The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-11
NERs AND GosSIP
Ripe peaches are selling in Mem:

Ripe peaches are selling in Mem
phis, Tenn, at fifty cents apiece.
They are eating watermelons in
Eewbern, N. C.
Alabama epicures are lu1urIatiug
upon green corn.
There are plenty OF kings, queens
and knayes in Paris just now.
Numbers of sheepin Michigan are
still dying ofa disease supposed to be
grub in the head"
Was Martin Luther mad or did he
have the dyspepsia7 is now the great
question among litterateuIs.
"A New York critic says that Ba-
ragli sings "If mio tesore," Mozart's
rich aria, with finIcal Ingenuity and
almost gossamer-Iike delicacy."
New Orleans needs General Butler
again to prevent the appearance of yell
low fever. The Republican says the
streets were never in worse cOndi-
ton.
James Parton is accused of drawing
a very long bow in saying that st. Louis
has "four magnificent theatres" There
isn't one worthy of that high-sounding
adjective.
The Maison Doree property in New
York has been leased for ten years at
S26, 600 per annum for retail dry goods
store. Sos
london has 81 daily papers. %
weeklies and 8 illustrated papers. There
are $50 provincial papers in England,
4S Welsh, l40 Scotch, and lbs Irish.
The New York Evening Post, in
view OF the animals taken upon the
stage, styles: the plays now on the
boards, the "livery-stable drama"
"A New York jury found outthe
other day when they came to make up
a verdict, that Prussian among their
number, who had been observed TO
listen with great interest to all the pro-
ceedings, couldn't speak word of En-
glish.
"A farmer near Erie, Pa, bought
several barrels of spoiled sausages Tor
the purpose Of-usinV them as manure,
and put link into each hill of corn.
His corn came up the next day by the
help of every dog within circle Of five
miles or so.
Judge R. C. Graves, of Lexington,
Kentucky, is experimenting in trout
raising. He procured the spawn from
New York State, and has now quite a
quantity OF young fish, apparently in a
thriving condition.
Mr.. Vallandigham has decided not
to deliver the commencement address
before the Oxford (MississippD Univer-
sity. Business engagements in. the
law business will prevent him from
leaving home in time.
The cost of the new Roman Catho.
lie Cathedral, at New York, is estima-
ted at 81 100000. The time of its COM
Pletion will depend something on the
movements of the Feniaus, since 1t is
built by the subscriptions of poor Irish
servant girls and laborers.
Over 1O2, 900 bushel, Of corn have
been distributed among the poor of
hfty-eight counties in Georgia..
-Congressman John Morrissey is the
purchaser of Barnum's beautiful resi-
dence Mt bridgeport, Conn. The price
paid was S65,OOO.
"A Dublin paper says a fearful
blight has set in among the early plant
ed potatoes in Ireland, and whole fields
are affected by disease.
The police commissioners of Chi
cago are taking measures to prevent
the sale and use OF fireworks in the
city.
Sarah Turner has recovered SIC, 600
from j. w. Sidle, of Zanesville, Ohio,
for breach of promise of marriage.
FORESTS five performances in Mil
waukee brought So, 1867. Ristori's two
brought 50, 600.
-Thac6erey says that the soothing
plant of Cuba is sweeter to the philoso-
Pher after dinner than the prattIe of all
the women in the world.
Those who carefully read the pro-
ceedings in the Courts of the country,
will observe that the number OF dIvor-
ees is fearfully upon the increase.
Its rather remarkable that while
several thousand ieet are required to
make one rood, a single foot, properly
applied is often sufficient to make one
civil.
Professor Leibig and Louis Napoleon
recently dined together on "Leibig's ex-
tract of meat.
"A girl has been arrested In Newark,
n. j., for trying to steal a waterfall
from the head of another girl on the
street.
Another report is circulating con-
Gerning the family prospects of General
Tom Thumb.
"A Chicago correspondent Of a st.
Paul paper characterizes Parepa-Rosa
as petite, plump and pretty"
One of our exchanges thinks that
ten pounds of sausages for dollar is
dog cheap"
Some of the temperance Inen in
Connecticut are attacking the clergy for
using wine in the communion.
The Richmond (Ind.) Telegraph
tells of Wayne county man who took
his family to the circus last Monday,
aud sold his cooking stove to get money
to buy tickets. ~ - y
AN ebony cabinet Intended for a
lady's boudoir is exhibited in Paris.
Its price is only $4,000. as-
"A carpenter in Minneapolis cut his
nose off with hatchet while driving
nails.
"A destitute lady in Baltimore has
been provided with comfortable home
by her former slave.
The famine in India continues
Whole nations have died Of starvation.
John X. Thompson, formerly edi-
tor of the Southern Literary Messenger,
is living in New York.
Three marriage notices were pub
lished in the Wyandotte (Kansas) Pio-
neer, few days since, with the notice,
"No cake"
"A gentleman in st. Louis has re-
covered $4,000 from the city for dam
ages caused by falling into cellar.
The widow of Bishop Polk is teach
ing in the Columbia Female Institute,
an Episcopalian institution, owned by
the diocese of Tennessee.
"A little girl recently called as a wit
ness in police court, being asked
what becomes of little girls who tell
falsehoods," Immediately replied that
they were sent to bed"
ENGLAED is complaining OF the high
price of beef, and to increase her supply
imports from all parts of the world.
Everything which tends to the preser-
walton of beef thus imported, whilst In
transportation, of course ediminishes the
waste, and consequently the cost. It is
announced from Australia, large pro-
ducer of beef, that Melbourne chemist
has discovered that he can fit ship
with an apparatus that Will keep in a
CONCEALED state five hundred caFCasses