The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-28


Joined the Good Templars and made q
very effective Temperance address at
Washington few evenings since. be
is a man Of fine ability, out mas Deen
very dIssipated.
wHEs the Hon. Lewis D. Campbell
left New Orleans. few days ago, he
had a conversation, at the st. Charles
Hotel, with gentleman, which Is thus
reported in the New Orleans Repn6Ei.
can. 81 thought you were going tc
Mexico7" Mr.. Campbell replied
that direction. The Government seems
70 be poor-so am I. Igo to Hamilton
Ohio, then to Washington, and then
will probably learn what Is the mai
ter"
JET. Davis has accepted an invitation
from the proprietor of the White Sui
phur Springs, in Catawba, North Caro-
lima, 10 visit that place on his return
from Canada, and he will be there with
his family In July or August. Jeh.
has also another Invitation from the
/ Well-known proprietor OF another sui
| nhurous institution. His acceptance IL
| not formally announced, but mere can
be little doubt that he will personally
report in due season.
The New York Citizen contained, a
couple OF weeks ago, an elaborate arti-
Gle defending Horace Greeley for his
JEFF. Davis bail-bond episode. This
drew from Mr.. Greeley the following
letter to the editor OF the Citizen:
ALBANY, June 13.-DEAR MILEs-1
thank you heartily for your article OF
last Saturday, though 1 ask none TO
commend or justify me; only beg my
friends not TO apologize for me. make
no apologies and want none; 1 can wait.
1 know that the Yankee school mis-
tresses teaching negro young ones in
Dixie, Understand and appreciate what
have done, and am confident that
the politicians will be able to do so BY
aud.by. But whether they shall or
done to 'liberty and Union, now and
forever, one and inseparable," and no
personal Inconvenience shall make me
repent of what have we'll done. >
Yours, always truly,
General C. G. HalPine.
The presence of mind of a stage man
ager at Philadelphia, on the evening of
the 18Th, saved an audience in burn
ing theater from a panic and probably
from, loss of life. The speech Of the
manaRsr, who came forward just as the
audience were expecting the demon
dance. in the "BlAck Crook" Was:
/" Ladies and Gentlemen -Circum-
stances compel me to adjourn the play
at this moment, and You VIII oblige me
very much by leaving as soon as you
can. II is TO your interest to leave, SO
do not stand upon the order of your 60
ing. What say now / will explain at
another time. Ladies' and gentlemen.
leave-leaye as quietly as you can"
About half the persons In the house
had sense enough to go out. The 9th
ers waited until they smelled fire.
The latest New York sensation is a
suit brought by a beautiful quadroon
against wealthy gentleman, of the
bachelor persuasion, in whose house.
hold she resided. No breach of promise
is complained of, the intent being, on
the contrary, to saddle him not with
the paternity of saddle-coloredc child,
but with that of one black enough to
have been begotten by Erebus, the ace
OF spades, or The king OF terrors-or by
all OF them combined TOR that matter.
Inc case PROMISES 10 De u very pecuIldE
IL not an Interesting one, and may pos
sibly furnish some new wrinkles to the
next author who attempts to treat OF
the origin OF races. The friends of the
defendant claim that 1t is blaokmail
case.
During Sunday and Monday last,
there were in Cincinnati and immedi-
ate vicinity three deaths by suicide and
two terrible murders. The saddest
tragedy of all was the murder of q
young girl by her lover, and the sub,
sequent suicide by the latter. William
Belts had been the accepted lover Of
Sarah Klein for about a year, but she
became tired OF him and preferred
another. Belts went to her house last
Sunday night and saw a rival kiss
Sarah at the gate. Hebrew a revolver
and as she turned and ran TO the house
fired three shots at her without hitting
rushed into the house and locked the
door. he pursued her, dashed himself
/ against the door, forced 1t open, rushed
Into the room to which she had re-
treated, and fired at her another shot
The bail penetrated vital spot, pass
floor, dead. The murderer rushed
again into the open air, down through
the yard, over fence and fields, halted
suddenly, placed the muzzle of the pis-
toll against his head, discharged the re-
naming charge, and Olew his brains
out.
The Salt Lake Vedette says a way.
farer went into the Occidental Hotel III
that place, a short time since, to get q
square meal: Having planted himsel
in chair at one of the tables, he wal
confronted by the waiter with: "wha
will YOU have?" The hungry onG
fastened his eye on the dttdche dc soup
and said ! what have you got that's
| good 2" "oh, we've got roast beef
| corned beef, roast mutton, fried ham
and broiled cur!ew." what the h-Ii
is curlew?" said the stranger. "Curlew
why curlew is a bird something like
n snipe." Ibid it fly ?" eyes" "Did
It have wings ?n "Yes.n "Then ]
don't want any curlew In me. Any.
thing that had wings, and could fly
and didn't leave this id country, j
don't want for dinner"
According to a recent return made tc
Parliament, the total number of pri
Yates present at the last militia reviews
in Great Britain was 59,e74. There were
2, 227 enlistments in the various militil
corps during the year ending March
Slst. 1886, and the amount paid fol
these enlistments was SlS0,S25.
The firemen of Chicago, it is stated
/ last year had their lives insured by sew