The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-16
PERSONAL AND LlTRRARY,

An Ohio young lady's name Is "Eman'
Cipation Proclamation" Her friends
call her "ProCkie,"
Tho Home Magazine is is the name OF a
new monthly edited by Mrs, John A.
Logan In Washington,
Max 0'Rell's volume OF "Impressions
OF American Society" will be Issued in
Paris during the latter part OF January.
A man who died at Burlington, Ia,
the other day left 500 to the reporter
who should write the "bcst obituary" OF
him,
Rev. George O, Noyes, D. d., pastor Of
the First Presbyterian Church OF Evans
ton, ILL.,, for more than twenty years
past, died yesterday OF pneumonia.
At Dover, Delaware, Anthony Hig.
gins, Of Wilmington, was nominated for
u, s. Senator on the 43d ballot in the
Republican caucus ut 80. m. yesterday.
A pet panther Of a dutclltss is the COS
sip Vi Paris. The duchess Is said 10 feed
the pet herself, and TO atTectionately
strOke' tho fierce creature through the
bars OF the cage.
A California Chinaman has found u
use for the bugs and beetles which are
attracted and killed by the electric lights,
He gathers them and pickles them IN
brandy. Heap good for cold" he says.
A London special says: ! have direct
information from an official source that
the Government has received letters
from Henry NJ. Stanley, and that his
safety is assured. These letters will soon
be published and are temporarily with
held from publication for certain ctliCial
reasons not given. or their authenticity
and Of the safety OF the explorer, there
is no doubt whatever.
NIessrs. Laidlaw Brothers, Of New
York, have Just published the Declare.
ton OF Independence and the Constitu.
ton OF the United States in German,
French and English. The idea is Ger.
tainly u novel Que, and the book will pn.
doubleday be Of great service. Would
1t not DO a good thing, since our natural
ization laws are so lax, 10 appropriate a
part OF the ever increasing surplus, for
the translation Of the American Consti'
tuition into all the tongues Of the world,
and to distribute 1t among the inmi-
grants at Castle GardenP
1t is announced that the movement for
the exclusion.of foreign stock actors has
been practically abandoned by its origin
ators, and that no formal argument for II
will be made before the Congressional
committee. simultaneously with this
announcement comes another one, that
Niessrs. Booth and Barrett, whose names
alone made the proposal worthy OF seri.
Gus consideration, were misrepresented
when they were said to be In favor OF It.
It's now inserted that they were never
in sympathy with 1t.
A dispatch from Bloomington, ILL.,,
says: Ex-senator Patterson, Of South
Carolina, who has been sued for breach
OF promise OF marriage by Mrs. Rose
Fleming, OF Philadelphia, has for some
time been prominent resident Of
Bloomington. He was married TO Mil
dred Frank at Waukesha, Wis, Novem.
Der 2, 1877. Mrs. Patterson Is an exceed.
ingly pretty and stylish woman. She
has been spending the winter at Miftltn.
ton, Pa, with friends OF her husband.
Mr.. Patterson does not seem alarmed
over the suit Of Mrs. Fleming.
Private dispatches from the Hague re-
ported that the general idea there is that
King William Is dying. A regency
Is regarded as so inevitable that
a Cabinet council was held yesterday TO
discuss the question Of calling 1t into
being, and another meeting will be he'd
tomorrow. The utmost anxiety Is felt
aboutthe Luxembourgsuc which
will naturally deyolve upon AdOlph,
Duke Of Nassau, but which 1t Is sus-
pected the King Of Prussia may appro-
pirate on the ground of-thG ancient
claims TO tho Orange heirshlp, which
the Kings Of Prussia asserted up to the
time Of the pragmatic sanction. The
Duke Of Nassau, who Is only q few
months younger than the dying King,
hates aud is hated in return by the
Hohenzollerns.