The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-31
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Ben. Wade is sixty.seven years old.
Speaker colfax is forty-four.
Neal Dow is lecturing in Rhode Is.
o;1An average of four ares day in
Z Tickets slS for The Charity Ball in Chi.
:. "A cat twenty-eight years old died
:, Thirty miles of city railroad track
Farmers in Nebraska are planting
The Empress Eugene is cultlvatlng
,5;3c9 aT5eEs % are l,os4, ,sO6 Baptlsts in the
~ .9I4 hogs were slaughtered in
-Meerschaum pipes are now made
from potatoes.
One Thousand girls In the Hill mills,
Lewiston, Me.
oes church fairs.
-o-.Cactuses In Arizona Territory grow
so feet in height. :
The income Of a lady physician In
In y eN orlf 600. =
Dtelle ne j4Nd Anna Dickenson are
engaged 70 lecture In Buffalo.
Ten thousand men are at work on
the Central Pacific Railroad.
People In st. Paul, Minnesota,
don't mind cold forty degrees below
Lone thousand two hundred and
sixty-three factories in Philadelphia.
Twelve convicts In the Maine
State Prison are under sentence of
Elephant meat is tough, but after
boiling twenty-four hours is eatable.
"A clam digger in Saco, Me-, dug up
cannon ball fred In the war of 1872.
"A New Haven wife has purchased a
house and lot with her pin-money
-Brevet Major General Grlerson was
In 1s4S banjo player in Youngstown,
Miss Thackeray's foil name is
Euphemia Ella Victoria Regina Sarah
Thackeray.
Maine takes the lead in instructing
her delegates to vote for Grant at Chi
cago. y
Captain Alexander, the ruft1an of
Liverpool.
The General Conference of the
Methodist Church will be held in Chi
cago in May.
Beef Is five cents pound in Flor
ida; butter, go; board higher than in
New York.
Nine weddings were celebrated In
one hotel In Dayton, Ohio, on Christ
mas eve.
Massachusetts is the only State
which derived revenue from State
prisons last year.
"A Jersey City detective chased a
sWlndler seventeen days through five
The Pau tribe of Africans are very
kind to their wives, and when they die
cook and eat them.
Twelve million bushels oysters
were dug last year from the oyster beds
OF Maryland.
mr.. Bennehoff, the oil millionaire,
gave man S for notifying him of an
intended burglary.
Two hundred and twelve thousand
two hundred and six Odd Fellows in
the United States.
"A catholic priest In Wisconsin had
one OF his hngers frozen while sitting
In the confessional.
The famous Island of Juan Fer
nandez has been leased for fishery by
the Chilian Governments.
During Prince AIfred's stay in
business was entirely suspended.
-GanZ, an iron master OF Hungary.
made one hundred thousand rnilway
car wheels during his lifetime.
There Is a printing Office in ossIpee,
n. H., la which all the labor is per.
formed by lady and her daughter.
The principal ballet girls In the
leading theatres of Europe do not re-
ceive more than "a or $5 a week.
"A gallon of brandy, costing Sl2.
yields $61 40 when retailed by the plass'
Whisky, at S5, yields $27 20.
AT a ball in New York few even
ings ago, some of the ladies had three
servants to hold up the trails of their
dresses. rfsif-
Ladies in the Ishogo country are
allowed but two pieces of cloth, the size
of an ordinary handkerchief, for their
costume.
The highest embankment In the
world is on one ofour western railroads;
ils height IL 24O feet, and its base 780
feet thick.
-Du Chaillu had an offer of marriage
while In the Ishogo country-a chief
wanting him to marry about eight hun
dred women.
One large dry goods house In New
York discharged all the single men in
its employ on the 1st inst, and reduced
the salaries of the remainder. ~
More business was done in New
York City last year than in Boston,
Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago,
Baltimore, Cincinnati and st. Louis
together.
Passengers by the Buffalo, Cory
and pittsburgh road, detained by
snow. drift few days ago, were hand
somely entertained by the directors
during the detention.
"A letter reached Its destination In
/ Iowa with the following Endorsement:
''There is $40 bill folded in this letter,
and If you want 1t worse than my
mother does, take it." st
PedestrianIam with Embellishments
s..AHAirB l1 VIeksburg, 6e.
yICKsBURa, Jan. 2s.-To.day Ser.
geant Gilbert 81. Bates, of Wisconsin,
who made bet to carry the stars and
stripes from Vicksburg TO Washington,
unarmed, and without money, started
headed by the mayor, council and
band, accompanied him as far as the
Grant -Pemberton monument, where
| they bade him farewell.
for. New Orleans, ran aground on Mon
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