The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-10
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DO seen. The price or grapes Tor wine
has been higher than any former year.
Many Of the grape growers sold their
entire crop for seven cents per pound
for oAIAWbAS, and ave cents pound
for ISAbSlAs.
Judge DOnL Of MlBSissippl, IL Ia
Washington. Before leaving the State
he made an agreement with General
Aleoru 10 consider the work OF either
candidate on The stump as ended. The
election does not take place till the S0th
mat Judge Dsnt expresses great con-
adenoe Of his success, ut the same time
admitting that the negro vote Of the
State b greater than the white BY about
twenty thousand,
Senator Morton interviewed the
President, Monday, upon the Cuban
question, and upon the resumption Of
specie payments. The Senator express.
cd himself a. strongly In favor Of the
eauOe Of free Cuba, but held the opln.
lon that the recognition Of bellIgerency
was an executive act, and not . matter
for Congress 70 take part In. Tho Sen,
ator opposed tho Idea OF q speedy 70.
sumption Of bpe6Ie pAymenls,
-It 10 reported that Secretary Bout
well has. come 10 the conclusion thai
the West md South have not sufficient
banking facilities for the transaction Of
their business, and that no has q plan
for furniShIng additional currency.
Saturday night train bound north
on the Pittsburgh Il Cleveland Rail.
road, when hali way between Wells
burg and Yellow Greek, rem into q
three horse team crossing the track q
the time. There were two men In the.
wagon, one Of whom was instantly
killed. The other made his escape by
jumping. The horses were killed and
the wagon Knocked into kIndllnE wood
The engine remained on the track and
was but slightly injured, Every effort
possible was made 70 stop the train and
prevent the accident but without avail,
"A horrld wife murder was com.
mitted in Pittsburgh early Monday
morning, by . wretch named Thos. J,
Campbell. His wife was found lying in
the kitchen, dead, horribly mAngled,
beaten and bruised. All the clrcum.
stances point to her husband as the
murderer. He was drunk and went
out into the stresta and sent persons 70
the house, saying bis wife had fallen
down Htairs and he was afraid she had
killed herself and that he would be
accused OF numbering her. he waa
taken into custody. One OF the Wit
nesses testifed 70 hearing him accusing
her OF InhdelIty and beating her. The
room In which she was found present.
Cd shocking aight. Blood was all
over the floor and furniture, and on
the implements, such as chairs and
poker, with which he bad evidently
beaten her to death. Campbell was an
express wagon driver, hAbisually In
temperate and had often been known
10 beat his wife before. Much excite.
ment was created In the neIRhborhood
when the circumstances became known
and the house was visited by photo.
Eraphers, who took views OF the
bloody corpse as 1t lay on the floor.
"A penny paper called The Day has
just been started In Philadelphia. It
begins with 5000 circulation. It Is
very full Of news, and II kept up to the
present standard Of excellence must
succeed.
Five Office holders In Chicago re-
ceive an aggregate income OF more than
S2l6, 900 a year. Too much TO pay for
the official service OF Ave men. The
"cltizens" movement was evidently
needed there. i
-Parson Brownlow obstInately re-
fuses to die to let johnson into the
Senate. Brownlow is on his way to
Washington, and said TO be in better
health than he has enjoyed for long
time.
North Carolina reports successful
tea crop this year.
The sad news comes from Wash.
lngton that the "tnnd for the travelling
committees Of Congress has been ex-
hausled. )" and the congressional frollcs
must cease.
in Boston last week, q professional
gormandlzer, Reynolds by name, made
q wager Of $40 with "Jerry" Desmond :,
that he (Reynolds) could eat within an
hour all the smells that Desmond conld
catch In twelve hours. The result OF
Desmonds fishing were ninety -four
smells, which he cooked, using pound
OF lard and an equal amount Of meal,
The fab weighed, when cooked. eipht
pounds. In forty.hve minutes AFTER
Reynolds sat down to his dinner. Inc
laat hah had disappeared and then he
ifany one would pay for II. Nobody
1pAAb W lSSb tI9 VIA ub AQlhQEQ
hia meal on bread, and then wanted 10
bet that he would sleep twenty.three
hours Aday for two successive days.
The general assemblies of the Old
and New School branches Of the Pes
byteriau Church meet In Pittsburgh
to-day 10 oonsummate their union on
the basis already adopted by the re-
qulred two-thlrds OF the Presbyteriss
Of each branch. The Gazette aays the
difficulty which It was thought would
arise In the transfer Of the property Of
the New School branch, which ID not
held like that Of the Old School, BY
corporate bodies, asparats and distinct
from the Church In q legal point Of
view, but under the Church charter.
has been overcome BY the attorneys, 40
that there 10 now no obstacle Interyen-
Ing to prevent the contamination Of
full and complete union on the pro.
posed basis. The reunion, Il Il claim
ed, is not surrender Of the corporate
rights and franchises Of either branch,
but rather . continuation OF them IN
the united church, tho natural and IL.
climate successor OF both branches,
The Philadelphia Press Think thIs
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