The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-04
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The New York Gazette says: y 'The
behavior of Hon. John Morrissey In
the House has thus far set an example
of decorum which. was greatly needed.
Although he must have been several
times sorely tempted to spring to his
feet and insist on seeing fair plav. he
has kept his seat like a martyr, has not
said word, aud has just voted as the
other men did when his name was call
ed. In certain respects Mr.. Morrissey
is model representative; and when the
department. prize medal comes TO be
offered. his chances for il will not be the
poorest of any.D y.D---.-.-----.--....- - ~
7 San Francisco has had case of ter
rible -depravity-a, young man only
twenty-five years5of age, ,oWho has rob
bed sick mother, broken the hearts of
| two innOeent girls, abandoned a wife
and infant child, committed twenty or
thirty robberies,' attempted horrible
crime upon children, and attempted to
poison the minds of several young
girls. r5EI55 saiiss,ls7 = n
7 "A Washington correspondents says: I:
''The most painful fact which is Inn
pressed upon an observer OF the two
Houses is the extent to which drunken
ness and blear-eyed debauchery are
! visible in the faces-o of the members.
| Oue-third of the members of both
Houses appear TO be the living wrecks
of men whom alcohol has substantially
\ destroyed"
Portland, Maine, has Just lost man
named Leonard Cross. whose consu-
| ming ambition was to be the first per-
son to pay his tax after the bills had
/ been placed In the Collectors hands:
I and the books for the last twenty years
will show that, with the exception of
one year, when somebody got in be-
fore him, his tax was always the first
one paid. -, ..5-'., . = -....,-.i. ~i-S5@i
] james F. Cummings. who has been
known since the surrender of Lee as
one of tie heaviest and most daring
I operators in Wall street, and whose
bank account was reported to be nom
| three to ten million dollars, has Just
| been arrested on the complaint of a
| Georgian; whom he had defrauded of
| $500, 900 worth of goods. In 1861 he was
a butcher in Tennessee, but on the
| opening of the rebellion became conn
missary in the rebel army, and by
means. OF his position swindled the Con-
fedeEate Government and also citizens
OF North Carolina and Georgia.
They complain Of great .matrimo-
nial decentralization" in Chicago. One
OF the clergymen recently stated in his
| pulpit that a lady came to him to con-
suit him, as her pastor, in relation to
procuring divorce, saying that her
husband, though when she married
/ him he was quite wealthy, had lately
/ become so reduced in circumstances as
| to be unable to support her with the
Injuries to which she had been aocus-
| toned. luI ri fs..sl --si7 u -1-.., ssFs1g p
There has been great excitement
about a calico charity ball at CoIum-
bus, Miss. The pastors of the Presby-
terianand Methodist tehurchespreached
sermons against il, and they and the
| principal Eofa a ladies' high school
! threatened expulsion for all who did go.
The consequence was that some did not
| go, and that. others resigned from the
churches and took their girls away
from the school. -.,'..-rl- i. 4
There was a poultry show in wor-
cester, Mass, last week, continuing
three days. There were 24O entries,
comprising a thousand domestic fowls
\ of thirty different varieties. Brahmas
| predominated, and next came the
Spanish, Leghorns and Dorkings.
There was n good deal of trading
among fanciers, and $50. a pair was
|
mems. - -. ..-..--.l'-
Dispatches to the Cincinnati papers
state that a committee recently appoint
by the Chicago board of trade to solicit
subscriptions in aid of the destitute at
the South, have been discharged at
their own request, as the encourage
Inent they received was very slight
The funds collected are to be returned
to the donors. The Board has also re-
scinded a resolution, adopted in Janua-
~, appropriating 5000 for the same
| purpose. yle.-
-At an exhibition of horse-taming,
in Chicago. a. vicious colt suddenly
broke loose from his fastening, and
dashed among the spectators where he
reared and kicked with terrible fury.
The animal had almost reached the top
! row ofseats when the flooring gave way
and preciptated him and not a few per-
sons to the ground. Only one man was
! injured. 3
An intelligent contraband in In
dianapOlis, Indiana, was recently direct
ed by his empIoyerto take the carriage
family, who We're at an evening party,
and instructed him to GO to the door
| and, ring the bell, and inquire for them.
About midnight hereturned alone and
on INQUIRY twas ascertaiued that he had
taken the dining-room bell, and driving
up to a strange house. sat in the car
riage and rang his bell as he had seen
the milkmen do. Finally, concluding
that no one was.at home, he returned.
"A writer in San Francisco paper,
moved by vision Of journeying by
railroad from New York to that city,
{, S,219 miles, in five days and nine hours,
his least extravagant- eStimate, ex-
claims, 'sThen farewell our isolation;
farewell sea sickness; farewell seven
teen days basking in the seething trop-
/ tcss farewell the Isthmus and its 7fevers
1 and good-for-nothing, impudent popu-
Iatton; farewell that jail-like confne-
nfent- and menotony on shipboard-
| Adieu old acquaintanees hut never
friends-we Will bid you all most
i willing farewell when the railroad is
| completed. Then will be literally in
/ augurated our year OF jubilee. The
subject is full OF poetry, but can the
/ poetry of words -eQual--the poetry or
| facts, as seen in the rushing up through
these snow clad, grand old mountains,
of the iron horse, our literal cloud
compelling Jove and poet laureate Of
science and progress I. +;
The New Orleans Tunes relates :
"a book-keeper, who had served his
employer faithfully. was continually
disappointed in his application for ad-
/ yancement, the employer telling him,
L Never mind, I'lI mention you in my