Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-02-11
Death of E. d. parlsins..

rz 1t is melancholy duty TO announce the DEATH
in California, on the 18th ofpDeoember last, of E.
81 Douglas Perkins only of DR.. E. b. Perkins or
II this places The intelligence was brought by the
mi last steamer, and letters announcing it ere re-
cetVed 10y his friends here on Thursday evening
From letter 10 DR.. p, written by DIR. G. O.
Hildreth, aud Dated, Sacramento, Dec 2Oth,'' we
, a, that Perkins i'll about five weeks, and
for the last three weeks confined to his bed
At, His last days were free from pain Great kindness
was! ktended TO him by his acquaintances during
Doc his sickness. Dr. II: writes that he was attentive,
y unused by his friends John Weaver Formerly
@Gi Marsttal in particular very attentive:
"a DR. Hildreth arrived in Sacramento n few days
DSbefore Perkins death, and with him in his last
hoursevo> oasis 2Ts vidE+
'It2:s befthe fHeMsrietta who constituted the
company of -tMarietta Gold Hunters three now
sleep beneath the golden sands of the Ell Dorado
where they hoped speedily ito acquire fortune
,oSamues Gross died soon after his arrival in the
.IsacraIhentoo Valley; zebulon j. CLesebro died at
the mines few weeks later, and now we have to
81 arecori the death of E. D. Perkins. one OF the
company survives still in California, and only one
has returned to ehioythe fruit of his labor with his
family.-Marietta' cIntezttgg e: tht&
tnTHE Sewers At " AsHrNGroN.-The season for
scandal has arriyeds q Congress and out of
lfesS.i21rsS1fffs ~ ~ ~ " 's' ' ''
antFhe'iatelfgent correspondent of the Charleston
Mercury gives agraphic description of affairs. He
LsgsaSS. i1ItsIsg51I bslniafa1 -F ~ Leg st11aa
.sa3s7TTIEo n -IISE ~ ''" '!aT -
"But 1t seems that old lady tea table is more
tHoabied BY scandal 5nongers than Congress, Ind
new edition of Mrs. opie's tDetraction Displayed
10, would seem to be called for ythe condition of the
public mind which Graves such filthy food From
~ candidates for the highest public offices Town to
theobscurest clerk in the Departments, no chnrac-
ternoF sBafe. no honesty of purpose or purity OF
life, aprotecticn. The foul sewers Of calhmny ore
empted over honorable names, and the public
With, aistepded postriIs. sapd in the saVor.,'og
,yf sb,ays,bs II 10 an 6 80 ' .
SuIcIpEIyA PULFrr.-Ch Charles Fuitz, a shoema-
ke5 resident of Schuyl Kill Haven, Schuy kin con-
rtyeRaa, committed suicide ia singular M on
Sunday evening last, Il appearss that for some
time be had been an officer Of The German Luthe-
Church of that place and on the evening re-
ferted to; had convened and opened a Prayer Meet
ipgin the building belonging to that congregation.
He went through the exercises I'M his accustomed
manner and nothing pnlsiaI was noticed aboht
1AisapPeaFalca. Upon the congregational retiring,
theSYFs seen to unboit one Of theWindow shutters
clefe the building with the Others. andw discoy
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