The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

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The Washington City election on
Monday was the first in this country at
which unrestricted negro suffrage was
permitted. '-.
The sale of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railway has been confirmed by the
proper Courts in Ohio and Indiana, and
the road will now be given up by the
trustees to the company.
General Neal Dow was recently ask
ed by venerable Englishman when
the United States Government were GO
Ing to pay off the rebel bonds. His an
swer was, "When you pay off the Fe-
nian bonds."
The sons and daughters born of the
marriage of Prince Christian and the
Princess Helena, Queen Victoria's
daughter, are to be entitled to use the
word "Highness" prehxed to their
Christian names.
The MississippiGn. one of the Oldest
and for long period the leading paper
in Mississippi, has ceased to exist.
Some of the Washington diplomatists
think that Juarez may make good
thing OF Macmillan by ransoming in
place of shooting him. Maximilian's
mother, the Dowager Empress Sophia,
of Austria is immensely rich, and as
much as $50,O00,0O0 could be paid If it
were demanded. 80
The Legislature adjourned on Satur-
urday-members, at the close of the
session, voting themselves S5 per day,
giving each $765 for the session, which,
with six or seven hundred members,
amounts to an aggregate which the
Boston Journal speaks of as "bit of
extravaganza"
We see that the Englishman, DIR.
Cummings, of END of the World"
notoriety, is out in a book, announcing
that, beyond all doubt. this is the last
year of the existence of our mundane
sphere. After 1867, "Gone Up" will be
| our brief story, says the Rev. Doctor,
or words to that effect.
The Atlantic Cable Company have
published statement of their receipts
during April, which amounted to $17S,-
700 in gold, the largest number of mes
sages being sent from Europe to Amer
lea, 141O, as compared with 1I42 from
America to Europe. They estimate
their business from the opening on
July 26th, 1866, to the end of April last,
to have brought them 81 ,231 GAG in gold.
!
John Randolph emancipated his
slaves, and settled them on land of
their own in Ohio. The Judge of their
district says there never was one of
them before him for any violation of
law. They are peaceable, law-abiding,
industrious and thrifty; conscientious,
kindly and courteous, commanding the
respect of their neighbors in the strong
ly Democratic county of Mercer.
The Mobile Tribune says: "There is
consolation in the soil. We have look
ed at papers from all parts of the South,
and discover that everywhere, with
only few exceptions, the crops are full
of promise-more especially of wheat
and corn. There is no very important
complaint of the condition of cotton,
and that is something OF value, for
within twenty years we have not heard
of the prospect of good cotton CROP"
Rev. DR.. Kincaid, one of the oldest
American missionaries, recently de-
livered an address, stating that the
greatness Of the work to be done in
heathen lands appeared exceedingly
small compared to what it did when
he first arrived in India. One may now
travel 600 miles in Burmah, and, with
zone or two Breaks" not have any
trouble in finding a Christian family,
or one where it would be safe to pass
the night, so great has been the pro-
gress of the Gospel in that country.
There are now scores of christian vii
liages.
A prominent New England journal
says an aged man, who has been in
the habit of rising early during long
life, gives the following advice: "Place
basin of cold water by the side of your
bed; when you first awake in the morn
ing, dip your hands in and wet your.
brow, and sleep will not again seal you
in its Treacherous embrace"
At the Princess Matilde's usual Sum
day evening reception in Paris recent
ly, the King and Queen of the Belgians
were present. But the event of the
evening was that the first Siamese
ambassador (nephew of the Klng) was
present, accompanied by his wife, who
has never appeared in Partisan salon.
This lady was dressed in the court
M q i'll.
silk dress with gold embroidery. She
is very little, dark complexioned, of
course, and her tiny hands are not big
ger than those of child eleven years
| old.
A great depression of business In
Richmond, Virginia, has lately forced
the exit of an immense number of la
borers from that city. A year ago there
was great scarcity of business and
tenement houses, while now many
such houses are vacant, and half
dozen large houses recently erected on
Main street would accommodate the
business of the whole city.
The New York Times discourses up
on the subject of legs as follows:
The leg is not a bad index of the
mind or the disposition. What sloth,
for instance, does not an obese limb
betray; what shrew is the possessor of
a limb like a Walking-stick; but what a
gentle woman is she of the arched in
| step, the round ankle. and the graceful
pedestal swelling to perfection and
modulating to lightnessI What logged
obstinacy does the stumpy leg with the
knotty calf exhibit, what an irresolute
soul does the lanky limb which bends at
the knee betray.s How well the strong
ankle indicates the firm principle; how
the fiat ankle reveals the vacant mind.
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