Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-11-18

A TRAGIC END.-Thc Evening Mirror
says that Augustus A. Adams, the trapedian.
who attempted 10 conindt suicide on Monday
night last, is not expected TO survive.
MARRIED AND UNMARRIED.-The
number OF unmarried females in New York
city between the ages of is and 45 is 81 ,666
The number of those married OF the same
agcs Is 81 .207; the number unmarried under
sixteen years of age is 90 ,020. The number
OF persons married in the city during the past
year was 2,353, aud the number of births du-
ring the same period was IA ,0li-of which
I,oi9 were males, and $40 females.
TIE OREGON RAIL ROADS. A.
Douglass, Nj. G.. from Illinois, after examining
the plan proposed by MIR. Whitney for the
construction of a Railroad to the Pacific, saws
that the giant asked VIII embrace ", 100 ,O0O
acres. and at the government price would be
worth Sll3,2O0, 900, of which according to
Mr.. W~hitney's estimate, SOS ,000. 900 would
suffice 10 construct tie road, The remaining
sum of $50 900 900, which might be dim,n.
ished by the valuele.s cha racter of a portion
OF this tract, and again increased By the higher
value oi other portions, Mr.. ID. thinks too
much Tor the individual profits OF the enter
prize.
SINGULAR SIGtTS.-Seveul ships. 70.
Gently arrived, are reported as having passed
large ice islands in the Atlantic. The packet
sbip Liverpool met with one, and the Silyic
de Grasse saw another OF the LIST INST. in lat.
~ ID, long. as %, which was one hundred
ieet high, an four hundred feet lungl IL is
very rare that thess immense boulders of ice
are to be seen at this late season of The wear.
CbERGYMEN IN NEW YoRK.-Ac-
cording TO the new census of New York city
there are 219 clergymen within its bounds,
whose salaries, perquisites; &s., amount 10
S26S,9lo-beipg, on an average, something
over $3.50 each-though some receive five
or SIX thousand per annum, and Others not SO
many hundreds.
HORRlD EFFECTS OF RUM DRINK
lNG.-Saml Worcester, of Lancaster. Mass.
has been committed to Jail in Worcester. fol
the murder OF his wife, while i'm a state of in
toNication, she dying of wounds and bruises
received from him and exposure, lying upon
the bare ground a part of the night.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.-Infor
nation has been received at the denaytmento O,
the conviction OF Doctor Patterson, of Rome.
Georgia, in two cases, for robbing the mail i'm
the spring at that place. He has been SEN
fenced TO hard labor in the penitcntiary lor
fifteen years in each case.
STOLEN TlME.-The Presbyterian church
OF Harrisburg, in which the Rev. DIR. Dewitt
oihciates as pastor, was entered on Tuesla v
night OF last week, and robbed of it's clock,
which was taken out OF its place with con
siderable labor.
SENTENCED.-Georgc Wells, who at
tempted to murder MIR. Lewis A.. Hall, last
summer, at Monroe, Michigan. has pleaded
guilty, and been sentenced 10 twenty years
confinement in the State prison at Jackson. X
NEW YORK POSTAGE DEFICIT
New York Post Office yielded for the quarter
ending the Both June, 1914, S70,l66; Tor the
quarter ending the Both June, 1915, Sl5,25l.
Deficit, = 1872.
Experiments have been made in France with
rifles that project balls more than a quarter OF
a league.