Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-02
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Nv assembled at Norfolk, adjourned on Thpsday.
Wealth gained by the loss of charactef sell
respect and virtue, is dearly purchased.
MA mule race was to come of at the OAK
land course, Louisville, on Saturday.
NJ Lola MOntez attended a picnic eXcurs on OF
the New York Pic Club, on Thursda! and IN
neat speech presented rhe members WIN a nailhei
M. The City Council of Dayton pre- taking
measures to secure fifty acres Of land flear 'hat
city, for the site of the new Lunatlc Ass!lWn
n5-The Germnnc Diet has voted ID. sum OF
ca, 500 as a national reward to the inventors OF
gun cotton.
n5,The Blackberry has been cultivatet success
fully in New York. 1t is said TO be far superior 70
those that grow wild. ipa
n,,The wife and daughter of M. Jol4 Abbott,
of Naples Scott county, ILL.,, died short me since
from eating an uhripe watermelon.
o5.Tbe Hon. S. w. Parker has been Il -nomina-
ted for Congress, by the Wings of Cambfdse, dis
trct, Ind.
uArchbishop Purcell has as in :, his possession
Bible printed in the year l4Ie-tirteenl years pe-
fore the discovery of America
The tobacco crop in Virginia this yeal is better
than il has been for some years There has been
no drought there this year.
v-5r'rhere is fair prospect for the rlcr crop IN
South Carolina, but in the adjoining States ~ was
severely injured by heavy rams. ~
n-5,Judge John Richie, Sem, died in Madison,
on Friday morning last, in the 18th year OF his
age.
nas-A native Syrian is lecturngin Cleve-
land on the manners and customs of his
country.
E@E-The Hon, Moses H. Corwin, of O.,
has been nominated for Congress by the
Wings of the Slh district Of that State.
E9-Tl.e Superintendent of the Illinois
Central Railroad has advertised for 10000
men to work on that road.
n@ssThere is monument in Mount Au-
burn Cemetery, Boston, which is said to
have cost $4,000.
E5saGen, Powell, of Ky, will review
the Seventh Legion of Louisville, on the 23'i
of September next.
ora young man, named Joseph Russell
was severely injured tiw days ago, near
Annapolis, by the cavingn Of a sand bank
A backyard, capable Of turning ont one
million Of brick per annun, has been estab-
lished near Hanover, Pa.
rA@Dr. J. G. McWhtrtcr, prominent
citizen of Augusta, Geo., died on the goth
instant.
Congress has passed a bill for the relief Of
Margaret L. Worth, wife of. Gen. Worth,
with an amendment allowing her $50 a
month for five years.
n--Pe.cr Faneuil, who butt the celebrated hall
in Boston that bears his nam, was a French HUI
guenot who was banisled from France byan cdict
against civil and religious libety.
MA rather dull young fellDw was asked if he
knew the history of his ancestors. lie rcphed he
knew nothing OF ms Aunt s. sSleis' except MS
mother, and she was dead
Ir"Oh, dear, Mr.. F., ouijest when you say
nv babe is the handsomest yon ever saw, you must
| he soft soaping'' 'Well, madam, think it needs
soap of some kind ez.5
| The Wings of Tennessee are % have mammoth
Mass Meeting at London, Tennessce on the 14th
| of San,nmhrr-tLe anniyerSary of General Scots
triumphant entry into the clty9 Mexico.
p@rThe city of Roxbuly, Massachusetts,,
the birth. place of Gen. " arren, has had
prepared beautiful stone or the National
Monument at Washington,
PorAToEs.-In San Frat cisco. at last ac-
counts. potatoes were selling al ten cents
per mound. The crop in chat State, it is
feared, will be very short.
ms-Mr. VIM. Huey, a respectable far
mcr, residing seven miles from Wilmington.
Del, was killed on Tuesday last, by tree
which two of his men we 10 cutting down
falling upon him. ~ s,esttg
GA. J. Vaughan, Esq. formerly mem
Der Of the Virginia egislsturo, from Din
wddie county, has been 81 scted member
of the Missouri Legislature,
The barn Of Peter Westenhave, about two miles
| north of Findav, Ohio, was desroyed by fire, OF
the 2s inst, together with its cntenis, inciudine
the crops of this season.
nrComnodore Stewart was seized with an apo
peic attack, on Sunday week. At his farm, au
Joining Bordentown, N. j., butte has recoYefet
his consciousness, and there is Every reasonable
| prospect of speedy restoration.
UTMr. Absalom Ellis, of Kenten county, Ken
lucky, few days since, killed nowlwhich meas
lred four feet between the tips O. the wings, ant
| has been pronounced the largest bird OF the spe
cies ever seen in that region OF ntry.
| 1r.sPm q great gun,'' said ltipsy typo, who
had been on bender for week.
| eyes" said the foreman, s'yol're great CUR
and half cooked, and you can conder yourself dis
charged
DIED OF GR1EF.-Mr. Ofutt, father oil
the young men convicted Of arson some
time since in Utica. N. Y, AID whose sen.
tence of death was committs TO imprison
lnent for life, died last week f grief.
| Inc eastern papers STATE that uie sieatest aSti'
ity now prevails at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, il
| fitting out vessels of war. The Raleigh, the Con
| stituton, the Independence aud tie North CARROLL
ma. are all fitting for A largenumber of new
seamen are constantly desertngi They receive
s26 in advance, and then manage 10 escape.
The eminent success of the Chcinnatians, il
their buffalo fight last year, has induced some o
them to start bear and bull fight this year. Tire,
grizzly bears having reached the tity, a fight be.
| tween one of them and bull has peeu arranged
| for next Saturday. . ~
CoLoRED CoNv ENTIoN.-h colorcd PEG.
pies Mass Convention has leen called to
meet in Cleveland, O.. on tie s,h and 9Th
of September, to consider MEASURES for the
education and elevation oftli, free colorcd
| people.