The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-01
General News summary.


"A Russian at Chicago skates on
stills.
Queen Victoria will open parlia-
ment in person again this year.
No peaches, next year, in Western
New York the cold weather has killed
'em.
The programmes for private balls
and concerts in New York high life are
now printed on small fans, exquiAitely
perfumed.
st. Louis has divorce sensation.
The amours of apoetess and a criminal
lawyer are, it is intimated, strongly
writing.
citation" is forming in England to as
sist proprietors and editors of newspa-
pers in repulsing unjust attacks made
upon them in the execution of their du-
ties.
The free delivery of letters has be-
come very popular at Syracuse, N. Y,
where more letters are delivered and
country with the same number of car
riers.
President Lincoln's old home at
Springfield, Ill, is occupied by a Gam
lily who keep things as nearly as possi-
Die as they were while he lived in il. !"
1t has been visited by over fifty thou
sand people since the assassination.
Mrs. Stewart, the complainant in
the famous Chicago divorce case. isn't
satisfied with the verdict of the jury
CIRCULATING her husband from the
charges of adultery, and If new trial
is denied her will appeal to the Su-
preme Court.
"A. T. Stewart, the great dry goods
merchant, has brought Il suit against
the city of New York for 1854, being the
value of sundry gloves, Grapes, and
scaris furnished to the common coun-
ell to wear to the funerals of various
city officials.
"A eoroner's jury in the case of a
man who died in a dentists chair at
Philadelphia, has rendered a verdict
that he came to his death by suffoca-
ton, caused by a cork, which had been
placed between his teeth by the dentist
TO prevent contraction OF the jaws dur
ing the operation of extracting a tooth,
lodging in the windpiPe. a-
-Austria's new army scheme which
has lately been dropped, on account of
the sturdy opposition of the Hunga-
rians, proposed to conscript every
young man, on attaining his 10Th year.
for Il years. Students were TO fare a
little better, but in time of war thew
must also face the enemy. This scheme
STA is rigidly carrying on one as severe.
The largest receipts ever taken at a
Ristori performance were pocketed on
Tuesday night of last week, when the
great actress appeared at Chicago. The
amount was $500, of which Ristori's
share was $1,000, making SI26, 900 which
she has personally received in this
country. Her next best house was
drawn in Brooklyn, and her third best
at MOSCOW Russia,
A farmer living near Wabash, Iudi-
ana while putting up his horse a few
days ago, handed his wife a package
containing $I7OO to take to the house.
At the time she was gathering chips.
Just as she reached the door, her child,
VINO was sick and was crying Piteously,
attracted her attention, and in her
hurry 10 attend the child, she forgot
the money, and threw the chips and
money on the fire.
The project of running a tunnel
under the Detroit river at Detroit.
through which the trains of the Michi.
gan Central and Great Western rail-
roads could pass, obytatinE the present
necessity of ferriage, is actively can
vassed. The bore would be three
quarters of a mile long. aimittinp a
single track to be laid 60 feet below 3he
water, and would cost two and half
millions of dollars, and be two or three
years building.
Several prominent citizens of
Brooklyn have prejectep a large excur-
sion from New York to Palestine,
Egypt, the Crimea, Greece and the
polnlS OF interests near the Mediter-
ranean: They believe select COM
pany OF 159 can be got up, and propose
10 charter steamer furnished
60 with all the conveniences, to leave
New York about June LIST and return
IN October. The price of the trip is
h3ed at l,25O in currency for each