The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-12

Sunday evening. The graduating class
numbers AZ, many of whom go West.
Wendell Phillips delivers his leo.
ture on Daniel o'Connell at the Acad-
emy of Music, New York, this evening.
BY MAIL,
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Colonel Augustus G. Hazard, the
maker of the famous Hazards powder,
died at Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York,
last Thursday morning, He was a
citizen of Enfield, Connecticut. Gov.
Bullock, of Massachusetts, married his
daughterl
Under the new State Constitution,
| Louisiana is to have 10l Representa-
tives and SO Senators in its Legislature.
The Governor is to receive O salary of
900 year, to hold his Office for four
years, and to be ineligible for the sue
ceeding four years.
"A man named Alexander Patter-
son, was carried over the Great Falls of
the Missouri river, in Montana, on the
18th of April. He belonged to n party
who were prospecting in the neiShbor-
hood, and becoming partially intoxica-
ted, boasted that he could cross the
river nearer the head of the rapids
above the fall than any one of the
party. Despite the warnings OF his
companions, he pushed small boat
| into the river and rowing out into the
stream, in his drunken brayado allow
ed it to drift down till it was caught in
the rapids, when one OF his oars broke
| and he was helpless, and his compan-
ions poweriess to save him. No trace
| of body or boat had been found below
the falls. Patteraon's kindred live
about Pittsburgh.
| "A man named George Booth COM
/ mitted suicide in Pittsburgh Sunday
morning, by stabbing himself with a
pocket knife which he had just bor-
rowed from a friend standing by. he
had been drinking and thrown out of
employment.
"A colored woman named Lane died
in Pittsburgh Saturday morning with
symptoms of poisoning. Her husband
who is suspected. OF administering the
dose is in Jail. She was his fourth wife
and his reputation is bad,
The third annual shearing festival
of the Allegheny and Washington
Counties, Pa, Wool Growers Associa-
ton will take place on Thursday, May
21st, at the farm of Henry McMurray,
twelve miles from Pittsburgh, on the
old road to Washington, Pa, Quite a
number of liberal premiums are Of
fered.
A duel took place Saturday morning
near Baltimore between Col. p. x.
Green, of Mo-, and Daniel G. Wright,
of Baltimore. Both parties were
wounded by the first shot, Green in the
shoulder, Wright in the leg, neither
very seriously. a second shot was in
sisted on by one OF the parties, but OBJ
jected to by his second, and the affair
ended after the first shot, though no ad-
justment ofthe difficulty was had.
"A good rule is in force on someofthe
railroads of Pennsylvania, to the
effect, that the officers OF such roads
are clearly forbidden TO sell ticket to
or allow intoxicated persons to ride in
any of their cars.
Judge Field, oithe Supreme Court,
and Lucille Western. actress, were
among the passengers for California on
Saturday.
-"Alta Yela" is the Spanish for "tall
candle."l
i'm New England the question,
"wilI tea restore the memory 2" is be.
ing discussed. In Winthrop, Maine, a
man has been drinking aboUta pound
| of tea q week, in the belief that Il is q
remedy for defective memory.
"A meeting was held at Pittsburgh
yesterday, to deliberate upon the recent
action OF the Ohio Legislature in au-
thorizing the the abridgement of navi-
| CATION OF. the Ohio by a short span
bridge at Cincinnati.
cellor of England, is dead. rE
The Des Moines (Iowa) Register
says the song "Tramp, tramp. tramp, u
i was written by Lieut.. s.. 81. NJ. Byers,
of the Fifth Iowa Infantry, while in the
rebel prison at atlAndersonville. IL
-"DRta,D of the Baltimore Ss.n, says
1t is reported that Secretary Seward is
negotiating for the purchase of Iceland
and Greenland. $50 y S Eo5
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"A recent discovery of salt kettles, g
furnace, and a salt well. many feet IN,
Tennessee, has created much interest
4 The remains OF forty kettles have been
found, each of them about three feet In
diameter. Above these ancient salt
works hayegrown large trees, oaks and
i poplars, some of them one or two hun.
.dred years old.
1t is understood that resolution
will be introduced in the House at the
earliest opportunity, providing that the
tuition in South. Carolina be installed
and constituted q provisional govern.
ment of the State until Its admission
by Congress. g es.lE5 = 80
If the weather is favorable the far.
i mers OF Long Island promise to send
i've Thousand bushels of Strawberries
| to New York during the coming season
Il I5In6 l66LttIhtcA 1hASb year mtAs
1 ltwenty-eight hundred bushels.
-Ex-President Frank Pierce was in
New Haven on Wednesday,to to heli
inaugurate Gov. English.
1t is now claimed by the friends OF
4 Mr.. johnson, that Messrs. Fessenden
Frelinghuysen,. Henderson. Howe
Trumbull, Fowler, Wiley, Van Win
kle, Ross and Williams, of the Repub-
licAn voters, will vote for acquittal
making three more than are necessary
while some claim Mr.. Sherman fol-
acquittal on the first ARTICLE
On the other hand, the Radicals are
betting on forty Republican votes fol
conviction on the first article, beinl
three more than are necessary: Thil
comparison best illustrates the opin
Il ions of the respective parties.
4 "A dashing young widow in Detroit
prepared a pleasant surprise for her
, suitor a few evenings since. Expecting
a call from him, she hid herself In 8
. convenient corner, and as he touched
the knob OF the door bell, sprang out II
Il the darkness of the evening, and near
lily smothered him-with kisses. Hi.
i cool reception of her caresses startled
Iherwith q recognition of the fact tha
linstead of her lover she had been Law
fishing her sweetness upon the conduc
tor of street car, who had come will
note explaining an unforseen alb
! sance.2 The widow thereupon, will
4 great propriety, tainted ON the spot,