The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-11
GENERAL NEWS AMP GOSSIP.

Canada does not require the prepay
ment OF postage,
Erie, Pa, is said to have forty seven
miles of streets.
John Williams, editor of the Iron
Age, claims to have originated the Ma
tiOnal Bank system.
"A prowling panther has broken up
several schools i'll Ohio.
There is human lath in Spring
field, Me-, who is 7 feet & inches high
and weighs 1872 pounds.
There are only six deaths annually
for each five hundred whites in the
United States.
One of our exchanges overwhelms
Il rival, called the Globe, by saying that
it is only globule.
"A damsel in Boston recently bor-
rowed five hundred dollars, and gave
herself as a collateral" The note has
one year to run.
One of Mrs. Lincoln's diamond sets
adorns jewelers. window in Pitts
burgh, duly labeled and published.
The Strakosch opera continues TO
meet with great success at Chicago.
Oranges can be had in Honduras
six for IL cent, and pineapples are two
cents each.
There are !, l,OO5 prisoners in the Ohio
penitcntiary.
"A Pennsylvania youth put lot OF
guupowder and a bunch of matches in
the same pocket, and then went out to
play. The result need not be stated.
"A new secret society has been estab,
lished in Michigan, called "The Order
OF the Sacred Temple" Its object is
said to be the moral and intellectual
~, Of Only far ns4lE lEs
are admitted.
Great minds are charitable to their
bitterest enemies, and can sympnthiZe
with the feelings of their fellow crea-
lures. 1t is only the narrow minded
who make no allowance for the faults
of others.
He who marries a beauty only, is
like buyer OF cheap furniture, the
vHrnish that caught the eye Will not
endure the tireside blaze.
Such an immense flock of crows
aliEhted on an island near NOrthneid,
Conn, last Sunday, that the natives
thought there must be crow conVen-
ton appointed to meet there.
The following notice is posted in
two places in Hartford. Ohio: here
depose and say, that IJudge Lyman, OF
Lawful age, did hear Martin Wilcox
tell his Boys to Stone my Rooster oil
his Grounds, and they Stoned the NO
BILE Bird like Stephen Of Old Times,
even unto Death, and he lies in my
Compost heap. Somebody must pay
the dHmnge."
"A Hartford paper says that when
Weston, the pedestrian, arrived there
he was accompanied by IL crowd of
hnngers-Ou who had gone out on the
road mile or so to meet the pedestrian.
But such was the rate OF speed nt which
lie kept them going that on their arri-
val Charita BILE persons were called on
to "prOViGe them with COrksCreWs To
draw their breaths with"
John Hale, the "veteran horse thief
of Maine, who has spent fifty OF his
eighty years in a State prison, has
wealthy relatives who would gladly
give him IL home. He said to AN ac-
quaintance II short time since that if he
could only die with n stolen horse in
his possession before he was detected
by the owner, he should be perfectly
happy. ..-..
Dan Rice the Snowman has retired
permanently from the business. At his
farewell performance in Pittsburgh,
where he also began his career, an ele-
giant edition of Shakespeare was pre-
sented to him, and he made speech in
which he boasted OF having made more
money than any six circus managers in
the country, and said that he had given
away during twenty-siN years more
than n million and half of dollars to
various charitable enterprises.