The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Chicago river has thirty.Gve
bridges, and as many separate smells.
Massachusetts skins out well. Her
leather product Is valued at S2O, 100000.
Within few weeks discoveries Of
silver deposits oi great value have been
made In Arizona.
Flour from the new crop Of wheat,
made in Charleston, has been shipped to
the North-a new enterprise for that
city.
Foreign fruit,is rapidly disappearing
from the United States markets, and fruit
Of domestic growth Is taking its place.
The number OF sheep imported into
Kansas was never so great as now. Hun.
drcds Of sheep.iarms are being esIab-
lished.
The reportsirom the California grape
districts continue to be favorable, and the
wine yield will be considerably larger
than last year.
Two million bushels Of oysters are
annually taken from Chesapeake Bay and
tributaries without any perceptiblc dim
mutton Of the supply.
San Francisco papers say there is lit.
lie room for doubt that the treasure yield
Of that side Of the continent will this year
far exceed that Of any previous year.
During a recent tornado in Xnox
county, Illinois,the wind blew the feathers
Of a pluCky chicken which tried to stem
the storm, until It was stripped bare.
Ex-senator L. G. Ross, Of Kansas, Is
now foreman Of the Lawrence Journal
composing room, and is in very reduced
circumstances. lie held the same posi-.
tion nineteen years ago.
The shipments Of boots, shoes and
rubbcrs from Boston to places outside Of
New England for the past week, comprise
LIE cases Of rubbers and 47,lOl cases
Of boots aud shoes, against 45y3i6 cases Of
boots for the same week last year.
Spotted Tails price for the Black
Hills is S7,OOO0OO. When last In Wash.
inglon he was asked 10 indicate his lig.
urci, but replied, 10, there Is no Use talk.
ing about that; my price is a good deal
more than the Great Father Is able to
pay
The estimated coinage Of the U. $.
Minis at Philadelphia San Francisco and
Carson City for the present ii'cal year is
as follows: Gold, $3I,OOO,0O0; trade dol.
lars, sG,OOO,OOO; subsidiary silver coinage,
SoNOOOOOi minor coinage, S25O,OOO; total,
sij,g5OOOO.
The rolling mill Of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroalisin operation at Cumber.
land, Md, and large number Of rails
are being turned out. This branch otthe
company furnishes employment to many
hundreds Of industrious men.
John j. Gibson, editor of the Hunt
ingiOn, West Virginia, Commercial ba.
brought suit in the United States Court
at Cincinnati against the Enquirer Com.
pany, for $4,000 damages for a libel al.
legged to have been published on the 2gd
day Of August.
-AtSaratoga the States cottages have
been occupied this season by the follow.
ing rich men and their families Aupust
Belmont, worth perhaps, $50, 100000;
Augustus schcll, worth Sl,OOOOOO; lion.
Ben. Wood, worth sSOOOOOO; s. IM.
Barlow, worth, S5OOO,OOO; Pierre Iotil.
lard, worth S3,OOOOOO; Robertt,. Cutting.
worth, $9OOO,OOOj ]. II, Joy, worth, 81.
100000; Commodore Vanderbilt. worth
siO,OOO,OOO; Moses II. Grinncli worth
S?,OOO,0OO; Peter Mollcr, worth $1,000.
OOOi and silas Herring, worth, $2,OOO,OOO.
II Mr.. A. 7. Stewart, with his SsO,OOO,OOO,
was in the row, liz worth would foot up
TO SbOut two hundred millions Of dollars.