The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-10
The Treasury Department has is.

terest from May q, 1869. These bonds
are for sections of the road extending
from the 5lOth to the 570th mile-post, !,
cast from Sacramento: The necessary
papers showing the completion OF other
sections have been filed, and further
issue will be made 10 them in the course
OF few days. -'.
The assessed valuation of taxable
property in New York city, real and
personal, is put down this year at 81 600.
600, ,0OO-a gain of $90,000,O00 over last
year.
The strawberry market in New
York was glutted Tuesday. The sup
ply was larger than ever known. Prices
touched 10 cents per quart for good
age. Whole cargoes OF Norfolk berries
were thrown in the river, the rain hav-
ing stopped the sale.
Mr.. James Fl. Lucas, the richest
man in st. Louis, was stricken with
paralysis Tuesday afternoon. One side
of his person, 1t is said, is paralyzed,
and he was speechless at last accounts.
1t can not be told whether his life Is In
danger as yet.
WEAR AND TEAR.-The New York
Economist thinks that the Pacific Rail-
road will afford the maximum of dis
advantage to passengers, and thus IA
vor existing routes by sea with short
land passage. No human constitution,
it argues, can stand the continuous
strain of six days and seventeen and a
half hours. The length of the route,
therefore, between San Francisco and
New York will be great drawback In
competition with sea routes. Again
the rate OF passage Is three times great
er by the railroad than by sea. Hence,
although the railroad will undoubted-
ly be of great advantage, 1t cannot ex.
pect more than share ofthe passenger
traffic. These reasons are of still great
er force when there Is a question of
through traffic between China and Eu-
rope.
WORMS IN STRAWBERRIEs.-M ID.
Landon, of Jackson county, Michigan,
writes as follows to the Cincinnati Com
merciGI: One of your lady subscribers
gave me the following to send to you
for publication. Two years ago I
gathered some largo berries from small
vines of Wilson's Albany. On examin-
ing one of the largest, found three
worms coiled up inside. continued
the examination in fourteen berries. I
found twenty-four worms very full OF
legs-usually called "thousand legged"
WOrms-and more than an inch in
length. There was no apparent scars
on the berries. It has been stated that
persons have died from eating straw
berries put ap in tin cans. May not
worms i'll the berries have caused the
deaths?
NJ. RcCHEFoRT, in the last number of
his Lanterne, uses the aurora for a
witty fling at the Imperial rule. He
says: The aurora borealis surprised
the people of Paris the other evening,
just as they were coming out OF the
theatres.
at Is the "Spectre Rouge p" cried
an elector.
'It is the light of the Ldmterme." ex-
claimed another.
'"Tis the blood of Baudin !" yelled
third.
At this moment the rays flight sud-
denly faded out, and the sky became
gloomy gray, mottled with inky black
spots.
exclaimed, "Ho it is the Empire"
A TELEGRAM from General Sheridan
to the President, says the late depreda-
tions in Kansas were committed by the
Cheyennes who spent the winter up in
the Powder river country, and have
lately and secretly moved down into
Kansas. Those Indians whom he
punished SO severely last winter have
had nothing to do with these troubles.
The President, on advice OF the Cabinet,
has directed Sheridan and Schofield to
send troops to protect the line of the
Kansas Pacific Railroad and settlers all
along the frontier of that State. Troops
are also TO go to the Cherokee neutral
lands to protect railroad rights there
from the violence of settlers and squat
ters who oppose the road. General
Sherman says he will call out the mill
tia If necessary, but does not think
such a course will be needtul.