The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Jurors in United states courts are 10
receive three dollars per day.
The United States courts Tor West
Virginia are hereafter to be held at Lew.
isbRrg for one place.
The Lexington (Ky) Insane Asylum
has decided to admit negro women 10 that
institution.
Tho Cincinnati Gazette reports that
unless the observatory in that city is
speedily supplied with funds, it must be
abandoned, and the glass, one Of the best
in the country, sold. r.-
"A French paper in New Orleans
comes to us with this paragraph: "CharIes
Dickens, the great American rOmancer,
died yesterday Of apoplcXy. lie was the
Walter Scott Of America t'-a
The cstimablc wife of Red Cloud is
said to have expressed wild yearning de-
sire for the scalp OF Theodore Tilton, fan
cying that It will makca very scrviceahlc,
tasty.looking door.nAt.
The gross earnings Of the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad Tor
May, were Sc, 4408G0; OF the Pittsburgh
and COnnellsville, $l5551O and OF the
Allegheny Valley, $35,8Sl,
Ma" said littlcboy, has auntie got
bees in her MOUTH NO, my dear, why
do you ask" Cause, Captain Jones
caught hold of her, and said he was going
TO take honey from her lips; and she said,
We'll make haste. ' ..9..
Red Cloud, when allowed to look up.
on the piles Of gold in the United States
Treasury, was rude enough to Boutwell,
to remark that he did not like the looks OF
the gold us well rs lie did those Of the fe-
male clerks in the department. The sAv-
age was ut once taken into open mir.
"A small colored boy named McCullin,
went to sleep, last Saturday, on the Allan.
tic and North Carolina Railroad, and died
in few minutes after the train passed.
"A sleeping boy, in I4aylayettc, lndi-
ana, had one joint Of finger dcvoured by
an impoverished rat.
-Nilro-glycerine must ultimately be
entirely superseded by the new and more
powerful explosive compound called
litho-fracture." 1t is black substance,
very plastic, and can be manipulated with
impunity. Unlike nitro-glycerine, it will
not explode from conclusion, but requires
the action OF fire to evoke iIS startling
strength
Henry Clay Dean is a loud.mouthcd
Free Trader now. .. .... ...
Mrs. Gum, of Indiana, has gone Oft
with stranger, leaving disconso!ate
husband and several little sons OF Gums
Another victim of the Richmond (Va)
Capitol disaster, Mr.. Dennis B. Redding,
died on Sunday, Of loCkjaw, superinduced
BY wounds received on that unhappy &C.
casiOn
The new Constitution Of Illinois al
lows every one naturaliZed before Janua-
nv 1st, 1870, to vote, which, it is thought,
lets in some women.
Rhode Island has heretofore voted in
April, but its last Legislature changed the
time of holding elections for Congressman
to November.
The Virginia Enterprise summarizes
new pastimc in Nevada: Our friend
Perkins went out yesterday 10 practice
throwing boomerang sent him by his
brother in Australia. The physicians
think his nose can be patched and straight
cned up, but says his left eye is entirely
gone" ....
Illinois can truthfully boast Of large
farms, and Mclean county has her share.
Mr.. Jones commenced improvements on u
piece OF lund in CrOpscy township II few
years ago. lie has 2,20O acres in corn
and 800 acres in small grain this Spring.
He is still bringing more land every year
into state Of cultivation.
A CRIsIs-Onc of our worthy and gen.
tecl compositors, Mr.. D. W. Geissingcr,
was visited bya cry.Sis ON last Friday
night, an clevGn.pounder taking him en-
tirely by storm. Dan bears it with resig-
nation and tortitude, however, and no
doubt will make first-rate "pap."-
WeLlSrRIe (O) Union.