The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-03
MsOELLANEOUs MATTERS.

The RennsylvanIa oil regions have
lost fully one-third Of their population,
and the number Is lesssnipg every day.
The Richmond DgpaeeA states that
the Board OF Public .RoEksOf Virginia
have determined 10 pay on the lst Of
July. in that city, the interest upon the
public debt OF Virginia, usuauypaya-
bic in New York.
The Boston public bathing houses
will be doubled in number this sum
mer. making tWeISein ali, four ofthem
exclusively for women and girls.
Vim. B. Aston, OF New York, owns
real estate valued at SIS. 06O, 900. Buthe
suffers with the dyspepsia and with
the burdens Of his immense business,
50 that he looks like an unhappy man.
Gen. D. n. Couch has got tired Of be-
log beaten ont of sight as the Demo-.
cratic candidate for Governor Of Massa-
ehusetts, and has accepted the Presi-
dency of a mining and manufacturing
@SAE 1Ay AA6A Ag6 R04|eA
80 square miles Of mineral land In VIZ
ginia.
Jefferson Davis is said to have lost
considerable money by the failure OF
the Liverpool house OF Frazer, Tren-
holm & Co. Wonder how the great re-
pudiator and rebel likes 70 have his
trusted agents ego back" on hiIuT II
Is his own chickens coming home to
roost.
Gearge Peabody Is said to have be-
stoWed upon public and private ehari-
ties more money than he has kept for
himself There are men in this coun-
try far richer than he, who ought to
give, but don't. Mr.. Peabody pays
q 900 in gold for the privilege Of catch
ing trout and salmon for six months,
| toa nobIeman who owns a stream in
Ireland, where he angles.
The Nashville Banner says that ho-
tel, soon to be opened in Georgetown,
D. c., istO be KEEP: by Robert 5. Walker.
He Is TO be assisted in the business by
a son and son-in-law, and their inten-
Ition is tOmake their house the most
quiet, comfortable and fashionable
nome for families to be found in the
District Fifty years ago the tavern
edihee WAS frequented by John Ran
dolPh-
! A call for a border State Convention
has been Issued by the Republican
State Central Committee OF Maryland,
in obedience to the resolutions OF the
late State Convention, TO be held in the
city of Baltimore on the 12th ofseptem-
Der next. The States of Delaware,
/ YVES. Virginia. Kentucky, Tennessee
and Missouri are invited TO send to the
proposed convention as many delegates,
/ without regard 70 race or color, as each
/ State may deem eIPedient or ind con-
yeuisnt- The object OF the convention
i % organize an appeal to COngesss on
the part Of the border States for the
passage Of the Sumnsr-WilsOn bill, OF
other legislation which may lead 10 the
establishment Of eolored suffrage.
shreNd devices in advertising come
into notice every day, but few ara bet
Ter than that of a eabinet-naker In
London, who has impressed magazine
into his service. Readers OF the coTls-
AiH may hzve observed pleasant ar
tiels which recently appeared under
the title OF aThs Fashion Of Furniture. y
It pointed out the want Of a good taste
!! in the design ofmoderp furniture, and
offered several good suggestions. An
advertisement now running through
/ the London papers announces that 9
7 furniture house Al Coyent Garden has
I carried ont these suggestions, supply
( ing cabinet work of a picturesque and
/ artistic character" and that most of the
I work has been designed by the author
( Of the C0rRIsiu article.0 So the editor
/ of the magazine inserted a 6rEt-raLe ad.
vertisement, probably unsuspicious Of
It's nature, and perhaps paid the writer
4 handsome Pr1cs. --.zfs
The Springfield Republican has an
article, upon the tendency Of the natives
Of New England to move westward
which it accounts for in this way thai
the introduction OF unskilIed Iaborerl
has had the effect TO "reduce wages and
create more marked distinctions in so
eiety, and so the Yankee retIres In dis
g1st and seeks = new home in the West
He will be likely 70 find there also tn,
evils he seeks to escape, unless he goel
\ with a company of New England men
who Will settle near together; this 4
now the iavorite mode OF emigration
and New England villages are 10 b,
found in Minnesota. Iowa and Kansas
and are beginning to show themselyel
In Missouri. You mHy know them By
their neat churches, and school-houses
and By the trees and doWers In theil
fenced yards"
The minimum OF food to support lin
is a subject discussed abroad by politi
cal economists, who ask how much, o
rather how little food and money vii
support human life. The Fen distrie
tlaborers get from six to hIteen pene
per day; they generally sleep in barns
or under rieks and hedges, have n,
lodging to pay for aud wear nj
clothes 'to speak of It. y Respectable
farm laborers with families are pre-
sumed to be well paid at from six 4
i twenty shilling a week for their labor
In ireland, the food eaten by thousand
of families Is inferior 70, the daily liy
ing of the same class of people in Eng
land. The published prison dfetariei
Of Ireland show that an Irish prisoner
/ gets but two meals q day, breakfns
at A. NJ, and dinner At 8 p! n. iFoI
breakfast he has eight ounces of IndiaI
meal and cat meal boiled In water, anS
half pint Of milk; Mt dinner he get
fourteen ounces Of brown bread and 1
pint Of milk. He then fasts nefghteeI
hours, tin;usxt mornings breakfast
ter and more food. The low diet in Ire
land has continued since the famint
year, and although since then the con
dihou Of the country has changed 70
the better, and both food and labor ar
generally within the reach of iths peas
antry. the low prison diet still con