The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMs.


Prime butter was bought in our
market on Saturday at % cents.
The worm is reported In some oil
the Lake Erie vineyards. Crops OF all
kinds along the shore are backward.
East Liverpool, Columbiana coun-
ty, Ohio, has very creditable Repub'
lican weekly newspaper called the
Record.
The Young Mems ChrIstion Asso.
citation of Baltimore is TO give a grand
Goncert.
Another bridge is talked of up at
Pittsburgh, between Manchester and
Temperanceville.
The prospect for wheat was never
better in this section at this season of
the year. The crop will be larger than
last year.
There are G.OOO scolchmen in Lon.
don.
Tho Manassas Gap Railroad has
been rebuilt as far as StrasbHrg.
The cows of Maryland are up to their
knees In grass, andi yet butter is 55
cents n pound.
Sir Robert Napier gets s., COO (gold)
year for his Abyssinian victory.
The summer weather has come
-
and tho heats said to be tremendous.
Money is loaned as low down now
as ~ per cent. 10 the great houses in
New York.
The past winter has had no paral-
lei in Montreal. For fifty days in sue
cession the thermometer was below
zero-a fact never before known in that
city.
About five hundred thousand
bushels of potatoes are annually man.
ufactured into starch in Grafton and
Coos counties, N. H. making two
thousand tons of starch, which is sold
for three hundred thousand dollars.
When the Pacific Railroad is fin
ished the tour of the world can be
made in two months and half. From
New York to San Francisco the time
will be seven days.
"A letter in the Steubenville Herald,
dated the Goth, from Saline township,
Jefferson county, Ohio, says that corn
planting has scarcely begun, on ac-
count of the extremely wet weather.
The same letter says that the freight
trains on the Cleveland and Pittsburg
Railroad are running heavily loaded.
The Fairmont Vest VTrginian re-
ceived gold dollar subscription a few
days ngo-a noteworthy incident these
days.
The proposed national camp meeting,
for all denominations, in Lancaster
county, Pa, in July, will possibly be
the largest gathering of Christians ever
known on this continent.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shares
are quoted at III.
The Germantown, (Pa.) Telegraph
says that the prospects OF heavy crop
of apples, peas and peaches, ut this
period, has seldom been better.
Ole Bull is giving farewell concerts
in New York prior to his return to
Europe.
-Mrs. Fremont in writing of her
father and her husbands early and I'M
the Pacific Railroad, says that there is
truth in what Emerson says, viz: that
n Columbus may discover u continent
but pickle dealer like Vespucius may
put his name upon il.
Baron Roothschild made s., O00, 600
on some recent operations ON the Paris
Bourse.
The Detroit Post snys that nearly
all the immigrants who now go
through that city mean to settle in Wis
consin.
The New York News Association
says there are less than l25 competent
PAOhOSIdPhlS AClSAASAb ia thu NthhhlJ y
Female suffrage is advocated by
many eminent persons in England. A
petition in its favor signed by near
%, 900 persons has recently been pre-
sented 10 the British Parliament.
The Germans in Texas are over
sixty thousand in number, and 1t is
estimated that at least tbree-fourths of
them are engaged in agricultural pur-
suits.
"A Now York paper says the paper
hangers and paper makers are much
excited just now with news of the in
vention of guttR perchR paper, which,
for durability and imperviousness,
SURPRISES all previous attempts at fab
rication of a damp-resisting medium.
It is to be prepared for paper-hanging,
and will very shortly bein the market.
Belmont Furnace, at Ironton, Ohio,
owned by the Messrs. Norton, formerly
of this city, is now in blast and is said
to be yielding twenty-five tons of iron
per day. The fuel used is stone coal,
from the Ashland mines. 1t is thought
that when the furnace is brought up to
its full capacity 1t will turn out thirty
tons every twenty four hours.