The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-16
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-tDuriug the past week; one bundled
andi hfty men and sixty teams have
beer employed in st. Louis, demolish.
| lngf nat Wellknown tumulus of yellow
earth known as "the Mound" The
earn Is being transported to the spot
why're the track of the North Missouri
IA Kay road is being extended to the
IA New Havener sat all day.in the
topsoI tree by way of paying an elec.
-iThe Leavenworth Conservative SAYS
thSt the Kansas Senate will be unani=
mqaSly Republican, and that the House
VIII contain only six Democrats.
1.-THE darkness of a cloudy night
ca&sed a disagreeable mistake in a
GESrgia town. A fellow killed two of
his friends instead ofanoLher couple he
! VIA after.
The New York Times has discover
ed that rents in that city are cominp
down, and that 1t Is easier for people ia
want ofhouses to get them now than
it has been at any time for years past.
"A Cincinnati publishing house adj
Ydrtises for sale, "Breeches Bible, y
two hundred and sixty-nine years old;
bsing quarto which was printed in
Lyndon 1899. 1t Ia valued ut twenty
dSllars. LIE peculiar name is derived
from the fact that in this edition, first
Published in Geneva. 1850, the seventh
verse Of the third chapter of Genesis
(sli. ~ Is translated as. follows:
"And'the eyes OF them both were
opened and they knew that they were
nakedi and they sewed fig leaves to-
gether and made themselves breeeheS. y
Bonner says: "The position which
Mr. Greeley occupies in the country is
very well illustrated by the general
ananimity, the sort of common consent,
With which he is designated as our fu-
lure Minister to England"
james Brooks was one of the ear
:test newspaper correspondents at
Washington. He represented the Port
land (Me.) 4dUerLiSer thirty years ago.
+ Money" says the Nation, sis ra-
pidly growing to be our solitary social
test; at once the corner stone and cop
ing of that gorgeous edifice which is
known as our best society. We do not
at all inquire whether a man or woman
is virtuous or cultivated in order to adj
NIT them to the sacred circles OF our
elite, but only If they are rlch."
-Tennyson Is opposed to the Eng
lishman,s memorable law OF dress
coat for dinner and a stove pipe hat for
out OF doors. His boys pRrtake of his
unconventional ideas, and wear their
hair in a medieval fashion, short across
the forehead ard long onthe shoulders,
a style SO obnoxious to- the London
gamins, that upon their appearance in
the city they are hailed as "MIssey."
/. The National IHteItigeneer is about
to pass into other hands, which an ex-
change calls "shufning of its immoral
Coyle."
Some of the strong. minded women
denounce marriage. No doubt they
think theTe-is something very childish
about iL-Prentiee.
I'm Jenkins account of a fashiona-
BILE party in New York we find mem
ton of Miss -, white Swiss fluted
talIe, and a del-Grecian bend"
An American lecturer of note SOL
emnly said one evening: parents, you
may have children, or, If you have not,
your daughters may have"
james Buchanan's monument is to
be a solid block of Italian marble, five.
feet high, seven feet one inch long, and
three feet seven inches wide, with heavy
holdings at the top and bottom, and a
rich, carved wreath of oak leaves