The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-19

The bridge to connect New York
and Brooklyn is to be suspension
bridge of the long span of16OO 1eet.
The motive.power furnished by
Niagara Falls, Buffalo thinks ought to
be used to drive her machinery.
AT the Hartford Inauguration pray
err meeting one of the prayers was that
Grant should giveup tobacco.
"A disappointed Office seeker informs
us that There are only 1451 days more
of Grants administration"
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has
discovered her Florida plantation to be
failure, and wants to sell out.
"A Jealous wife plucking out her
husbands beard by the handful was
recent street scene in New York.
Chicago estimates that she will have
nearly 100000 population in 1890,
and be the largest city in the world.
Mr.. Washburne, whilst Secretary
of State, dismissed clerk for ofhciOus
attempts to get his salary raised by
Congress.
Napoleon, as mark of high honor,
recently gave Mandarin Burllngame
cigar from his own private cigar case.
"A contemporary thinks that small
man under one of the now style OF hats
" reminds one OF IL straw in quart
mug"
"A stringent bill has been introduced
into the Massachusetts Legislature for
the better protection of gas consumers.
The " knights of ST. Crispin," the
secret society of Shoemakers, is said to
number 600 members in the United
States.
Fifty eminent citizens want to
serve their country as Consul to Frank
fort, and ninety desire the privilege of
going to Dresden.
Damaged oranges and unstable
raisins are brcwed by Paris chiffon
niers into drink which they call
"Champagne MOutfetard.iiI
The French 90. franc coin is called n
Napoleon, and new one OF 25 francs is
now to be coined, which is to be called
an emperor"
An Iowa paper, under the head OF
" Mysterious Disappearance, an
nOunccs the loss of CHS assistant editor
IA pair OF scissors"
brigham Young hRs an envoy" in
Paris, who goes back on Brigham's
principles so far as TO be cOntented with
one wife.
The members OF tho Illinois Legis-
lature have invented II new way of in
crcnsing their salaries by drawing $500
each for "rOOIn rent"
"A Petersburg (Va.) newspaper re-
ports that n farm of go acres in that
neighborhood has just been sold to u
Northern man for ZOO.
THE Chicago Post thinks there is Mt
least one woman who can ksep a secret,
or else General Grant does not take his
wife into his confidence.
Cornell University has collection
ofshells numbering 5000, 900, represent
ing IL, 600 species, and which it took
their collector 80 years to gather.
Alabama now has an organization
called IEc "AntiKu-kluX," which, un-
der pretencn OF lighting the "Ku-
Klux," commits all all sorts of out
RACES.
-Warronton, N. C., has a newspaper
called the "LivinS Present" which be.
lies lis title by heading its editorial
column with scull and cross-bones
"A Washington despatch states that
Prof. Il. ID. Bassett, Principal of the
ColOred High School in Philadelphia,
is ii candidate for Minister to Hayti.
The have discovered the silver
buckler of the sword belt OF Pepin, the
father of Charlemagne, and deposited
il in the Museum OF the Louvre, Paris.
There are four hundred joint stock
now in process of liquida-
ton in London. The total losses by
these spcculatiOns amount to about $lO,-
600, 900.
TIE debate in the Senate upon the
Tenure. of-O(liCe act, is considered at
Washing ton 10 have proved conclusive
ly that the friends of that measure will
not abandon it without a hard strug-
gle, and will not only place their own
fully before the people, but
will compel their opponents to show
every reason for its repeal. They adj
nit that the act was passed TO restrain
Mr.. Johnson, but they do not admit
that this was the only end. They assert
that it embodies IA just and constitu-
tionnI principle, and that once incorpo-
rated in the laws it should there re-
main. They meet the argument that
the act restraints the President from re-
moving unworthy officers, by declaring
that tho Senate will undoubtedly con-.
cur in every removal he makes, and by
doing all in their power to secure the
of the law for the coming
eight months. In the discussion
Mr.. Trumbull and Mr..
Edmunds took this ground, and
ably maintained it. Mr.. Morton made
the DOlnS luhl Tue VI JA6 hCG
implied distrust of Grant, and that
Congress placed him on probation.
The friends of the measure say that, on
the contrary, the suspension of the
act would be the highest compli-
ment tc the President. 1t would mean
that, while Congress holds to the prin-
ciple, it has yet such faith in Grants
integrity and judgment that, In order
TO give him complete liberty to act
and at once, it consents
that just principle should not lnfere
with a practical necessity. They want
Grant to have every opportunity to I'M
do what Andrew Johnson did, and part
with a constitutional right to meet
an immediate necessity. Mr.. Edmunds
made some very striking arguments,
which had powerful effect.
PoLYw1VEs.-The Salt Lake Iele-
graph in defending the peculiar insti-
tuition of Mormonism, remarks: "The
fact is polygamy has existed about as
long as human nature has, and still
only small part OF mankind are really
and truly monogamists, for most of
those who are not polywived are poly
Tomened." Those who are not either,
it is to be presumed, are polywogs, or,
as they would say down South, SCALA
wags.