The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-18
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New Orleans mas just planted 81 600
ofshade trees.
Mr.. Bancroft, the historian, is ill in
New York.
"A diamond valued at SIG, 300 has
been found in the Tppecanoe river,
Indiana,
"A rural town in Maine has had a
oaIl, the proceeds of which are to buy
Pursuant 10 a vote, the members of
the Minnesota Legislature visited a
circus In a body, on Wednesday last.
The Pittsburgh Leader advocates
the division OF Pennsylvania into two
States as the easiest means of getting
out of the clutches of the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad.
"A waggish candidate coming in
the course of his canvass, TO a tailor's
shop, said, What we look for here is
measures not men.
"A bill is before the Legislature of
Louisiana TO license gambling houses
ut SIC, 900 per annum.
Montreal is the dancers paradise
1t has spent Sl5O,OOO for balls this sea-
son.
The colored people of Portsmouth,
Va, have candidate for mayor.
-Lamartine declines to give public
~ LIS oGblS- lie PIClGIA
begging.
The ice crop Of New York city, for
the past winter, amounts to 59S, 600 tons,
being an excess of 5000 over that OF
the previous year.
The Enquirer learns that during
the month ofFebruary, Il, 339H rations
were issued by the Freedmen's Bureau
to the destitute blacks of Richmond,
and 4,O95 to the destitute whites.
The freedmen have organized a
temperance society, with a large mem
bership, in Dauyille, Virginia.
Queen Victoria's forthcoming book
viii be entitled Leaves from my Jour
nal in the Highlands"
About one hundred and ten stu
dents are attending Emory and Henry
College, Va.
There are 2, 900 prisons and houses
of correction in France, containing 55,-
900 inmates.
"A Chicago caterer has put cooking
ranges into the sleeping cars that run
out of that city, so that passengers may
have a warm breakfast without leaving
the cars.
"A genuine New Yorker, recently
married, whose trousseau was exposed
to the inspection of the newspaper re-
porters, had twenty-four pairs OF shoes
To match twenty-four different dresses.
Miss Carmichael, the poetess of Salt
Lake, having become the one wife OF
one husbnnd, and left Mormondom, is
atolt to publish a book on the Nor
mons and her life among them.
George F. Wright has been COM
missioned by the Governor of Illinois
to paint for the State, full-sized portraits
of Lincoln and Douglas.
The Tidioute (Pa.) Journal saws a
vigilance committee has been organ
lied there to attend to the gangs of
thieves and bullies with whom the
country thereabouts is overrun.
Says Paris correspondent: The
coming spring costumes are to be made
Of satin underskirts, velvet oyer-tunics.
either dented. vandyked or scolIoped,
with tight fitting casaques, having Ions,
satin sash ends behind. Those in black
or the new shade amaranthe, (briGht
cIaret,l are the most elegant, apd can be
worn for visiting.
"A Southern correspondent, in one
of his letters, informs us of novel and
economical mode OF courtship in Flor
ida. "As you haye never seen the Ian
guage of pine 1 will give it here. A
gentleman, wishing to court lady,
and not wishing to face the music in
person, sends his lady love IL piece of
pine, signifying Il pine for thee;' and
she wishing to give favorable answer
sends in return pine not, meaning,
pine not or if she wishes to say no,
she sends him II burnt pine not, there
by signifying, 4 make light OF your
pine.'
"A Youngstown. Ohio, paper tells ofs
woman, walking en- the railroad, whose
gait indicated that she had been taking
laughing gas, or something else exhil-
arating. A brakeman on "a passing
train jeered her, whereupon she drew
n revolver and fired, narrowly missing
him. 1t Is believed he viii hereafter
carefully avoid accosting ladies who
appear to have been, "taking nitrous
oxide, or something"
Five women are editors OF papers
in Iowa. An exchange remarks that
woman has some of her 'writes" in that
State.