The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-14
YEWs AID GOSSIP.
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oysters in the shell are hawked
.bout the streets Of Baltimore at seven
I ty-fve cents bushel.
I The ceremonies of Lent bring out
good deal of controversy on rltuaiisn.
! There are about one hundred anu
fifty thousand men employer -" TIC
railways OF Great Britain.
Maine has 100000 acres Oh uh-
broken forest.
Manuscript sermons are sofa IN
London for j.. Sd.
Female evangelists are on the in
crease in England.
France has one hundred thousand
7 disabled young men,
in Montreal, forty couples were
married in one day.
1t is said that James Gordon Ben
nett has begun an autobiography which
will include a history of the Herald.
The President is already impeach-
ed-as to his veracity. Several papers
are finding talsehoods in his veto mes
sage.
"A firm in Cincinnati advertised a
few days since for a porter, and had
three hundred applications within the
next twenty-tour hours.
Washington correspondence says
| Senator Yates has relapsed after sign
/ ing the pledge.
| Many of the Southern papers are
I Disguised with their Northern allies OF
the democratic party in their course on
the reconstruction question.
I The Inauguration OF the statue OF
I Marshall at Richmond, gave rise to
some funny things \ bystander, in
rorminSH negro in quest OF knowledge
that the statue was that of Chief-Jus-
tice Marshall, blackey replied, what
iprovost-marshal wor he?"
Chicago newsboys are beguiled to
attend Sunday School, by promise of
n supper sometime during the week.
Tine day you are taking nap is the
day you dream OF seeing the past; for
it is 81 estu day.
/ Real estate is so high in some parts
of London that the purchaser now has
almost literally to cover it with gold to
purchase it.
Twelve of the tobacco factories in
/ Richmond have resumed work, and
others will commence in IA few days.
Chicago has the largest lumber
trade of any place in the world. The
sales last year were &c, 600, 900 feet.
An exchange says that lawyers
practising before the military courts in
the Southern satrapies, are expected tC
open their arguments with the usual
formula-"May it please your should
er-straps."
The Illinois Legislature, at its ses-
sion just closed, passed twelve hundred
and sixty-three bills
"A man in Fredericksburg, VA, wal
knocked down by lightning aud cureC
of rheumatism. He don't recommend
the remedy.
"A bill is before the Wisconsin Leg
stature which, if passed., will disfran
chise 10000 persons who deserted from
service,or failed TO report when drafted
during the war.
, The Pennsylvania House OF Repre-
sentatives has passed bill declarin
il a nuisance for any farmer or Ian
7 holder Of Chester county to allow eithe
r mullen, moth mullen, wild carrots
4, Canada thistles, or horse nettles 10 gro'
on land owned or occupied by him.
Pleasure, says Mr.. Beecher. is til
means by which II busy man rests hin
r self. a man that has nothing to d
4 has no right TO pleasure. To ma
that has too much to do, pleasure is
duty. Mr.. Beecher is going on plea,
= ure excursion to the Holy Land, ne1
d summer.
|. New Jersey has a literary curiosity
@ the like OF which, in all probability, II
n other State or country on either side
: the Atlantic, can boast, viz: a week.
. newspaper, edited, published an
printed by the cOnvicts in the Stat
It Prison at Trenton. The name of thi
r novel journal is, The Stt',6eaHt, and hu
= for its motto, EVERY cloud has silve
lining"
= Count bismarck is credited with
y bon mot which makes everybody smi
but Louis Napoleon.
They were talking of the results
/ the late war before the Prime AIiniste
{, Prussia" some one remarked, "hj
20 had the line of the Maine; Italy h
"had Nenetia; Russia has the East
cher disposal; hut Frgnce p France
r, the Prime Minister of King Willia
replied, z+''well, she has her-Exhit
ton"