The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-02
NEWS ITEMS.

The Methodist churches through
out the country, are to take up con-
tribution, July 5, in aid of the project
for building a magnificent church in
Washington. A laudable enterprise
which we hope will succeed.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company have recently made materi-
al reduction in oil freights from Pitts
burg and Parkersburg, and vessels are
now loading with oil at Baltimore for
Liverpool.
Al Milledgeville, Ga, thoughtless
boy set a dog at party OF little chill
dren who ran some distance, and one
little girl becoming exhausted, was car
ried home, and that night died in con-
vuIsiOns, caused either by the fright or
by sunstrOke, as the day was very hot.
The tobacco crop of Virginia is I'M
usually backward, and is suffering
greatly from the fly.
Two young girls, Miss Griffin and
Miss Costly, about eleven and twelve
years of age, were bathing in the Colo
RADIO river some six or seven miles be-
low Austin, Texas, when, becoming
alarmed by approaching footsteps, they
hastily got into deep water. and both
were drowned.
Last week man in Sandy, near
Catlettsburg, KY, went nome to his
kill his wife and one or more of the
children. After beating his wife and
Offering 10 shoot one OF the children, he
sent n trern bling little one for loaded
gun to "A neighboring field. He lay
down for moment in passing fit of
drunken stupor, and the wife Selling an
AK struck him II heavy blow upon the
head. Since that time the man has not
moved, and he is now in q grave. The
wife was promptly arrested and as
promptly discharged from arrest.
"A young man at Wooster, Ohio,
named VIM. Mcdonald, one day last
week blew his hand OF by the eXplo-
sion OF n gun while attempting to shoot
II rat.
"A letter from Omaha says sixteen
failures occurred there within a week,
and that double that number will
occur In the next sixty days. The COR
respondent thinks the town next thing
to dead for years to come. and says two
months ago there was not a store for
rent in the city; now there are sixty
one empty ones.
The Glenwood (Iowa) Opinion says
that the grasshOppers are destroying
everything but grass widows in that
section.
The harvest in the Wabash Valley
is now in progress, and the yield is
glorious. In Southern Michigan and
Northern Indiana there will be the
largest yield the country has had for
years, and our exchanges universally,
North, East, South and West, bring
glad tidiugs OF fine prospects for splen-
did crops.
"A captain in the United States
army, stationed in Kansas, has ordered
a full set of Miss Braddon's magazines
imported from England for him. He
must have an unappeasable morbid APP
petite to require fictitious, rascalities
and crimes When the real article is so
plentitully furnished by Indians and
Indian agents all around him.
In Bridgeton, near Brazil, Indiana,
on Sunday, Il young man named Mill
lar accidentally shot himself through
the head. He wanted to know If his
gun was loaded, and to satisfy himself
put his foot on the hammer and his
mouth to the muzzle, and was about to
blow when his foot slipped, and the
gun was discharged.
During the past week 9S4 emigrants
passed through Columbus, for the pnr-
pose of locating in the following States:
Ohio, So; Missouri, l9S; Illinois 2l3: In
diana, lis; Kentucky, 60; Tennessee,
43; Wisconsin, 46; Michigan, 9S; Mimi.
esota, 81; Kansas, II.
The proprietors of bathing resort
on Smiths Island, opposite PuIIauel-
phia, have been held to bail for selling
lager beer to Robert Craig, boy, who,
having drank FIVE glasses, went in to
battle and was drowned-It is believed
in consequence of the liquor he had
swallowed.
"A small worm that eats grasshop.
pers has made its appearance in Utah,
and the saints there are jubilant.
Among the suicides of the day is
that of a farmer in Illinois who cut his
throat because a storm had destroyed
his crops.
The Erie war has broken out again
at New YORK, and Judge Barnard twice
exercised his ''injunctive" authority
thereon on Monday.
The grasshopper plague is devas-
tating Western Iowa in fearful man
ner. For about los miles, from South
western Dakota, between Des Moines
and Missouri rivers, TO the Southern
boundary of Iowa, scarcely a wheat
held Will be left exempt from total de-
struction by these Yermin. They I'LL
the air and cover the ground, making
a constant sound like that of heavy
shower. They sometimes gather over
night in such myriads upon the track
ofthe railroads as TO stop tho train by
lubricating the track when crushed by
the wheels. They devour wheat first,