The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-26
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During the nine months ending the
3lst OF March, the valuation OF exports
from this country was 1926. .725, ,156, and
imports $39S, sos. .203, a balance OF S57,-
S73, ,347 in money not in our favor, or
Just so much cash placed in the Golfers
OF Foreigners. During corresponding
period one year since there was bal
anee In our favor OF $62, ll9, lO7.
Thomas Laion. a member OF the
Freshman Glass of Oberlin College. and
a son of DIR. Lafon, of Newark, N. j.,
who was last winter found guilty of
manslaughter, aud sentenced TO i'm
prisonment for one year, has been re-
leased by the Court OF Pardons after
some months imprisonment. His Of
fence was striking a young man, who,
it was proved, had made an unprO-
voked attack upon Efs younger brother,
and was beating him without mercy.
The blow was struck with snow
shovel, and from it's effects the young
man died after some weeks.
THE astute but short sighted Impe-
rialism Of France took the trouble,
few days ago, to suppress an edition OF
the International newspaper, because 1t
contained an unpleasant allus1on TO
Louis Napoleon's London life. Being
missed, the paper was everywhere in
Qulred for, and the offensive paragraph
was, of course, in the mouths OF all
Paris. Had the journal been permitted
TO appear and no notice taken of it, the
"reminiscences would hardly have been
heard Of
The Paris IGtrie says that several
papers in enumerating the artillery
force OF Prussia, have declared that 1t
consists of 5000 guns, and that OF
France is numerically inferior. with
out entering into comparison" says
the Patrie, 1--WE may, perhaps, be al.
lowed to remark that France possesses
a total of 6, $40 guns, the bulk of which
are now riiled cannon, or old pieces
that have been altered, and that our
artillery enjoys n very high reputation
in Europe"
A petrified human body has lately
been disinterred from a Baltimore
cemetry. 1t was that OF man sixty
five years OF age, who weighed some
three hundred pounds at the time of
his death, and which has been buried
since November 49, 1861. The body,
with the exception of the face, which
showed some signs of decay, was almost
as perfect as at deuth. No other body
in the same lot, and of the same family,
exhibited any signs OF petritcation.
The Havana correspondent of the
New York Times writes: The filiibus-
ters are still coming, as we have reports
of the landing OF two expeditions, one
and reported to haYe sailed from Balti-
more, and the other OF $50 men, report
ed to have landed at Cienaga de LaPate,
on the south SIDE"
"A Virginian has been initiating the
boy Hercules. He found two snakes,
rattlesnake and black snake, caught
each by tue throat and killed them by
splitting tobacco juice in their mouths.
"A French lady of rank has sued for
a divorce from her husband on the
the ground Of ill-treatmcnt and deser-
ton. One of the most serious items
laid 10 the charge OF the defendant, Is
that when he returned from the Me1i-
can campaign, instead of flying at once
to Pau, where his wife was staying, he
sent her the following telegram
tWhere are my shirts? l can't find
Them" All Pau soon became aware of
the Iaconic dispatch, and the Princess
could not leave her house without being
asked what she had done with her hus-
bands linen.
For the week ending June 2lst
there were 800 applications for patents.
81 caveats filed, and 346 patents ordered
to issue on the 18th instant. These is-
sues are distributed among the States
as follows: New York So, PennsyI-
Ohio 25, Connecticut II, New Jersey IL,
Indiana II, California 10, Vermont,
Wisconsin, Iowa, each 6, Rhode Island
and Michigan 5, Missouri 4. kentucky,
Oregon, Louisiana and England 3,
Mary land, District of Columbia and
Nevada 2, and each to New Hamp-
shire, Delaware, Virginia, Tennessee,
Canada and the United States army.
The people of Evanstan, Illinois, a
few days ago, experienced a most ter
rife storm. Several houses were struck
by lightning. though no persons were
seriously injured. Nearly every cellar
was deluged. An old gentleman resi-
dent there says he never has known or
witnessed so terrible a thunder storm
accompanied by SO heavy fall Of
water.