The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-24
News and Gossip.
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of the sheep Of Northern Iowa.
-GrauIs said to.be the man who l.
going TO bring over Charles Dickens.
Coal tar from gas works is driving
shad from the Delaware.
-Of Writers Tent on the Beach
10000 copies have been sold.
The Governor of Arkansas- says,
that the State Is ready to organize un-
der the reconstruction act.
Having bought Russian America,
IL Is proposed now to ascertain the value
of 1t. II costs 81, 2O0, go.
-BrownIow badges are going of like
hot cakes in Nashville. The darkies
are "going for them"
The strikers at Lawrence, Massa-
chusetts, are getting short OF morey,
and have issued handbills begging as
sistance- r-
-Goyernor-eIect, James E. English,
pays taxes at New Haven, CT. on an
estate OF S255, O00- ~ f.yaE
"A young man in Canada has been
sentenced 70 the Penitentiary for life
for stealing money from letter.
The President threatens to take
another Swing around" He has a
ApL Vi 6kh4S ~ AA5AAAOAkEs
Eight thousand, seven hundred and
seYeniy-twO men were DISTINGUISHED
by the reconstruction act In Georgia.
1-The widow of ex-President Tyler
has been looking after the improve
ments of her plantation on the James.
"A man convicted at London, G. W..
of violating the person of a girl four
teen years Of age, has been sentenced to
be hanged on the LIST Of August,
"A vegetarian society is formed in
Dayton, Ohio, its director being wo-
man who has lived on vegetables for
sixteen years, and who looks as If she
had. ra5 -
California papers speak favorably
of the prospect OF the wool clip the en-
condition, and the abundance of early
grass will insure their being well fed.
The French crown diamonds will
be shown in the exhibition. The case
IL which they are placed Will be low
cred into the ground every night.
John G. SAKE, says the New York
GqEette, has accepted an Invitation to
write for Punch. a.4|
"A New York paper refuses to pub
lish the names OF baseball players here.
alter, because their sole object, 1T has
been discovered, is to see their names
in print.
A soldier is alive in Cleveland who
was reported dead during the war, and
to whom monument was erected in
cemetery.
All the Southern railroads damaged
by the late floods have been repaired,
and are in running order, thus opening
agnin the entire line route from Norfolk
to Memphis.
their Stare Committee, have issued an |
excellent address 70 the people, urging |
the reconstruction of society upon re- |
publican principles. 5lg 81
-Ristori went across to the Canada |
side on Sunday, and had her photo |
graph taken at Niagara. The officers |
Lhereupon arrested the artist for break
ng the Sabbath.
Henry Ward Beecher's novel is said |
70 consist OF sketches of New England
society. without any particular plot; |
md no name has been agreed upon for |
{. No Name Is also the title ofone by |
Wilkie Collins.
"A little boy having asked his moth
Or what "blood relations" meant, and
being told that it meant near reIat ions,
said, after n moments thought, "Then,
mother, you must be the bloodiest re-
Iation I've got" ..,,.=+,
One of the arguments offered by
Maine papers for the proposed Pisca-
taquis Railroad is, that there Is hard
wood enough on the route to make all
the 'spools and other wooden notions
required for the whole country.na
"A handsome marble monument, |
eighteen feet high. has been erected |
Overthe grave OF Edward Kendall, the
celebrated bugler, in a Boston GEM
etery. The cost SI, 5O0) was contributed
by the friends of the departed musl-
clan.
An eastern paper says: SIT is not
known, but it is true, never
theless, that General Butler married an
actress, superior lady, with whom he
has lived in the greatest happiness and
concord. In his domestic relations, If
not in all his political views, General
Butler is u model for all men,"
The Iowa City Republican says that
the total profit OF the course of lectures
in that city for the past season is about
81 100; also, that the amount paid the
lecturers, and the expenses attending
them, were not much short of 81 400,
near 500 paid by the people
of Iowa City and vicinity for eight lee
lures.
The y. Y. Tribune, urges that Wen
dell Phillips go South and address large
meetings ofwhItes and blacks as Sena-
tor Wilson is doing. e5s-t ~
The New York Mayors veto was
Intellectual to prevent the purchase ola
file OF the New York Herald for 81 600.
The wheat is said to be now look
ing finely, out West, promising large
crop. Nevertheless, the best family
brands OF flour are selling in Cincin-
natl at 81 to SIS per barrel.
"A young Massachusetts factory girl
has received beqVest of $4,000 from
only that she remain single
until she reaches the age. of twenty
five. ga r
The colored mems shipyard at Bal
timoTe was purchased by them not
quite thirteen months ago. It is entire
ly managed by colored men, and 225
worknen are employed, IS being LDhite.
Last year work was done TO the
amount of SIG, 600, the profits being Is
per cent.
The frst public meeting of the
Liberal Christian Union, was held on
Monday evening, at the Church OF the
Messiah, in Madison avenue, New
York, when addresses were delivered
by the President, Mr.. Warren, and by
DR.. Osgood. DR.. Bellows, DR.. Chaplin
and Rev. Messrs. rockingham, Demar-
est and Lee. "E. @ @
The citizens of Jackson County, ILL.,,
have become alarmed at the great in
crease of crime and the turbulent con-
ditfon of society in their neighborhood.
Sixteen cold-blooded murders have
been committed there within the past
two years, besides robberies and shock
ing crimes of every description. The
people have organized vigilance COM
mittees, and propose to execute Lynch
law upon the criminals.
"A man who had Joined temper
anee society and regretted it, was told