The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-12-03
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New counterfeit ten dollar green
backs are In circulation.
There are two female students at
the Iowa Agricultural College.
Ripe strawberries were gathered on
the James river, Va, as late as the 18th
Of November.
The whole Upper Mississippi conn
try Is covered With nearly two feet OF
snow.
"A poultry raiser in Australia has a
pen of 10, 600 acres, in which he keeps
ostriches, for their feathers, not eggs.
Within two months there have been
shipped from Lexington, KY, $1,000
barrels of corn to the districts OF Bour-
bon and Harrison counties.
"A st. Louis husband has applied
for a divorce on the ground that his
wife Is in the habit of throwing the
children at his head.
Canada is a little premature thus
year in her winter sensations; man
has already been lost in the snow and
frozen.
Senator Sherman Is not to be Presi-
denuGTanps Secretary of the Treasury.
Unlike Barkis, the Senator from
Ohio is unwilling.
The Treasury Department, last
week, printed S402 600 worth Of frsc-
tional currency, and redeemed S2G9 900
worth.
The Secretary Of the Treasury esti.
mates the total revenue to be raised for
the fiscal year ending June, 1870, at
$3.50, coo coo.
+ JEFF. Davis has "jined" the church,
and Robert Z. Lee has Bible class of
l50 members, Who says the rebellion
accomplished notbingH
-Ex. President Fillmore had an UNI
brella stolen last Wednesday,, and the
entire police force of Buffalo have since
been employed in looking for it.
DIR. Horace b. Wakefield, Superfn-
tendent OF the Massachusetts, State
Almshouse. has been tried for the ille-
gal detention of an inmate. and
acquitted
1t is said that the cranberry crop In
South jersey, the present season, was
never as great and profitable.
A certain Jefferson Davis, unfortu-
nately not He Jen, has just Ibeen put
into the Ohio State Prison for four years
at hard labor.
Gen. Cary, the defeated working
mems candidate for Congress in the
Cincinnati district, is talked of by the
Democrats as candidate for Governor of
Ohio.
"A Stockton (Cal) paper notices an
apple tree near that place, which has
yielded three crops of fruit the present
year, and Is again I'M blossom.
"A Wiltshire dame, the mother OF a
large family, was one day asked the
number OF her children. LA, mel" she
replied rocking herself TO and fro, "I've
got fourteen, mostly boyG and girls"
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
reports that the number OF the Indians
now within the bounds of the United
States. exclusive of those in Alaska, is
about 100000. .stfa.a .tlsi'.fl
-Washington kilograms say: The
Presidents Message will contain the
first official announcement of the neg
citations with Great Britain for the set
Element ofthe Alabama claims.
DIR. Arthur r. Petticolss, Superin-
tendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asy-
suicide on Saturday by jumping from
a window of the Asylum building. Un-
settled mind the cause.
The st. Louis street railroad com
panies have taken the rear platform
from their cars and dispensed with con-
ductors. The passengers get on the
front platform and pay the drivers.
"A physician was called to a man,
and on being asked If he hadn't taken
something strange into his stomach,
replied that he believed he had-"tt
must have been that glass of water.
Haven't been SO imprudent, doctor, for
ten years." 4--I
"A family man-very much of one,
we should say-hRs recently been IA.
yored with triplets, all feminine, and
he has named them Faith, Hope and
Charity. It is a great thing-eyen
though In small packHges-to have the
leading Christian graces under one roof
Mrs. Grant. as well as the General,
has trials incident to the high station
that has come TO her. Already she is
annoyed by persons who want to be
at the White House as SER
wants, and the demands made upon her
charity would exhaust a millionaire's
purse.
"A cargo OF coolies Is reported to
have arrived recently at Galveston,
Texas. These unfortunate Chinese Ia
boFers, 1t is stated, were consigned as
with the ordinary bill of
ladlng, and were to be sold at auction
to pay freight and charges. TWo.Ihirds |
Of The coolies were females.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has
Issued an order 10 Collectors of Inter
nal Hsyenue directing them to deposit
All pubic moneys, after the LIST OF De-
cember. with an Assistant United
States Treasurer or with a designated
public depository, and to discontinue |
the practice of deposlting with Ma
donal Banks. s-sfI.-
The National Board of Trade Will
hold its first session at Cincinnati, on
December 81. THE subjects
proposed for discussion are the means
or revivtng the shipping interests OF
he country. the methods OF returning
o specie payments, and the modifica-
ions OF the railway system, rendered |
iecessary on the completion OF the
Pacific railroad.
An EXPRNsIYE YICE.-The sales Of |
etal liquor dealers in the United |
,lRtes, during one year, Amounted, &C. |
!ordinR to the report OF Commissioner |
Wells. TO 81, ass, 46I, S65. or this sum |
Sew York is credited with sag. 6I7, $50;
1852 663. 1876; Ohio, $751;
81 SIS, and Illinois, S1l9'g33. 745. When |
o this enormous amount of nearly |
ineen hundred millions of dollars Is |
added the value OF the time wasted in l
he consumption of ardent spirits, and |
u the property destroyed by intoxi- |
sated persons, 1t is asserted that the |
.ayings from the dlsuse OF alcoholic /
thinks would extinEpish the public |
teht in one year. |
A TENNEssEE Dptchman having
,au8ht his son in wrong doing, defer. |
mined to administer a dose OF hickory.