The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-08
BUDGET,

There are $40, 900 900 worth OF small coli
circulating i'll the United States.
Potomac shad, raised in California, ar,
on sale in San Francisco markets.
A cigarette machine at Durham, N. G.
turns out 200 smokers" a minute.
The crops Of all the northern part OF Tex
as were destroyed by the recent frost.
A mineral glass manufacturing compan,
has been organized in Nashville, Tenn.
Texas comprises 22S organized counties
and territory enough to form 100 NOR
without violating the constitution.
A colored man living near Shuqualak
Miss, 4 short tino ago had his ley ampu
tated, which had become petrified.
Fifty thousand dollars have been cub
scribed to tho Baptist university Of Texas
which will be located at GEORGETOWN.
A negro boy, 7 years old, at G~reenyille
Ala, q few days ago ate four pounds O
h>ur, cooked into biscuit, ut one meal.
Artesiau wells in New York show tina,
tho East river underlows the island, III
the deep wells lately sunk tho water ebb.
and flows with the tide.
Notice has been given that the dops
found near the ostrich corrals in San Diego
CAL, will be shot. This sight OF a dop
makes the birds frantic with fear.
AT Lima, o., a 14.year.old girl named
Wilhelm jumped the rope 25G times and
became unconscious, in which condition
she lay twenty days, when she died.
Near Heppnor, Oregon, Saturday, AL
Weir, n herder, lay down to sleep, and tied
the rope Of his saddle horse to his wrist,
The horse became frightened, ran away.
mud dragged Weir to his death.
During the last two years Los Angelica
Cal has built twelve churches, at an ap.
gregaie cost $4,000, and three more nre
now going up. This will mske a total Of
twenty churches in that place.
A drugyists' trade paper states that some
OF the 'butser color" sold to farmers con.
tains aanotto, tumeric, saffron, csus.ic not.
ash, borsx, and alcohol, and yet tho farm.
ers complain about poisonous oleomsrga.
rine.
Near Myers Ferry, Texas, on the sabine
river, recently q wild hog seized a negro
baby and made for the woods with it. The
child'a mother, however, succeeded in
utcElhhluk NAA httitliN ~ lux Hltu I'LL INK,
thus rescuing the child.
Williamp I. Hill, anactor, had been locked
up at Trenton, N. j., for disorderly conduct
whilo drunk in the street. When brought
before a justice he said it must be u mis-.
take, rs he had been intoxicated simply
with the plaudits ofthe admiring audience.
A manuscript Of no little biblical inter.
cat bus recently been brought to light in the
library Of Arezzo. 1t contains several I'm
publiahed writings Of st. Hilary, OF Poitiers,
including his treatise, "Ds Mysteriiv.3
which was supposed to be lost, and series
OF hymns.
Afoot tourist in eastern Montana found
a finger board marked "Six miles to Miles
City" He travelled eight days and nine
in tho direction indicated before he
reached that town, aud found that the sign
had been carried of by q party Of Iudians
and stuck up where he saw it.
The Spanish contract for Kentucky to.
bacco, involving forty thousand ~hogsheads,
has been awarded q. about eight cents a
pound to the Marquis de CNmpcs. The
value Of tho tobacco Is fully 5 100000, and
Inc price is much higher than the Spanish
Government paid two years ago,