The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-07-15
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

KENTUCKY peacnes are only S4u
buShel In Cincinnati.
IT IS rumored that the President CON
sents TO part with Mr.. Fish the first Of
October. .....
SENATOR BRowNLow has recovered
from his intermittent convalescence and
Is Ill again at Washington. gE ETE
TWAS thought that Butler and Farms.
worth were square, but 1t appears they're
going TO have another round. II.
TIE Chicago Tribune asks and gets see,
582 u column per year for advertising
The business men Of that city do no hesi.
tate To pay that price, for the reason that
every dollar thus judlciously invested will
bring an income Of at least five dollars,
Those who advertise most are most sue
cessful In business.
A Mr.. LrvERMoRE, of Georgetown,
thinks 1t wonderful that lie should have
survived for several years with live
lizard in his stomach. The vitality OF
the lizard strikes US as infinitely more re-
markable. .....s rt,..,
[ A KEROSENE lamp explosion occurred a
few days ago at Rocky Mount, N. G., set
ting fire to a blanket, which was hastily
thrown out Of the window. 1t turned
out, however, that baby wns wrapped
up in the blanket, and died Of the fill
Hon. J. s. GoLLADAY, formerly Dem.
ocrutic member Of Congress from Ken
lucky, but who resigned on account Of o
trouble about the sale Of q cadetship, Is
again candidate for Congress. lie deltv-
cred the Fourth Of July oration at Mum
tordsville, Ky.
GEN. ScuENcK, Of Ohio, writes that he
will not be q candidate for reel lection; not
because he cannot win, but because he is
too poor totight,
"JoE" LANE Is candidate for Senator
from Oregon. Since lie ran for Vice Pres
idcnt on the ticket with Breckenridge he
has not until now appeared In politics.
LATER returns from the Oregon election
show TINT the Democratic candidate for
Governor, Glover, Is elected by 6Sl ma-
iority, and the Democratic candidate for
Congress by only 34s majority.
Two hounds in AIiddletown, Dcl.,' re-
Gently took after a fox for their amuse-
ment, and, after q long chase, rim the
poor fellow down and killed him; then,
lying down on u railroad to rest, were run
over and killed in their turn. Moral !:
Good enough for them.
Tue have an old negro near Stamford,
KY, who is such powerful medium that
she not only tips tables, plays on imagina'
nv pianos, COnvcrses with the dead, de-
scribes peoples defunct ancestors, &c, Sc,
but makes the house shake "AS though an
earthquake had done it" Dangerous old
woman for thickly-populatcd cities!
THEY offer bounty for squirrel scalps
in California, and one man In Contra
Costa county haS slain 4,723 Of these
sprightly little animals. 1t is said that
tie Justices of the Peace In that county
have, with all the gravity becoming to
their official position, received 100000 Of
these trophies during the present season,
and issued certificates for the payment OF
the bounty. The squirrel ''war goes
brayely on"
The liquor.dcalers Of Boston seem to
working together. When the appeal
cases oE several proprietors Of leading no.
tells, who were prosecuted for violation OF
the liquor law, were called In the Supo-
riOr Criminal Court OF that city on Mon
day, no one responded, and on investiga-
ton II was found that the various do
iendants had "'gone bail" for each other
and agreed to stay away.
A CURIOUS scquestration case has just
been tried at Contances, France. In the
middle Of Normandy, III pretty village,
lived a family, patriarchal in itsmanners,
consisting oI q farmer and four sons, hard
workings people, highly esteemed In the
country. One Of the sons, however, for
some reason not defined, became melan.
chOIy and no longer laborca as usual. The
father took his son, flung him into q dark
room, a "Stygian cave torlorn," and
chained him to tho wall. This happened
forty years ago. The neighbors were
well aware OF what had occurred, but no
one said d word. Fifteen years later the
father died and was buried the whole
narish attended the funeral, and the cure
cxpatiatcd on the virtues Of tho deceased.
The sons inherited the farm, and conttn.
ued TO keep their brother in chains until
he was an old man incapable OF flight.
When lie was released the story came to
the authorities, and his remaining brother
was nut upon his trial. This man has not
the faintest idea that he had committed q
crime. He enjoyed the respect Of parents
and friends and fcllow-villagers, who were
alias astonished as himself at tho interter.
ence Of the Procureur-G General, especially
as she had enough to eat and drink"
This Inconsistencies so astonished the
Jury that It acquitted the prisoner, as he
acted without discernment.