The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-04
GossIP ITEMS.

GOSSIP ITEMS.
-Adah Isaacs Menkeu Henan New
ellis maiden name It is said was Me-
Cord, Hf- tH
Theatre preaching is to be introdu
ced in New York this summer.
An Omaha paper says: "There are
/ two women in North Platte, and they
are continuously drunk"
| "A New York slauder case has been
/ in litigation for over thirty years. II
looks likely to rival "Jarndyce and
Jarndyce" before it is settled.
in Egypt, professional poulterers
will take a hundred eggs and return
therefor, at the end of three weeks,
sixty chickens, keeping the remaining
chicks and added eggs for toll.
Mrs. Postmaster-General Randall
| is going to spend the summer in Scot
land. She will sal this week.
The unusual sight of man reading
the Scriptures in the cars was observed
upon one of the trains going into Bcs-
ton last Tuesday morning.
"A resident of Stevenson, Ala, hear
ing that Mayor Mccarthy, of Pitts
burgh, was giving money to poor peo-
/ pie, sent for few hundred dollars for
his own use.
| "A little steamboat is being built to
be used as u floating hearse between
| Wards Island and Bellevue Hospital,
i'll New York.
| "A man in Chicago has been guilty
of misdemeanor, the particulars Of
| which, says one of the papers of that
city, are too revolving to publish. The
| world will be curious to know what
these particulars are, that Chicago pa
per sticks at giving them publicity.
-Itfs not unusual to build monu-
msnts to the memory of a good dinner,
but the Sandwich Islanders propose
one in honor of Capt. Cook, who was
killed, and according to some accounts,
eaten by their forefathers.
Josh. Billings. says: "I never bet
any stamps on the man who IL always
telling of what he would have did If
he'd been there. 1 have noticed that this
kind never get there"
AT race in Vienna eight horses
ran, each OF them ridden by lady be-
| longing to "high life." The stakes were
a pdrltTe of diamonds of great value.
The Albany argus says there is a
| class ofjunk shops in that city which
are but little more than schools for
teaching small boys how to become
| thieves.
| I'm Tlshamingo county, Mississippi,
| the Sheriff is about to set to work some
! l,200 persons, that they may pay their
taxes. He is authorized to do this by u
State law.
During his visit to Paris, the Gar
was presented by the English Evangel-
ical Alliance with a Bible printed in one
hundred and forty-seven languages.
| The Empress Eugene has written
| to the Princess of Wales to persuade
her to live with her for few months,
insisting that complete change of air
might be beneficial to her health, and
assuring her that she will receive all
the atecuonate care of IA sister.
"A letter from Rome says that
| among the notubilities now in that city
is a ritualist clergyman ofthe Anglican
Church who appears at all the Roman
| Catholic ceremonies attired in the fall
Ldress of n pilgrim or hermit, and as
sists most devOutly at all the religious
functions of the season.
"A church is in progress OF forma-
| ton in London founded upon the
teachings of IA French philosopher, who
holds that humanity is the only true
deity, and that all other religions based
upon divine inspiration were merely
preparatory to this later development
of the ages.
Mr.. Maguin went to bed on the roof
of the Continental Hotel mt Philadel-
phiH, Thursday, and rolled "out of
bed" to the sidewalk 20 feet below.
Meeting with telegraph wires near the
ground, the tall was broken instead of
his neck. ...
The Car has lett million francs
for the poor OF Paris. He gave the ser
wants of the Eiysees $1,000. During
his visit in Paris he spent G2OO, 600.
The CZarowitz spent &4O, 900.
The Prince of Wales is about to re-
turn to Paris. There is a rumor that
| Victoria will also take "A trip across the
channel, incognito, for the purpose of
watching over her offspring, whose
"tricks and manners" she knows.
These little evidences of the Queens
solicitude for her children are very
| pleasant to contemplate, and endear
Victoria to her people.
Chattanooga was visited by thun-
der storm on the 18th inst. An old
darkey forgetting that "Chattanooga
was taken," shouted, "Fore de Lor'
dar comes 'old crazy wild de Yanks
agin. He gwine to finish de place dis
time"
"A church is to he built in London,
which will commemorate the abolition
of slavery and be memorial TO Abra-
ham Lincoln.
In the neighborhood of Boston
whole apple orchards have been blight
ed by the canker-worm.
The Russian Empress gave $780, 900
to the wife of the equerry whose horse
received the assassin Bereznowski's
bullet.
That man commits crime, and so
does the woman, who will send n child
to bed with wounded spirit, or who
shall allow any vindictiveness of feel
ing to exist in consequence of anything
the child may have done.
| -"I believe that mine shall be the
| fate of Abel" said wife to her hus-
band one day. why so?" inquired
| the husband. because Abel was kill
ed by club, and your club will kill
me, If you continue to go to it every
"A correspondent from West Point
says of the young ladies who were
present at the graduations: "They are
| under graduates in the ultimate mys-
teries Of love, but full blown dons at
flirtation."
An attempt TO swear a black child
failure in New York It's wise pa
rent, etc.
Let the family table be always a
meeting place OfPleasantness, affection
and peace.
Notwithstanding the prohibitory
| law in Connecticut, Hartford has 2S3
places where one can take something"
One charge in lawyers biIlagainst
| a client was, "For waking up in the
night and thinking of your business
! five dollars" EriH7l
| To drain lands. Drink whisky and
spend ali your time at the village sa-
/ Thfa xvi1 a Won 1F oil yyarr