The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-16


SAYS II is too small for the traffic sent
through it by the city. There are peopl"
who have long thought so.
Hon. James Brooks having been in
Vited to attend IL Democratic ConNen-
ton in Maine, and not being able 10 u"
present, his absence is said TO nave - ',S :,
"well made up by til" performance VI "
good brass band"
The Salt Lake Icdcftc OF me um ..
charges Wells, FMrE" " 90. VIII ru Nv,
ting all their old broken noMn ST. I'', IL
,i;ors MI then ex peCtinE TO get two or
threo times its value from Congress,
Ia 70. stock their line with better.ani-
mails.
in New York the city taxes are four
per cent. The amount of money want
cd in New York City for the years
public expenditure is Twenty-Five mil,
lion dollars. The Herald speaks Of
this as practical contiscation."
The wife ofGeo. \. Wicks, the SEN
Tor partner of the great New York dry
goods house which recently suspended
is said to hold $50. 900 i'll her right, Sc
that the family are still sure of IL mod
est support.
"A Justice of the Peace in Ohio, late
ly solemniZed the marriage OF JonH
Filter and Tidy Jane SophroneE fhll.
lomela Merida Massin Anderson
Smith.
"A French paper has an account OF
an association in England for supply,
ing to country families one or I'VE
agreeable people to raise II tagging ana
phlecmntic home into lively splrlts'
A nervous old gentleman recently
ATTEMPTED to remove II large bug from
the bonnet Of Il lady who sat in front oil
him mt the theatre. The result was ne
unrouted all her back hair, the Dug :
office being TO hold head and hair to-
gether.
Among the jewels in the Swiss de-
partmeut of the Exposition is very
handsome beetle, with diamond eyes
and enameled wings, GlitteriuS with
precious gems. You touch spring
and he raises his wing sheath and
shows II watch, possibly half an inch
across.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. y. Stevens, of Ho:.
boken, y. j., GHVea strawberry festival
on the 9Th, Mt which :, 400 children were
present. They consumed 1000 ohsk els
OF Strawberries, 5000 cakes ana I-o
gallons of ice cream.
The Pope prop, ses to get up quite
an assembly of sOvereiEnS ut Rome
Queen Isabella will have quarters in
the Ouirinal. The Queen OF Portugal is
confidently expected, and the King OF
Prussia and the Sultan are talked of.
Then there is the lOug-tal6ed OF visit OF
the Empress Eugene, which may be
made with the rest.
-Chicorv Juice is the fav1rite cosmet-
ic of the Partisan women, and is being
sold in Immense quantities, and Indies
who but i short time ago were golden
blondes. are now bruuettes OF the deep
est tint, almost Moorish.
-Daudies in London vie with the la
dies in seeing which can wear III"
smallest head dresses. \ London jour
nal saws the costumes of both sexes
have SHRINK up literally to the mHthe-
NAUTICAL definition of line, that is
that has length but no
breadth.
A Montgomery Ala correspond
ent remarks upon the disappearance of
those long-haired young gentlemen in
black brondcloth, with SOld-hehded
canes, and carrying revolVers in peck
Ell, who used to lounge about the towns
in thar State.
"A Milwaukee paper says 1.-THE ia
panese AS balancists have no living
equal, unless 1t be the smart fellow who
balanced the books of one of our whole
sale clothing merchants after he had
stolen some niteen thousand dollars"
"A Frankfort correspondent writes
that: ain America everybody runs as
if chasing rolling dollar, but here
every Dutch, Belgian or German, as il
he had caught it or given up the chase,
and made up his mind to be happy
with the small change in his pocket"
The Summer session of Congress
has -one alienation in the shape of II
tank of iced lemonade, kept constantly
replenished in the office of the sergeant
alarms of the house.
An exchange says that il is safe
rule to wet the wrists before drinking
water, If at all heated. The etfectl is
immediate and grateful, and the danger
of fatal results may be warded OFT 10y
this simple Precaution.
The five newspapers in Portland,
Me, which were burned out by the
great fire OF last year and since then
and ont of the city, have at last found
an abiding place, and, like happy
family, are now housed under the same
roof.
Norfolk, Va. sends large amount
OF vegetables and fruit to Philadelphia,
New York and Boston. \ steamer lett
there for New York, "A few days ago,
with four thousand packages of fruit
and vegetables, and additional steam
boat accommodation is called for by the
farmers.
-Charivari says 1t is said that
President Johnson will pay IA visit 10
Paris. His object is to examine care.
fully our liberal laws. Hh will bring
microscope with him."
GA writer in Public OPINION cannot
lind n word in Webster's Dictionary
bad enough to apply to the author oil
that book, so he coins word and calls
Mr.. Webster ian UgiyfeU OF our Ian
guage."
A wedding was recently spoiled in
Schenectady by long lost husband
stepping into the carriage with the
blushing bride and insisting that il
have the precedence.
1t is not or the whole remarkable
that Germans should find the English
language hard. \ great LEIPZIG critic
thinks ii is curious that Boz should
be pronounced Dickens"
Push out "A good act and word in
the ever living, ever working universe
it is Il seed that will survive the wreck
Of your humanity. Unnoticed to-day
it will he found hourishing asa banyaI
grove, or perhaps as Il hemlOck forest
Tor ages.
Virginia and West Virginia Improve
mentS.--ChesapenEc Hud ohio RRiI
rOHd---Thc Convention Mt White sui
phur SprIngS---EpeecheS Of Hon.
James Hurley, Gov. PeIrpOint, and
Others.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
July 10, 1867.
The convention OF delegates from
the country interested in completing
the Covington and Ohio railroad, as
sembled at IL o'clock to-day, at this
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