Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-04-22

CHILD MURDER IN EScLAND.-From statements
in the bondon Examiner and other English papers,
it appears that the of,child murder is great
ly on the increase in that country In some cases
II Seems 10 be perpretrated i'll the indulgence OF
fendish malignty, though nest generally for the
sake of escaping the labor and expense of support
ing the children. At Nottingham Mary AutcliA,
aged %, was tried lately Tor the murder of child,
whose father she had recently married. Tie child
was but two years and half old, and appears 10
have been treated with the greatest cruelty by its
step-mother during the whole time. ltwas proved
hat she frequently beat and shook the child Sc
verely; that she sometimes threw him on the
ground with violence, and even kicked him across
the floor; that she kept him immersed in cold wat
er for an hour together, although the childs Of
fence was really occasioned by the effects ofeeth-
ing; that she stinted him in food, and turned him
out into the cold with insufficient clothing, so
that reghbor sometimes took him in and worked
and fed him. W..
onone occasion, when this was done, some of
the nelghbors examined the child's body and
found it covered with bruises, and about the same
time in reply TO an observation that the child look
ed very weakly, the prisoner replied thst Sit would
not die; it had no die in t' On the LIST of Decem-
Der the eldest child fetched one of the neighbors
to the prisoners house, and there the youngest
was found on the prisoners lap, dying; and in an
hour it did die, in consequence, according to the
testimony, of the injuries it had received The
woman wasconvicted of manslaughter and senten-
ced to be transported for life. AT the same place
and on the same day, Mary Ann Parr, aged 25, was
tried and convicted of having sulfocated her nur-
sing child. She confessed it, and said her only
reason was the fear that she could not get employ.
ment,if she was compelled to take care of it. Atx
Oxford, Christopher Massey was tried for having,
drowned an ilegitimate child of Mary Westall, by
throwing it into pond. These are only fewof
the cases of this dreadful crime, which we find re-
ported in our exchanges. srsi-sl
Sr1RIruALlsM.-The New, York Herald in. a re-
cent article upon spiritul manifestations thinks
Lon Nf fIkeE
established-for instance:
"All history can be rectifed, and the blanks fl
led up, from cotemporaneous witnesses, through
all time. We shall then be able to know directly
to the point, - q i :
Howmuch it cost TO build the pyramids,
What became of the Ark after the flood,
The contents of the books of the Alexandra
library, .7- ~ Fs - -
Who stole the lost books of Livy,
The travels of the ten lost tribes of Israel, and
" here those people now are, q -
The doings of the dark ages, s-.ir - j.
The author of the letters of Junius, -
The histoiyof the Aztecs, $500 5.sE&N
Who struck Billy Patterson.''
Ushad are selling at cambsidge Nd, at 81 a
dozen. .s-,A q. 3 q Essf ..oss s.. as7 ~
.eGJTwelve steamships are now buildisg at New
uTRey., A. Haynes, pastor of a Baptist church in
Brooklyn, died on the 2lst plt, on hisreturn
from Florida.
& IJMiss Charlotte Champion, the actress, is ly-
| ing dangerouslyill in st. Louis.
UJulia Deanis at the Varieties theatre. ST.
Louis. .Rgs4y Ssi5ag Essza
ErLaIge number of cattle are being dfysnto
GTAndtew Hunter. of jefferson county. va,
issuggested as the wing candidate for Congress
from the Loudoun district. ss9s
IRA SILVER tray supposed to be five hundred
years old, has been found in the body of timber
bridge in Scotland.
IVA new French paper. called tile Republican,
is announcedin New FORK, with Eugene Quesne,
editor.