The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-22
NEWS AND GOssIs.


England.
Parton calls st. Louis the serene
and comfortable Philadelphia OF the
West.
Columbus, Ca, It is said, will be
the leading manufacturing city Of the
South by next fall.
There Is some curiosity to see how
Rev. Petroleum v. Nasty will accept
the release of JEFF. Davis.
1t Is already understood to be the
purpose of JEFF. Davis to set to work
about writing book, giving history
OF the secession movement.
The leading French Iron firm,
Schneider & Son, expended $l!6,UOO on
their display In the Paris E&hlDltlon'
They employ twenty thousand men.
Three of the Boston banks-the
Merchants, Traders and Boston-have
each upwards of $4,000 State circula'
ton still unredeemcd.
"A large number of negroes enlisted
in this city for the United States Army
to serve on the Indian frontiers, lett
here on Tuesday on the Salem and Me
ridian train for their destinatiOn.-S"-
lem Times.
Speaker Colfax thinks there will be
no summer session Of Congress, and II
is found that more than half the SenA-
tors have gone to Europe, while others
are preparing to follow.
-Iftruth be once deserted, unity ana
peace will not last long.
Adams Express Company has been
celebrating its twenty-stxth annlveF-
SarY. II began with days receipts
amounting to 81 81.
To forgive provocation Is one of the
proofs of u great mind.
Santa Anna is living quietly at
Staten Island. He has cool million
in cash to console him.
Let reason go before enterprise, and
counsel be fore action.
Dan Rice performs in Parkersburg
next Saturday.
He that tells all he knows, will also
tell what he does not know.
"A. T. Stewards losses by shoplifting
and other crimes Is stated at 600 per
annum.
Get good sense and you will not re-
pine at the want OF good luck.
Upper Cherry Run, in the Pennsyl-
vania oil regions, now turns out 200
barrels Of petroleum per day.
-You cannot manufacture a consci-
ence out of expedienCy.
subscriptions to the amount OF
$500, 900, for rebuilding the Lindell
House have already been collected in
st. Louis.
None have less praise than those
who hunt most after it.
Williams College is believed to
have the Oldest daily prayer meeting
| in the world II has been conducted
by President Hopkins for over thirty
years.
| Next to acquiring good friends, the
best purchase IS useful books.
There are in Chicago l723 licensed
liquor shops open every Sabbath, be-
sides four hundred unlicensed shops,
and railroads, rolling mills and disIil-
leries in full blast ON Sundays, as on
| other days.
ship. ''''s' jest Is the poison OF 'F'sn0-
Always leave good margin at the
top aud bottom OF the sheet when writ
ing for the duly press.
| Acquire honesty, seek humility,
practice economy, love fidelity.
The largest woman in Maine is
Miss Sylvia Hardy, of Wilton, who is ]
feet high, and weighs $50 pounds.
Compare your griefs with other
mems and they will seem less.
"A Pittsburgh speculator has paper
ed his room vito oil stock certificates
at an expense of $4,000.
Men may liveln II crowd, but they
must die alone.
Buffalo bakers have increased the
price of bread from ten to thirteen cents
per loaf.
Bear your misfortunes with forth
tude.
Enough clothing is rotting in
United States arsenals 10 clothe all the
armies OF Europe for ten years to come.
Wouldn't Russia take old clothes for
her American colonies?
The length of the day now from
sunrise to sunset Is nearly fourteen
hours.
Just thoughts may fail of producing
just deeds, but just deeds always beget
just thoughts.
"A widow in Erie, Pa, has adver-
t!sed a grand hop" to pay expenses OF
her husbands funeral.
Suicides no longer attract notice in
st. Louis, they are so frequent.
"A recent conundrum runs thus ::
why Is kissing like victory ?" "Be-
cause It is easy to Grant"
Garrett Davis says he is ION the
threshold. of posterity" and never wants
to be anything else than a United
States Senator.
Prudence is christian as well as a
moral virtue.
-Eighty-dve midshipmen will be
graduated at the ensuing examination
at the Naval Academy. Fifty or sixty
Of them will be placed on the steamship
Minnesota, and sent on n six months
cruise, for the purpose of being in
structed practically IN their duties.
The report that the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company has bought
the franchise of the Baltimore and Po-
tomac Railroad Company, thus pre-
venting the construction OF rival line
to this city, Is without the least founda-
ton.
There are said to be two hundred
drinking clubs in Boston. Every mem
Der has key and helps himself.
"A conscientious person affirms that
he once in his life beheld "people mind
ing their own business" This remark
able occurrence happened at sea, the
passengers being too sick TO attend to
each others concerns.
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