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

Ch1lllcothe, Ohio, have Just terminated
three grand rat hunts, having killed
l5,0S2 of the vermin.
The Slate Pencil Company of Cas-
tleton, Vermont, now employs one hun
dred men, and manufactures one hum
dred and sixty thousand pencils day.
I'm England the mines yield an
nually l66, 600. 900 tons of coal, and her
GOAL product does the work in lOcomo-
tives, furnaces, &C., of 100000 men in
the same period. ....
"A little piece of land at the corner
of Lombard street, London, site for
one house was recently let for &c, 800 a
year; it was sold for premium of e7O,-
900 ard the rental, and there is now
building on it house expected to cost
$1,000, and to let for e22 200 year.
Although more than three months
have elapsed since the explosion at the
Oaks C0lliery in England, little pro-
gress has as yet been made in extin-
gushing the body of fire raging at the
bottom. All the shafts have been seal
ed up.
Oh. G." and "T. W." are at it again.
Horace in the Tribune and Thurlow in
the Commercial ddVertiSer. These per-
sonal squabbles have lost the freshness
of novelty, and people must be excused
if they no longer approach them with
enthusiasm.
Chicago has to have an addition Of
fifty men made to her force of city pO-
like. Considering the average amount
of crime and horror with which the
records of her police courts TEEN, it
should have been five hundred.
Hope writes the poetry of the boy,
but memory that of the man. Man
looks forward with smiles, but back
ward with signs. Such is the wise
providence Of heaven. The cup Of life
is sweeter at the brim, the flavor is i'm
paired as we drink deeper, and the
dregS are made bitter, that we may
struggle when it Is taken from our lips.
-Governor Orr estimates that 10000
people in South Carolina have not tast-
ed meat for thirty days. The destitu-
tiOn is great, and several cases of star
vatiOn are reported.
Madame Patterson Bonaparte has
returned to Baltimore, where the &C.
centric lady lives In a boarding-house
in a rather parSimOnious manner.
Though she is seventy-eight years old,
she retains the liveliness OF her air
and all the elegance of her ancient
regime manners. One of her grandsons
is with her.
AT a sale of coins in New York on
Friday evening. a silver dollar, coined
1874, brought SI2 so, Il half dime, dated
1894, was purchased for 80, and cent,
counterfeit half cent of 1896 brought
s. 25, and n Carolina elephant piece, of
1854, was sold for S26 so.
London has an Everlasting Club
The fire never goes out, the wine al
ways flows, and the table is always set
with mo end" of good things.
The following rules are posted up
in New Jersey school house: mo
kissing the girls in school hours, or
licking the master during holidays"
The latest intelligence respecting
the unfortunate Princess Charlotte is
sad indeed. Her mental condition,
it is said, gives very little hope of re-
covery. Though her physical health
is not broken, her intellectual express
sion is gradually fading from her coun-
tenance, and her mental faculties be-
come more feeble from day to day.
Is HEAD CENTRE STEPHENS A SPY?-
While Stephens was in this country,
there were frequent inLimatiOns that he
was in the service OF the British gov
to the Chicago Republican says: Head
Centre Stephens is living comfortably
in that city with his wife and brother
in-law. He complains of poverty, yet,
has money to pay for long rides in
hacks, and makes secret visits TO the
English Embassy.
An old ex-rebel in New Orleans
was greatly asLonished a few days since
by being told that his confederate
bonds. in which he had invested $1,000,
were worthless. He had come in from
the country to get interest on them.
The Evansville Journal says that a
man came very near being killed in
that city last Friday by breaking the
button off his shirt collar. He crossed
the street near by to ask woman for
pin to fasten his collar, and she thinking
he meant TO insult her, alarmed her
husband, who rushed out with load
ed pistol, hot for vengeance. Husbands
must be dangerous men in Evansville.
This, by SAKE, is good and true:
"You have heard OF the snake In the grass,
my lad,
or the viper concealed in the grass;
But now you must know
Man 3 deadlIeSt foe
Is aEnake OF different class!
Alas!
rTis the vi nor that Turks in fhe rvIasr