The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-12

Edgar "A. Cowan lOr United states Sen
ator.
"A fund of sixteen thousand dollars
has been subscribed in New York for
the families of the seamen lost from the
yacht Fleetwing.
Charles D. Drake has been nomina-
ted for United States Senator, by the
caucus of Republican members of the
Missouri Legislature.
The editor of an Alexandria CVa.J
newspaper speaks of full grown Lou
isianian sitting cross-legged, playing
seven-up with a little "nigger" for ten
cents game.
&C. o. I. R. now stands for a Cum
ming Obdurate Irish Renegade, who
Comes (it) Over Irish Republicans.
There were only fifty-six deaths in
the year just closed. Healthy place to
live, but poor one for grave yard
stockholders.
"A New Bedford lady recently wrote
to Boston publishing house for copy
of ''Gellert; or Trust in God" and re-
ceived, for reply, "There is no "Trust
in God" to be found in Boston, IN. Y.
Express.
A complete official list shows that
one thousand and sixty-one American
ships were transferred to the British
flag in the past five years. One hun
dred and nine American ships were
sold in London.
The receipts of the Atlantic Cable
are greater, under the reduced tariff
than they were before. Both cables
are In excellent order, but the present
business does not occupy in transmits
sion more than four hours per day,
and that on one cable only.
The Legislature OF Virginia has
adopted joint resolution declining to
ratify the Constitutional Amendment.
The vote was unanimous in the Senate,
and only one negative in the House.
Princess Clotilda was safely deliy-
cred yesterday morning, at four O'Clock,
of a Princess, who received from its
godmother the Queen of Portugal, the
Christian names of Marie-Letizie- -Euge-
MAJ rine-Adelaide.-[Pd Paris GGiig-
mani, Dec. %.
Both Houses of the Kentucky Leg
islature, a few days since, rejected the
Constitutional Amendment. The vote
in the Senate stood twenty-six to seven;
in the House twenty-six TO twenty-six.
There were only one hundred and
seven deaths in Rock Island, Illinois,
last year. Considering that the town
has population of thirty thousand
inhabitants, this is an extraordinary
small per cent.
An Episcopalian congregation wor-
III L1S SGuludTS aG alexandra.
Virginia, and on Sunday last general
fit of coughing and sneezing was pro-
duced by the bursting of red pepper,
which had been put in the stove. Bishop
Jones, who was officiating, was conf
PEELED to stop, while reading the Litany,
and dismiss his hearers.
The case of General Grant against
J. W. White IS on trial in Saint Louis
Circuit Court. The suit is for the pos
session of farm in the Dent settlement,
near Jefferson barracks, which Grant
sold to White seven years ago. He al
leges that the latter has never paid for
it.
The vote of Mr.. Foster sustaining
the veto, and the movement in the
House regarding impeachment will, it
IS thought, hasten the decision of the
Senate in the matter of selecting u new
presiding officer. Mr.. Wade's chances
appear to be improving daily.
The number of lumber yards in
operation at Chicago is one hundred
and seven, against eighty-six at the
same time last year. The estimated
amount OF flumber now piled up in the
yards is one hundred and fifty million
feet, against one hundred and thirty
four millions the same time last year.
Brick Pomeroy, well known
throughout the country by his many
villainous and blasphemous contribu-
llOLlS " Tue DEGSSy anu as LQe SOlIOr OIL
the Lacrosse (Wis.) Democrat, has been
prosecuted by General Benz. F. Butler
for libel. The suit was commenced on
Tuesday. The General lays his dam
ages in 100000.
MIR. Joseph Cobb, ninety-five years
old, was one of the skaters on the Mus
kingum river, at GAINESVILLE, on Thurs
day last. He borrowed a pair of
"dumpeys," the wood of which was cut
from the first apple orchard planted in
Ohio, at Marietta, and struck out first
right, then left. After few turns he
challenged juvenile of seventy to
race, but the banter was declined.
GOOD THING ON B. THovES.-The
Commercial Bulletin gets off he follow
ing Boston joke, which is characteristic
of the City of Notions =
a gentleman of this city, entertain
ing some friends short time ago at the
Music Hall, with a sight of the great
organ and other curiosities of the place,
suddenly became aware of series of
"nudges" in his back, and turning,
became also aware of a solemn coun
tryman, evidently of an inquiring
mind, indicating the statue of Beetho-
ven with an interrogating finger, asked
in the unmistakable patois of New
England:
rs that statoo gilt?"
t'No. sir, bronze" was the response.
"Bronze, hey? Must cost considera-
BILE. Who is the statoo Oft"
Beethoven" said the gentleman,
begin ming to be amused.
''B. ThOTen, hey?" and. then reflect
lively, with the impression of the statue
of B. Franklin fresh in his mind
'' Vas he a Boston man ?"
BEAUTIFUL SENr1MExr.-I confess
that increasing years bring with them
an increasing respect for men who do
not succeed in life, as those words are
commonly used Heaven is said to be
a place for those who have not succeed
ed on earth; and, 1t is surely true, ce-
lestial graceS do not best thrive in, and
bloom in the hot blaze of worldly pros
perity. Ill success sometimes arises
from a superabundance of qualities in
themselves good; a taste too fastidious
a self-forgetfulness too romantic; a
modesty too retiring. will not go so
far as to say, with living poet, ''that
the world knows nothing OF its greatest
men," But there forces of greatness,
or at least excellence which Idle and
make no sign:" there are martyrs tina
miss the palm, but not the stake; he
roes without the laurel, and conquerors
without the triumph.
A VERY curious case has come before
tAe tribunal of a town in Bavaria, Two
citizens of Bourberg having quarreled,
one of them, at loss, no doubt, for
reasons. and wishing to mortify his ad-
verSary, called him Bismarck" His
adversary brought a complaint before
the Court for an outrage on his honor.
The judges, it appears, were much en-
barrassed in pronouncing on the uues-
tfon, but in the end they rejected the
plaintiffs demand and discharged the