The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-19
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Fremont is TaiIrosdiug in Mexico.
The drouth in Southern Illinois
continues.
Mrs. w. K. Lewis is reading Para
disc Lost in Boston.
Fletcher Harper is the editor of the
new RarPer's Bd-dT.
One hundred and forty-two Smiths
have graduated at Yale.
vermont has twenty-eight thou
sand German Catholics.
The State Normal School OF Maine
has one hundred and seventeen stu
dents.
The Great Eastern will sail from
France next May, with the new cable.
Sweet potatoes are large crop in
the Egypt" portion Of Illinois.
The GALAXY prints an edition of
4, 500 copies.
Whittier has never been paid for
any of his Atlantic Monthly contribu-
lions.
The November magazines will be a
day or two later than usual in theiI ap-
pearance.
Trading profits are unprecedeutedly
low in England.
Petroleum is now being used as
fuel by the steam IRE engines of Bos-
ton.
Michael Phelnn has invented a
combination of dining table and bill
lizard table.
"A Western tailor is teaching young
men how to cut their own clothes.
The Boston Dispensary dispenses
about LOCO receipts week.
"A single mile OF the Western Mass
Railroad cost 800 200.
Il.
nine inches from tip to tiP-se says
Jenkins.
They have an epidemic in Indiana
/ just now-marriage.
Tie wall of Quebec is twenty-five
I feet high and TWO miles in circuit.
The population of San Francisco is
one hundred and thirty-one thousand.
| -Renan's Life of Jesus" has reached
I its thirteenth French edition.
! The GALAXY is said to have lost Sl2,-
I 900 within the last two years.
The only nickel mine in North
/ America, is near Lancaster, Pennsylva-
mia.
The Maryland militia will cost the
/ State seven hundred and fifty thousand
/ dollars next year.
! The Chief Justice has just now two
very uncomfortable customers on his
ihands-Jef Davis and Ohio.
! The fare from New York to Central
, City, Colorado, is Sl4S; time, five days.
There is talk of game OF chess to
be played by means of the Atlantic ca
BILE, by players in New York and Lon
don.
Ono town in Southern Illinois has
\ shipped twelve hundred boxes OF
| peaches every day for some weeks
| George wilkins Kendall is writing
spicy letters from bis farm in Texas to
his New Orleans Picayuate.
An Ohioan from the lar West won
Si0,O 900 on proposition that the negro
amendment would be defeated in Ohio.
"A lady in Whately, Mass, has
made with her own hands 1855 wal
lets since the establishment:oI wallet
factory in that Town.
Anna Dickinson's lecture posters
rather puzzled the people of Buffalo,
They read, "Tickets for Idiots and Wo-
men sold here"
Rev. George H. Hepworth's theolo'
gical school In Boston is pronunced q
success. He has thirteen students.
-Mutilated notes OF the National
Banks must be presented for redemp'
ton to the banks which issued them.
An eccentric recently died in Eng
land, who, although in perfectly good
health, had not risen from his bed for
forty nine years.
The soldiers in Northern Canada
drill on snow shoes in winter. They
leap hurdles ana fences, and can move
very fast.
The continued heavy rains OF the
summer and autumn have caused an
unusual prevalence of malarial fevers
and ague.
The States OF Michigan and Wis
consin are united by bridge across the
MenOminee river over two thousand
feet long.
Sunday is actually the important
market day of the week in the cattle
yards OF Buffalo.
Nine colored men are still living in
New Orleans who assisted at its defence
under Jackson.
The Cape Cod cranberry yield this
season is estimated at 10000 barr els,
valued ut 100000.
AT the convention of homeopathic
physicians at Boston, on last Wednes.
day, the President stnted that but three
medicines had been thoroughly dis
cussed and tested by the society during
its % years OF existence.
Six railroads are in sight at the
court house of Lancaster, PennsylvR-
mia, Twenty five passenger trains
pass through the city every day.
"A little girl in Cairo, who is losing
her sight from a cataract, is studying
all day and far into the night to store
her mind for the time when the world
will be blank to her eyes.
There is in Russia a whole battery
of breech-lOading, wrought iron can
seventeenth century.
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