Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-09
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a JERsEYMAN was taken sick and was not ex-
pectcd to recover. His friends got around his bed,
and one says:-"John, do You feel willing to def"
John made an effort to give his views on the
subject and answe red, with his weak and feeble
voice:
Observation-Disclosures stay-whcre-I-
am-better acquainted
WHEN Socrates was asked why he had built for
himself so small house, he replied, "Small as it
is, wish could fill it with friends.''
sDlD your fall hurt you Jemmy?' inquired per-
son of an Irishman, who had fallen from build
ing.
Och no. said Jenny, 'falln was nothin, il
was lightin, that played the dickens p
HEAVY ArrRorRArIoNs.-Notwi the
many bills lost, the appropriations of the late
sion of Congress, will, it said, reach nearly
| MILLIONS DOLLARS. .... .....
Nor BAp.-The Chicago Journal gets OF the fol-
| lowing good hit al the little Giant
| Senator Douglas says there are not Wings
enough on the prairies of the west TO make mile
stoSes'
Truly not, if they were set up by the waysde OF
the road he is travelling to reach the Presidency.
PosTMsTREssEs.-There are in the U. States,
eishty-one women holding the Office of postnas-
teri ~ thirty -one of whom are in Pennsylvania
Some of these are important offices.
The Russian Government has forbidden the ad-
mission of German mechanics iourneymen or ap-
prentices, on any pretence whatever into the Rus
sian dominons.
'ANs.'-lf you are precise man, AMI wish to
be certain of what you get, never marry girl
named Ann, for we have the authority of Lindey
Murray, and many Others, for the assertion that
Ann lis an indefinite article.'
VOTE was taken on the cars from Buffalo to
Rochester, on Friday, which resulted in giving
SCOTT Al; PIERCE %; HALE 2. On the return
train another canvass was had, which showed &c
for ScoTT, and 81 for PIERCE.
PArRoSIzE the Printer in the days OF thy youth
for he may yet write thy epitaph.
EXPENSIVE FuNEnALs.-The Cincinnati Catholic
Telegraph, in noticing "the vanity of having long
lines of carriages at funerals, says very Justly
More money isspent in idle and ridiculous display
on such occasions than would be necessary for the
support of all the widows und orphans in the CITY,
When will your people understand that in most of
those instances, where survivors left SO utterly
destitute, the larger the funeral, the deeper the
shame and the greater the disgrace
BERKELEY SPRINGs, VA.-There are still several
hundred visitors at this popular watering place,
principally persons from Maryland, Virginia and
the District. Among the arrivals last week were
Mis-. Fillmore and Miss Fillmore. Also, Hon. Hen
ny A. Wise, of Virginia. The President and Hon.
]. Kennedy, Secretary of Navy, are expected.
"MY LAD" said lady to boy carrying news
papers, care you the mail boy l''
"You dozen't think Pm female boy, duz ye?"
The STRONGEST string yet known, is said to be a
string of onions.
THESE ARE stirring times, as the spoon said to the
tea-cnp.
BosroS DwELLINGs.-A correspondent of the
Boston Atlas says there are at least four hundred
dwelling houses in Boston which appraised at
above $4,000. There are several at $4,000 and
upward, and one house, with the land connected
with it, is taxed for upwards of 100000.
A MUSICAL CONVENTION in New York city has de-
cided to give Madame Sontng, on her arrival in this
country. a serenade by six or eight hundred per-
formers
SEVERAL prominent medical writers in England
have assailed with considerable force, the practice
OF cousumptive patients, in changing climate
They recommend substitute change of air in
the same climate.
farmers BANK OF KENTUCKY, AT NASHVILLE
$780, 900 of the stock in this Bank has been sold in
New York at par. This, says the Eagle, will in
crease the Banking capital at Maysville, aud must
have "a favorable influence on its business opera
tons. No more stock is to be disposed of at par.
YOUNG fellow oGeredto bet the teacherof
young ladies' grammer school, who was Boosting of
the proficiency of his pupils, that not one of them
would "decline" husband. Heisa saucy ras-
cal, however.