The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-11
NEHsANn GOSSIP.

n - " 10 ot-ANS 49,
Virginia.
Half a million people have seen the
"Black Crook" in New York.
The bishop of Richmond diocese al
lows potatoes to be fried in lard but
not in butter during Lent.
Mrs. jeff. Davis has gone to Charles
ton, South Carolina.
Mad dogs are furnishing local items
for the Chicago papers. --.-..
"A biblical opera on the history of
Saul is announced in Germany.
The Richmond Whig calls the mil
itary reconstruction bill Hthe bill for
the RtLSsifcdtioH of the South"
+ "A dear little girl of twelve summers
in New York died for love of'an actor.
b. "A printer on the Nationalist, rad
ical paper published at Mobile, was
refused admission to a printers union
because he worked on loyal paper.
-Pollard's "Lost Cause" has been
translated into French for the benefit
of the Louisiana creole rebels.
1t costs 81 to bring a ton of mer-
chandise from Liverpool to this coun-
try, and e35S4 to bring a ton of letters.
The latter are not correspondingly
cheap.
The Nashville Banner, in its second
issue after the great loyal demonstra-
ton at Nashville, closes an article with
the following fitting prayer:-"God
help the Nineteenth Century, and, us,
its hapless childrenw
The Memphis city government Ia
tely advertised for proposals Tor lay
ing the Nicholson pavement. A
Chicago firm made the lowest bids, but
the aldermen declare that no Yankees
shall have the contract.
in Belfast, Ireland, a number of
both women and men have been fined
in-sums ranging from Is. Cd. to 40S. for
shooting in the streets, some in favor of
Fenianism, others against the Pope.
The municipality of Toledo have
received an autograph letter from the
Pope, thanking them for the offer of a
refuge there in case revolution should
compel him to leave Rome. f.rh
The Cincinnati Gazette thinks that
the prize concert has "played out"
"A Pithole paper is publishing Sc
rial novel entitled the Haunted Der
rick" .-.-
There has been great religious re-
vival in the churches OF Sacramento,
California.
The Princess of Wales has her third
baby, a daughter. She has not been
married four years, and has three child
rem, which is doing as well as could be
expected. f9 ''s..
p II. Barnum, the Snowman, has
recently invented a wonderful elastic
band which is to work wonderful
revolution in tailoring. -..
Report says that John C. Breckin-
ridge recently had an attack of delirium
tremens. E- .r,-ff,..r -. ID
"A woman in Paris never fell in love
till she was seventy-four, and then
affection induced suicide. q
Jesse D. Bright has written letter
to a friend, which contains the follow
ing lofty paragraph: cob rs Ia,-
"I could not be induced to take a
seat among such men as constitute the
elected majority in the next
House of Representatives in Congress-"
"A. lady being asked TO waltz, gave
the following sensible and appropriate
answer: "No, thank you sir, 1 have
hugging enough at home" --.-.s.
I'm view of his several families of
Grown and growing children, Brigham
Young objects to the anti-polygamy act
of Congress as an ec post JGcto law. &C.
"A picture in late number of Punch
represents a fashionable and affection
ate couple, the husband searching Wig
orously in his waistcoat pockets. The
young wife inquiries, "Have you lost
your watch, loveR and he replied,
NO, darling, twas anew bonnet had
for you somewhere" -.Ir-s. g.s
The man who, improving in skill
or knowledge. and improves in mod
esty, has an undeniable claim to,great-
ness of mind. H... -Hf.Hl Ir.lH-
-Iftwo hogsheads make pipe, how
many will make cigar. sHi
-Thackeray says: "Only women
thoroughly know the insolence OF
women toward one another"
81 have not loved lightly" as the
man said when he married a widow
weighing tire hundred pounds.
Madame Recamier retained her
beauty much longer than is usual even
with French women. "She resigned
herself gracefully to the first touch OF
time. She understood, that for one who
enjoyed such success as a beauty, in
order to seem beautiful, she must make
no pretensions. a friend, who had not
seen her for many years, complimented
her upon her looks. 'Ahl my dear
triend,' she replied, sit is useless Tor me
to deceive myself. From the moment
noticed that the little Savoyards in the
street no longer turned to look at me,
knew that all was OVER"
-S-
IL the action ofthe majority of the
Committee on Federal Relations in the
Mississippi legislature can be taken as
an indication of the feeling of the peo-
pie OF that State, Mississippi will be
found a favorable place for the begin
ming of Reconstruction. The following
is an extract from n report made by
this committee, in which they give a
detailed statement of the condition of
affairs: lr'n 4d
eve declare, representing, as we be-
lieve, the sentiments of the legislature
and people, that both will give the most
earnest and deliberate consideration to
propositions which Congress may offer.
in the form Of constitutional amend,
ments, or otherwise, embracing and
concluding all the matters that may
stand in the way of tranquility and a
more perfect concord and union.
I'VE, therefore, recommend the
adoption of the following resolutions !:
ResoL1ed by the Legislature of the
State Of Mississippi, That the Congress
De, and Is hereby respectfully requested
to declare and submit to this State. or
the legislature thereof, u final plan for
the adjustment of State and Federal
Relations. by the terms whereof repre-
sentatlon IN Congress may be restored
and all other constitutional benefits as
sured."
Other resolutions provide for COM
municating the series to Congress. The
report shows a marked advance in
Mississippi.
Thu experiment OF colored suffrage,
which Congress concluded to try in the
District of Columbia, has been pretty
well tested in the recent election in