The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-18
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SeHN anu NnONslp.
General Grant continues TO retrench
the War Department.
lit is said a. T. Stewart proposes to
found a public library.
There is a break in the levee Is
miles above New Orleans.
Speaker Colfax is stumping W is
consin.
The New York Central, Erie and
Pennsylvania Central demand from the
Western roads their pro rata for freights
and passengers
-Hunnicutt voted for the ordinance
OF secession in 1861.
No less than "A regular trains run
in and out of Jersey City daily.
Bangor. Me-, calls itself the "Queen
City ofthe East"
Logan got $1,000 for stumping Ohio.
-Firewood brings $50 cord in Col
orado.
gets upon railway car in motion is
liable to fine OF IS.
Agassiz says the Florida Reefs were
70, 900 years in building, .-
-Fily-two arrests were made in one
day at the Buffalo fair.
"A man was before New York po-
lice court on Friday, charged with steal
ing canal boat, 81
Bishop Kip, of California, has issued
pastoral letter urging his clergy 10 use
their best efforts to bring about better
observance OF the Sabbath.
Crosses are erected, candles are kept
burning, and flowers are daily strewed,
on the spot in Queretaro where Maxa-
milan was executed.
They make sugar in Ohio from the
sap of the black walnut tree, which is
said to be superior to maple sugar.
-"Mr. PendIeton has never achieved
suck intellectual distinction as since he
dabbled in paper finance" says the
Cincinnati Gazette.
OF q. 900, which is 5000 more than Gov
ernor Stone received in 1865. The re-
publicsns have four-finhs OF the legis-
lature, having really gained more than
they have lost.
Mine horses, two Of them yearlings,
belonging to Mr.. Ten Brock were re-
Gently sold at auction in London, and
brought 23s gpineas.
Noting the recovery of Thad.
Stevens from his late Illness, a cotem-
porary says: HE is alive to recon-
I
Five little newspapers In Paris ex-
coed hundred thousand circulation
each, and one reaches nearly three hun
dred thousand.
"A lady in BrattlebUrough has been
| bereaved of daughter who died at the
| tender age of eighty. The mother has
been a widow seventy-hve years.
Joliet, Illinois, has spoilt the phrase
"the laws delay" a horse thief was
arrested. tried, convicted and i'm
prisoned in an hours Time there last
week.
Nearly all the losses to the Repub-
licans in Indiana, ut the late election,
were caused by boiling candidates.
| On the whole, the result was not I'M
favorable, as the gains exceeded the
losses.
General Rousseau persuaded the
captain of the ship in which he was
passenger to Alaska, to put into Vic
toria. The General was very sea-sick.
Richmond has new organ, made
by Simmons, OF Boston. with nearly
forty stops, and costing $1,000.
in seven years there have been 525
convictions in England and Scotland
for Illicit distillation of spirits. There
were six seizures for the same offence,
on Saturday last, in New York and
Brooklyn alone.
After hearing OF the Immense flow
ing oil wells of Pennsylvania, 1t seems
strange to learn that the best well in
the regions now pumps only two hum
dred and fifty barrels day.
-Clairvoynnts have declared that
seven stehm boilers, two wrecks of
steamers, two locomotives. safe with
million dollars in It, and few other
such irifles, are lying at the bottom OF
the Ohio river, near Louisville, and
some persons are green enough to make
search for them.