The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

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DIR. Pollion, OF France, says that cold
in the head can be cured by inhaling
hartshorn. The inhalation by the nose
should be seven or eight times in five
minutes. I.... 81
The Pittsburgh Gazette. already en-
larged several times during the past
year, has again extended its borders
and is now the largest paper in the
State. 1t is an able, outspoken, indus
triously edited journal.
The Democratic papers are not pleased
with the able and patriotic letter OF Gen.
Longstreet which we have already
placed before our readers. This Is not
strange. The letter is not compliment
tary TO the Democratic party. In sta
ting that the Democratic party "hns
nothing tangible about 1t except the
issues that were staked upon the war
and lost" he most fifty characterizes 1t.
Mr.. Chauncey Burr has challenged
Wendell Phillips to discuss with him
the capacity of the negro for self-goy-
ernment. "I have" says Mr.. Burr,
with great pains, and with unfalter-
ing devotion to the cause of truth,
searched over the whole globe for an
instance where the emancipation ofany
has not resulted in the ruin of both
races" -i..as.a. s- faa.
]. NJ. Fitch, who died lately at ober-
lin, Ohio, was one of the early settlers
of that town. established its first book
store and its first printing! Office, and
lin Evangelist. He was a thoroughly
religious, and u practical anti:slavery
man, having been imprisoned In the
county Jail during the spring and sum-
mer OF 1858 for the rescue OF fugitive
| slave.
It is encouraging to know that the
rascals who are engaged In cheating the
Government out of its revenue, are oc-
casionally, at least, overtaken blythe
punishment provided by the law of the
land. The Internal Revenue Depart
ment has now on hand 972, 600 gallons
OF whisky forfeited to the United States
| for evasion OF the revenue law, and
about 25O, 600 gallons are under seizure
but not formally condemned.
Col Schumacher, who in 1911 first dis
covered coal in Pennsylvania, was 9
heavy loser by it. When cutting tim.
ber one night he threw some black
stones on his fire and in the morning
found them all aglow. Shortly after
he took several wagon-loads OF the fuel
to Philadelphia for sale, but on being
| called on to show how it was used, he
| had no better success in making az fire
than many unfortunate men have had
since. He was driven away as an Inn
poster, spent eight years and Large
| fortune in fruitless attempts to make 9
| coal fire, and died in the Philadelphia
llunatic asylum after 81 years connne'
ment. AT least, that is the story.
We are strongly inclined to believe
that any attempt to establish postaY
telegraph in this country will prove
limpracticabIe. If 1t succeeds, twill
make the settled portions OF the soun
try pay for the telegraph facilities be-
slowed upon the thinly settled portions
Even with ordinary mails this is what
is notoriously done. Letters could bt
carried over one7half the Aggregate
length Of the mail routes Of this conn
try for q cent apiece, at liberal profit
while over the other half they canno
be carried at a profit for dollar apiece
Lord Monck, the newly-appointee
| Governor General of Canada, gets {
salary of twelve Thousand pounds
sterling, besides house rents and othel
nerouisites He thus receives in money
what Is equivalent, at the present ratei
of exchange, to about Ss0, 900, or more
than three times the salary of the Pres
ident of the United States.
i William Mitchell and Martin Han
| son are two citizens Of Chicago, ane
wealthy. Both were regarded asihigh
lly respectable. A few day since Mitch
! ell returned to his home from his bust
| ness about an hour earlier than usual
and found Hanson and his wife In al
exceedingly perplexing attitude, where
at he pitched into. Hanson and CAV!
hin1 an ufimerciful drubbing, for which
under his own confescion, he was hnet
1 'lfhree dollars, which the Justice imme
Idiately remitted. Hanson Ie1posee
Labout as sick looking face as ever wa
knreseuted in q court, room.a Inc nus
band is going to bring action, and ".
shall have another nasty Chicag'
scandal case tLFEH o
JEFF. Davis has rented a cottege TO
s1mmer residence on the Canadian
aide Of Niagara Falls, where he car
survey, like Milten's Archangel, thu h.
Paradise from which he is exiled' Bev
i srlv lTIffi TIffinEaski2eHr Eski2H and the lotdfy Mason, o
Virginia, have also engaged houses % II
the Vicinity of theit fallen chief othe
! Confederates of lesser note, are 4s scatter eT