The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-24
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Over forty witness have been sum-
moned in the Surratt case.
.-NInety-nine lawyers have been
qualified topractice in the United States
courts at Richmond.
Hon. George Bancroft has notified
the President Of his acceptance of the
mission to Prussia. e
Secretary Stewards property in
Auburn, New York, cost him $500. It
Is now taxed for $4,000.
The ST. Louis Democrat favors Hon.
Edwin N. Stanton for the next presi-
dency.
Buffalo has an Irish lady aged ITO
who attends mass every morning.
California has S9S. sawmills, which
cost $500 900, aud have an aggregate
capacity of :, 100000 Of feat per year.
1t is reported that thirty outlaws
have been hung in johnson and Pettis
countless No., during the winter and
spring. .-s =
Efforts are being made throughout
Ohio to raise funds for the relief OF the
destitute Of the South.
IA Charleston man, who vowed
never to have his hair or beard cut till
Jefferson Davis should be set at liberty,
has been to the barber's.
IA, PAS. ~" -OlA Oi'S IS '-
China has 400, 900, 900 people, and
4,Oss, 900 square miles.
AT Buffalo sailors are shipping at a
dollar day, there being plenty OF men
and little work. 'lt
The New York Dav Book nominates
Davis and Cowan for a Presidential
ticket on "white mans PLATFORM"
The Troy Times tells of young
man "from the country" who on WIS.,
iting that city had "imbibed too freely
OF gin and molasses," and had got
drunk on the latter beverage"
in the recent parliamentary debate
on Fenianism, an English lord made
the remark that ''high treason seems to
be about the safest amusement which
man can allow himself" The remark
Will answer very we'll for this side of
the water. $500 Iflt 1E =
Ex-senator Foote, Of Mississippi,
publishes long essay in the Missouri
Democrat in favor of woman suffrage.
"A cargo of wheat recently passed
westward through Syracuse which was
originally shipped from San Francisco
Tor France, and brought thence to New
York and sent to Chicago.
.-Awrlter in the current number of
the Gdtdry propheSies that after 4wo
more seasons, the "German" will nave
become dance of the past.
Baltimore proposes to erect hotel
that Will not be surpassed by any other
on the continent.
Confederate money was paid for
the last negro slave publicly sold in
Shelbyville, Tenn.
"A National Convention of Good
Templars will be held in Detroit, Mich,
commencing the last week of the pres
ent month.
Farms, in some portions of Texas,
yield from l5O to 800 bushels of sweet
potatoes, of excellent quality, to the
acre. i.
Main papers complain that there is
an increasing list of applications for
divorce in the courts of that State, and
that nearly all Of them are granted.
-Immigrants. mostly from New
england and New York, are pouring
into Florida, which, it is said, Is filling
up faster than any other Southern
State -
~. AASSOANChblOuO VI LIS SuElSIlau Az
sociations of the United States and Can
adas will meet the present year at Mon
treal on the 10Th of June.
Robert j. Walker is about to open
large hotel at Georgetown, D. O.. A
son and a son-in-lRw assist in his new
business.
Butter put down at forty-five cents
a pound last fall comes up this spring
at twenty-five. -.
The reporters of the Tribune, Times
and Post are excluded from the meet
lngs OF the eight-hour men in Chicago,
because they do not report proceedings
to suit the workingmen.
Lord Jeffrey considers that Frank
lin became great man because he lived
in his younger days away from a high
ly cultivated and refined literary socie-
ty; and that If he had been college-bred
he would have contented himself with
mere mediocrity. -
The "Whip," new London paper
In the interest of the coachmen, is fol-
lowed by the "IdiLOr," in the interest
OF the clOthes-makers. The +" ToDln-
hGt0k" is also announced, and in the
absence Of any explanation we may
presume this means the organ OF the
hair-dressers.
Lord Brougham, 1t is feared, is i'll
past hope, in Nice. The veteran states
man and scholar, is still in the full
possession of his mental faculties. but
his physical powers, which for many
years have seemed to defy the encroacf-
ments of time, are yielding al last to
the infiFmfffnS NJ a1o Z