The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-11
PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hon. Z. Il. Washburne has left
nshington for a visit TO Maine.
Santa Anna is to live in New York.
-Ristori began life Gypsy.
jay Cooke has $40, 900, O0Oto draw on.
In the South they call Wendell
Phillips AN Internal machine set TO
music
-Governor Andrew left four chill
dreu-two sons and TWO daughters.
Senator James Guthrie, who has
been seriously i'll in Louisville, is now
able to ride out daily.
-Janauschek, the German tragedi-
enne, is forty-tive, and weighs one hun
dred and ihiTty-siX.
Julia Ward Howe speaks six Ian
guAges, but don't talk more hours
day than other women.
Hon. George II. Pendleton declines
TO Lecture ION account of higher and
pressing engagements"
China has rich mines, but will not
let them be worked Tor fear OF disturb
ing the repOse OF the dead.
An exchange says: EXP President
buchanan is very feeble" He was
very feeble as President.
Stephen a. Douglas, Jr., and his
! brother Robert are in Richmond, Va.
bennett, Senior, is three score and
eleven, and worth three million. Ben
nett, Jr., is one score odd, and worth
less.
James Bray, of Skowhegan, Me-,
weighs only iour hundred and forty
pounds, but as he is still growing, his
progress may be regarded as encour-
| aging.
An exchange says that the house in
| which Gen. Zachary Taylor WAS born,
near Orange Court House, Virginia, is
used Tor barn now. What of that.
Wasn't it used for II barn then?
-Auber, the great composer, is 81
years old, but is very active. The gray
| htirGd master retiTes to bed ut one
| o'clock in the morning and gets up
| regularly ut five.
DIR. Holmes is said by a Boston pa
per to ''impart AN nInbrosial flavor to
medicine" in his lectures to students.
Hon. Aaron Shaw, an ex-judge oil
| Illinois, while attending court at Law
! TenCeyitlc, challenged the Prosecuting
! Attorney to a foot race for five dollars a
side. The challenge was accepted, the
| race run and won by Judge Shaw. The
| grand jury has found an indictment
I against both gentlemen for gaming
j. S. EldTidge, the new President oil
! the Erie hallway, was not long since IA
| lawyer in moderate practice OF YER
mont but possessing superior business
capacity, became the manager OF the
| OgGens burg Railroad, and recently oil
| the Boston, Hartford and Erie road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Thumb, COmmo.
dore Mutt, and Miss Minnie Warren
! visited the Executive Mansion on Wed
| nesday, and were received by the Presi-
dent and the ladies of the Executive
Mansion in the Red PHrlOr.
MIR. George l.. Barrett, the shrewd-
| est horse dealer in Connecticut, is dead.
| He was very popular among his neigh
| hors, never tasted liquor or used tobac-
co, was never on a steamboat and only
once in Il railway car, and lived all his
| life in the same house.
Says the New York AdUertiser,
| tThurlow Weeds paper, y "Senator sum-
ner ex hibi,s morbid accessibility in ref
| erence to his domestic troubles. caused
1 by the desertion OF his wife and her de-
parture for Europe, and has not only
| broken up his line establishment in
| Washington, but has also Cancelled
most Of his lecture engagements during
the Winter. He feels that his appear
ance in public subjects him to mortify-
| ing curiosity, which he is unable 10
! brave out. II is said that he intends 10
obtain divorce from his wife, but the
! lndy's friends deny that any case can be
made out against her"