The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-11

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The freedmen deposited $500 in
their savings bank at Nashville. in
June.
The population of Jerusalem is
I Lots of Fourth of July orators nom
I mated Gen. Grant for President.
China and Japan together contain
nearly half the population ofthe globe
Mr.. D. R. Locke lNasby) has been
/ admitted to partnership in the Ioieoo
Blade.
"A Boston popcorn man sold $50
I barrels of his "fruit'' on Monday and
| realized $500.
The blacks did most of the cele-
! brating OF Independence Day in Rich
moud.
The crop Of wheat this year is esti-
mated at the comfortable figure of 225,-
I OOO, coo bushels-a grain of comfort for
poor folks.
Edwin Booth closed his engage
ment in Chicago on Wednesday,. He
clears over $1,000 for thirty perform
ances.
1t is estimated that !, OOO. 600 bushels
/ of fruit are annually canned in the
States OF Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Wendell Phillips says "lhe best ed
ucation in the world is that got by
struggling to get living"
AT a Fourth of July dinner given
I by Gen. Sheridan, in New Orleans, the
/ health of the President was proposed
and drank in silence.
New York young ladies wash in
Z champagne to improve their complex
/ ions. Drinking it would make Them
/ rosy.
"A son of the late S ephen A. Doug
/ las, by his first wife took high donors at
/ the late commencement of Georgetown
! ID. c. College Roman Catholic.)
The Chicago Times suggests good
naturally, that the best way TO get the
! foul water out of Chicago river would
be to engage Horace Greedy to bail 1t
( out.
The president of the Mobile street
railroad has been put under $1,000 bonds
for the election of a passenger, on ac-
count OF his color, from a car.
81 wonder" said Scotch maiden,
"what my brother John sees in the las
ses that he likes them sac we'll: for my
part, wad mai gle the company o. one
| lad for twenty lasses."
James G. Bennett, of New York,
returns 500. coo income, being an in
| crease OF S47 900 over last year. a. T.
| Stewart returns $7S6. 900, a decrease of
| s, 800, 600. Leonard W. Jerome returns
nothing.
| The Charleston Mercury praises the
! enterprise of "three young Charleston
! ians of family and culture" who, una
/ bic to procure other employment, have
shipped as foremost hands on a Liver
pool vessel. 'Twon't hurt 'em.
The Shakers are marrying, and the
Mormons unmarrying all above one
wife. Lebanon mourns and Deseret
refuses to be comforted.
The Washington InteLLige1IeeT says
that crisis is coming again. The
morning that will break soon must
waken the nation from the horrid night
mare Of the past two years, or witness
/ her chained maniac, in the bedlam Of
| political madness" Ugh!
A gentleman asked Mr.. Beecher the
other day what he intended to do with
the characters of his novel now run
ming in the Ledger. He said he was
bothered to know, but felt tempted to
get up grand railroad accident and
/ kill them all ut once"
"A servant left a boarding house in
| Peoria because, as she alleged, "the
Young gentlemen boarders did not pay
quired TO eat at the second table,"
The principal panic just now in
Wisconsin seems TO be for hops. An
increase of nine thousand acres for the
present year Is reported, and the Gull
! lure OF hops has paid the farmer better
for the past five years than any other
crop known to Wisconsin husbandry.
Somebody says ga wife should be
/ like a roasted lamb-tender and nicely
dressed" a scamp adds, land without
\ any sauce.
| Two hundred years ago n Scotch
| emigraut carried to Canada thistle.
Intentionally or otherwise planted in
| his garden, its seeds took root in his
neighbours soil, and to-day II is the pest
OF the Provinces, depreciating the value
of real estate from 30 to so per cent.
"A deeply interested Democrat at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, who rushed wildly
toward the cars, exclaimed he wouldn't
give "shuCks" to see the President, but
was bound to have sight of Chaplain
Nasty.
The Ohio Farmer says that without
severe thinning, the grapes will great
ly oyerbear this year along the Lake
Shore. Itsays also that there is an i'm
mense "set" of fruit on the black berry
bushes.
Butler Evans. the leading Shaker
at Lebanon, n. Y, says that he fore
saw trouble, few weeks before Mr..
Lincoln's death, and wrote to him to
come and stay with the Shakers few
weeks. The letter is now on file in
-Silas G. Herring. the great safe
man, offers u wager OF SIC, 1000 to the
other safe-exhibitors ut the Paris Ex-
| position that he will make an interna-
tionaI bonfire of their safes, in which
his salamander shall remain perfectly
fre-proof, and the same amount that
his will stand burglars better than any
safe now at the Exposition.
Among the unreported speeches in
the Presidents New England tour was
one of n workman in the Western rail-
road shops, who said to Mr.. johnson
81 have watched with intense delight
your majestic tirmness in the admins
tration OF your noble policy and the
maintenance of the American eagle"
Among the many odes to the "Do.
minion of Canada" is one having the
following rythmical chorus:
Then let us raise, as subjects loyal.
Our voices upward TO the sky,
Forgetting trouble. labor, toll,
On this The First OF July"
BY the death OF bachelor uncle,
the editor of Lafayette (Ind.) paper,
during the war, became joint heir to a
large property in Virginia, and while
hesitating between n trip TO Europe or
an additional investment in real estate,
he learns to his disgust that the admin
istrator had invested sixty thousand
dollars ofthe personal property in con-
federate bonds.
The lives of large portion of the
human race can be summed up thus:
An excess OF eating and drinking:
An excess ofsmoking, chewing, and splitting;
and no intelligent thinking,
Or beneficial acting.