud and ninety dogs have
been drowned i'll New York TINS year
The civ pond should be little else than
AN infusion OF bark by this time.
There is good deal of Irritation ut
NIL the summer resorts, but the sulphur
springs are the best places for match-
ing.
The Saratoga races begin on the
eth OF August and continue Tor SIX
DAYS. Nearly all the best horses in the
country are expect To be present.
Mrs. Ann ). Stephens proposes to
make novel out OF the Surrntt case.
She is IA constant attendant at the trial.
The notes of IL business firm in
Cincinnati that recently made an as
sigumeut, were offered at public sale 10
the amount of $4,000, and brought
$40.
The New York Tribune says: after
the election, We trust the TennesseeAnS
will bear in mind hat the civil war Is
ended and betake themselves 10 the
ways of industry and quiet
The New Orleans Times says ii is
now generally conceded by those who
nave taken the trouble TO inform them
selves upon the subject, that the yield
of sugar in Louisiana this year VIII DE
much smaller than was at first antici-
pat.G.
AT Troy, New York, on the 9th
inst, they had II race on the Hudson
with three wHSh-Iub=, the course being
one third Of Il mile, the competitors
using their hands for ours. THIS %hs
followed 10y II Uiiudiold boat-rnce, for
r,Ir-r Of SO, the contestants rowing
r.iudfuldcd in skiffs, from the east
shore OF the Hudson 10 the end OF AN
island.
-General Grant has left Long Branch
and jenkins IL dIsConsolate. The New
York ErDrcss' correspondent says
brilliant chop was given him on Sun
day evening at the MetrCPoll!nn. We
hope there was mIsprint either in the
case of the hop or the sunday"
During the excitement on the oc-
c,sIou of n fire at New York, woman
threw a child from AN upper story win
dow, without any regard to what III"
consequences might be. a police ON
Ger saw the movement, and rushing Tor
ward caught The child i'll his arms, thus
saving 1t from instant death.
In New Mexico, out OF II popula-
lation of 81. SIG persons, there are 81, 233
who can neither read nor write, anu to-
dny there il not Il single free school Tor
the education Di y Single poor ChlIO
within the broad eNpanse OF the Terri
tory.
Under the penny postage system,
the receipts of the British post office
have increased prodigIously. In the es.
, iiInate OF the post office revenue in 1867
and 1865. lately submitted TO the House
of Commons by thu Chancellor of the
Exchequer, 81, 30, 900 WAS set down as
the probable sum for the year.
In recent debate in Parliament
Mr.. DisraeIi had said that STR. Lowe
wanted by his plan 10 introduce
"crntchety men" "What is crotchety
men?'' said Mr.. Lowe. Il suppose II
is "A man who holds the same opinions
In : wear that he did last" The House
felt the home rust, and v hiE and tory
! Joined in one loud and long burst vi
! uproarious cheering.
1t is rumored, says the Chicago
Tribune, that Il Managers Protective
ASSOCIATION has been formed by the
managers OF the theatres in Chicago, st.
Louis. Cincinnati, Nashville, Louis
Vile. Memphis and Milwaukee, one OF
the plauks OF the platform of whicl is
not to patroniZs any star who may APP
pear in the Opera House OF Chicago.
Should all animals except the COW
/ die the loss could be borne. Should
/ she acme die you would have mourn
ing, She should be treated as tenderly
as ones wife. Keep her clean, feed her
we'll, and respect her. Think of COW
! Standing all night in fence corner,
and her back covered with ice and
snow.