The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-17
IEWs AND GOSSIP.

Fifth avenue, NeWl1oEhI lOE One nun
dred thousand dollars. a.
Mrs. lincoln has sold her ouse-,
hold goods at auction, and proposes to
remove TO Racine, Wisconsin. ~
N-Acanary bird was sold in Danville,
New York. for SIS.
There are 1000 acres of Strawberries
on the line of the Illinois Central Rail
road.
-watermelons can be bought at
Columbus, Georgia, for the refrigera-
ting price of 81 each. =7.z..-.--a=--1--"--
Mrs. Lincoln's income is reported
at 1900. a.rI a-HHa.
Grape growing lands along the
lake shore west OF Cleveland, Ohio,
bring $500 an acre. .....'..-.
There are said to be $40, 200 Good
| Templars In North America, and the
order had an accession OF 100, 600 mem
beers during last year. goo ,aan
The death of very brilliant wo-
man, and in her early days q great
| belle in New York city, Mrs. Medorn
| Ward, } is announced from Paris. f-a
With the most rigid economy 1t
cost George Peabody twelve millions
/ 10 stay In this country year.
"A gentleman in New York has a
| pipe two hundred years old-brought
from Mexico-made in the shape OF an
ancient idol OF that country. d.
| The Louisiana conservative papers
are complaining that General Long
street has Joined the Republican party.
| Somebody reck ons, we do not know
on what data, that in 1850 there were
81 coo, 900, 900 worth of gold in the world
outside OF the mines, or more than dou-
BILE the amount in 1913.
The New York and Troy Steamboat
Company adve. tise that they will take
passengers to Albany and Troy for one
dollar. Competition is pleasant thing
for the traveller.
Bishop Quiutard, OF Tennessee, re-
Gently denounced the practice of rails
ing money for churches by means OF
fairs, lotteries, &c.
Edmund About says: "There are
two things in this world which a man
does not often find away from home:
the frat Is good soup; the second Is dis.
Interested love-" nEHa -ii-rr
Tent preaching is popular. in De-
troit. The tent is carried about from
place to place, from Sunday to Sun
day, wherever audiences are likely to
be found.
The New Orleans Pieayune, in re-
] ferring to Governor Wells, says: He
! has contrived to realize the popularity
/ whereof the old Dutch Governor of
New York boosted, that when he went
/ into office everybody was in his favor.
and when he went out everybody was
in favor OF that too"
! "A bill has been introduced into the
British Parliament to enforce thu prac-
/ tice OF vaccination. 1t contains thirty
six clauses, which are as stringent on
the subject as one of GET eral Sickles'
military orders. 1t is estimated that
| lO, 900 people in the United Kingdom
died Of smallpox last year. .t.
| Humphrey Marshall has volun-
taered to go to Congress from Kentucky
| II the people want him. But he is
probably too big rebel to run we'll.
Hon. Joseph Henry Lumpkin,
Chief Justice ofGeorgia, died at Athens,
on the 4th inst, ut the age OF sixty
eight. He was the Judge who delivered
the opinion declaring the conscript act
| of the rebel congress constitutional.
There is a wild sort OF a legend con-
nec:ed with the Great Eastern, to the
effect that between the outer and inner
frames or cases, a smith and his riveter
persisted while at work and their bodies
have never been found. 1t is said by
! the sailors and shipwTightS that the
| spectres of these two victims haunt the
\ dark space between the outer and inner
cases of the vessel.
"A Detroit jeweller keeps poet who
thus describes his bazaar in the adver-
tisement:
| "Forgo lies nrm and lasting In It's strata,
And silver keeps forever on Alabata,
And diamonds and corals, undecided
| From earth's and ocean i deepest recess,
| To shining gold now welded,
Await some lovely purehaseTe
An examination OF the time tables OF
the railways in New England shows
that they make from % TO 80 miles per
hour.
The Tribune has the following
shrewd hit at the so-called "cable
dispatches" OF the New York Herald I:
Special Telegram to the HeraId.l
PARIS, June 7-Evening.-It is said
that after the attempt upon the life of
the Emperor of Russia, Napoleon, turn
ing 10 the Gar and smiling, said, "Sire,
We have been under fire together"
The Gar replied, "Our destinies are
in the hands OF Providence"
Yes" said Napoleon, gayly, land
the assassin's hands were in the des--
TIMES OF Providence"
every true, ;" said the Gear Struggling
his shoulders, with an arch express
sion.
"Ifso, why not ?" inquired Napoleon.
Then turning TO the Rerdld reporter,
who had obtained entrance to the Inn
perial carriage by showing his badge.
he said, make note of this conversa-
tion." " f,. y
"Do So" said the Car, shaking our
reporter warmly by the hand; 81 am
sorry my escape has deprived you OF an
interesting item"
Our reporter bowed gravely, but did
not respond in the affirmative, lest he
should be elected fIom the carriage.
| Napoleon looked steadfastIy ut our
| reporter for moment and then winked
his left eye three times, in a manner
which conveyed his tuil appreciation
of the enterprise of this paper. T'
The three sovereigns OF France, Rus
sia, and Thought then passed on amid
the cheers of the populace. ..-
President Johnson's childhood and
| -a. Parentage. ....-
| Andrew Johnson was born in the up
per story of the kitchen attached to a