The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-31

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wheat crop last year more than twice
the amount paid for.his farm the year
before.
.A9Ette. Pa, the gas is solbad that the
boy who puts the lights out on the
streets carries lantern about to find
tRepOsss. a
There is mule in Alabama that re.
fuses to work unless he is ridden, and
to save hand they have mounted an
artificial man upon him, and he works
steadily now. =,
a letter from a gentleman Inn Polk
county, Ga, says that whole families
there are sometimes two days without
one bite of bread. The people are
scattering in all directions for some-
thing to eat. 4st
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The Lynchburg Yirginian says that
a small lot Of tobacco was sold in that
city last Friday which was sixteen
years old, being part of the crop OF
1851. II was vase entirely tr sound and sweet;
A bottle Of whisky was resprrected
in Winchester, few days since, by
some workmen who were tearing down
an old building, upon which (bottle)
was written with a diamond this In.
scEiPtion: Bottle Of whisky, buried IN
A Nashville paper says. that at a re-
cent wedding in that city "the bride
and groom knelt and Joined hands
from the opposite side of table, in the
middle OF the altar on which was an
open Bible covered with a wreath of
flowers. a s-beantifnl pyramid of
flowers was suspended over their heads
from the ceiling" s'A 81
The publishers OF the TriJigle having
offered to new weekly subscribers a
portrait of Horace. Greeley, Thurlow
Weed suggests that the portrait of Mr..
GreeleK and Mr.. Davis on the same
card 6eysent to the subscribers, and
that ii this does not bring now ones in,
lock of Mr.. Greeley's hair might be
added. Mr.. Greeley may vet be pro-.
voked to Insist upon lock of Mr..
Weeds hair with the scalp attached,
The news OF Queen Victoria's media
tion between Fraucsand Prussia is said
to have caused a rapid rise in the price
of.white oak staYes tin West Virginia.
The French and Spanish wine mer-
chants are supplied largely with this
wood for Wine casks from that region,
and the trade is thereby peculiarly sen.
sitiye 70 the tlpctpstlons in Europe.
3 At the last weekly prayer meeting
at Plymouth Church, Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher declared that, under our laws
and institutions, the keeping of JEFF.
Davis as a prisoner without trial and
without bail, for more than six months,
was unjustifiable and wrong; and that
had his offer been necessary, he Beech
cry would not, at any moment the last
| year, have hesitated TO present himself
as bail for his appearauce. '.ail ei''s'i;
One Of Bistori's last gifts in this
country was one of $40 to .be family Of
the Italian sculptor at New York, who
was fatally stabbed by a fellow work
man, last summer, while engaged on
bust of the actress. She has sent an
IL
which, when finished, is to be placed in
her salon in Paris, and she declares that
her success here tFanscended her great
est expectations.
In person, John Stuart Mill is very
slight and tall. His fine head-won-
derfullyt similar to that iof Thomas
Hughes-bears traces ofdeep and anx-
ious study and confinement. In man
ner his delivery Is charac acterized by that
elevation OF view and of tone which
distinguishes such men as Upper, and
marks the difference between :phiIoso-
4 ply and mere moralizing.
Earl Derby, the present head of the
English Ministry, is fine old English
gentleman in appearance, and a martyr
to the gout. Every English Premier
| from the day Of Pitt has had the gout-
except Lord Russell, who is too insig-
nificant a man to be possessed of so
illpstrious complaint. la siaF
| 5ii-aa if.srgs l-PlrtfsI 4 hHs si.f
The Pail Mall Gazette says that Mr..
Tits enameled miniature Of Queen
Victoria, presented to Mr.. Peabody, is
a caricatnra of that excellent lady,
making her look like a fat red faced,
cross school-girl of .ls1rather oldifor
her age.o Her age is 4S, and she has
nine children and ten grandchildren.
THE Lancet for the week ending May
18th has its usual bulletin in regard to
the Princess OF Wales. iItstates that the
! greatest Garpis necessary on, the paFt Of
+ the surgeons To guard against any dis
/ placement or change ofrelation of the
bones, which'wonld be e,Hiucompatible
| with the future natural smovemsntsio OF
I the Joint. 'hn The Princess Is suffering
| from an Affection of the knees of, the
hip 'joint-the Lancet does not say
which. 5s5His,i .gas3s Z. S,il.is -sss.
The RtUersfde MdgdziMe Tor June is
as attractive externally, e, and III az full OF
I, Interesting reading for the young folks,
as ever. Terra, Nova: or Coast L iIs in
Newt dIand r. Is eontinaieISi, q I I,lRssealso =
i the story Of .Dory aud Dora. .t'i.sA monp
4 the Tressn Is well calculated to ,fntiiiet
the youthful, mind pleasantly Into ~
4 the "Stories from Shakespeare" is as
/ good asiits predecessors: IA June Va
i catfonV Is a genial sketch. The illus.
j traHo are generally very we'll de.
4 saIgnEsd5 and executed To be Ehsd OF
-ca3UI
The New York WorEEthinksjHOrace
Greeieyiand the Union L EEntis have be. btS
come good recruiting ofiea atsss / 9af !, ,the
j Democratic party 1.-The J0NrBdE 'oJ
4 Commerce states thata II Mr. Greeley
keeps on his present track d while
longer, 1t may fnd d VACANCY FOR him
on its editorial staff.
AG5hfu AiSGo5hnfusidihEiSatiJn ii Eiati in 9he NssWR ssdai sa
I ford tS.aadard says q Is Being
snbmerolsly yisigned bgGtheIrish Cath:
olies In New Bed t6fdJJ agreeing ID lhiFr;s,
i no carriages hereafter iuIs sattendin9
funerals, except for the gimmediate