The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-18
NEWS AND GOssIP.

-"Ecce Homo" is more frequently
taken from the Springfield, Mass, Ii
brary than "Grifith Gaunt."
-Auninsurance company heads its
advertisement thus: "Best lives taken
at lowest rates. Inns
The first cost of Russian America is
about two and half cents per acre in
gold. ,s5,.- s,5s. >
-Thelweather on the Plains has re-
Gently moderated very much. The
grass is coming up timely. 81 RI sEf
The Detroit Post perpetrates most
atrocious pun by heading an editorial
Making Wirz no better. /" 5 10. ~
Lone hundred men are at work at
the bridge now building across the
Missouri river at Kansas City, Missou-
ri.
Edward a. Hall demonstrates that q
man can make. atrip around the world
ftom New York IN ninety.six days.
Milk costs the retailers six cents
per quart In New York, and they ped
die It out for twelve-after diluting 1t
as much as they dare.
"A festival In behalf of Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis, at Columbus, Georgia, melted
between three aud four thousand dol
lars. u ttltE q
Spectators and business men are
making more nse of the Atlantic cable
than ever before. The New York
Times thinks q reduction in rates
would increase the business eight fold.
AT one 9th schools in Chicago the
inspector asked the children il they
could give any text Ia the scripture
which forbade q man having two
wives. One Of the children sagely
quoted in reply the text: mo man
shall have two masters.n .TsGtl;js
"A Paris letter writer says the cotil-
lion sis a seventeenth century dance
and owes its present existence among
US to recent revival" which shows
the difference between nrevivalsn in
Paris and elsewhere. Sis ae375
At the Methodist Conference in ses-
sion IN New York, the committee on
worldly amusement have presented a
report diseouraging the practice of at
tending dances, concert-OFeras negro
ministries, and "playing those games
which do not tend to dliness.n 81
1t is thought that the Central Pa
ciic Railway will reach the Nevada
state line by the 18th of November.
The present working force Is i've thou-
sand men. Contracts have been made
FOR ten thousand more-all coolies.
The Union Pacific Railway Company
mas just sold one hundred and eighty
thousand acres of land In Kansas at
public auction, the largest amount ever
thus disposed OF at one auction sale, g
The kennebec Journal says that the
"spring harvest of parsnips has begun
in that Vicinity but some of the enter.
Prising gardeners dig them out from
beneath a foot or two OF snow.
The Portland argus SAYS 1t Is es-
timated that there hGye been 50, 600 600
feet OF logs cut on the Kennebec river
this winter-S0, 000, 600 spa uce and 90
900, 900 pIue.
City, Mo-, Thursday between A, III,
HalIowell, editor OF the Journal Of
C5uIHlSFee, OF that city, formerly Of
Wheeling, and 81. B. Branch, Post
master, Four shots were exchanged,
but neither party injured. Branch had
taken some offence at some remarks
printed by the editor.
THERE'S great destitutionT among
the new settlers in the southwestern
part Of Minnesota. Stock have PERISH
ed In great numbers for want of food,
and families will, be on the verge OF
starvation unless speedily relieved. .
oommitteeof operators hays atn-
tned the wells at Pithole, and report
that the agRreGste production of the
wells Is 921 barrels per day. The 9aR-
gregete estimate of the producers Is
lI1So. barrels, z difference OF 2l4 barrels
y so s.ig - syf7ss3sa4 yf.sf r.
"A Florida youth at Madison. Indis
ana, hsld his face slapped by an frrlita;-
ted tee enes. me young man went onf,