The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-13
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

lunch ana cOuee room toE LnS DSe4S
of the employees.
The Tredegar iron works at kieh-
mond are in fulf.oPeratton' employing
400 men.---z---.------------z..
lon Saturday, the European mall
g.nt from New York by three steam-
. hips embraced &c, 40l packages.
Ia congress of literary men Of all
na.ious is spoken Of to take place In
Paris during the exhibition.
The embers of the eight-hour ex-
still shoulder in Chicago, as
u recent assault ON some laborerS who
work ten hours testifes.
The New York Tunes thinks that
now the Great Eastern could get a full
load of passengers for Paris II she
would come to this country.
General Howard has appointed j.
n. Langston, the colored lawyer Of
Ohio, inspector of freedmen's schools
for Virginia.
The Norfolk market is "drugged"
with cherries, and they sell t,r only
~ cents per quart. New Irish Pota-
toes are selling at IS per barrel.
"A fleet Of forty steamboats,, from
Montana, is coming down The missouri
river: with 1900 tons of freight on
board.
-4uG NAkJ
appointed committee to report suit.
able location for park OF 500 acres.
Mr.. Terry, living near Paris, Ken
lucky, owns an eccentric female dog,
which has Tepudiated her own offspring
and adopted u litter of young cOons.
1t is computed that fully seven per
cent OF the meat consumed In Chicago
is unfit for food, and an inspector OF
meat Is TO be appointed.
The fact that Swinburne's mother
was an Italian 10 alleged as cause
of the ardent praises of Italy in his
new poem.
The only interruption of President
Jonson in his speeches during his last
journey was that when "Echo answer
ed-where.
Rev. DR.. Leonidas Rosser sold from
500 to ], 400 quarts OF Strawberries daily
during the present season., from his
farm near Richmond, Va. He has al
cents.
There is quite arush of Penusylva-
mans to Virginia in search OF lands.
Most of these gentlemen desire to in
vest in Valley lands.
Among the jewels the Queen OF
Spain recently sold in London was a
watch chain which cost $l2O, 900.
An English clergyman, in a recent
sermon on behalf of the Licensed
Victuallers' Asylum" announced as
his text, I'll any man thirst let him
come to me and drink"
One William John Mexcel, whose
residence Is not given, challenges either
Brown or Hamill to a dve.m mile scull-
ing match for $1,000 a side, the race TO be
on the Hudson.
Hon. James Guthrie, of Kentucky,
whose illness has for some time past
prevented him from taking his seat in
the United States Senate, Is recovering
his health. -.
OF the thirteen million bottles OF
champagne sent annually TO market
from Rheims and neighbOring places,
the United States take at least two
millions. And 1t is the poorest of all
that Is made, too.
Pittsburgh is as badly of for meat
as Chicago. We Judge from the accounts
given by the local papers that the only
animals butchered in that city are such
as are unable to ride any further for an
eastern market.
-Ofthe dny-two designs for the new
post office building in New York, the
Tribune says: "There Is not, AS every
competent person who has examined
them will support US in saying, u sin
gle design on these walls that deserves
to be carried into execution
The Albany EVenin0 Journal does
not like the idea of losing the State
conVentiODC which proposes to adjourn
to Saratoga. 1t sarcastically suggests
that it had better hire the great tent OF
the Agricultural Society and camp out
In the Adirondacks.
"A Kansas judge has decided that
under the law man is white or black
according to the preponderance of white
or black blood In his veins. The aues
ton arose on the right of light color.
ed African to vote. The Judge doesn't
say what the rights of One-half black
and white would be. Hr rga t.s5t
-Illitarate juries seem to be remarka.
bly, plenty just now. The Milwaukee
Sentinel gives the following copy OF the
ballot on 4 verdict:
mo Gieldiy, Gieltig
Gieldig for boy, Not Gueldy,
Not Guilteng, Not Gieldig,
55n ..eitiy,. .. Moth Gtlteg,"
The "boy" referred to in this ballot
was one OF the witnesses whose eVi.
dence was discredited by the jury,
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THE following is list of the Nation
al Banks that have failed and are now
in the hands Of Receivers, with tn,
amount of circulating notes issued tc
each: The First National Bank of AT.
tica, New York. s45, 600; the Merchants
National Bank Of Washington, D. C.
$780, 600; the Venango National Bank
of Franklin, Pa, SIS. 900; the Tenn es.
see National Bank of Memphis, Tenn.
$50, 900; the First, National Bank o.
Selma, Ala, SIS, 900; the First Nationa
Bank Of New Orleans, La, $3.50, 600. II
addition to these, two banks have taken
up their bonds and deposited lawful
money in the Treasury of the United
states to the amount OF their Outstand.
ing circulation, viz: The First National
Bank OF Carondelet, New Orleans, $25
800; the First National Bank of Column
bus. NewOrleAus,S l1 $3.50, making a total
of Ss22, 400 which has reverted to the GOV
eminent, upon the return and destruc.
ton OF which, au equal amount Of cir.
culatton Will be at the disposal of the
Comptroller of the Currency for dIstri-
button, according TO the terms and con.
ditiOns prescribed in the National Cur
rency Act, subject to the same rules
that governed the distribution OF the
amount originally authorized by the
act of Congress. l
THE New York Times says that a
form of government was established in
1854 by the Israelites resident in the
Unitsd States for the purpose of guard
Ing the race in America. This organi-
cation has been in regular operation
ever since Its estalIfshTl,ark Int s,,taI-