The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-22
siIsCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

-l.H f news anu HOASip' Ettrf
,-oyercoais are cheaper this season
than last.
-Gold is at premium ortwenty-two
cents in Austria. I4 ~ W g lzl-s
q g-Congressmen are already seeking
winter quarters in Washington.
-Pennsylyania has yet to abolish i'm
prisOnment Tor debt. ~, ls
Dickens sails for this country next
Saturday. - n -
No boats are advertised at st. Louis
for the Ohio river on account OF the low
water. Ef e. -lll a-a l--F-a4- -E- at--
Mcclellan. is in Paris, reading
American newspapers, so as to see what
chance he has OF a Presidential nomi-
nation.
z -The;night boats on the Hudson rIv-
er continue TO be crowded, although the
pleasure season is past. "a " ...ss
Never were chr4tnuts more abun-
dant than this season. They are pour
ing into the Eastern market by the car
load. t-a5.r 3 fl'l,.s
Three hundred thousand watches
are sold yearly in this country; eighty
thousand of them American.
Among the pleasures of the Chase,
may now be- included, we suppose,
dency.EN~ SO go - "a
Paper is legal tender In Italy, but
the hotels often insist on gold which is
AT premium of ten cents.
Political excitement is on the in
crease in Richmond, aud Marmaduke
johnson heads the Conservative ticket
for the Convention. ii.
La Grange meets with great sue
cess wherever she goes in the w est.
She finds that spite or her long absence
she is still PLEASANTLY remembered.
The designations of Generals Pleas
anton and Kilpatrick have been accept
ed by the War Department. Fs-C.
The Richmond Dispatch learns
from unquestjbnabfee authority X that
there are Iourteen Thousand discharged
negro soldiers now at work, mostly on
farms in Virginia. ~ - =
The Jews constitute so large and
Influential an element at San Francis
CO that school holidays and vacations
are coming to be governed by the Jew
ish holidays and featfYolS. EILLlIEL4L
Henry A Wise, of Virginia, let 1t
be recorded, thinks the late war has
not been an unmixed evil, inasmuch as
1t has abolished slavery. The world
moves. iisEE rsr+,r-1ftF acF-Tr. 8
The farmlersin West Tennessee are
putting in alarger amount of wheat this
fall than usual. The wheat crop Is u
month earlier there than in the North
west, which enables the farmers TO get
high prices. IN1l L ziiEiA NIX
One of the most noticeable con-
comitants OF the yellow fever season in
New Orleans is the stiffness and desert
ed appearance of the hotels.
"A distfilery in Chicago, now being
contiscated, had arrangements by
which vinegar was delivered from the
pipes, when the inspector was making
examinations.
-JefFersonvilIe, Indiana, is the Gret-
ma Green of kentucky. 1t is immedi-
ately hcross The Ohio from Louisville.
Santa Anna has been tried in Mex.
leo, and sentenced to baniShment from
Mexican territory for eight years. He
has become accustomed to this sort of
treatment. ERE.ftl
{ The e9ualized valuation of Illinois
is $5Ol, $40, $50, of which the assessment
for Cook county-ChiCagO and its sub
urbs-is SOS, 9,sls, ,Sl2.
Pittsburgh is to have a skating rink
with surface OF IL 600 square feet.-
Tho association has been organized,
funds (S40, ,O00) subscribed, Il lot secur-
ed, and contract awarded for the
building.
"A Nashville girl" writes to II
Nashville paper that there are "no
parks, nor promenades. nor convenien-
ces for love making" in all Nashville.
-Grasshoppers are so abundant at
Des Moines, Iowa, as to bring lately u
railway train to dead stop, until the
men had swept them off the track and
sprinkled the rails with sand.
AT the recent UniversalisL Conven-
~ a L., paIN N-GeF NINTEar
to raise 100000 for denominational
purposes.
The Hollis street, Boston, Unitarian
Church supports three lady teachers at
the South, which is good example for
other churches to follow.
The Detroit Advertiser announces
that the five thousand shares for new
Opera House in that city have been
taken, and that everything now gives
promise OF the erection OF u fine build
ing next season. ,.r-r
The Baltimore Universalist Con-
vention declared with but one dissent
ing vote, THAT it was the evident In
tentIon of our denominational fathers
to affirm the Divine authority OF tie
Scriptures and the Lordship of Jesus
Christ" gl
The Providence Herald anxiously
inquiries: whats the matter with
Rhode Island ingenuity2 There wasn't
Il Rhode Island patent issued last W eek.
Can't somebody invent something 10
keep up the reputation OF the State"
The Chicago AdVdnce publishes the
wants of ministers wishing employ
ment, and of churches needing pastors
or supplies. The first notice Is by a
graduate of Chicago Theological Semi
nary in 1852, who announces he Is free
to supply vacant churches, either for a
single sabbath, or with view to settle
ment. lFf I ~ ~ alI
The JanesVille( wis Gazette of Fri
day evening announces that an assess
ment of SOS, 900 has been rendered by
the government revenue officers of that
district against Mr.. William HodsonI
for an evasion of the tax on whtskey.
A revenue officer was in town that az
ternoon 10 make seizures of any prop.
erty he could lay his hands on.
Th. DIabOIIcaI Spirit of Modern
Democracy.
From the Pitsbur0h Commercial
kAt meeting of the copperheadsheld
al HilIsboro, Ohio. Mr.. Yallandigham
was advertised to speak, but just before
that apostle commenced. the chairman,
a Mr.. Jillson, announced that he had
Just received letter, and he would like
to read it. Mr.. ValIandigham said
.oinlr and M JiUaon raad as-fol-