The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-08
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

"A Presbyterian Preacher IL AtO-
has a million aud half, and his father
has three millions, and his wife has
halt a million.
A New York paper hints that. the
coolest theatres in the city" are kept
50 by putting the thermometer ON ice.
in Kansas, grasshopPers are reck-
oned as an example Of curses which
brighten as they take their flight"
Mr.. Marcy in his ''Cnristiauiiy and
its Conflicts estimates that one third OF
the people OF The United States deny
the divinity Of Christ, and eight mil
lions Of Protestants in Europe also hold
a similar belief.
The London Fun says:-"We be-
Iieye that there is no foundation for the
ruu1or that a well known office has re-
| fused to insure Mr.. Disraelfs life, on
{ the ground that 1t was quite impossible
TO make out his policy"
in the Southern States, the mail
service, IL is announced, has been re-
stored as before the war. Theresre one
thousand routes in all.
"A very sensible women, who is 60
ing to Europe, desires that when her
husbands name and her own are pub
llsntu III the hsL VI pa99ehSeS -
be ''Mr. - and IrIfe, not lady, for he
goes abroad with his own lawful wife,
and nobody else."
The Lake Tunnel at Chicago is re-
ported to be in successful operation. II
furnishes an unlimited supply Of pure
water, equal to that supplied to aoy
other American city, and the people are
delighted.
A correspondent in Mississippi
81. TOLD that
the object Of registration is to identify
the marketable negroes, 80 that they
may be taken to Cuba and sold. Very
few of them are simple enough to be
sold" by snch a transparent fiction.
-Pollard's Southern Opinion" glo-
ries in adding to the examinations of
such words IA 'public," "methOdic,"
&c. Southern opinion on photography
is long way behind all the standard
dictionaries.
"A Southern farmer advises the use
Of the suufIOwer as green fodder for
horses and mules. He says 1t will yield
eight tons OF fodder to the acre, and Is
eaten with avidity.
AT Halifax, n. S., the "Dominion''
holiday was failure. The English,
Irish and Scotch societies refused TO
join in the celebration, and many of the
tlags were half-masted. The Yankee
huut4dNlDu AtElluk IN hdlI
in Halifax.
The annual income of the working
classes in England is g4Is, 900, 600, which
is E6S. OOO, 600 more than the annual in
comes OF the richer and more literally
represented classes. The number oil
| laborers is IL ,0lS,6l6.
Speaking of cholera, the Boston
/ Medical Journal says: 1--WE think we
may safely assume that wherever
cholera has largely prevailed there has
| been, and in large measure, uncleanli
ness of hAbitation or surrounding.
About Russian America the lates
| report Is that the swine eat nothing bu
! fish, so that their pork has the taste o
! cod, and sausages and cod fish balls arr
| synonymous terms. The New England
! fishermen are getting jealous of Russian
American pork for this reason already
Chicago has had "fashionhbl BILE
wedding" Eugene w. Jerome, of New
| York, a nephew of the Jerome, wal
| married on Monday to Miss Pauline
Won Schneidan, daughter of a deceased
Swedish noblemau, who was at one
time Consul of Sweden at Chicago.
The Mobile Tribune says the methot
of killing dogs in that city is quite diff
ferent from the poisoned sausage" ad
ministered by the police of other cities
The dogs are caught In scoop nets, anC
y
being executed.
An Augusta, (Me.) correspondent
says that nobody has died there TO
want of liquor since the liquor shop
were closed in April; but that seyera
Incorporate men have since len thC
poor house, and are now supporting
| their families with food.
| The European steamers now OF
their way TO this country will brinL
the first squad of American tourists
| from the Paris Exhibition. Many re
turn this eHrly on account of the diff
Guilty of securing passage in Angus
and September.
-Railroads that go through desolat'
sections are generally anxious TO ge
Inhabitants to settle there, for it help:
along their trade. The most novel
method OF addin to population, how.
ever, Is that proposed by n railroad in
New Jersey, the directors of which are
said to haveofTered to persons who viii
build on the line of the road free pas:
| over it from three 20 five years.