Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1840-08-29
NEWS BY MAILS.

Henry Day. Of Waterbury, Conn. has hceh elected
Professor Of Sacred Literature, and ~ F. seymour q,
tutor m Yale College Professor Of The Greek and al
IN languages, in Western Reserve College
| There was spirited meeting of 500 or Q 600 in
Washington township, Gloucester co. New jersey On
Friday of last week Joseph Porter in the chair PAT
rIouc speeches were made by Mr a. Browning and
! Col Mckinney
! hurdeT-James Dorsey, a blacksmith. killed hi.
VIE by stranguaiion AT LocFpori, Oh Sunday week -
Dorsey and has victim both addicted 10 drunken
ness and when the officers justce entered The bouse
they found lie corpse lying the floor and the wretch
cd nan asleep upon has miserable bed.
On Dds-'Thai Captain Jesse Wilkinson is TO com.
inand the China Squadron, Commodore Morris the Me.
dterranean, Capt Morgan repair 10 the navy varI
'aion nj Norfolk and Commander Stirling 10 the ma val
rendezvous al the same place.
SnSpiciOuS-A young man named Geo r Kinney
died recently al Boston. and buried with military
honots HIS sudden death give rise Ia suspicious he
was disnierrcd, and arsenic found in his stomach His
wife, It appears. the widow of the Rev Mr. Free.
nan, OF Lowell, who ed ia the same manner HAVING
been taken ~ in the pulpit Mr. Freeman, remains
we're also dsnierred, and confirm the suspicious as 10
ms death. Mrs. Kinney has disappeared She Is said
10 be woman OF great personal beauty.
Bufnlo City, Queen of the Lakes. has no less than
1886 inhabitants.
There Is severe drought about Rochester. ~ Y.
ho corn and potatoes much injured and The mills near
y h'vPpFu rom me streams beng dried M.
Thaddeus Stevens, Esq hos brought suit against The
editors Of the Magician published at Harrisburg for
a libel
Nystery--The dead body Of n child about siI
months old, Spund in a coffin whirh had been sunk
IN the Potomac ear the arsenal at Washington with
Ieaden weights. IL % believed to have been mur.
dored.
The German Population II bis oouatry-Some iden
Of the importance Of this element Of lac Anglo Saxon
race may bo formed not only from the numbers Of Ger
mans our seabO1rd cities have. especially New York
but disc the mass they form throughout PcBnsylyania
aud also IA Ohio and oil the West. TaLe ,his one
item:
Zodsdiah Williams Esr. ofSalisbury. NJ 4 uined BY
me mulberry speculation jumped from a steamboat m
Chesa pkeske bay. aud was drOwnsd
The Fancy steamboats, prang leak and ran ashore
near Coeymans, roIu hence the passengers were CON
veyed 10 Albany
The Macedonian, Leyant end Erie. after curisnr
a. Tar 10 Ea-'fOrt, where they were saIutod were
70 visit Casune Ard Portland; and afterwards pro.
ceed 70 Townsend Poft--outli Gloucester Pr,yincs-
Town, Newport aud New YorE
The Hungarian Singers nre AZ Bufar..
The Illinois Siogmer y NE LakcS-The p.,G,LI
Commercial says This mammOth and mag sifcontI
boat has echpScd oil others. by a run from Chi.
oago 10 this port ~ three days and five hours"
/ C0mpimsHary--Petic Allen. q Senator ofOhio
ard lawyer G. y said. in speech az Columbus Aug
5.i--a'The Bar Of the United States arc purchased
Tough, up BY The head and pad for BY the Banks"
| A sDccSy and profitable Voyqgc The ship Hectic,
arrived New Bedford. from the Pacific on Sunday
evening with clfzD % twenty seven hundred barrels
If o.l-n.v ~ been on; Jny tECuty.sI months The
esrgs - worm about $4,000,