The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-18

Hood,
The Paris exposition will close or
November o,
Chicago has put all Its electric wires
under ground,
A new brand OF tobacco has been
named "PeaCh Pie"
The mackerel fishery on the coast Of
Ireland is improving steadily,
There are nearly 1900 carpet workers
OF both sexes in Philadelphia,
The Squirrel club, OF Galway, Saratoga
county, N, Y, has killed 500 squirrels
this season.
Under the law OF Utah, man con-
demned 10 death can have his choice be.
tween hanging and shooting,
Steel Is being turned out Of a Reading
pa mill which is said to be superior To
the Sheffield product.
The annual convention OF the Jour.
neyman BARRIERS international Union OF
America will be held in Detroit DeCem.
ber3.
A man in Los Angeles, CAL, routed a
colony OF bees from under the caves OF
his house last week, and extracted forty
pounds OF honey.
The demand for Russian sable has ere.
ated quite on interest in that lustrous
and costly fur, which is to be worn some.
what extensively this season.
AT Altheimer, Ark, two colored
preachers, have been Jailed on charge
Of arson. The building burned was u
meeting house belonging to an opposi.
ton sect.
1t Is said that Postmaster General
Wanamaker means to recommend free
postal delivery in all places having 5000
inhabitants or 5000 annual receipts for
postage.
The estate OF a recently deceased ,Bos.
tonian, variously estimated at sums over
two million dollars, turns out to DO worth
little, II anything, above the debts
against 1t.
Jay Gould seemed to the Kansas City
reporters, who saw him the other day,
to be In much better health than he was
last winter. His eyes were bright and
his step elastic.
The Oldest naval officers OF the United
States are Commodore Joseph B. Hull,
Of Philadelphia, and Commodore Henry
Bruce, Of Roxbury, each OF whom enter
cd the service in 1878.
Prof. John Stuart Blackie attains his
eightieth birthday this year, and Is de.
sCribed as buoyant and yiyacious In
spirit, erect, sprightly and nimble.iooted
as a youth in his teens.
When Mr.. Barlow, the New York law
yer, was living he was thought TO be
worth 100000. The fact Is his estate
will about pay his debts. His house aud
library and all his effects are in themar.
ket.
A man thirty years old, with no hair
on his head, no whiskers on his face and
no eyebrows Is under treatment In a
81. Louis hospital. He comes from
Texas and claims to have been hairless
from his birth.
Fred Wilson, Of Jefferson county, O.,
had coon dog that he wouldn't have
sold for $50. But last week the dog
tackled a coon that was more than his
match, got bis eyes scratched out and
had to be killed.
A Mason county, Mich, young man
named CLARK climbed a tree for coon
the other night, and companion named
Wiley, mistaking him for the game, shot
him dead The body Of the unfortunate
man fell fifty feet,
Capt. Wahlberg, Of the steamship II.
A. Hartman, reports that on the outward
passage TO Jamaica on September %, In
latitude Sg', longitude 74' l8, the vessel
ran over a whale, cutting II Ia two. The
vessel was ain ost lifted out Of the water
by tho huge animal.
President Harrison and Cabinet, ex.
President Cleveland and other noted
men haye been invited to attend tho un.
yelling Of the monument erected In
honor OF Caesar Rodney at Dover, Del,
ON October 80. Ex.SeCretary Bayard
will deliyer the Grafton.
Ellen Terry is sRid to suffer agonies OF
anxiety whenever abe plderlakep new
part, and she can scarcely bear any one
TO speak to her on the days preceding
the first performance. 1t is her habit
TO spend the greater part Of tie time in
driving far out into the country.
Admiral Mares, of the British Navy,
Who Is in Washington as a representa-.
tive TO the Maritime Conference, Is the
navigator who, In the Mares expedition
to tho Polar regions (lS75), attained
what was declared TO be the highest de.
gree Of alhtpds eyer reached by man.
A Kalamazoo firm would like to know
where windmill is going for which II
received an order from New York
house recently. The mill Is 10 be a big
one, weighing 2,400 pounds, and the
order says II must DO built In sections,
30 that II can be transported over noun.
talnS on the bSck Of hlulvg.