The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-05
onr NEWS summary.

The balance in the Ohio treasury,
as shown by the late report, Is sI'O-4'-
There has been little contest over
the State Printing in Indiana.
Some interested parties are trying
IN show that Governor Morton Is not
eligible to the U. 5. SenatorshiP.
There is in the U. S. Treasury just
I now sos, 500, 600 in gold.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch is to be en-
/ Iarged and brought out in quarto form
I on the sd inst.
I Some people think the glory will
[ depart from Thad. stevens if he IS elect
! ed u. S. Senator. His peculiar forte IS
/ the leadership of strong popular as
I sembly.
| Another National bank in New
! York has given notice OF It's intention
/ to retire from business.
The CANCEL of Death" Is being
played in Cincinnati.
lanes Stevens, instead OF being in
| Ireland, according to promise, has been
boarding in 18th street, New York, at
$40 per week. He is denounced as u
prOdigious scoundrel.
"A serious conspiracy was detected
in the Illinois penitentiary at Joliet.
The Young Mems Mercantile Lii
brary Association ut Cincinnati, take
Ia newspapers and 81 magazines. Pres
ent number of members, 1850. Terms,
50 per year.
United States Treasurer Spinner
had his pocket picked at the Presidents
last reception OF $50.
Forty thousand people covered the
suspension bridge ut Cincinnati, on
New Years day.
Chicago had ,5S1 cases OF cholera
last year, of which 900 proved fatal.
Civilized man drinks 100000, 600
worth of champagne every year.
differentiation and anti-speGie
payment petitions to Congress have
| been sent all over the country for sig
natures.
The New England press are urging
Senator Fessenden for the next Presi-
dent. They claim it is only just to give
New England show once i'll awhile.
There are news-girls in Chicago.
The burnt district of Richmond is
slowly being rebuilt.
One thousand men are now en-
pIoyed in repairing the Great Eastern.
The Church of Gethsemane" is
the title of an Episcopal Church in st.
Paul, MINI.
lodge of odd Fellows.
Two sisters, left in state of utter
restitution, employ themselves in cut
ting wood and hauling it to Mobile.
The year just departed has been a
terrible one for conhagrations. The
tire-tiend not only burned up town shut
roasted great quantity of the human
race.
The man who offered to send US a
cotton plantation If we would pay the
postage, is informed that we are not
people of that stGDlp.-BOStOn Post.
The railroads of this country en-
ploy two hundred thousand men, and
ut least a million of men, women and
children depend for their support upon
the railroad interest.
1t appears from recent experiments
conducted by the London Pneumatic
Company that l20 tons of goods can be
sent through their eighteen miles of
tubes every hour, at cost less than Id.
The Presidents message was tele-
graphed to the San Francisco journals,
and published in that city on the even
ing of its delivery to Congress.
"A Washington correspondent says
the PostofIice Department is still
briskly at work increasing the irregu-
larities of the mails.
There is brisk demand in the
English market for illuminated scrip
ture texts in the mediaval style.
Farmers predict that if the present
steady cold weather continues, the
crop of wheat this year will be very
large. We hope so, as the price OF
flour now is prodigiously high.
The London Spectator. says that the
| payment of the public debt of America
will be the greatest thing Democracy
has ever done. The tide of immiGra.
! ton will set in with redoubled force
and the last remaining detergent tC
British North America will have been
removed.
The Brooklyn Evangelical Alliance
whose aim is to blend all tho ''ortho.
dOx" churches in effort, has put forth
an eight-page weekly, called tn,
| Church Union, the first number Of
which is just out.
"A large number of Cinnamon are
to be imported to work on the Central
Pacific railroad. The extension of the
Union Pacific railroad beyond Fort
Riley is being made at the rate OF ter
carloads of iron daily.
| "A bill has been prepared to reduce
the number OF Judges OF the Supreme
Court and to consolidate the United
| States Circuits. There is now n law
which provides that no vacancy shall
be filed until the number of Judges i.
reduced below seven.
Pennsylvania and New York poll
ticianS in Washington, are bubblinl
over the with speCulations on the Sen
ntorial contest in the Legislatures o
those two States. They regard the con
test in Pennsylvania between Steven.
and Cameron. In New York tn,
chances are in favor of Conkling.
The New York Associated Press ha.
adopted the policy of selling its com
mercial news to brokers or anybody
else that wants it.