The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-04-22
VARIETIES.

-Ward Eleven ID Boston paid, last
year, one.ninctcenth Of the personal in
come tax of the whole United States.
"A Petersburg CVa) boy Is aged s, and
weighs 800 pounds.
The Boston Post is authority for the
report that the New Jersey watering
places are rapidly filling up with mos
Quitoes, and never before were they SO
thoroughly organized and confident Oh
success.
Several men were Quarreling in Lc'
banon, Pa, few days since, when
mischievous boy threw torpedo just De-
tween them. Each one started on the
run, and never stopped until q friendly
shelter was reached whence he could sec
whoit was that had been shot.
Jacob Beard, an old Lafayette wood.
SAWYER, md who has received Il partial
SUPPORT from the poor fund TOR several
years, has fallen heir To an estate In Penn
} SyIvunia valued ut $4,000.
The Mayor Of Worcester, Mass, pub
lished this brief card in the papers Of that
city on Monday: "'The appearance Of
several young men, and one or two not so
very Young, about the streets yesterday
afternoon, indicated that some Of the
drinking saloons might have been open.
The undersigned, in u spirit Of Christian
love, rather than in any authOritiye form,
earnestly requests all keepers OrsaloOns to
be careful how they break the law o: the
Sabbath, rs well as the law Of this land"
The German procession in New York,
on Monday, stretched over distance OF
fifteen miles, being four times longer than
the entire route over which it marched.
1t contained $4,000 men, 10000 horses,
ZOO carriages, 100 bands Of music, 20
| drum corps, and 600 wagons and other
trade vehicles. Philadelphia Germans
did not hold peace jubilee on Monday,in
common with their brethren in other
cities, They have postponed their juba-
ton to a future day, when they propose to
eclipse all other cities OF the country in
the grandeur Of their celebration.
"a sister of Louis Kossuth i living in
Dcs Moines, Iowa.
Sergeant Bates, who acquired tenn
porary notoriety by walking through the
South, carrying the United States flag, in
sists that Gov. Holden, Of North Carolina,
offered him $4,000 10 abandon his pur.
pose. Bates makes his story improbable
by declaring that he refused the offer
with sCorn and Indignation.
| "A Concord, N. II, baby celebrated
her first birthday anniversary Monday
afternoon by party at which tho Monitor
says there were assembled some thirty
ladies aud gentlemen, aged from eleven
t weeks to three years, "embracing the clitG
Of our city" At five o'clock, refresh
mcnts were served at two long tables
!. around which twenty.four "high chairs
n had been placed, and tho usual viands
" were most lavishly served. Prominent
on the bill Of fare were gingerbread ele'
Q plants and rOOsters, biscuits one inch Ii
d diameter, and choice cake Of similar di
ia mCnsiOns
). The following is u western instance
:, Of the "ruling passion strong in death =
y Squire W. was very iastidious In his
n notions Of propriety. At weddings and
n funerals he was quite Ofllcious, and very
n particular that everything should be done
dcCently and in order. In duo time III
was taken ill-Gatally so-Ond relatives
I and friends were gathered around his bed
} sad ind weeping. One Of these, more
o thoughtful than the rest, asked the de-
or parting Squire if he would like to hAv {
!, Clergymen called in to pray with him
to which he replied: "WGll, yes; think
u 1t could DO appropriate"
/" "A few years ago in small village Ii
&c ChuutauQua county, New York, there
10 was gathered u go0dly number Of loung
- ers in the solitary store, who were won
:. to discuss topics both great and small
IL The subject under exhaustive analysis al
tho moment was the school tax. One
n c., lOQuacious and most obstinate
:, fellow, and habitual mOnopoliZer Of con
) versation, had nearly finished a long IL
ralc about the injustice Of the tax and hit
y being compelled to pay 1t, though having
( no children to send to school. Finally hi
"a said, I'll buy inc hog and send Inn; II
get the worth Of my money somehow.
&c Mr.. II, the school teacher, who wa
III sitting behind the stove, quietly remark
10 cd, "Betlcr come yoaTey, and sara tho or
=, pen%"
AZ "A year or two ago, two very respect
= ablesgcntlGmen commenced business q!
le bankers in one Of the thriving villages o
g Illinois. 1t is quite common for bushes
d men to hive little card printed on ON
:, corner Of their envelopes, and these ban
kCrs, conforming 10 usage printed theirs
&c giving their name and residence, ant
at underneath in smaller type, the following
es extraordinary announcements:
:, COLLECTIONS promptly attended TO, ant
,, RENTED on day Of judgment"
81 1t took them several months TO lear
lie why their collecting business did no
,e prosper