The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-04-02
CURRENT NOTES.

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TIE Cunard steamship Java, which ar
rived in New York Wednesday morning,
brought the largest mal ever received In
that port from Europe. It comprised two
hundred and sixty.Gight bugs, each bug
containing an average OF two bushels OIL
mail matter. This mail included both the
mail OF the java and that Of the Samaria,
which put back disabled.
THE grain men Of Chicago are excited
over the arbitrary conduct Of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad Company
which refuses 10 deliver grain consigned
to an elevator that charges less than the
established rates for clevating ind storage
The action Of the railroad Is claimed to be
contrary 10 tue laws Of the State and the
decisions Of the Supreme Court, and il
denounced as IL high.handed outrage.
TIE plague Of locusts Is coming upon
Jerusalem. A letter dated Feb. %, and
published in tho London Times, says
"The lOcusts arc spread over tho noun
tains orJuduh and Samaria, in the valley
of Jordan, and in the plain Of Sharon and
GalllcG, having come to lay their eggs
which will be Matched Just before the har.
vest: and, rs tho Arabs say that each
couple lays two hundred eggs, countless
millions will appear, eating every green
thing, poisoning tho ground, and thus pre-
venting grass growing for the cattle
There Is the greatest alarm throughout the
country"
-. DoHN PfATT has smiled u big rat in the
Cullom Anti-POlygamy bill. The afore'
said rodent is Of course disguised in the
person of Butler, whose design Is TO get
hold Of the estate Of polygamy and to ad-
minister thereon. Conclusive prOofOfthis
Is found in the fact that wills Slatler, who
was Buffers Quartcrmaster in New Or.
leans, hns gone to Utah as Governor.
THE Democratic Association Of Penn
sylvania" has been broken up, and the fur
niture Of It's house ON Ninth street, Phila.
delphia, was sold by auction on Monday.
The Press says: For some time past a
furious war has been raging In the ranks
Of the party in this city, which Inst week
eliminated in open ruptur6 and subSe.
aucnt disbandment The leaders Of the
unterrifed have been quarrclling over the
new voting element SO lately added 10 our
population, and were atdaggers points as
10 the measure by which their failing for.
tunes might be retrieved. All these
causes, together with certain little debts
which the association had never cancelled,
conspired to hasten,its downfall
THERE Gun be no further doubt that the
world does move. The grim AIOlOCh Of
the ten table is to be dcthroned, scandal is
to he sent the way Of slavery, pOlygamy
Imprisonment for debt, and the other
denominations. In Uniontown, Pennsyl'
vania, the ladies' have formed IN "anti'
slandering society,"" whose mission Is TO be
that Of curbing the tongue Of the tca.war'
riOr. In that town, at least, the ears Of the
ladies who wear Paris bonnGts and take
morning walks with their ministers will
not be made to tinglc by the malicious
whispers Of their enviOuS sisters. There
arc other places in which such society
would hardly die for want OF something
to do.
TnE wine trade Of California promises
to b. one OF its greatest sources Of wealth.
The entire State, 600 miles long and 1870
broad, is suitable for Cultivating tho vine,
except in those sections where the land Is
over 5000 feet above the level Of the sea,
From Oregon to San Diego the grape Is
grown. In 1894 II was calculated that
100000 vines bore fruit, and the In.
crease was probably 4, 1000 900 q year. To-
day there are at least 30, 900 900 vines, GOV.
cring about a, 900 acres. The amount oil
wine which competent authorities think
might be made If all the grapes were used
for the vintage would be 10000 900 gal
Ions. Ono wine-maker alone produces
100000 gallons. f. ana
A CINCINNATI diStillcr has, It Is claim,
cd, discovered process Of producing the
purcst kind OF whisky. He calls It a
prime necessary Of life" and says that
his process Of fire copper distillation and
Cvaporation-Only now discOvered-re-
moves all the fusil oil and all the poison.
About the ttlsil oil we have but little to
say. As contemporary well remarks,
the flsil oil does very little If any damage
in minute doses, and It Is seldom found In
large quantities even in the worst Of rye
corn juice. But there Is poison In ordi.
nary whisky, aside from thai, which makes
men mad II the Cincinnati diStiller can
take that out, We may reduce our Jail nc
commodatiOns, and decrease the number
of our criminal courts. Let him take
away the sting II no can, and the bite
will b. hHrmlcss, but he will have TO so
little further, we fear, and cOnsumnlatG the
hope expressed 80 anxiOusly In the philo-
sophie query, "Will the coming man
drink wincF As at present constituted,
men like whisky with tho sting, and the
Cincinnati philanthropist will have TO
take the virus out Of human nature as
well as the poison out Of whisky before
his prime necessary Of life" can be fully
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