The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-07-14

NEWS AND GOSSIP.

| NE"S AMI uOSCAA -
GRIFFIN Halstcad, the father of Murat
Halstead, Of the ClnCinpau Commercial,
died al lis home, Wednesday in Butler
county, Ohio, from injuries received sew
eral days ago at the hands Of Lawrence
Brown. Mr.. HalsteGd was farmer
eighty years old.
Ex SENATOR FIelinghuysen Of New
jersey Is now talked Ola Motleys sue
CeSsOr. I'd. "a .lJ A.,.r
JUDGE ORTIZ Of Indiana is the newest
man talked about for tue PrnsstAn mis-
a New Yonk lettor! writer ri says that
W. F. Story, Of the Chicago Times, has
offered 100000 for the New York World,
but Marble would part with one-halfonly
for which he asked the modest sum d
$250,0OO. The same writer ascribes to
Mr.. HalstcaH Of tile " Cincinnati C0tnRler-
ciGl, a desire TO purchase the New York
Herald for $1,5O0OO0, .... =
TIE New York Past thinks Wendell
Phillirsa Mnister tHEnglandwPpld be
a bull In u China shop.
J IA. LETTER. from Ntlle White Sulphcr
Springs, W. VA, says tho proprletors
have extended invitations to General Lee,
johnson, Geo. H. PendlctOn, Horace Gree
ID. and iSfhe I2cys Hcnry6Nard BceCher
to YbH, cSpripss during gthe season, and
that most Of them have been accepted.
T{EP6Krs fr6m all sections Of Virginia
are to the effect TINT the present wheat
crop Is tlIe largest dnd finest harvested Tor
years.
THR Virginia Legislature adjourned
Monday night at midnight. hf
Now that Boston Is proceeding against
street, corner rlNGep, New York wants to
See her taxeslightsncd in the same way
Dr. PRIME predicts that within the
life Of snme now living, there will be
union of all Evangelical Christians OF New
2CfaGHlMssKAaTtt AaTtt Il disturbed IL tic fntelr,
genco that It's iayorite, the horny.handed
Sam Cary, has returned from his Europe
an trip with his hands cncased in kids.
"a MOST degrading system, OF election
eefingh grown up In Kentucky, bycan-'
didat@ ior JuHgeaips taking the stump.
SINCE the beginning Of the insurrection
In Cuba, the Spanish Government llas
confiscatcd over $4OO,OOO,0OO worth Of
property. y
.NiRs. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has ar
rived at Newport with three carriages,
seven horses, three children and Mr..
Train. .. ., rli.rD. aN.
TnE. Crispins Of Marlboro, MISS, hIyo
ordered II "strike," 10 the extent Of with
driving tifly.tlree of their number from
the shop Ot MIR. Lewis A. Howe, because
he insists 'on retaining the service Of an
old American workman, named Billy.
Gates" who had been In his employment
some fifteen years. The objection Of the
Crispins 10 Billy was that he failed TO pay
his dues 10 their association, and to attend
their meetings. After II few days, MIR.
Howe succeeded in getting the Crisplns
to remove their benches from his shop
uGietlyahd withoutdishlrbance. Hchas
since been engaged in replacing the Girls
pins by new men, but the Crisptns have
tlirowh out pickGlst 'andJ sldrmtshers
around his premises, and have stattoncda
squad :ot obseryAtioniat the depot, whose
operations are so efficient that he finds 1t
hard slSafhg.t2 99!rnHs
THE Memphis App4l, ofJnly l, pub:
fishes annccOunt Of horrible c'Isc Of
poisoning near Spmeryille, Tenn Aina4p
named TIan Baily, riding home saw q pdckagc
neatly ldone,Ip1yihg III the road, which
proved to bc q small porter bottle nearly
full of whisky. B6ily took It homo and
made o toddy, Of tue contents Of the bot
tie, giving his three little children, u girl
of!lf years ofage, and two. boys aged res.
pectively 3 and 4, q sip, and drinking the
remainder, himselfS At was a!1atRl dtaught!
A few moments aier drinking, each was
seizedsWith 20 burning, gripping pain irg the
stomach, which soon became alarming.
Aid Ms summoned; but II canie TOO late,
andin tWG shorthours ALI four WereQstiif
in death. It is supposed that the bottle
was placed in the road purposely for
Baily by a person who had threatened
his lite. h
NATHANIEL liWIsoN,, theL renowned
''liying skeleton" died on Friday last, in
Boston; ii the age0If thirty years. During
childhood he WIS rugged and healthy, but
when in his sixteenth year signs Of "wast-
ing away" and loss of flesh commenced to
appear. Although he was q great eater,
he, ut the time OF his death, weighcIonly
sixty pounds. His diScaSe was an affection
OF the right lung. ''"i',' y. "a
TIE Indianapolis Journal says: "The
indications arc, that The population Pethis
|Stdt6 willappfoxiniate a0O0O00rlJG ="
AMONG tho street occupations of New
Orleans, according to the Republican, Is
that Of peddling young Alligators. AL
most any price is accepted.
In Nashua, New Hampshire, on the 9th
inst, III thirteen year 0dt girl In0med
Badger, climbed up between the wings Of
the new eagle on the city hall and sat
down Onitsneck. The girl sat IN this ele-
vatcd place, hundred and fifteen feet
from tie ground, for ten minutes. She
should have been we'll spanked when she
came down. -,
R.kNAlexandriR va, lrufaan tile nther
| dRy, Seeings tWO1lttle negro girls On the
Opposite side 81 the street, eXClaimcas
swell, I'll kill u Niger" and picking up
stone threw 1t with fatal aim, striking
one Of tho children, Eh9 died iqI two
hours } | VI II 4 N VAC
A New York lady received among her
wedding presents, three sewing machines,
six large Family Bibles, md ten icc.pitch-
crs. 4 Boston lady had twenty.One pairs
Of silver salt cellars among her bridal
presents. +!
A moo got "bcastly drunk" in Coving-
ton, KY, last Sunday, by eating brandy
peaches, and after staggering about the
nreets and Elisgracing himself for some