The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-08
The investigation In 81, Louis re-

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Ston0wall without stopping, from the
charge Of lnhumanlty. The crew testi.
~ that when they passed down the
boat was almost entirely destroyed,
that " was the impression OF oil aboard
the Submarine that the burning boat
was the Colorado and that the Stone.
wall had picked up the survivors and
passed on; and that when the SubmR-
rine passed no llvl1g thing could bs
seen about the wreck or In the river.
The number Of deaths In st. Louis
last week was III.
The committee Interested In the erec.
tlon In Warrington City Of an eques.
tTlan statute OF General Grant have OBJ.
tained sufficient encouragement to
warrant the beginning OF this work.
The statute will be OF bronze, cast of
cannon captured by General, Grant,
colossal In size. The pedestal 10 10 be
OF granite, and the statute Ia 10 be erect.
ed on the terrace OF the south front OF
the Treasury building, and 1t will be
about twenty-five feet high, Including
the pedestal. The cost will be about
$4,000.
An unknown man, attempting to
pass from one Car to another, while the
train was In motion, on the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, Friday, fell
between the two aud was killed.
It 10 estimated that one-iouEth OF the
whole tobacco crop In Barren county,
Kentucky. has been destroyed by the
late freeze. = -.
An autogrRphIc letter Of Washington
at Independence BALI, at Philadelphia,
Is forgery. A man named William
X. Emerson, now under arrest, proves
to be the author.
Zadoc Pratt, the proprietor of ex.
tenslve tRnnerles at PrRttsvIlle, N, Y,
once member OF Congress from Greene
County, was married, on his seventy.
ninth birthday, 10 Miss Grimm, O
young girl who has been employed as
q wrapper writer In the office OF the
Turf. Field and Farm. Pratt is worth
IS. 100000. .. ......
Gen. John A. Dix will probably sue.
ceed General Daniel Butterheld az AS
ststant Treasurer, at New York. We
hope he Will succeed In keeping out OF
the lions den better than Daniel.
A store at PalaskI, Tenn, was set on
fire by the explosion OF an oil lamp,
Friday last, and totally consumed.
There is not city OF It's size In the
United States where so many accidents
happen as at Dayton. We tiud Il record
ed that last Friday at that place John
Mason was thrown from horse and
had his skull fractured; Charles Nick
um tell from his wagon and caught one
OF his hands on sharp hook, tearing q
frightful hole In II; an old man named
Robert Mitchell, father OF Justice Mitch
ell, fell from the court house steps, and
was seriously injured on the head and
other parts OF the body; and man
named Erris attempted TO drown him
self by jumping into the canal. -.
They are to have on the Parkersburg
race course, on the 18th inst. at 2 P. NJ,
a trotting match for $500 side between
a mare owned by David Seaman, and
Seneca, a bay geldtng' owned by J.
VIM. Dent.
The women's rights women are pre-.
pairing monster petition to be launch>
ed at Congress during the coming ses-
sion, for sixteenth amendment to the
constitution, prohibiting distinction In
the elective franchise founded on DIFF
ference ofsex.
The Archbishop OF Paris has issued
a pastoral letter on the Ecumenlcal
Council. 1t maintains that the French
Concordat is opposed 10 anEdecision OF
the question OF the iufalllbility OF the
Pope without discussion.
Shocks Of earthq uake ut Healdsburg,
California, were felt on Friday.
Gov. Stafford, Of Arizona, has iss ued
proclamation for voluteers for Indian
warfare, to be armed and equipped by
the Territory. ...l.. -.
The Ohio river is made a disInfectlng
agent for the great Delhi odor that OF
late has been provocative Of so mnctl
discussion and scoldlng at Cincinnati.
A conducting pipe, seven hundred feet
In length, receives all the stink, and
browns 1t three iathomH beneath the
surface Of the placid Ohio. This ls bad
for the fish, butwell for,the people. The
inny tribe has no vested rights In that
locality, and II Its members don't like
the smell they can move. -t
The President will probably send In
bis message to each House In writing.
The object OF this Is TO prevent Its pre-
mature publication. The Secretary OF
the Treasury is also contemplating the
same course.
Mississippi Dent has gone to Wash.
ington. 1a1H4| T-.Elh l"r
Elias Jasper, negro Of Norfolk, has
Invented new handsaw, which, work.
ed by lever, moves with great swifD-
ness. .5...r-s
Omaha is going to build a Sl5O,OOO
hotel next Summer. n