The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-30
PEOPLE AND EVENTS,
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SanRey u singing III new Jersey
New York wants q botanical garden.
Carnival is king in New Orleans
March 4,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. museum
in New York,
John Guy Vassar's will may be con-
tested by dissatisfied relatives,
The Rev, DR.. Burchard and Mr., Blaine
are at the same hotel in Washington.
DR.. Gattling, OF gun fame, says be Is
working on a steam torpedo boat that
nothing can resist.
Mrs. Fayette. @. snead ('Fay' a we'll
known Washington society correspond
ent, died there Thursday.
The yacht Alva, on which w, X, Van
derbilt and family are sailing to warmer
seas, is the most luxurious craft aHOat,
DR.. W. H. Russell, u London war cor
respondent, and well.known observer
OF our late unpleasantness, Is writing his
"reminiscences,
Adjutant General Hastings, OF Penn
sylYania, who nominated Sherman, is
mentioned us having Quay's indorse-
ment for something pretty near Cab
met place.
AT the charge OF the English hussars
at Suakim, one OF them cut an Arab
horst mans right arm off. The Arab
changed his sword to his left hand, yell
ed ierCely in defiance, and rushed into
the English troopers to meet destruction,
Ex.Cadet ], Q, Whitaker, Of Sumter,
S, c., at one time notable at West
Point says that within twenty years a
negro win be in the Presidents Cabinet,
and adds that he considers Richard 7,
Greener the brainiest negro for such a
position,
Mrs, Langtry has oil her hosiery made
in England, The goods are made Of the
very finest silk thread, and in color har-
monte with her dresses, For every
costume Mrs Langtry has set OF hose,
These articles are made very long, aud
cost, including the duty, Slipper pair,
With q touching innocence that daily
grows suspicious, the Cincinnati Com
merciai continues to represent Senator
PIatt, OF Connecticut, aud ex-senator
Plat, Of New York, by one and the same
cut. Originally all rights in this par
ticular cut were reserved to the Connec'
tiCut man,
Colonel Abner Taylor tells u reporter
OF the San Antonio Erprt1 that the cap
itol syndicate has its 100000 acres
fenced in us q ranch, upon which is ll5,.
900 cattle. He says the syndicate will
keep the land as a ranch until the extern
sion OF settlement in its direction makes
1t profitable to sell.
Old Boxem Brown, OF New Mexico, Is
coffin peddler. He travels with big
wagon, team OF mules, and about
twenty cheap assorted collins. He says
he knows a hundred men who already
have their collins in their houses. Box!
ON well knows the tendency Of the
frontier West to die with its boots on.
admiral Kimberly's flagship, the
Trenton, now on her way to Samoa, Ia
best vessel IN our navy, with the excep.
ton OF tho new steel cruisers. Congress
man Thomas, OF Illinois, conspicuous In
the Naval Committee, says Kimberly Is
an officer Of pluck and discretion, and y
fighter from way back" and Admiral
Ammen says q Kimberly, "Ele's a
second Cushing"
Professor Sumner, Of Yale, recently
wrote: "The cynicism OF the politicians
and the apathy OF the public conscience
are two powerful foes. II we do not
overcome them they will overcome us,
also look forward with dread to every
Presidential election, believing it to be
only u question Of time when we shall
have another disputed election with con-
sequences which no one can toresee."
In communications published in the
New York Tribune-the same being let.
ters sent to the World and Herald, and
by them not published-Robert A. Pink.
erton takes occasion to deny the truth oil
charge that the Pinkertons have ever
obtained particle Of evidence against
Mr.. Parnell, and that they have ever
been requested to get such evidence
either BY the London Times or the Brit
ish Government.