The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-01
NEWS AND GossIP.

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Efforts are being made by several
gentlemen IN Berkeley county, wesl
Virginia, to organize joint stock com,
pany for the purpose of manufacturing
sorghum syrup. They propose erecting
steam mill for the purpose ofgrindiDg
the cane. -ie
-Ex-President Fillmore is a member
of a society in Buffalo for the preyen.
ton OF cruelty to animals.
The Georgia railroad proposes tc
transport corn from Baltimore to At.
lanta, via Charleston and Augusta, al
thirty-hve cents bushel.
The Chicago Board of Trade have
rescinded the resolution to donate
S, 900 tor the relief of the South.
a New York paper states that Gen
organizing in that city to visit the Holy
Land. -
The Legislature OF Ohio has passed
metropolitan police act for Columbus
Dayton and Toledo.
There are said to be six Young
Mems Christian Associations in France
numbering 200 members. ---..
.-Artemus Ward wills his library "tc
the best boy in the school of his native
village, Waterford, Me-"
During the past year France ex-
ported to England II ,954 waterfalls,
with hair enough to make 1000 more.
The health of the French Prince
Imperial is reported to be "unsatisfac.
tory to his doctors" ri'z9a.- =
Illinois sent 165, Isl head of live
stock to New York during last year.
"A moral debating society out West
IS engaged in a discussion on the fol-
lowing question: 'tIf husband deserts
his wife, which is the most abandoned,
the man or the woman?"
"A gentleman met another in the
street who was i'll of consumption, and
| accosted him thus: "Ahi my friend
you walk slowIy.'' "Yes. ~ replied ne
man, "but 1 am going fast"
"A number of clubs are being
formed in various parts of the country
to go to the Paris Exposition. It is
stated that company OF two hundred
is organizing in Chicago, and intend to
charter a steamer to convey them to
Paris.
Sawyer, Steele & Co., contractors
for deepening the Illinois and Michigan
canal, have sued the city of Chicago for
$1,000 damages in connection with the
contract.
We rather think that the most re-
" NlCe kuaI We ever saw
was poor fellow who had his fingers
in one.
The American side of Niagara Falls
has receded $50 feet within two weeks,
Ten bushels of snake bones were
found in ledge OF rock, few days
since, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A cor
respondent of the Chicago Journal saws
"That is where the Copperheads went
in last falI.D g.
Man looks forward with smiles, but
backward with sighs.
Holiness of heart is the Jewel clasr
that binds humanity to heaven.
Prayer should be the KEY of the day
and the lock of the night.
Happiness abounds most with the
lowly; there are more blossoms in the
valleys than on the hills.
An extensive nail factory is about
to be established in Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia.
"A correspondent thinks the English
department at the French Exhibition
ugly dlsorderIy, and untastefuL"
The Springfield Republicun saws
that the golden rule, as edited by Tbad.
Stevens, is, ''Do unto others whatever
you choose"
The effect of wind blowing against
square chimney, It is reported, is
twice as great as when it blows against
circular chimney of the same dimen-
sions. The form of the latter diyerts
the strength of the wind.
The Boston Transcript says: ttSome
of our best Republicans favored Gen,
Buffers election to Congress on the
ground that during the first session he
would break his political faith.''
Gov. BrownIow has commissioned
colored man to be captain in the Ten
nessee militia.
-Apropos of General Schenck's
statement in Congress that mo hour is
more sad to the soldiers heart than that
In which a retreat is sounded" a New
York paper exclaims: "How MANY
hearts must Schenck have saddened
during his career as commander"
One of the members of a whist
club in western city died recently,
and at the next meeting of the club
the cards had mourning border around
them.
"A great and singular religious re-
yiyal is in progress in Louisville, XIV.
Scores of prominent citizens are join
ing the Church. 1t is not confined to
any sect, but is general.
Singular Suicide IN Columbus, Ohio.