The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-16

AS Oana'S people say.
Why did they leave so great n spoon
AS Dana in his way2"
-Eugenie encouraGs high tortoise.
shell combs,
John B. Cough will celebrate his
silver welding the 24th.
Observation-Disclosures and Rafafalahi-
bemalo signed the Madagascar treaty.
Governor Baker of Indiana declines
to be candidate for United States sem
atOr. He says the people have elected
him governor ofthe state. and he pro-
poses to obey the verdict of the people
and servo out the term.
"A call, signed by large number Of
distinguished clerRymen and laymen
OF the Evangelical denominations in
the United States. has been issued for
a convention in New York city from
the 18th tn the 10th inst, for the discus
sion OF topics and the calculation OF
views for more free development of
christian zeal and rendering more the
energies of the church.
The 18th will be very generally
observed as Thanksgiving day.
The Nctp Covenant (Universalist) of
Chicago, announces that Rev. Davis
Bacon, of Pittsburgh, is to discuss with
Rev. j. s. Sweeny, of Chicago. the ques-
ton: "Do the Scriptures teach the final
holiness and happiness OF all man
kind?" The discussion takes place at
Cameron, West Va.
There are forty Young Mems Chris
tian Associations in Vermont, with
about twenty-five hundred members.
"A little Scotch orphon at Milwau.
kee has just fallen heir to rich uncle
in his native land.
"A man iu Paris wants to kill him
self and advertises for somebody to
settle 10, 600 francs on his family.
The Dyer Court of Inquiry is in
session at Washington. Clifford Arrick,
ESQ., of st. ClairsYille, is one of the
counsel for the prosecutors.
Theodore Tilton relates that once
when Father Taylor, preaching to sail
gIed in long and involved sentence,
"he extricated himself by exclaiming.
! Il have lost track of thenominative to
my verb. but my brethren, one thing j
know-I am bound for the Kingdom Of
HSdVenI'"
| A Scotch writer on America notices q
| general pRleness in our girls, and at.
tributes 1t to constantly eating pie and
/ studying metaphysics and abstract
mathematics. But spite ofpaleness and
| pie, and even metaphysics, he pro.
nounces the American girls superior to
the English.
1 The Mormons are caItivating raIsin
\ grapes and figs in southern Utah.
| The anti Butler campaign cost State
street, Boston, not less than $4,000.
The Lansing, (Michigau) Democrat
advises Democratic Conventions, in
future, to nominate Hthe meanest man
| that can be fonnd.n We never suspect
| ed that this advice was necessary. 81
"A stone coffin Weighing two tons
has been found at Stanford, England,
containing the remains of Roman
chief and wife.
\ 1T. W." has arrived. He landed
| Thuraday in New York, and 1t Is an
| nounced that he Will hasten to Wash
ington, .sto pay his respects to the Pres'
ldent elect
The Democratic press of California
WAS very severe upon carpet. Daggers
| during the late canvass But 1T now
4 appears that only one Amertcan-b born
| ia thai State voted at the Presidential
election. All the rest were @. BIS.
The New Orleans political clubs
nropose to retain their organization
| The club was powerful instrument In
repressinR the Republican party IN thai
| CITY at the Hate election.
The New York Evening Mail sayI
| that hundreds of s'nIce Young mem In
| mai city, many of them society Eel
lIoYs,U live entirely upou borrowed
money. ~ a.;ss
Smith lives In Cincinnati. Their
are six hundred and tWenty.thr o
him doing business in that city anc
those of him who are named John hRV!
ldWindled down to two-hundred ant
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