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

GENERAL NOTES.

/ " bALo bGSASO4be AASAS AlbSANA RAStSA
I'M" ION the hill; near the old Elm, every
Sunday evening.
They arc boring away, night and day,
in Terre Haute, Ind, Nt . depthVof 036
feet, in blue limestone, IN the hope of stlik-
ing . salt we'll 4 kFg L. 2FGA ME-
"A man in Albany bought an acre Of
land three years ago for $50, and during
the present season has netted $1,000 for
strawberries raised on It
4 -A'8en6rGble cbuplsfh Jennings cohn-
ty, Ind, amer living together peaceably
for forty years, got into 8 quarrel over the
sale OF q epW and separated for tho rem
Iiant OF tliefr days.
IA negro woman has Just died in East
Tennessee, believed, says the report, to be
125 years 6ld!@ Who believes It'll It Is q
marvel how many times that old negro
woman dies in the course Of year. K
IA marble quarry has just been opened
near Willlamsport Pa, which affords .
fine grained stone as black as ebony, and
capable Of takinga very high polish. It
is said that this quarry Is tho only one Of
the kind knowntO exist 100 S1sIa
The city. Of Richmond, Va, has, en-:
tered into q contract with q man named
Taylor, for the capture Of all hogs, dogs
and goats found in the streets OF that city
for imprisonment and slaughter What
the poor animals have done 70 awaken the
ire Of the authorities does, not appear
"A negro woman near. ChiIlicothes0,
on going out 10 visit n 'Tlcfghbor lately,
lefl her child slcepipg:on the bed, and by
way of security, tied 1t TO the bed post BY
q string around the body. On her return,
the child was hanging over the side Of
the bed by theIneck, dead,
IA nOisyrailfoad meeting In Montreal
the other day caused regular stampede
Of the rats beneath the floor Of the hall in
which il was held. An army nearly as
great as that led by the "pied piper If
Hamclin" incontincntly left the building
to the nonOpolizing railroad men and be-
took themselves in all directions to the
cellars Of the citizens.
The statue of Gov. Jonathan Trum-
bull, by Ives, which is to grace the Nation
al Capital as one Of COnneCtiCutS cOntri-
buttons, has just been unpacked ut the, art
gallery in New Haven. Tits Of white
marble, seven feet high, dressed in the
costume Of colonial times, with i cloak
thrown over 1t in graceful folds. In the
right hand Is u manuscript scroll, with the
inscription visible, ."To the Continental
Congress" It is TO remain on exhibition
in New Haven for some days.
n IA hard character was arrested the
other day2in Chicago and taken ID photo
gruph gallery in order that acOuntertett
prescn:mGnt of his features might be
obtained, for the adjournment Of the Police
headquarters, and the information Of the
Police officers The culpit objected, how
ever, TO being taken even by.a photo
gnIpher, and smashed the camera. Find
Ing, the supply ofinstruments on hand too
great for the success of that proceeding,
he took 10 smashing his own face, and
coon disfgured 1t .beyond'all recognition.
Stories about the curious antics Of
lightning are plentiful this season. While
q man at Elko, Cal, was recently at work
on a telegraph wire, with the end Of 1t In
his hand; fash struck the line some dis
lance away, instantly split three Of the
manstingcrs, passed This left arm, across
his breast md down his side, darling out
at his knee, leaving q blackenel Oriice
like G-bullotshole, and pluDging into the
ground. Theman was knocked senseless,
but soon recovered, and processes to feel
all the better for the little shock. The
sensation, lie said, was not very painful,
but seemed like the pricking Of sharp
pins.
Last Spring the body of aman with
dark beard and bald head was flShed out
Qfthc Connecticut Rivera near Springfield
Miss, antLide1tifed Is that OF Anton e.
inger. ItWas buried $anfd the lsmenta-
tons Of Fingers friends and the COM
miseration of the citizens for tho suicide
Of an industrious man who had just been
Ithrownio6t OF. employment Last week
Etinger turned Up, greatly, 70 the cQnster-
nation Of ltis'lantilady who accused him
of. being a ghost, He, then learned for
the fifst time Of IFS own funeral and bu-
rial. but he protested That hG.h8d never
entertained such m idea Us drowning
'llhmself GH ssHiJ G2os0 oHiS y.
All along the Sierra Nevada, close to
helife ofBnoW, 4 plant grows, Of sizes
varying from 1an incl, Or two In thickness
and hight, to the dimensions Of the largest
ofteabbageSr ilt q known as as the 'snow
cactus" and depends for moisture upon
melting snow IthaG been recently pro-
posed to treat the. plant as q table Yegcta-
Die; and IL isl said that, boiled ant, Served
up, like asparagus, this cactus Is found
equally succ dlent Ind satisfactorily. If II
can be ,transplanted, II, might DO ia great
boon 70 Alaska, There ut least the plant
could be sure Of lis snow, and perhaps, In
the rainy season, Of It's melting. Perhaps,
however, lnp, addition; IS needed ID tho
marvellous list Of the vegetables Of that
Territory.
!. 1t Is very trying, after you have stated
on oath Your opinion surprising you are
a landladyE q certain corpse Is that
IS one. df your l6dSerS; and after II Is bur-
led, with q verdict OF suicide, and you've
overhauled his trunk, and settled with the
Coroner, and made up your mind to the
los, to have the mau. himself, six months
aftefWafd .e4llin upoRSod' md deny the
fact. Yet such was the case in Spring
field, 1AIdSs!, zone day, last week, and al
though the lanllady hus pretty nearly
goheIc fazyj aEOut 1t, Anton Ethinger, the
lodger in question, insists that he was
never aacorpSe, Rpdlneither the Coroner
nor any one else can for the life of him say
who It was that, WIS buried as Anton
Ethinger last winter, rgie,rn
AN European war would, It appears,
find Russia well prepared, ln a report
3 tessnted 9few weeks 4go1o tic CA, by
lie 1Iihfster'6f VA, It ssstated that the
army was now in possession Of 500, 401
new and converted brcech-loading rifles.
Il was also announced thAt,up 70 the end
Of May, tho nov cartridge factory at st.
Petersburg had made IL. 500 900 cartridges,
and that II was now capable Of producing