The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
b Y MAIL.

The st. Louis Merchants Exchange
has passed resolutions favoring the re-
duction of the tax on whisky to twen-
five cents per gallon.
DIR. j. T. Meigs has been appointed
professor in Jefferson Medical College.
Philadelphia, Uice DunglisOn, resigned.
Dickens has sentSl, 200 to DIR. Howe,
of Boston, to pay for printing two hun
dred and fifty copies OF the "Old Curl
osity Shop" in raised letters for the use
of the blind.
w. R. Wrenn. who murdered man
in Monroe county, Arkansas, a year
ago, and had ever since been hiding in
the juneIes OF the Mississippi bottoms,
ventured into Memphis n few days ago,
and was recognized and arrested.
in Pittsburgh, on Thursday, a
mortgage for ten million dollars, on
the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and st.
Louis Railroad, to- J. Edgar Thompson,
of Philadelphia, and George w.
IN the Registers office. The mortgage
is given to secure the bonds of the
company.
The Newport bridge controversy is
occupying the attention of the Post
Office Committee of Congress, both the
long and dshort-spanners being strongly
represented in Washington.
Frederick Warren. OF Jones' Sta
ton, Butler county, Ohio, has u COW,
which, during the month of May, gave
1,673L pounds of good rich milk.
Z The seventeen years lOcusts (cicGdd
Septendecem) have made their appear
ance in the neighbOrhood of Aurora,
Indiana, i'll countless numbers. The
first were seen on the 26th of May.
The congregation of Bene Israel laid
the corner stone of Jewish Temple, in
Cincinnati, Friday, with impressive
ceremonies.
The ladies of Cincinnati are organ
izing Ladies' Christian Associa-
tion."
Every man in the Arkansas Legis-
lature, including several colOred men,
can write his namel A circumstance
that never before occurred! Excellent
Radicalism.
The place of Senator Fowler upon
the National Republican Committee
has been declared vacant, and filled by
the Hon. Thomas G. Alvord, OF New
York.
The Republican journals in Cali
fornia that bolted during the late State
campaign have all placed the names of
Grant and Collax at the head of their
columns.
The Ohio STATE journal says that a
Chase organ is soon to be established
atYashington under the editorial direc-
ton OF George Alfred Townsend.
The Omaha Herald has "hIgh au-
thority for stating that Senator Grimes
will shortly take the stump in Iowa
against Grant and Colfax.
The hall OF the House OF Repre-
sentatives has been put in summer
trim, with mating instead of carpets,
and cane seats substituted for cush-
Toned chairs.
John s. Hubbard, OF East Glast-
enbury, Conn.,, reports that on Sunday
week, with a noise like thunder, the
water in his well under his house burst
through the floor, lifting up the wall of
heavy stones with which II was built,
and rising over twenty-five feet in five
minutes, subsidiDg in about a half
hour, and leaving in the well on Mon
day morning thick yellow scum.
1t has been customary to call Low.
ell the "City of spindles," but it would
seem that Fall river is justly entitled
to that distinctions ,as she has upward
of 10000 more spindles than her rival.
OF the Lowell spindles some 20, 1000 or
more are wooden. OF the Fall River
spfndles, only 2,766 are wooden, and 3, :
500 linen. The rest are cotton.