The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-07

A time.honorcd privilege permits news
papers in midsummcr-when there Is q
dcarll Of news from all quartcrs-to tell
stories about the sea serpent, the two
headed child, the strawberry measuring
seven inches in circumference, the marvel
lous treasures turned up by the plough
share, and so on; but, ut this time, when
even the cable is duly transmitting cxcit-
ing news, It seems quite supCrlluous to
deal In manufactured marvcls. Yet the
business is brisk. A California paper in
sists that there Inns been fish shower, not
story, in Monterey, and that fish meaSur-
Ing from three inches to three feet sudden
" foil in great quantities-as they may
have douc in the Monterey market. The
Newport NeIrs knows II man that picked
up on the beach last week lobster weigh
ing seventeen pounds Only a day OF two
ago, a man out West unearthcd an iron
chest containing five thousand dollars i'll
gold, and written request by the origt-
nal deposition that the finder should keep
half the money for his trouble and saga
city, and give the other half to tue poor,
both of which conditions were instantly
and clecrlully complied with.
Indeed, the West Is particularly rich in
marvellous discoveries this winter. We
say nothing Of the pctritlcd serpent, one
hundred and eighty.eight feet long, recent
" discovered in that favored region, since
some of the western papers, under the
flaming heading, "FnSsil Footprints d
Civilization" have said. enough on the
subject. But what have serpGnts 10 do
with civilization, anu the "tOOtprlntS,'
fossil or otherwise, III tho tr1Iil 0t ser
,wnt are discovery indeed.
Amer snakes, birds; after earth the mir;
aud we nrc gravely informed that tho
robbins have All gone TO rOOst on the clltts
Of tho Cumberland river, in Kentucky,
where people came from all the country
around and pick them off the bushes and
trees, like 50 many plUms."
The main objection to "A story of this
sort Is that It Conflscs the children, who
must next believe that there are countries
where Iirs run around ready r0Istctl, with
knives md forks sticking IN their bucks,
and TINT these titus prepared pigs tmplOrc
passers.by to como and cat them.
Moreover, certain men In Louisiana,
boring on leased land for Petroleum, have
struck hast mines Of sulphur, which they
claim, Willie the owners say that the per
mits 10 bore are limited 70. petroleum.
There Ia actually u suit IN court In New
alIoutrtllG right Of the proceeds Of the uls-
C0very. or cOurse, tlllt land Is not for
sale nj any price; nor Is there any ltKCll'
h0Od Of tic speedy formation Of comla-
mics, with an enormous quNntlty on stock
at enormous prices, to engage III sulphur
mining on an extensive scale.
Just now, TOO, when there Is lfcsh taIk
al,out cutting canal 10 connect tho AT
Iontic and the PaCifc-by coincidence
mcrrly-an old story Is revived about the
burial, on the IsthmllS, and Of course some
where In the track Of tho proposed canal
at the time orthC Spanish invasion. OF IT.
teen million dollars in gold. Should the
canal he begun, no doubt, rs fast as more
laborcrs are wanted this story will receive
a fresh airing, with details from tradition
al IL not historical sources, rs to where the
mine Of gold rcady.coincd, Is situated
The only fear l., that with the natives, the
disappointed miners Of the Pacific coast
the coming Cinnamon, and adventures
TrOm everywhere, the ground will be SC
dug up and dug over that there Will nol
be ieit enough Of the lsthmus to form tue
banks Of the canal.