The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-24
NEWS.

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-Eighty-one couples were married
BY Mayor Hoffman in New York Iast
year.
-Anna dickinson has avowed a
preference for Chase for President.
"A feminine Fifth Ayenoodlein in New
York triumphs in three hundred
"A German Grant Club has been
formed in New Haven.
FPS buildings, costing Sl,95l, 200
were erected in Boston last year.
There are 40, 600 cigar and tobacco
manntacturers in the United States.
THE cholera and yellow fever are
both sojourning at st. Thomas just
now. 9'
The crops throughout Italy have
been abundant this year.
in the matter of divorces, Chicago
M ust now give precedence to Indian-
~; The State debt of Ohio is Sl1 ,os1,-
"a "a %; the taxable property Of the
STATE amounts to u s18S, ,754,579.
1t is reported that Horace Greeley
Went sleigh riding with Holster Cly-
mer, alter a recent lecture at Read
ing. ~ Il
The Dayton, Ohio, Empire, Vallan.
dtgham's organ, Is said to threaten a
secession from the regular Democratic
party In Ohio. -
"A splendid cotton plantation of
1000 acres in franklin county. N. O.
has been sold for So 05 per acre.
Twenty families from New Hamp.
shire are to settle in Grinnell, Iowa.
next spring. = : - =
There may be truth in wine, as the
classic proverb says. but it looks as II
there werenothing but fraud in whis-
The Commissioner of aericulture
estimates the corn crop of 1867 at775,-
81, 600 bushels, and the cotton crop at
2,s40, 600 bales.
Tho valuation of the State of Wis
constn has increased over fiGty-seyen
millions within the last two years.
The Assistant q. 8. Treasurer at
Boston, who has a salary of 81, COO, isI
obliged to give bonds amounting to
Victor Hugo gave a Christmas
dinner to forty poor children of Gnern.
LA Grangewore $4,000 worth of
diamonds on her first appearance at
Pixies Opera House.
We have ear gloves here, but In
Paris they have ladies' nose protectors,
lined with fur.
The Houston (Texaa) TeLeOraph
says: No thief can ply his profession
long in Texas, as things now stand.
without losing his life, either by rope
or bnllet.n
"A Michigander in Detroit, who re.
Gently skRted for 60 hours without in.
termisston, for wager, Is not expected
to live.
Yale College has Instituted a sensi.
BILE reform. The commencement exer.
ctses are to be cut down to sixteen
speeches, these to be selected according
TO merit as oratlonS, not according 70 |
scholarship.
The eslander.mongers In Paris are
again attacking the French Empress.
She Is reproached, among other things.
for being a. Spanlard by birth, and q low |
song rhymes 9L'EspRgnole" with the |
terrible "CarmaRno1e."
The number Of convicts now in the |
Michigan State prison Is 594. The mum.
Der received during the year was 254;
the number pardoned, died, discharged
and escaped was III, making a net
gain in 1857 of n.
The Western Musical World saws
zone evening, at a social gathering. a
young lady played q piece of music
consisting of tWenty-four pages, A
gentleman, In referring to IL next 6lav.
said they were favored with music ISy
the Quire."
The Springfield Republicans says
Most OF the Wo0llen manufacturers
that are running in this neighborhood
are expecting fair spring trade, as
pretty much all imported goods are
used up, and importations must nearly
cease aS long as our present low prices
IN o0ilens conttnue.m