The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-02
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The loquacious Garrett Davis, i
again United States Senator from Ken
tucky. ,' - ~
Thomas F. Wilson is to be Consu
at the Sandwich Islands, vice Alfred
Caldwell, Esq, of this city.
Broad, sweeping hoop skirts ar,
The dog nuisance is complained o
at Pittsburgh.
Most any man can write long
article; 1t takes talent TO write shor
one.
Now that business is dull is The
time for sagacious men to advertise.
Galveston has a congregation of Is
France has G, ,OOO, 900 milch COWS.
Europe holds 5000, ,OOO, 900 of u. s.
Government and other securities.
: Cincinnati has new restaurant
and billiard establishment worth
100000. :
There are 2O2 daily and weekly
papers published on the Pacific coast
Poor crops, no money, and Presi
dent johnson, promise to make the
year 1867 ruinOus one for the South
Mrs. Major Williams, formerly
Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, celebrated
the first anniversary Of her last mar,
riage by twins. T. rfe
"A French clergyman declares that
men who do not intend to marry have
no right to go into society. Neither
have some who do.
"A sailor, not accustomed to society,
said to his partner after a waltz, "let
me take you back to your supercargo.' u
Sir Frederick Bruce drives a four
in-hand greatly to the delight of the
Washington beauties.
-Ristori was presented with six
hogs by Cincinnati admirer, VINO re-
marked, on the presentation, that his
city afforded nothing better.
Jones, of Boston paper, mourns
the unhappy fate that compels him to
sit up ell night for kilograms, and re-
ceiye at A. NJ. dispatch announcing
the burning of a barn in Minnesota.
The rays on five-cents pieces are
to be omitted hereafter. Can't make a
raise" with five cents.
More than one hundred thousand
sheep perished near San Antonio, Tex
as, during recent snow storm.
"A third head of Richelieu is said
to have been found, and it is believed
that more will be forthcoming.
"A western editor when in durance
for HbelliDg justice of the peace, was
requested by the jailor to give the pris-
on favorable notice.
The Empress Eugene is becoming
visibly older, and has serious appre-
henslons of growing stout. To prevent
this she walks much and drinks Vine-
gar. G-
Be chary in giving advice. If 1t
shall prove good it will be forgotten; ii
shall hal = L.,
COTTON.
Mrs. Jellifiower, who is from the
rural districts, went to see Ristori, and
thought the ladies and gentlemen that
composed the audience very unmanner-
ly, "tor they sought up and read dime
novels the whole evening" she says.
Vermont has but seven scholars in
her Agricultural College. We will do
better than that in West Virginia.
Cincinnati boasts a schoolmaster
who lately refreshed the intellect of a
scholar by whipping him To such a de-
gree that he could not speak for twenty
four hours.
Mobile has a savings bank estab-
lished by the freedmen, but its career
was short-liyed, as the depositors drew
all the funds to attend circus, thus
breaking the bank. w.. ..
ttAAo SLlAnlDuS company uaYe
built two hundred omnibuses in antic-
tpation of the Exhibition. a
The Caddo (La.) Gazette saws there
are four hundred able young men in
the streets of that place.
The amount of "Peter's Pence"
subscribed from September, 1859, to
December, 1866, is 'SlO,750, 600.
-Richmond, Va, had 20 divorce suits
in 1866. In.
Wisconsin has 169 convicts. .
Illinois has 1000 occupants in its
State Prison. N.
AN intoxicated Englishman de-
scribes the trip to Paris in theer words,
'over, and over, and Dover"
East Tennessee has n tombstone
is inscribed the following epi-
iaph: ..a.-
"She lived life of virtue, and died
Of the cholera morbus, caused by eat
ing green fruit, in the full hope of a
blessed Immortality, at the early age of
.wenty-four. Reader, go thou and do
likewise" -.r-- III
"A New York Irishnan swears to
The statement that he shook hands with
Head Center Stephens in BROOKLYN,
The great humbug meant
10 sail for Europe that day, but didn't.
The New York police were nut mn
10 making descent on John q. Hee-
nau's gambling place, Sunday night,
by the following note, handed by a
lady to a policeman on duty, and which
he Immediately took to the station
house: H--@ @.
Mr.. oFF1cER-I believe It is against
The law to allow gambling on a week
day, but in particular on Sunday. Jno,
Q. Heenan's place, No. 762 Broadway,
is now in full blSst. My husband is
now there with his last 800. For Gods
sake scare them out if nothing more,
and much oblige woman who is aE-
hicted with gambling husband.
-Ex-Mayor Opdyke, of New York,
has written a letter 10 Senator-elect
Conkling of that State, in which head
vocates a contraction of the currency
that will bring our money to a specie
standard as quickly as safety 10 the
productive interests of the country
will permit; deprecates the proposed
taking away of the circalation of the
national banks, considering it breach
Of faith to the banks; and declaring
that 1t is the duty of Congress to per-
feet system of taxation that will bear
Justly on all classes and interests, and
That will produce sufficient revenue to
pay current expenses and interest, and
at least $50, ,OO0,O 900 annually on the ma
Lional debt. .-'-
THE Wool ISTEREsr.-A statement
made to the Senate Comrnittaa ou An.