The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-20
By MAIL.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shares
at the Baltimore Stock Board Saturday,
were quoted 126 bid and 129 asked.
The bones of an enormous reptile
ofthe lizard family have been received
from Kansas by the Academy OF Natu-
raj Sciences of Philadelphia, to which
they have been presented by the dis.
coverer, DIR. Turner. The geologists of
the Academy are busy chiselling out
the remains from the crystalized gyp-
sum in which they were found imbed-
ded. The backbone has been cleared
of its rocky case and the yertebra, put
together, extends in length about thirty
feet. With the head and tail it is be-
lieved to have formed monster of at
least Jlfty feet in length. Professor
Cope finds 1t to be an entirely new spe-
cics of the extinct Saurius, one of the
largest and most formidable yet known,
and has named 1t ptGtyM'
rus. .--#.-
Gold -bearting quartz, the New AL
bany, Ind, Commercial says, has been
discovered in the knobs two or three
miles from that city. Some of the
quartz, it is said, has been assayed, and
proved very rich. The New Albany
public are all anxiously waiting fur
ther facts.
The Quincy, ILL.,, Wiig says that on
the afternoon OF the sth inst, lady
hu6 huLhluk nCul GlG LANOI WIN
her babe. She left 1t for II moment,
when gray eagle swooped down and
bore the child away. Pursuit was
quickly made across the river in n skiff,
but the "bird OF freedom" and its help
less prey soon passed out of sight. The
remarkable circumstance about the
story is that it was told week too late
-on the 9Th instead of the 1st of the
month.
;,, oh
ed, last Thursday, in breaking up old
iron came across an old bomb shell,
which they got to pounding with their
hammers, when greatly to their sur
prise it exploded. The darkeys were
laid out at full length but not injured.
The Virginia Convention Friday
night, at eleven o'clock, adopted the
constitution by vote of 81 to 26. Three
Republican members voted against 1t.
The Virginia Conservative Execu-
tive Committee has made a call for a
State Convention, to meet at Richmond
May 7th, to nominate State officers.
The vicksburg papers give some
account of a horrible and mysterious
butchery committed last Saturday,
near Omega, Louisiana. On that day
the people of the neighborhood discov-
cred the house of Mr.. Henry Keenan, to
be burning, and on repairing to the
spot, found that Mrs. Keenan, and her
two children had been murdered and
burned. On further search the body OF
Mr., Keenan, was found about two hun .
dred yards from the house, covered
with leaves and bark from the trees,
with ten bullet holes in his back. There
was no living person on the premises
One of the severest epidemics OF
scarlet fever ever known In this coun-
try has prevailed in the city of Boston
during the past year, and still contin-
ues, though the number of deaths Is
gradually diminishing. The whole
lumber Of deaths from scarlatina from
the 1st of January, 1867, to the 1st OF
the present month has been 42S. There
were deaths from Scarlatina in all but
one of the sixty five weeks included In
this statement. The greatest number
in any one week was thirty-in the
week ending December II, 1867. The
greatest number in any month was
seyenty-eight-in the four weeks end
ing Decerncer %. The epidemic seems
to have reached Its hight about the
middle of the mouth.
Arrangements have been made to
have the four armies-of Tennessee, The
Cumberland, the Ohio and of Georgia.
meet at Chicago on the 18th or 10th OF
December next, to have one common
celebration, instead of having separate
meetings, as heretofore. As soon as
certain arrangements are completed AT
Chicago, the official announcementWi VIII
be made.
The Pacific railroad imbroglio at
st. Louis which is about to enter the
courts, 1t Is rumored, will bring to
light startling disclosures, one of which
is that $50, 600 were paid to procure the
Executive approval of the bill, and
that $500, GOO more were expended In
bribes to newspapers and Senators ana
Representatives.
The New York Tribune accuses the
President of desire to keep the War
Secretaryship permonently vacant by
the appointment of dd interim Thomas.