The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-17
MEMS AND GOSSIP.

New York Hydropathic College is
to close.
Sunset Cox probably wishes he had
not len Ohio, as he might have gone to
the Senate.
Less extensive preparations than
usual are making for the coming lum-
bering season in Maine.
The citizens of Newark, Ohio, are
making great preparations for the COM
ing Temperance Convention.
The Methodist centenary contriou;;
tons already exceed four millions anu
are expected to reach six and hail
millions.
English opera will reign at the New
York Academy for six weeks begin
ming in December.
An exchange, which is rather poor
at figures, says there are SO polling
places in New York with four inspect
ors TO each, making total of $50.
AT Swansea, England, there is a
pu bile house quantity called the Rest
and be Thankful" Inn.
Cleveland and Detroit are the liter
airy cities of the West. Cincinnati is
third on the list.
The Democrats of Ohio have ma
iority OF three in the Senate and seven
in the House.
The Tribune says the Republican
party cannot afford to take any deck
load this fall.
"A torch light procession has been
prohibited in Savannah, political ex-
element runs SO high.
The Democratic vote OF Pennsylva-
mia is not SO large this year as 1t was
last year by several thousand.
Boston derives yearly revenue of
nnfnpV and Eananil Hail
markets.
The rate of taxation in Providence,
K. L, this year, is so 50 on thousand.
"A large amount of Massachusetts
State stock has recently been sent back
from England for sale. Just now it
brings more at home than abroad.
Spain is noted for executions and
cigarettes. The people are just now de-
batting which of the two are most COM
mon.
Two thousand five hundred and
fifty carriages are taxed in Philadel-
phiA at valuation of seven hundred
thousand dollars.
The convention of Homeopathic
physicians at Boston, Wednesday,, ex-
pressed itself in favor of warm bath
for sick headache.
The Lowell Courier says:-A cool
ItpIy was AhhG Va a a. "AO
on knocking at a door and being asked
who was there, answered 1t is
I.Sickles."
The Norwich Bulletin, speaking of
the Democratic victory at the election
in the town of Milford, Connecticut,
which was only for assessors, says that
they elected only the first two syllables.
Grace Church, New York, invited
the Rev. Philip Brooks, of the Church
OF the Holy Trinity in Philadelphia, to
become its rector, offering him salary
of $4,000.
Democrats are advising the Repub-
liCans as to their future course. If they
are hencefOrth to rule the country, why
do they not keep their advice to them
selves?
Andrew Brown was found dead in
his bed, at the house of WIN. Murphy,
in Steubenville, on Sunday. He had
been drinking freely, which brought on
an attack OF heart disease and caused
his death.
Two parties, one of English army
officers and the other French engineers,
are visiting the western plains for in
struction and buffalo hunts.
-Four hundred bushels of cranber-
ries were gathered on the LIST instant
from a single marsh in the vicinity OF
Erie, Pa.
Two men in Vermont went to law
about a sheep worth five dollars. The
one who recovered damages to the
amount of SIG 46 had to pay lawyers
fees amounting to $3.50. Question for
| little boys-How much did either party
make by the suit?I
The total receipts of the ST. Louis
fair last week were $1,000 The re-
ceipts at the gate were $780, 900.
The Pittsburgh Commercial says
Sharswood's DENY majority in 81
counties, official count, with estimated
majority in the three remaining coun.
ties, is $50.
st. CIairsvilIe and Wellsville post
| offices have been made noney-order
/ offices.
The editor of the Ironton Journal
had a present of fine Strawberries last
week.
Scene on the street-Jubilant Dem.
ocrat-Do you hear those guus2 1 tell
/ you we can afford to burn powder over
such victories as theseI Touchy Re-
publican-That's so! You didn't burn
much during the war and havn't burn
ed much since.