The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-12
NEWS SUMMARY.

Two thieves in Pittsburgh, Pa,
got horribly sold recently. They met
n gentleman walking the streets late at
night with box under his arm, and
undertook to show him hotel, when
they relieved him Oft box, and ran
Off with it. The gentleman WAS a
naturalist, and the box contained four
rattlesnakes.
"A rascally confidence man has
been personating an agent of the Pa
citic Railroad, in Louisville. He adj
vertised for IA large number of carpen-
tiers Mt high wages, gave all applicants
bogus transportation papers to Omaha,
but required each to deposit with him
five dollars as guarantee of their
good faith. He has disappeared.
Mr.. Seth Green is experimenting.in
the artificial propagation of fish in the
Potomac, and n day or two since sue
ceeded in Matching some hybrfds from
thewhite perch and striped bass, under
conditions that remove, 1t is said, all
doubts as TO the possibility of crossing
the different species of tish.-Alerdn-
iriG Gazette.
One OF the lady reporters, at the re-
cent Woman's Rights Convention at
New York, was dressed in orange coll
ored silk-silk Knickerboeker pants,
loose vest, and flowing tunic frightened
around the waist. The Knickerbocker
pants were finished by elastics, the re-
mainder of the leg encased in thin
hesh-colored skin-tight stockings. The
reporter who belongs to the Resolution
dresses In black, without hoops, i'm
mense Panama hat, disheveled hair,
green stockings and Prunella CATERS.
The body of Miss Kate Gruper, who
drowned herself by jumping into the
Mississippi, from the bluff at Fort
Pickering, near Memphis, Two weeks
ago. has been found by means of loaf
OF bread, loaded with quicksilver,
thrown in the water at the place where
the girl had jumped In. It f1oated out
some distance, and suddenly sank. Six
days afterward the body rose to the sur
face ut the precise point where the loaf
went down. The Memphis Post tells
the story.
"A gentleman in Chicago recently
advertised for wife, and received let
tiers from twenty-seven husbands, say
ing he could have theirs.
A young doctor in the village of Ly-
ons, New York, is reported to have re-
Gently distinguished himself in high
degree in checking the course OF a runa-
way horse. When the animal started
lines, whereupon he seized the breech-
ing and held to that until he pulled
the harness of, and let the horse go
right through the collar.
On Friday last, during the preva-
lence of heavy storm of wind
and rain, the train from Cincinnati was
approaching Cleveland at the rate of
twenty-five or thirty miles an hour
and when near Shelby a tree was blown
over, the branches of which broke the
windows of one of the cars, and when
the excitement occasioned had sub
sided a squirrel was found in the car.
1t was secured by one of the brakemen.
"A young machinist in Detroit has
made a locomotive engine and tender,
complete, about four feet in length
weighing only three hundred pounds;
attached are head light, bell, whistle,
and every "ixin" to be found in a reg
ular locomotive engine. 1t can be run
with fifteen pounds of steam, though
it If necessary. The boiler has thirteen
hues. The maker has refused $500
for it.
dered his little son, five years of age,
in Whitby, Ontario, on Tuesday last.
He a wldower, and it is said a woman
of bad character had been with him at
his house for few days. On Tuesday
morning his children, being hungry,
ate some bread he had provided for
himself and paramount. For so doing
Tue AuOEhGo OO"h
one OF them, and kicked and stamped
him to death.
They turned dream to good pur-
pose down in Salem, Columbiana Co..
o. The Episcopalians there had no
church edi6ce, and could not see their
way out to provide one. One of their
number went TO sleep, whether during
church service or not does not appear,
and In dream he saw certain school
house, moved by the church members
to a certain lot, and made into a
church. He told the dream to the yes
try, they acted upon II, purchased the
house, secured the lot Just in the nick
of time-for an hours delay and the
lot would have been beyond their reach
moved the house, meeting and over
coming an obstruction at the corner of
street just as the dreamer saw it in
the land Of nod, and now they have a
church edifice, not built from such
stuff as dreams are made of, nor base
less as the fabric of q vision, but SUBJ
stantial and real.