The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-06
NEWS SUMMARY
BY ALL.

BY MAIL.
The once celebrated Empire Club"
has been reorganized in New York un-
der lis old chief Captain Rynders, who
has declared for Chase. The "Pendle-
ton army" will not run the "outside
pressure" machine alone in the con-
vention, while the ancient Isaiah Is
around.
Dispatches from ST. Louis and
Memphis mention a remarkable deYel-
opment of strength in the Chase move.
ment among the Democrats OF those
cities recently.
"A man plowlng near Chattanooga,
the other day, exploded brass car
fridge. The ball shaved of his nous
| tach and made his nose bleed violently,
beyond which he escaped hurt.
-Columbia, South Carolina, was
visited by a destructive tornado on
Saturday. The roofs of the State House,
market house, railroad depot, and 9th
er buildings, were torn OH or DadIy
damaged, and number oil small
houses, together with fences, sheds,
&C., were completely demolished.
On Wednesday evening, near Bu-
cyrus, Ohio, n brakesmRn, named Hem
nv Crumley, while sitting in the ca
boose, talking with the:conductor, sud-
denly fell 10 the floor. exclaiming,
"My God, my legsl" He remained in
an insensible condition, and died short
ly aflerward, on n passenger train
upon which he had been placed for re-
moval to Fort Wayne.S .s
THE wife of Governor Oglesby died
Iu Sringheld, Illinois, Thursday morn
ing. a.'~
"A New York dispatch says that
General Mcclellan has written letter
iavorIng the nomination of Mr.. Chase
by the Democrats, and expressing an
unwillingness to be a'candidate him
self. .-.,--.T
Coy. Hartman, of New Hamp-
shire, was inaugurated at Concord
Thursday, and delivered his annual
message, which is mainly directed to
local affairs. The floating debt has
been reduced to less than $4,000 and
the entire State Indebtedness to about
S, SOC, 900; $500, 600 OF the debt has been
paid off the past year. The material
interests of the State in prosperous
condition. The Governor urges on the
Legislature the duty of encouraging
home manufactures and agriculture,
and closes with brief allnsion 10 nn-
tional affairs.
1t is reported that prominent DEM
ocratic politicians are urging the Pres
Ident to reconstruct his Cabinet, but
that he has decided TO make no changes
until after the meeting of the Demo
cratic, National Convention, except 10
fill Yaca ncies.
AT Chapel Hill, in Marshall COun-
ty, Tennessee, last Monday night, a
man named McAdams, a dentist, was
taken out of a store by band of the
Ku-Klux, since which nothing Is
known OF him. II is supposed he was
murdered. 1865 iIit-f
The New York Republican State
| u, h m q 10
Convention for the nomination OF Gov
ernor aud other Slate officers, at Syra'
cuse, on the 9Th of July.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided TO make no more clerical ap-
pointments.
"A heavy storm and gale did great
damage in Tennessee on Monday night,
and a similar visitation on Tuesday
night was very disastrous in Indiana.
The Terre Haute Express says that the
railroads centering in that place were
of the embankment of the canal at
Terre Haute, next 10 the Wabash, were
carried away. The express train from
Indianapolis TO Terre HRute, was over
turned by a break in the track at
Eaglesfield, the locomotive, baggage
thrown on their sides. No one was hurt
except the engineer, who was some
what scratched and bruised.
-Ex-Attorney General Stanbery ex-
pected to leave Washington yesterday
for his home, in Campbell county,
Kentucky, where he proposes to spend
th1 summer, and II possible, recruit his
health.
"A young girl, only fourteen years
of age, named OhFiatadora Dener, pois-
| oned herself In Waukesha, Wisco nsin,
| last week, because of her fathers in
temperance and neglect. She was q
Intelligent girl, and of highly sensitive
nervous organization. She wrapped
| mn some little keepsakes In a handker-
chief and wrote a note to one of her
girlIsh intimates, telling her to keep
| the trinkets, and adding, II have taken
poison-you know why"
An inspection of the remains OF
Stephen A. Douglas was made on Tues
dav, preparatory to their removal to
| the tomb erected to his memory. Upon
removing the lid covering the glass, the
face OF the illustrious Senator was
| found to be in a remarkable state OF
preservation. almost as natural as when
| buried seven years ago. The complex
ion Is very fair, the contour of the head
and face apparently unchangedt and
| the expression quite natural and plain
ly recognizable. The hair looks as
black and glossy as ever, and the raj
ment as new and tidy as when hrat put
on, not presenting the first evidence of
mildew or discoloration. is
st. Leger GrenfeI, the English par
tisan of the rebels, who was sentenced
| 10 imprisonment for life at the Dry Tor
tuRas, and recently escaped in an open
boat, has arrived in Cuba, and at last
accounts was about sailing for Eng
land. 4t la e9 t-i1
in November the people of Illinois
will vote on the question OF calling a
convention to frame new constitn-
tion. There appears to be no objection
to it yet from any quarter.
Miss Josephine Davis, of Poland,
Maine, on visit to friends in Auburn,
| in the same State, died suddenly at
noon on Saturday, while walking
from one room to another: She was q
dwarf, being but about three feet In
night and weighing ifty-four pounds.
She was about thirty-hve years OF
ace. She was about the size OF an or
dinary child of two years.
Governor Rrownlow's tenacity OF