The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-16

Mcclellan will soon be home.
Mr.. Lineoln's wardrobe has been
sketchsd for the illustrated papers.
The book trade in Boston is quite
active.
The walters OF London have started
a newspaper.
Baltimore has appropriated S5o.OO9
for negro schools This year
-Bzecher j. soou to commence a Sc
ries Of sermons TO young men
Five challenges are now pending
for the base ball championship OF
America
There are sixty-iwo Spanish news
papers published in Mexico.
Seventeen divorce cases were acted
upon in one day IN Chicago, this week.
AT Sitka there is a Lutheran as well
as n Greek Church.
Anna Dickinson is lecturing in the
small towns Of Connecticut
The Government will lose nothing
by the 81 90 bond counterfeit.
Seventy or eighty crushing mills
are constantly at work in Virginia, Ne
vsda.
The mayor Of Jersey City has writ
ten 10 vstoes.
San Francisco is troubled about the
continuous Importation Of the social
evil from China
Prairie chickens are scarce in the
West. The incessant rains Of the
Spring interfered with the work of
Matching the eggs
in the cotton manufactures Of
Great British there are thirty-six mil
lion spIndles employed
The Mayor OF Norfolk resigns be-
causs his pay Is too poor.
There are several elergymeu in New
York city who receive over 5000 per
year for marriage fees. IL Is nm i'll
wind, DC
Rev. NJ. Simpson, Of Exeter, Eng
land, is on trial for Habitual drunken
ne-s IN church.
Jefferson Davis Is to he tried on the
18th Of November.
The decline in the price OF cOtto on
hzz produced general feeling Of des-
pondency in Georgia. Cotton ceased TO
be king long sgo.
The Cincinnati Commercial says
that IL suggested Mr.. Smith for Con-
grsss, thinking that he would be "a
good general utility man"
Nearly all the ice used on the Pa
cific coast is brought from an ice cave
in the northern part Of Oregon.
1t costs but two cents 70 render a
muslin dress unindammable, by mix
ing phosphate or sulphate of ammonia
or tungstate Of soda with the starch.
The rate of mortality in New York
has largely decreased.
Religious revivaIs are reported in
several parts Of Virginia.
Ohio registration reports show one
divorce TO every twenty-six marriages
during the past year
1t is not believed that Colonel Ben
ton, IL now alive, would favor paying
OF the debt with greenbacks.
H. b. Cromwell & Co. OF New York
have sent to the New Orleans sufferers
g, IO7.lg.
-VirginiB Is Importing stock cattle
from Texas aud Mexico.
More than II hundred United States
soldiers have died in New Orleans oil
yellow fever.
Bonner was offered 5000 If he
would exhibit Dexter" and his Au.
burn horse for one day at the Washing
ton Fair, but he declined.
An expressmAn in Essex county
died recently, who, according to an eK-
change, divided his love between the
democratic party and the Methodist
church.
The English curates talk OF "stri.
king" for higher pay.
1t COSTS 81 900. 600 to collect in New
York the news of the Globe.
Sheep will not bark trees that are
whitewashed with little sheep manure
in the wash.
Geo. Campbell of Vermont recently
sent - bucks and five ewes of fine
wooded sheep to Buenos Ayres in South
America.
A proposition to sell all fruit by
weight instead ~ by the box, bBsket or
other measure, was received with great
favor and passed unanimously by the
American Pathological Convention.
Drew county, Arkansas, Is the
most Intensely rebel" county in the
rant as the negroes.
An Ohio editor reckons that If all
the grRsshoppers in that State were
placed in single file. allowing an inch
aud IA half 10 each, the solemn process
sion would girdle the earth twenty-five
hundred times.
One of the horse railroad compan-
ies OF New Orleans took nineteen hun
dre1 dollars in counterfeit nickel cents
during September.
An infidel was rejected as juror
in the Supreme Court in New York
city on Wednesday,. He declined to
take an oath, but said he would act in
accordance with his conscience.