The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-01
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Irems by Telegrnph and MAIL.

Hens by Telegraph and Mail.
1.-THE Black Crook" has reached its
hundred and sixty-seventh representa-
ton in New York.
The Baltimore Gazette estimates at
1886, 900 the contributions OF that city
for Southern relief.
"A new work entitled "Under Two
Flags" is announced, by the author of
Mp. Willis, it is said, was for years
before his death a firm believer in spir-
itualism.
Washington is agitating The ques-
ton of city park.
Western Texans are now gardening
and planting corn.
"A new radical paper is to be started
at Norfolk, Va, to be called the RepW6-
liedn.
-Rumor has it that General Fremont
is soon to open banking house in New
York in connection with several we'll
known operators in Wall street.
Hunters after buried gold are bust
ly delving in the vicinity of Belfast,
Me-, under the direction of mediums.
The title of Brick Pomeroy's South
ern lecture is "Sorthern Style" It is
to be hoped the lecture is not taken as
its own illustration.
"A Washington letter gives as A. T.
Stewards objection to the bankrupt
bill that it will cost him over a million
dollars, mainly in bad Southern debts
"A republican member of the House
of Delegates in Maryland introduced d
resolution one day last week endorsing
the course of Reverdy johnson on the
reconstruction bill. The democrats
were uncertain for a time, and then
tabled it.
"A Masonic lodge of colored men
ceremonies in MeadviIIe, Pennsylva-
mia.
The receipts of the port of Calves
| ton, Texas, in one week recently
amounted to 49,, 557 in gold. New Or
leans received only S5S,0OO the same
week.
The jewellers in Broadway, New
York, are reported to have sold more
diamonds and expensive jewelry since
Christmas than during any similar
period for two years.
The militia bill passed the Tennes
see House of Representatives by vote
OF 40 to %. Governor Brownlow says
Loyal Tennessee can now protect her.
self"
"A rebel soldier while in an Indiana
prison whitfield out a model of a cotton
press. He claims that with the help oil
| good gin he can gin and pack
| bale OF cotton, weighing five hundred
and twenty-five pounds, in two hours.
The New Orleans Commercial BuLLe,
tin reminds the legislature of Louisiana
that the rights of the States are not &c
be found hereafter in the Constitution,
or in party combinations, but in the
census"
Governor Brownlow, in the Knox
vile Wing, reminds the people of Ten
nessee that the enfranchisemeut of the
| colored race will give the State THREE
more representatives in the United
States Congress, and suggests to the
legislature the propriety of redistrictinp
the State as soon as the bill shall be
come a law.
Rival cities are as much disturbed
by James Parton's praises of Chicago
in the last Atlantic Monthly, as old-line
| Wings were about his structures on Dan.
| iel Webster.
The flood in Chicago has created
quite a current in the river, which is
| assisted in clearing out the filth of the
stream by n steam tug with chains
dragging at the bottom.
The Norfolk Journal comments on
the assembled legislative wisdom OF
the "Old Dominion" thus: when we
see the stolidity of our present legisla.
ture we exclaim, Was there ever such a
set of men assembled before in a legis.
lative hallf"
The London Lancet is in doubt
what to call several young ladies who
recently passed an examination for ad.
mission to the Society of Apothecaries.
1t suggests "apOthe-caresses" as an ap-
propriate title.
The Missouri Legislature is con.
sidering game law which prohibits
hunting on n mans land without his
consent. The st. Louis Republican
says:
'.rhis law is going to stir up more i'll
feeling and sPiteful litigation than any
law ever placed upon our statute
books"
The Richmond Times calls General
Early's new history of the war in the
Shenandoah Valley, 1.-THE only authen.
| tic record of the Important events OF
which it treats that has ever been or is
likely ever to be published" If Vir.
ginia's early historians were no more
authentic, it is no wonder the story OF
Pocahontas is considered fabulous.