Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-04
hit Of bushel of the different kinds Of grain.

THE BROADWAY QUADRnLEs-ds performed ba
Barntm's Brass Band-FMst-The two leading
couples try to cross and back, stand on pavement
and wait ladies, chain, half promenade, stages right
and left. .5, r-.
Second-Leading gentleman advance and retire
twice. all sci at corners and wait for turn.uJ 5bJ
-Third-The leading lady and opposite gentle
man advance, and retire twice; top and DOL
tom couple try again, and return to places scrdfhy
The figure repeated by the sides N-'i Nl- s's4'"
sFourth-Four stages and fouI wagons advance
and stop; carmen do the same;l couples turn anu
come in collision; Billingsgate right and lett; NJ.
p. promenade and turns the corner; general InuSs
and back to places. sl.,,. .rt ,,-..-fI -...-r.,
fFi'th-The leading couple waltz round inside
the gutter; four gentlemen do the same and swear;
grand chain, all promenade to places, and turn
savage grand chasse croisee to other side wlthonl
turning TO places; pleasant smiles oyer the leit'
and promenade for finale with dirty boots.-Lan-
tern. 7"l y. httts 3-ii!A4 !.tiH-7@ ~ S"iNe-t
EXTRAORDINARY LoNGEviTY.-A colored man
named Billy, the property of the late Mrs Sarah Il
gram died in Norfolk, ON Friday night, at the ad-
vanced age of one hundred and seventeen years He
was nativeof Hanover county Virginia, corn IN
the service of Peter Carl nd, ESQ.,, was at Norfolk
when it was burnt, in Ito. and was plesssa SEQ ,n.9
also at the battle ofthe Great Bridge, and Iemehl-
bered all about the seige of Yorktown. The Nor
folk Herald says: .sr7f..tf Z, ,,. 5,,.y,,.
mBilly was strong, hale and hearty even to the
day of his death. He was employed as a.drayms,n
until he was I2 years old and atthe age OF could
roll hogshead of sugar, weighing LOU IDS, On
| his dray without assistance. He was always good
hlimored, welldisposed and scrupnlo9sly y honss.. %
II is remarkable coincidence that, for the last
forty years, he lived in family, three OF its lnlna
tes Of which have died, within the last two years,
two at the ages of 80 and 94 and one at the age OF
IL" ,- ,lt.,' -, 49, + .,.,,,f T.
snjA young lady, sensible girl, gives the fol-
lowing catalogue of different kinds of love: Ihc
| ,nx,a.f 1nuu n
love; the strongest, awoman's love; the dearest a
mans S lave; and the sweetest longest, strongest
dearest iove-sa love of bonnet.iu yns q ufya.4
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| Nor BAD-A Baptist church was lately burned
at Chicago The editor of the Tribune, of that
city, in referring TO the event says Al must al
low, that the Baptisfs had the best of the arr'l-
ment Yesterday. Sprinkling was proved to be
| v.ry poor means OF salvation-ll s.fu4.p gI .ste
| nFAn analysis of the cucumber, by Professor
Salisbury, of Albany, SHOWS that ninety seven one
hundredths Of the fruit are water. This is more
than the water melon W hich contains ninety four
parts. The musk lion contains ninety. y -.
- 'sitsi. -
:iilJ.The Scientific American says that the best
sehold back for awagon that has yet been invent
ed, is the one patented by a Mr. Slocum, Of Ohio.
We ethink that we know Of one better than that2a
"chattel mortgage"
EUFThere are three sorts OF frlends-youI Trends
who like you four friends who do not care for you,
and your friends who hate you. ~, f.,,y-.tl -
51T.If giving a carcass of mutton to man costs
three dollars how much would it cost to tslamb'iia
boy9 The committee on pugnacty VIII please sli7
quire. ,J,r5,tfs s,lyy|l q t.lg,ig il,i sjiii,
L sMy dear" said smiling spouse to her 9th
er half, a morning or twosince, "Pmgoing shop
J nine.I want little change?,sd tns siIon9 lss75
IPoobP, responded the ungallant man., .otfiat