The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-09

| D. without opposition. AS 1t Is sup
| plement to the other, its successful pas
sage through all the stages of legisla-
tion is regarded as certainty.
The potato rot has attacked the farms
on Long Island. 1t is reported that in
some places fields, embracing many
acres, are wholly blasted. The Mercer
variety appears to be the most infect
ed. To save themselves as much as
! possible, farmers are hastening the
crop into market, though it not unfre-
quently happens that potatoes looking
very fair when dug show distinct signs
of disease in a few hours.
| The registry of voters, it is announced,
is nearly completed iu Alabama. The
returns at present for the entire State
foot up 1O3, ,574, of whom 4l,so9 are
whites, and full 81 ,765 coIored. 1t Is es-
! timated that the full number of voters
| in the State is 10000.
Great Britain has quite as many peO-
pie who are suffering from the cOnse-
quences of foolish speculations as the
United States. The London RditLCay
| Nh0S, in late editorial, says: 1.-THE
! nuIIDtES III duN tI AlEe-
menls OF properties to be sold, now to
be seen daily, is proof of The wide
spread ruin which has followed the last
round OF indiscriminate Stock Ex-
change speculation, but which does not
publicly show itself"
The next election that will be held
will be in Vermont, on September 3D.;
California Will follow on September
4th, and Maine on September 9Th. On
October Sth, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Ohio and Iowa will vote; West Virginia
on the 24th of October; and on Novem-
ber 5Lh, New York, New Jersey, Della
ware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mich
igan, " isconsin, Minnesota, Illinois,
Kansas, Missouri and Nevada. Colo
rado closes the list of fall elections on
| November 18th.
A Rat Hunters Picnic, which is
something entirely new, is to be held
near Florence, Ohio, on the 18th of Au-
gust. 1t appears that the people in that
neighborhood organized themselves into
two companies for the destruction OF
these pests about month ago, and at
| the conclusion of the Summers work, ,
the company showing the least num-
a dinner for the other party. The odi-
cial count is expected 10 show the lar
gest number CT rat tails ever exhibited
In Ohio.
The experimental farm, at Washing
ton, for the Agricultural Department,
has been established, the soil having
been already put under cultivation so
as TO yield handsome crops of corn,
clover, fruits and vegetables. Among
1.-THE improvements iS the erection OF
suitable buildings for the use of the De-
partment, the contracts for which have
already been awarded, and the plans de-
termined upon. The main building
will be Ill feet long aud nearly 20 feet
high, and promises to add another to
the fine public editices of Washington.
THE last freak of fashion, the London
Medical Press says. is the abolition of
the pearl powder, rouge and white lead
that have so long reigned. Even bella
dona is to be discarded at Paris, and
"golden hair" will soon become a rare
commodity. The decree has gone forth
for black hair and bronze complications,
and they are henceforth to be produced,
no matter az what expense. To give II
lady OF fashion a complexion of gypsy,
nothing is needed but little walnut
juice; but whethera dirty face will long
be the rage, the Medical Press says 1t
would be rash to predict.
YALE and Harvard Colleges always
keep upa spirited and healthful rival
ry. Both are wealthy and both are ex-
cellent institutions of learning. The
statistics of the graduating classes of
this year, so tar as they go, seem to show
that Yale is less local institution than
Harvard. OF ninety-four Harvard
graduates, eighty-two were from New
England. and seventy from within forty
miles of Boston. Out of the one hum
dred Yale graduates, only forty-oue
were from New England, and but TWEEN
ty-tive from Connecticut.
A locomotive was sent to the Paris
Exposition, which had been running
on French road until it had made
trips amounting in the aggregate to
90, 900 miles. The Louisville Journal is
informed that engine No. 46, on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, has
been in active service now thirty
months since last repaired, making 90,-
900 miles running, with every promise
that, without some serious accident, her
mileage will reach 80 600 more before
having to go into the shop. This, the
Journal thinks, is an evidence that
American workmanship is deserving
of gold medals for locomotives, for II is
we'll known that the wear and tear on
American railroads is, from the nature
of their construction, much more rapid
than on the Continental routes.
Garibaldi, it is reported from Europe,
has come to the conclusion that, con-
sidering all circumstances, 1t is best to
abandon, for the present, his contem-
plated movement against Rome. The
volunteers which had begun TO collect
from all parts OF Italy, and which had
already invaded the Papal territory at
several places, will therefore disperse.
The dispatch adds that the movement is
only delayed, not abandoned, and the
preparations for another great move
ment will be pursued with great activi-
ty, and Garibaldi himself expressed
his firm belief in the success of the
next undertaking..
The great tunnel on the Pacific Rail
road at the summit of the Sierra Neva-
da Mountains is nearly completed.
Only sixty-four feet remained uncut on
Saturday. The rails are being laid on
the ensterly slope, where twenty miles
of the track is graded. 1t is expected
that cars will pass through the tunnel
by the 18th of August, and that the road
will be completed to the Nevada line in
September next. The rapid progress
making at both ends OF the Pacific
Railroad indicates that 1t will not be
long before passengers can be carried