The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-23
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4 -Sitka has 116 buildings.
Chicago contains 81, 4S3 Germans.
Our standing army numbers nov
about 4s. 600 men.
I ST Paul has this year erected SO
buildings, costing 81, 900, 900. q
-Blsmarck's estate covers 16, 600 acre
Henry A. Wise Is writing his auto
biography.
self can reconstruct and redeem on
American government"
I'm New Haven, the other day, al
tmpecuniary bridegroom requested thu
othciating clergyman to charge the mar
riage fee until he went to housekeeping
"A successful attempt was recently
made In Lynn Haven bay, Mass, tC
Dish by torchlight. Fires were kindIed
on the shore to lure the fish into the
Day:k 5lfts w tHA EfE5s
Returns from the greater partiof IL
linois indicate that the proposition fol
Constitutional Convention has been
defeated.
4 Two hundred persons are annOunc
ed to be anxious to obtain the nomina'
ton of Governor of New Hampshire.
"A hnephew of Count Bismark" re-
Gently appeared at New Orleans, and
departed suddenly, neglecting to pay
his board bill.
Mr. and Mrs. Colfa3. 1t is said,
propose to spend portion of tho conn
ing winter in Europe. = rs y
Gen. Grant is reported by st.
Louis correspondent 10 be worth $500,
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, accom-
panied by her son, arrived safely al
Bremen on board the steamer Balu-
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Frankfort. on-the' Main, where "ltttle
Fad" entered a boarding school. Mrs.
Lincoln then started for Nice, intend
ing to spend the winter in Italy.
The office.hunters' raid upon
President Grant brings to mind Mr..
Lincoln'S complaint under similar af-
fiction. 81 am like a lRndlord," said
he, "who is so busy renting rooms at
one end ofthe building thaFh has no
ing at the other end" lT
"A little boy of 49,. having placed a
penny on the railway track at Bruins
wick, Me-, to see the locomotive crush
1t, one ofthe trein hands threw a stick
OF wood at hun and he WAS instantly
killed.
Living In Washington" Is new
definition given in the New Haven
Journal to capital punishment.
An old brlck-layer says he has no.
ticed that the weather always breaks
and gets bad,-about the 2Oth or Novem-
Der. ~
Hon. s. NJ. Ashley has issued a
valedictory address to his constituents,
occupying two columns ofsolid nonpa-
reil, In the Toledo Blade.
The late venerable Dean Millman
used to congratulate himself on having
discovered the true way OF answering a
criticism-ik was to outlive the critic.
The crooked and narrow streets OF
Boston have at last become a nuisance
not to be borne by the Inhabitants, and
energetic. efforts are being made to open
wide thoroughfares in the business part
ade of vehicles. To carry out this meas
ure effectively some of the old land
marks of Boston will have to be remoV-
ed. "A slice, It Is stated, will he cut or
from the venerable State House.
-wIsconain, it is asserted by the jour
mails of thatState, has a larger popula-
ton of foreign born Inhabitants than
any other State. Ofthe naturalized citi-
zens, the Germans are most numerous,
in point of numbers. There are also u
great many English, Dutch, Welsh, Bel
CLANS, Scotch and BohemiAnS.
On Saturday, two boys in Beverly.
Ontario, amused themselves, one by
blowing a blacksmith's bellows, and
tho other by placing his mouth over the
nozzle. The first blast blew the breath
OF life completely out of him.
y "A Salt Lake special to the St. Louis
Democrat says the hanging of the three
roughs at Bear River City, previously
reported, created great excltement, and
a mob of some two hundred. men from
the frontier burned the IndeI office and
the jail. The citizens armed themselves
and fred on the mob, killing ten and
Wounding number. 1t was feared the
whole town would be burned and wo-
men and children were fleeing for safe
ty. Bear River City is eighty miles east
OF Salt Lake. a=L,F
-Ohief Justice Chase goes 10 Rich
mond to-day to preside at the fall term
OF the United States Circuit Court.
The new bronze doors, cast at Ames'
foundery, Chicopee, Mass, for the Sem
ate wing ofthe capitol, have been placed
in position, and are already attracting
much attention from visitors. They
were ordered in the early part of Presi-
dent Pisrce's administration.
The temperance element at Wash
ington has formed a league for the agt1
ration of the question OF a prohibitory
liquor law by congressional enactment
for that District. ali.1
The contract of the present proprl-
etors of The Globe, for printing the
legislative proceedings of Congress,
expires on tho Ash of next March. The
joint committee on printing Is to deter
mine whether the contract shall be re-
newed or the work done at the govern
ment printing office.
Senator Edmunds, chairman ofsths
Joint Fetrenchmsnt COMMITTEES, has been
engaged at the Treasury Department
| for several days past In examining the
was under the charge of Mr.. s., NJ.
Clark. Several other members of the
committee are expected to join him in a
thorough Investigation of the affairs OF
the printing bureau since It's organiZa-
ton. .iyr s.s sl-a iiz}.-.
Speaker Colfax, accompanied by
his bride and his mother aud sister, ar
rived at Washington very quietly
| Thursday evening, and proceeded im-
mediately to hissresidsnce on Lafayette
Square. The house has beenthoroughlY
renovated and refitted during the sum-
mer, and Is one OF the most comfortable
in the city. 1t Is probable that Mr.. and
2drs. Colfax will go north this week, to
be absentu until the meeting OfCongress
IA bill has passed the Vermont
Legislature giving the body of an exc
cnted criminal TO any regularsmedlcal
school. A unique argument In favor
of It's passage was that the delivery o.
the body for dissection would; add 9
new terror to the death penalty, and
deter from the commission of crime.
HARD MoNRY IN NEvADA.-The Vir,
ginia (Nevada) Enterprise has the fol
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