The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-29
MI.eeIlnneon.M atters.


of prosperous year.
miscellaneous Matters,
1t Is proposed in Pennsylvania to
commute the State tax on personal
property for the sum Of 1906, 900 levied
in the counties. i-s.a t---a
Three lines of elevated or second
story railroads are said to be chartered
In New York Uity. One goes up Broad
way, the second up Greenwich street,
and the third up Pearl.
The finance bureau OF the Postal
Department is actively engaged In issu-
ing the instructions to the postmasters
throughout the country respecting the
new registration of letters which will |
commence on the first of June next.
Six thousand dogs have been kill
ed in Chicago since the dog war COM
menced, and the daily slaughter will |
add largely to that number.
The Congressional Ordnance Inyes-
tigating Committee will make a thor
ough examination of the operations of
the Ordnance Department during the
war.
Some Of the banks in Boston have
been in the habit of taking receipts in
stead of notes for loans, by which large
amounts were saved on stamps. In one
insurance a two-cent stamp was used
| where the law required stamps amount
! ing to two hundred and my dollars.
This Is Boston morals. The Ingenuity
ha Ia al 3.
"A st. Louis letter says: Merchants
still declare this to be the dullest season
for many a year. The wholesale houses
have none Of them done their usual
amount OF trade. The Southern trade
/ bubble has well nigh played out; in
: fact, all failures Of the season are main
K " attributable TO Southern trade. The
{ Montana trade and North Missouri
3 trafhE has been unusually brisk, but
/ the last boat for the mountains leaves
next week, 50 this viii soon be over
The corner stone of magnificent
Jewish Temple was laid in Louisville,
Wednesday, with imposing ceremonies,
attended by an enormous crowd OF
spectators. The corner stone had be-
side the Jewish date, "Anno Domino,
1867" an acknowledgment of the
Christian Era. Rabbi Wise, of Cincin-
natl, was the orator Of the occasion.
The annual consumption OF whisky
in the United States, was shown by the
Investigations of the Special Revenue
Commission, in 1895, to be not less than
forty million of gallons. The tax has
been, for three years past, two dollars
per gallon; yet, instead Of a revenue of
$50, 600, coo, which we should have de.
rived, the returns Of the last fiscal year
show a total of less than $50, OOO, 600 de-
rived fTomldomestic. whisky. That is,
for every three gallon of the ardent fluid
that paid the tax, fivegallOns evaded
this payment EElH
The operation performed on the
poor little Prince Imperial must have
been a terrible one. His leg was disar-
tieulated at the knee joint-which
means that the lower Joint was removed
from its socket-soa as to enable the sur
geons to directly reach the cause OF
the malady, from which he has suffered
SO much. NJ. Nelaton had declared the
i operation necessary ever since the de-
posit Of mus was first discovered; but
the opinion Of N. Bache, that with so
young a patient, care, rest change OF
air and a course of mineral waters would
treme remedy to bepostponed.
Arrangements have been made.
which will go into operation to-day
4 (Mouday,l to run fast train from New
York by way Of what is known as the
Allentown and Pan Handle route,
which will leave that, city at 5 p. NJ.
and reach Cincinnati the following
evening at 10 O'Clock. The time will be
tDeRty nile hours between the two cities.
Thus a person may leave Cincinnati
say on Monday evening, spend whole
business day In New York, and be at
home again on Thursday evening. The
roads by way OF Pittsburgh are being
putin first rate condition, and short as
the new schedule will be, itcan be made
still shorter by two or three hours,
"A correspondent of the Cincinnati
: Gazette, writing from Stenbenyille, re-
marks as follows aboutthat place:
} "Steubenyillo has not been greatly
noted In times past for any spasmodic
eras OF nrogress in her history. She
mas improved In size and appearance
J Slowly out surely. The new railroad
or1dge over the Ohio river at this point,
/ ~ = al hallEOan
Company, Is one Of the finest In the
country. Since the close Of the war \
new impetus seems to have been Eivan
TO every department OF Industry. The
consequence Is that rents are aISrmfnUy.
kly high, and q great proportion OF me
I poorer classes are compelled TO nav \
Considerable portion of their wages for
a comfortable shelter. As it Is. there
are not sufficient houses to satisfy the
demand. One of the capitalists OF the
, city recently erected twelve frame tene-
: ment houses, small, but comfortable,
: and he, states that he expects that the
rents accruing thereirom will fully pay
the expense and outlay in building in
Two years time. A splendid ediiee,
Known as Cochran's Hotel, has Just
been finished on Market street. and
. Will soon be ready for occupation. II
1 Is building which would be no dis
credit to the hrst-clAss establishments
OF this kind in the PRINCIPAL Eastern
! cities. In hne, taking everything into
consideration, the old city Of Steuben-
Vltle Is Iui!y keeping up to the high
standard OF modern progress and adj
/ tyancement; and II Coming events east
D their shadows BEFORE" she viii so5n
be at anupodes with old togyism. and
practically demonstrate fhe HIGHER
) utility Of grit and Eo-ahesaitiYeness:n
I'VE should suppose the present war.
like attitude Of Franee-ff France be- in
a Warlike attitude-must be particular