The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-09
mIsCELLANEOUs PARAeKAPns.
Personar. PoIitIcaI and Commerelnl.

Personal, Political and Commercial.
The losses by fire in the United
States, during August, caused by CON
hagrations of $4,000 and upwards
amounted to $3.50. 600. There were
thirty-nine tres during the month
For the eight months of the year that
have passed, the IoIsl losses by fire
1 in the United States have been S26, $40. :
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I'm France there has been invented
for the use of fremen an ingenious form
OF fire-proof dress. The clothes are
woollen, but the walst-DeIt is so made
as to be easily placed in connection
with the tre.engiue, and being pro-
| vided with a stop cock, the wearer can
instantly saturate himself with water.
Ireland, it appears, is TO have d
bountiful harvest this year. Accounts
from all parts of the island represent
that the harvest prospects are better
than those of any year since 1853. AT
the time the last mall left, August 18th,
the weather was delightful, and the
ripening of grain progressed rapidly.
| The potato rot had appeared in some
districts, but so slightly as TO occasion
/ no alarm. 4H..r
"A prominent Boston paper (Ztoai'S
HerdLd), speaking of the frequency OF
divorce out Wesr, Chicago and other
points, says as objectionable as Catho-
| iicism Is, Il won't recognize the right OF
divorce. "What God hath Joined to-
gether let no man put asunder, is their
| simple rule OF action.
The western farmers appear dispos-
ed TO hurry their grain to the market,
in order TO realize the best price. This
course induces an active demand for
money from the west, but at the same
time the pressure 10 realize causes eau
, ton among discountsrs OF produce pa
! per, who naturally say that the large
| supplies must precipitate heavy fall
| in prices. Much mustdepend upon the
celerity with which the crops are dis
| tributed.
Some ingenious Democratic jour
nails are arguing the point that the ''rad-
cal" party is not the "republican" par
ty. As they first applied the name
and few of the party have adopted it,
and as it makes no difference what u
party is called, what is the gain If they
carry the argument.
-:.Camp Meeting John" is credited
with the following: "a Baptist cler-
gyman objected to the Methodist policy
that there was too much machinery
| to it." The veteran of hundred camp
meetings retorted: "Yes there is great
deal of machinery, but it don't take so
much water to run it as the Baptist
does"
james Stevens, the Fenian Head
Centre, it is announced, is still residing
in Paris, in seemingly distressed cir.
cumstanCes. He is engaged in writing
history of his connection with the
Fenian movement, and it is said, hopes
to prove satisfactorily that he made no
improper use of the funds of the So
ciety. . .l.. 200
A person charged with violation of
the Internal revenue law in Virginia
puts in a novel defence. He pleads
that the law provides for as many in
spectors us there are representatives in
State; and that as Virginia has no
representatives, she cannot legally have
an inspector.
"A London pedestrian recently laid
wager of $50, that he could, in one
hour, run over six of the bridges which
cross the Thames. he won, with seven
minutes to spare, crossing Vauxhall,
Westminster, Waterloo. Blacktrinrs,
Southwark and London bridges-ma-
king distance of eight miles.
The Scientific American doubts the
practicability OF using petroleum ms
substitute for coal as fuel. 1t consid-
ers the experiments that have been
made with the former article quite un
satisfactory as regards economy ot
burning.
"A witness being called to give evil
dence in court in Connecticut respeCt-
ing the loss of shirt, gave the follow
ing: Mother said that Ruth said, that
Nell said that Poll told her, that she see
a man that see boys shirt all checker,
checker, checker; and our gals won't
lie, for mother has whipped them a
thousand times for lying"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, John G..
Whittier, oliver Wendell Holmes, Ju-
liza Ward Howe, Gail Hamilton, Har-
riet Prescott Spotford, Alice and Phebe
Carey, Horace Greeley, Henry T. Tuck
erman, Theodore Tilton, John G. SAKE,
DIR. Holland, George William Curtis,
| Edmund c. SLedmAn, james Gordon
Bennett, MAuton Marble, and any num-
ber OF the younger and lesser luminn-
TieB in literature ana Journalism nave
been at the White Mountains this sea
son.
The Boston Transcript says: The
advent of Vallanuighsm on the stump
In Ohio gives promise of an old-fash-
ioned Republican majority. @
The New York Tribune says:-
Andrew Johnson's Proclamation re-
specting the enforcement of the laws in
the Carolinas is nothing but stage
thunder. 1t has no meaning and will
have no effect. .-... r
"A Chicago religious weekly, in dis
cusslng the habit of ministers reading
their sermons, expresses the view that
a healthfuI reaction is taking place in
favor OF preaching instead OF reading.
1t asks the question, If ministers, who
read their sermons, ever think how
they will look, reading them through a
pair of glasses, and that It will be ii
nesdlessiy premature advertisement OF
past maturity.
what General BuIler Thinks of Jerry
Black.
From a Reported C0ruersGtion.
asked the General il he knew Mr..
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