The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-07-12
CURRENT NOTES.

ago IN such an Infamous and shocking
manner. A Judge has been found In
brooklyn to grant n stay Of proceedings
and petition is being signed, we arc
told, asking the Governor to exercise the
executive Clemency and pardon him,
Foster has certain political following in
some ward in the Empire city which the
rammany politicians cannot afford TO de.
spse, and hence their efforts to save his
neck. This Is how the Tammany ma.
chine Is run, AS a general thing the
greater the sCOundrel the stronger he is,
and the more likely to escape punish,
mcnt
The United States army comprises
at the present time about 10000 men, di.
vided into forty regiments, OF which ten
are cavalry and five artillery, 1t ocCu.
pies more than 300 military posts, and in.
cIudes 2,277 commissioned officers. The
highest salary paid TO m officer, that of
General Sherman, is $4,000; the lowest,
paid to second lieutenants, is 81 400 n
year. The Quartermaster's Department
buys annually about 100000 bushels of
corn and oats, 10000 cords of wood, 80
WOO tons Of coal, and moves 100000 tons
Of army stores. There are $4,000 horses,
mules, and oxen in the army; some Of the
army wagon routes require 800 miles of
hauling in n straight line The Military
Academy nj West Point costs $220000 a
year, besides this institution, there is a
school of artillery at Fort Monroe, and a
torpedo school at Willitt's Point, New
York. On the 18th Of June 1l3,2GO sol.
dier9' widows were on the rolls Of the
United States Pension Office.
The Augusta (Ga) CouSHiuiionalist
states, rs n fact well.known in political
circles, that the Nallandgham resolutions
Of Montgomery county, Ohio, were con.
cocIed at the 81. Nicholas Hotel, New
York City, in IA cOnclave of lending poll.
ticians from different States Who were
present from the South, II Is not informed.
DR. forfeit, editor OF the Kansas
City M0) Ne'CS, who recently destroyed
himself with morphine, lcft letter to u
friend in defence Of suicide. lie argues
the right Of man TO take his own lie,
and declares sGlrslaughtCr To bc no Cvi.
Ience Of insanity, but on the contrary, nj
least in many cases, Of the highest wisdom.
"A Nashville paper declares that there
ARE 500 young men Oh good business capa.
city in that city who cannot find employ.
ment. And yet the farmers around there
are complaining OF scarcity of hands
"A letter writer in Paris says It is won.
herlul what change few days have
made In the general aspect Of that city.
With the exception Of the ruins and the
crowds of strangers which surround them
from morning till night there is little to
remind one that the city has lust been
the thcater Of civil war.
Photography Is now used in tho
Treaslirer's office in Coying Endorsements
on drafts when II question arises ont Of
Washington rs to the gcnuincness Of the
inhorBer's signature
The religious census Of Ireland shows
that Of the population Of 5,4O9, 100 the
Roman Catholics number 4,14l,O33.
No blister draws sharper than inter-
est does or all industries none Is com.
parable to that Of interest. II works all
day and all night, In fair weather and
foul. II has no sound in It's footsteps, but
travels fast ltgnAws at n mans substance
with invisible teeth. II binds industry
with its film, as fly Ia bound in
spiders web. Debts roll u man over and
over, binding him hand and loot, and let.
ting him hang upon the fatal mesh until
the long.lcgged interest dcvOurs him.
There Is but one thing on farm like II,
and that Is the Canada thistle, which
swarms new plants every timO YOU break
It's roots, whose blossoms are prolific, and
every flower the father Of a million seeds.
Every leaf Is an awl, and every plant like
u platoon Of bayOnets, and field of them
like an armed host The whole plant Is
atorment and vegetable curse. And yet
Il farmer had better make his bed Of Can.
ada thiStles than attempt to be at ease up.
On interest.
Are lightning rods degeneratlng in
efficacy A dwelling house in Cam.
bridge, Mass, formerly owned and OCCn-
pied by gentleman named Norris, who,
being. in the lightning rod business,
placed great number Of conductors on
various points Of the building, was struck
ny lightning, Friday morning, and con.
silerably shattered. |
The Washington correspondent II
The Cincinnati Enquirer says Il Is cstima.
lcu That each Ku.KluX witness costs the
country about two hundred and Ilny dol.
lars, and many Of them much more.
General lloscCrans, President of the
society OF the Army Of the Cumberland,
has issued an address announcing that II
has been determined to erect colossal
bronze equestrian statue Of the General
George II, Thomas, ut Central Park. New
York. General ROseCrans letter is dated
AT San Rafael CAL, where he now lives.
Now that Foster, the wanton murder.
rr OF Putnam, Is expected to bo "commu
lcd' and ultimately pardoned, the ener.
sies OF that powerful class in New York
which is interested in the delivery of all
nlrdcrers from Justice can be devoted ex.
'lllNyely for a while to Bolts, the assas.
'nalor Of Pet lIalsted. They have al.
ready inlormedthe country, per telegraph
mat Bolts never deserted from the army,
as some one has cruelty alleged. From
ms family he did desert, and consorted