The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-30
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ton among the clerks. Every bureau
has its mine"
Everybody was consternsted" is
the way a Mexican correspondent eI-
presses general fight.
The highest estimate made at the
South for the cotton crop this year ID
5000, 900 of bales.
There is to be a yacht regatta on the
Potomac at Washington on the lst OF
August. The winning boat Will get d
prize of 800.
Nicholson pavement is to be laid
In Utica, New York.
Blocker street, n. Y, is now swept
at night by machinery.
Steamboat racing on the Hudson
has been stopped.
The Germans in Philadelphia drank
enough beer TO float the DunderDurg
during their singing match-aDout
2, 223 kegs.
The United States Treasury now
holds SLY 900, 900 in gold, 81 100000 of
which is covered by gold certificates.
One of the New York papers has
its column OF prize fight reports daily.
There are two "mills" a day on an
average in and near that city.
Miss Stiles, pretty Nashua n. HI
girl of II, is lecturiug on temperance
with great success.
"A young girl in Philadelphia has
gone crazy at the loss her beauty by
acid thrown in her face.
Some of the merchants in Boston
refuse TO employ clerks who are MEM
bers of base ball clubs.
"A recent writer in AL the Year
Round contends that the stomach, in
stead of the head, is the organ OF the
affections.
"A radical temperance man has de-
claied that in two years there shall mol
be glass OF cider TO be had IN Name
One reason why General Grant
don't say more is because he cannot
talk and smoke at the same time.
1t is stated that in Attleborough,
Mass, with a population Of seven thou
sand, not death occurred in the month
OF June.
"A Memphis paper says it would
rather elect a niger 10 Office than . rad
ical." To which the Memphis Post re-
torIs. But suppose the Niger Is a
"A Joint stock company with 100000
capital, is about to publish paper in
Cleveland to be called the Times.
The Niles Republican and Marshall
E1poundeT, 4 Michigan papers, favor the
Gen. William T. Sherman
as the Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent in 1883.
AT a meeting of "the veterans OF
1872" held at Buffalo last Saturday,
Hon. S. P. Chase was nominated for
President.
"A German writer estimates that an
acre of good buckwheat will yield four
teen pounds of honey daily.
sin is immense, and they retail at the
selling points for one dollar a bushel.
The Adveutists of maine are preach
ing the immediate destruction of the
world, and at the same time are erect
ing houses of worship substantial
enough to last hundred years.
Jenkins, who, in his enthusiasm, is
apt 10 forget his grammar, says General
Grant has been "laying of" for few
days.
The Washington Chronicle thinks
the jury in the Surratt case will not
agree. tsays "Surratt is more likely
TO get clerkship In one OF the depart
ments in a few weeks than he is TO be
for his crimes"
The Taunton (Mass.) Republican
says parents in that vicinity complain
that they are disturbed in their natural
rest by the boys shouting in their sleep,
" Out on fiy," aside out, etc.
a company has been formed in
France, with an immense capital, to
for three Spanish galleons which
were sunk by the English fleet at the
of the last century.
The galleOns in question were return
ing from Mexico, and had on board
about 100000 600 piastres.
The Washington correspondent OF
the New York Commercial AdUertiSey'
says that there are several Washington
who can show scores OF
their speeches in the Congressional
Globe, purchased at from S25 to 800
each.
New York is described "as delect-
able compound of croton, molasses
drippiDgs and bruised or decayed lem
daily TO crowds of boys and girls at the
rate of one, two and three cents per
glass.
An old revolutionist says that OF
all the solemn hours he ever saw, that
in going home one dark night
from the widow Ben's after being told
by her daughter Sally that he needn't
come again, "was the most solemn.
"A great thinker has said that lego
tism is an intirmity that perpetually
grows upon man, till at last he can
uOI bGhI " vi DuI AlDA-
dsl'' nor even to suppose 'h'' others
1t is related that at a late reception
held at the Vatican, a colored priest,
with Italian, knelt before
the Pope and endeavOred to express
in Latin, though unsuccess-
fully. His Holiness, who loves joke,
then gave him his benediction, adding
soto Voce, "FTgLio milo, come sci 6rUtto ~
Afyya In 1yIH fhnu RI ~
Twenty thousand Swiss women
making. They make the moveme nts,
and even mostly put them together. A
few women are finiShers. The English
Womdn'S ReUietD says: Geneva has re-
fused to employ woman, and totally
lost the watch trade. None of the So
called Geneva watches are made there,
but in Neufchatel, where women have
always been employed.
"A Committee of the Connecticut
is engaged in taking testi-
mony as to the whisky drank by the
of the last Legislature. and
which the State was made TO pay for by
an appropriation.
The Office of Sheriff of New York is
worth over $40, 600 year; the offices OF
Clerk and Register are worth $50 900
each year, and that OF City Chamber
lain over 100000 a year.
DIR. Robinson, of Bennington, Mich
igan, died last week, in consequence OF
sprinkling chlOroform upon his pillow
to produce sleep.
The Boston Journal AYERS that all
of educated Boston understand and
speak French perfectly, and more than
half dream French.
General George Crook has taken
forty men and forty days rations, and
gone to Stein Mountain to look after
4 no Jn6ianS HhO fire into the Idaho