The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-20
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General Tom Thumb owns u nice
yacht, OH which he Is enjoying palmy
days.
din these days" says the Richmond
tYRig, "any honest work Is respectable"
Right. But why wasn't it respectable in
those days2
An Iowa farmer has invented con-
triyance that Is fastened to buggy dash
to hold the lines Counting couples are
delighted with it.
More Federal "outrages." Sixdistill-
cries, four copper stills, and six prison
era have just been captured in the North
Carolina mountains,
"A ConneCticutboy was 30 severely kick
eddy u horse the other day, that he would
probably have been killed II lot oistolcn
apples which he had secretcd under his
shirt had not broken the force Of the blow
The body OF Mrs. Guzaway, the crazy
woman who was recently killed by the
ears near Economy, and buried in l'oches'
ter,was permitted to remain in the grave.
yard in the latter place all night unburied
and in the rain, because the digging oil a
grave had been neglected.
"A Georgia man who rode on to see
the Coroner the other day, cOniidentially
remarked to that individual that II was
astonishing to see how high ligger in Il
watermelon patch can jump when you
nre at him from behind. The Coroner
smiled slowly and then proceeded to hunt
upa jury.
1t Is said that A. 7. Stewart 4 Co
contem plate erecting one hundred houses
at Groyeville, up the Hudson river, on
the property lately acquired at that place
and which Mr. Stewart recently examined
In company with Judges Hilton and Da
vies. Six hundred men are expected
within week to break ground.
AN improvement in the manufacture
Of nail plates has been introduced in The
Etna lronworks Of New Castle, Pa. Il
consists Of carriage and a device for re
turning the sheet over the rolls, by whicl
the labor Of two men is saved at eOcl
turn, also OF third roll, 0 inches in d.
ameter, revolving on top Ofthe large roll
which removes the cinder or scale, leav'
Ing a superior polish on the plate,
The Committee Of three appointed by
the creditors Of the Pittsburgh Bolt Com
pany, Girard Tube works, and Gerry
Tilton 4 Co., have reported in favor o
accepting the proposition Of the New
York and Philadelphia firms TO pay TWEEN
ty.fve per cent Of their one.namc paper
thirty-fvc per cent Of their two.name pa
per, and fOrty-liye per cent oftheir three
name paper, and to pay the Pittsburgh
Bolt Company's claims at tho same rate
"A Chinese desperate, All Lin, wa
lately found expiring in his house in SAT
Francisco under numerous knife wounds
Immediately after another Chinuman will
bloody hands and clothes had been sect
running from the building. The Ahc
California checks the flow Of sympathy fol
the murdered man by saying that "he hai
long been known to the police, and dread
cd by his countrymen as one Of the mOst
accomplished and desperate scoundrcls
ever imported from the Celestial En-
pire."
"A furniture manufacturing cOmpan!
Of Wilmington, Del, has IiSt mnnuiOc
tured a chamber suite to be shipped tt
England. II Is Of black walnut, elab
orately wrought and highly polished. 1
comprises bedstend, large dressing
case, a wash stand and the usual accom-
paniments. In the headboard, withou
any intention to produce II, has beer
worked a fair representation Of lionI
head, the shaggy locks, eyes and nose 0
which are plainly visible at certain angle
Of light.
Behold the tidal wave North Caro-
lima, Democratic for years past, has jus
gone Republican by $4,000 majority, ant
the Republicans gain 1000 on 1871, ant
10000 on 1873, even in Kentucky. Ohio
iscoming with her old.fashioned Rcpub
lican thunder, and Iowa will reverberatt
louder than Cincinnati Commercial