The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-02

The Boston BARRIERS are forming u
Protective Union l11 a-
-Dowagiac, Michigan, has young
ladies' base ball club. Very base.
General Pillow SAYS his corn crop
will amount to 2OO, 600 bushels this
year.
Texas editors are to hold a conven-
ton. Pistols and bowie knives won't
be admitted.
New York has 5000 lager beer sa-
looms, and these never did SO much bu-
siness as at present.
Daniel Drew is reported to have
made 5000, 900 in Erie speculation last
week. John Morrissey cleared 500, 900
more.
"A gentleman recently counted up
wards of forty actors in about as many
minutes in the vicinity OF the Metro.
politAu Hotel, New York. Most of
Them had "nothing to do"
-"NIr. DlsraeIi's creed" said Mr..
Lowe, recently, sis political rebelism.
He holds that everything is as good as
every thing else. and that nothing mat
ters particularly"
-Croton water is getting short in New
York. Bath tubs on the third floor
have no supply, and those on the second
floor are useless half the time .r--r-.
1.-THE Black Crook" has reached its
32Oth representation In New York. 1t
still attracts large audiences, though,
if observation be correct, the audience, is
somewhat falling OF.
General Grant is said to have stated
before the. Judiciary Committee, that
he never voted a Democratic ticket In
his life.
The Treasury Department is making
up report showing that there are
over twenty thousand officials under its
control. -
The Boston Transcript says; "Gen-
eral Sheridan has one of the finest
minds in the country. His brain works
with great celerity, and seiZes upon the
vital. points of the situation with uner-
ring certainty."
The Shakers of New Lebanon, N.
", have decided to close their public
meetings because of the disturbances
they experience from unruly people of
the world "wEo come to scof," but un-
fortunately. do not "remain to pray"
John Slidell is at present living near
Paris, as well rs his son-in-law, Erlan-
ger, the Hebrew banker. 1t is said, al
though he is most anxious to pass his
last days In America, he has latterly
given up all hope of ever again seeing
his native land.
An enthusiastic correspondent,
writing to a New York paper from
Long Branch. so mixed his comments
upon General Grants movements with
praise of Gilmore's band, that it is i'm
possible to tell which he thinks is the
greater attraction of the two.
Chicago is terribly cut up by her
recent base ball experience. Her feel
ings are so lacerated that the few she
ever had are now little better than fiab-
by emotional rags.
Another of the endless series of
Chicago scandal cases has lately come
to light, and the husband offers his In
jured wife S150,OOO If she will only let
him alone and go away quietly. If
she does, the Chicago Tribune says that
"the gossips of the city and portion
of Michigan will miss one of the most
salacious pieces of scandal that has
been occasioued in some years"
The following may be of interest to
some OF out lady RAIDERS who lrequent-
ly go out to "make calls:" "a plain
card denotes passing call, the lower
right hand corner turned down, visit;
LETT hand lower, coincidence; right hand
upper corner, business, left hand upper
corner, adieu."
DIR. Milligen says:
SIT is not virtue nor merit that, in
general, wins the heart, or, rather,
strikes the fancy of the fair sex. The
virtuous and the meritOriOus are rarely
amusing; fashiOn-'the FOOLS cOckade'
lis the chief lever of their emotion aud
libertinism, so far from creating aver
sion or contempt, will offer prove at
tractive and triumphant"