Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-20
PARAGRAPHICAL.

u Heavy SHOCKS OF earthquakes were ielt at
Port au Prince on the 18th and 18th ult.
tJ7Thc receipts of the dramatic festival recent
" held in New York were 81 200.
nE-Thcre were thirteen deaths by yellow fever a
Charleston up to the 18th inst.
u5The Presidential election, this year, will take
place on Tuesday, the second day OF November
| Only seven weeks intervene.
| uj'Sevcra families have been injured in Charles
ton recently by eating poisoned cheese
| uj'Greenough, the great Sculptor, has settled
near Newport, X. l..
| UjDurng August, the police OF New Orleans
| made $3.50 arrests.
| uFMr. Cough is delivering temperance addresses
in Boston.
GI-loo,ooo persons were present at the Utica N
Y. Fair.
| Iie'rhe Washington Union says Col. Forney has
not purchased an interest in that paper.
| uJ'In Cincinnati, i'll the month of August, there
were twelve fires, occasionng total loss OF So7,-
TOO.
uJ-Thc Cross on the Catholic Cathedral, in Gin
cnnat, was struck by lightning during the storm
on Saturday last.
uTrhe city Council of Cincinnati has ordered
1000 feet of paving this season, at cost OF s2,oo
per foot front.
| MA woman named Rachel Groves, who resides
i'll White Clay Greek Hundred, Del, was awaken
ed few nights ago by rat Selling her by the
nose and biting it severely.
u-;-Thc iron safe of ENGLIsH's Hotel, West Jer-
sey was robbed of 500 in ewelrY, on Monday last.
IL
Dlause, is recovering; and the individual who was
injured by the accidental discharge of his duty is
still very low. st'
u-J.The Washington Republic says that about
four hundred land warrants of the different denom-
nations are issued daily from the Pension Office
Qj'lfyou make love TO a widow who has daugh-
ter twenty years younger than herself, begin by
declaring that you thought they were sisters.
uJ-sIst that clock right over there?' asked rlsi-
ter the other day. Right over there saidthe boy,
"tant no where e!se.'
IVA true picture of despair, is pig reaching
through hole in the fence to geta cabbage that lies
few inches beyond his nose.
uj'The statement is contradicted that Yankee
had invented machine for taking the noise out OF
thunder.
uJ@Wm. Clore, of Rising Sun, ind, has manu-
featured 1000 plowS in the last we've months, the
cost of which is S13,OOO
uj-Thc wealth of New Bedford, if divided equal
ly with the $4,000 population, would give each
one 81 1000.
u57Tbe Missouri Clay Monument Association has
resolved to erect monument III st. Louis at cost
of S75 900.
nrA quarter of million of dollars were staked on
the issue of the late election at Liverpool says the
Liverpool Albion.
n5stAlways be prepared for DEATH This was
the admonition of Missouri elder, as he placed IN
his sons belt two bowie knives and pair of revolt
vers. - - rs.
Q-TThe New York Tribune says that the Rev.
Rufus w. Griswold, D. d. of that city, has become
associated with Mr.. James Gordon, as one of the
editors OF the Herald.
IPsSmith, know you,' said a New Orleans
Recorder to hard looking case. you are Gin
cnnat william Il amt no such thing your Hon
or said Smith, Pm a Louisniilidn"
uJ-A German writer in commenting on the social
condition of England, remarks, that there is such
scarcity of thieves in England, that they are obi
ged toiofer large re,oards for them!
1TSomebody down East has invented new plan
for cheap boarding. One of the boarders mesmeri-
the rest, then eats hearty meal-the lnesmesi-
sed being satisfied by sympathy
uTNIr Monnel, clerk, who was blown up on the
Reindeer, was member of the corpse of sappers
and miners who served with so much creditin Mex
leo. Out of 10 members who left for the campaign,
but 80 returned. .s !a1r IL: -
The London Morning Herald denies that the Bri
fish Government had conceded to the Americans the
right of fishing in the British bays at distance of
three miles from the British Shore.
MA firm in New York asks the privilege of put
ting down new kind of pavement in the Bowery,
no pay for thework, unless it be perfectly good af-
ter sixty days use; then they get $3.50.
UThackery, the author of vanity Fair has
been engaged to deliver series of lectures before
the New York Mercantile Library. MI. Thackery
will arrive from England in the course of the au-
tumn, in company with Hon. Abbot Lawrence, |
who is warm personal friend. Qua