The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-22
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-@H miscellaneous Matters.
The Dayton Journal has been en-
rapport with Prof. Baird of the Smith
sonian Institute, and says that learned
savant reports that q Freeze. out poker"
is the favorite diversion of the Archan-
gels in our new Northwestern posses.
Sions. s.y-....t. .=.z.s.-.,.,
Tile Home Journal says such lively
music was rendered by an organist at a
'thigh church, !" in New York, the other
that an old man actually got
In the aiAle and commenced a break
down.. - - i'...i5, 81 r.,
The Springfield Republican thinks 1t
would be well enoughto pass the suf-
trage amendment II for nothing else
but to enjoy the spectacle of Democracy
in the "burnt corlxr business, fishing
for Ethiopian suftrages. .s--iz3 ~ji-17 70 "a
Fourth Of July orators are hereafter
to praise Sewaed by injecting into their
Spread eagle speeches: Mr. Chairman:
Thisiis great and growing country.
Since I last addressed you it has burst
its old limits even as the growing boy
bursts through his clothes and is now
bounded on the North by the Aurora
Boreah &c!, &c."6 E6a EiJIhH
l--Alaw has recently taken effect in
Missouri moking 1t misdemeanor,
punishable by fine and imprisonment,
fora a man to abandon his wife or child
rem under twelve years of age, or to
neglect or refuse to maintain and pro-
vide for them. - 81 =
The Connecticut election does not
appear to have had any effectlupon the
Reconstruction movement at the South.
The leading men of that section saw
that it was an insignificant affair, and
have madeit a point to caution their
followers not to be deceived by 1t.
"A Washington letter says: Such q
backward, wet, cold, unpleasant spring
time has never been known to. the old
est inhabitants. Hyacinths and apricot
trees are at last in full bloom, and the
lawns about the public buildings are
green, but the weather is anything but
verna1.
There are but three counties in
Maryland that give majority against
the Constitutional Convention, the OBJ
fect of which is to enfrauchise the reb-
els and disfranchise the blacks, =. 6 =
THE Democratic papers are notlcing
the nomination of Emerson Etheridge
by the Democratic Convention of Ten
nessee, ,and commenting at1ength upon
his character and prospects, but studi-
,,,,oI - 1yva{l = ~ IN the FaSn-
lutions in favor of negro equality
adopted, by the convention.
"A meetingI largely attended, was
held at the Philadelphia Corn Exchange
on Wednesday; last, to consider the sub
iect of the extensive whisky frauds.
They attribute the extent of frauds to
the excessive tax, and recommend its
reduction to twenty cents per gallon to
be collected at the place of distillation.
The meeting will send copies Of their
resolutions TO all the leading orgapiza.
tions Of a, commercial character.
The Missouri river is reported tobe
higher than ever before since 1910. A
dispatch from Kansas City represents
the valley there as oyerhowed SO as to
cover the tracks OF the Missouri, Pa
cific, and Union Pacific Railroads to q
snficient deptht to exhnguish the fires
in the locomotives. The tracks Of these
roads at that point are at some little
distance from the river, and ,upoL
pround5Which has not been reached BY
high water before for many years!
This flood is said to be mainly from
the Platte river, which Is very high, OBJ
structing the Nebraska branch or tht
Pacific Railroad to serious extent
The cause of the flood Is the heavy
SHOWS in the mountains and upon, thI
upper regions ofthe Platte. ns
The failure by the Great Eastern t
obtain even what for an ordinary
steamer would have been an ordinar!
list of passengers, is regarded as sig
i nificant prelude to the collapse Of tn
Paris Exhibition enthusiasm ALREADY
the impression is abroad that the thin
is d failure Paris as well as in Eng
| land, and at home here. Letters rep
! resent the Parisiahs IN the dumps OIL
account of yIthe meager attendance.
meager, that is, compared with thet
great expectations and preparations
The case as it stands is not one likely I
i have a good effect on the Emperor
i who lust at present is more like tn
4 setting sun from whom men turn thai
therislng god of day, before whom the
instinctiyely bow doYn,ferg ,,-ff5aE
| -"Norbury,' the London CORES
pondent of the Chicago Joitr7lql, speak
Of Mr.. George Peabody as follows:
M. George Peabody's card stating b
was about TO burn four thousand beg
. pftfe letters before leaving America ha
q been reprinted here. He printed
similar acard there before he left th
country. 1t shows the true 'characte
II Of the man. he never did an act
private, unostentatious charity in hi
many OF these letters we're written
GOOD faith, and, If he had relieved d II
he of the distress thus brought to hi
notice, he, would probably have dor
Il more real good than all his greater BEL
4 efactions will ever do. The mans trr
: Character Is seen in the fact that hepr'
fefS correspond to them indiscdminA1t
/ ly; In card In unqueatiOnably ba
= taste, If not positively insulting. 2 -
N-nAir. Greeley, In relating an intetes
= ing incidentin his boyhood, lately ust
. the following language: ..IYhen 1 vi
/ nine years old, there unexpectedly a
Q peared one day IN my father1s hnmb
!, farm house, the clergyman,d doctor, la,
t yer, and perhaps one OF, two other ma
: mates OF our New England rural tow
ship, who addressed my parents toth
+ effect: Your elder son Is so promisii
!, I a student, SO easy and rapid a learne
that we think he should have a bett
Il education than our common schoo
can give him. We propose, therefor
!. that he bssent to Philip Academ
and thence ito collega and we ottt
:, should you choose to entrust him to I
3. to see that he Is Thoroughly schoole
s without expense to you. Ny poor b
Il proud parents responded With thank
e but lecid that they could give tht
"a ali dFen all the schooling, thevgCou