The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-06
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"A correspondent of the Dayton
journal, writing from Salem, Mont
gomery county, Ohio, says that the
storm of Friday night blew over a
circus tent at that place, much to the
terror and discontinue of the audience.
"A vein of iron ore has been dis
covered in the Garret Mountain, near
Patterson, New Jersey, fourteen feet
below the surface, extending mile and
quarter, from eight to thirty feet in
width.
The case against the Missouri
Pacific Railroad, in which an attempt
is made TO prevent the payment Of an
through the Legislature, has begun, and
some very interesting develo pments
are expected.
An unknown woman was Instant
ly killed short distance east OF Ply
mouth, Ind, on Sunday evening, by
throwing herself in front of n freight
train. The cause of the suicide Is un-
known.
The scene with which Mr.. Dickens
opened the memorable memoirs of the
Pickwick Club was repeated in the
House, on Monday, in the matter of
Donnelly Us. Washburne. We read that
"NIr. Spauldlng's resolution TO ex-
punge both speeches from the Globe,
| was then considered, and in the course
of this debate Mr.. Donnelly Withdrew
most of his speech that was personally
offensive to MIR. Washburne, and the
latter Withdrew everything but the
charges in his letter, and on that the
House adjourned, having first heard
Mr.. Donnelly ask the Speaker if it
would be In order for him to follow the
example of Stanton and Thomas, and
invite Mr.. Washburne out TO take a
drink"
n. F,.I 4.
old Bull Run battlefield will be dedica-
ted next Saturday. Ithas been made by
the women of that neighborhood, who
have had a large number of bodies OF
rebel dead gathered up and re-buried.
THE secret service force of the
Treasury Department has lately cap
| tured four notorious counterKeiters and
25,0O0 in counterfeit $40 greenbacks.
The lettering of those counterfeited is
we'll executed, while the vignette OF
Lincoln on the left of the note, and a
the right,are rather poorly done. Still
the general appearance of the note
would make it dangerous, as 1t is well
| printed on bank note paper. The cap
ture was made at Marine City, Michi-
gan. The fifth counterfeiter succeeded
in making his escape. One of those
captured was severely wounded with a
The little town of Shanghai, situa-
ted in the northeast part of the county
of Warren, Illinois, was completely
destroyed by a tornado which visited It
Sunday afternoon, about o'clock.
Three persons were killed outright. A
large number were wounded, but how
many Is not known. The tornado
moved In a northeasterly. direction.
The same tornado visited a point in
| Tnr 1f ~
tine, earlier in the afternoon. Its per-
formances were rather erratic, ascend
| ing and descending at irregular inter-
walls. Whenever it touched the earth 1t
swept everything before 1t. In one in
stance it picked up large stone in a
brook and sent 1t crushing through the
roof of house, and trees were taken
| up by the roots, carried through the air,
and dropped a mile distant, The house
and barn of Mr.. Hoop were completely
destroyed. A Methodist Church was
completely swept away. The congre-
| CATION had left 1t but a few minutes be-
fore and had gone to the river to baptize
number of persons. No lives were lost
at this place. but quite number OF
persons were badly injured.
John Minor Bolts has written let
ter declining to be etheRepublican candi-
date for Governor of Virginia, and say
ing that he would like to be chosen as
one of the United States Senators from
that State,
The counsel in the JEFF. Davis case,
with the consent of Judge Underwood
haYe agreed to have the trial commen-
ced on the Sd of June.
The New York Sun says: "Eyery
man who pays income tax pays an un-
constitutional tax, levied contrary to
law, and which could not be legally
collected of him.
Rev. Alexander Clark. of Pitts.
bureh will deliver a lecture al
Bethany College on the evening of the
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