Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-28
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city He has Strengthened the police. and
win require of them vigilance and promptRess
The Milk Sickness IS prevailing toan alarm
ing extent on the Licking river near Coyington.
Ky. Several persons died last week from this
strange disease.
ExPIARIxG The Richmond Enquirer saws
its recent article advocating Observation-Disclosures
OF the slave trade was simply written ironically.
and asserts unequiyocally that It is opposed to
the revival of that traffic.
A Florence paper speaks in the highest terms
Of praise Of the productions Of Mr. Barbee,
the Y irgiIsa sculptor, now pursuing his pro-
fession IN Italy. lis last work, the Fisher Girl
IS said 70 be . fine specimen of the sculptor
genius.
PRoGREss OF CIynIzAIIps.A London paper
gives very gratifying account of the progress
Christianity has made in New Zeaiand s chief
of that cannibal country was questioned by one
Of the missionaries as TO how far the study of
the Scriptures has broken him of his unnatural
passion for human flesh. The chief answered
proudly You missionary men have done
me much good. HeEer eat my enemies On Sam
day notc.n
Mr. Benjamin. from Louisiana. and Mr.. Yn.
lee. of Florida, g. s. Senators, are both Hebrews
Gov Adams. of South Carolina, has appoint
ed one hundred and seventy delegates to the
Southern Convention which meets. on tie sth of
December, at Savannah.
Submarine Telegraph between the q. S.
atlu NuDa ~ lncoHIetnpI3u0l.s inns Is
terprise that is every way feasible. Suehanan-f
nexaticn, moreover. would be altogether unob-
jectionabie ssiS
Three American steamboats, are now nayiga-
ting the rivers La Plata and Parana, in South
America. They We're introduced by Mr. E A.
Hopkins, an American, and have now been run
ming regularly and successfully under the Amer
lean flag for more than year.
The Niagarn Falls CT. " Gazette says .sThe
eastward bound train, when passing AIiler's Cor
ner, on Friday afternoon, at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, caughta COW, setting her up in
front of the engine. The train was stopped as
soon as possible, and the COW assisted TO alight
when she started off on a rum
1t is probable the production of whisky in the
Ohio valley is fifty million gallons per annum.
involving consumption Of twelve and a half
million bushels Of corn, the average value of
which is 100000.
Sylvester Waterhouse, L. L. d. a distinguish
ed classical scholar, has been appointed PROBES
scr of Latin in Antioch College, Ohio. DIR. Wa
terhouse is said to the youngest Professor in the
United States
A subscription has been openedin New York
for the relief Of the sufferers OF the wrecked
steamer Lyonnais.
ton, o., on Friday last, by an express driver, for
refusing TO give him u larger SUN than was
agreed upon to take his trunks to the depot
The rufiian struck the gentlemen on the head
Win the Dutt end OF his whip cutting him bad
ly and ffacturing his skull
The .Philadelphia Ledger thinks it is safe
prediction that the result of the next Presidcn-
tial election will be known in all the principal
cities of Europe, and possibly in India on the
morning ofttie next day after it has transpired
Ex-Governor Slade, of Vermont has recently
arrived West with another bevy of female teach
ers, ticketed for Illinois, Indiana, Missouri aud
Iowa This makes 100 that have gone out UNI
der the Governors care.
The religious and charitable contributions Of
the Christian natives of the Sandwich Islands
amounted, during the last year, to within irac-
ton of nineteen Thousand dollars
Next year. general reunion of all bodies of
Evangelical Christians throughout the world, is
70 take place at Berlin, at the call of the Evan
gelical Alliance, and on the invitation OF the
King of Prussit
No less than nine bears have lately been cap
t1red IN Dauphin county, near Harrisburgh
Pennsylvania.
MEssns HoE & Co. have just shipped. on board
the packet ship, Southampton, for London to
sail on the 9th, another of their mammoth
presses. His men go out 70 put it up. 1t weighs
~ tons, and the freight money Of this beautiful
piece OF machinery amounts to about thirty
Is Hcekskill, New York, little boy named
Charles Pitchford accidentally fell down and run
a splinter in one of his eyes The splinter could
not be extracted on account of the deicacy of
the organ, and it will have to remain in until
thrown out IN the gradual process of healing.
The Richmond Enquirer praises highly the
statesnanship and services OF Secretary Marcy
Some OF the Democratic presses wish him to be
co itinued at the head of the State Department
SENTENCED TO BE HuNG.-one of the two me-
gro men, belonging to Mr.. Thomas A. Edwards,
OF Amherst county, Va, who were arrested on
suspicion and tried for shooting at Mr. Williams
OF the same county, has been sentenced to be
hung; the other viii be transported. Col Left
w1ch's man, Allen, who killed Pleasant Hunter
some time ago, is also sentenced to be executed.
A FAT EEE-In the case of Mcrick rs. Sunder-
land. recently decided by the Supreme Court of
oaillornla IN favor of the pain lifts, involving
the title to one-third of the city of Sacramento,
valued at s. 600 600, Joseph g. Baldwin, Esq,
author OF eFiuSh Times IN Alabama. y got n
contingencies of upwards Of one hundred thou
sand dollars.
ARTIFICIAL. HosEy.-It is stated that Mrs. G.
A. SImons of Westfort, VT, has discovered a new
method OF making honey from harmless buds and
flowers, with cheap sugar; even Mt the present
high prices of sugars, 1t can be made at ten cents
per pound, and any one can make il az any time
OF the year. This new and important invention
drew premium at the Connecticut river valley
Agricultural Fair, at bradford.
SPIRTUAIIsM.-sye copy the following para
graph from New York letter to the baltimore
american, dated Nov 25th:
For some time past a body Of Spiritualists
have been holding regular Sunday services at
Dodworth's Hall, in Broadway, which all deyout
Spiritnaists in the city have faithfully attended.
Their proceedings have hitherto been marked
with considerable decorum, but nos discussions
have sprung up, one party of Spiritualists as
serting the divinity of Christ, and another par
~ violently opposing the doctrine As the two
parties could not agree, they have separated.
and new Christian Spiritualist Church has
been established at Academy Hall, in Broadway.
The other party, who deny all ti,. fan.laraenfsi
revealed truths Of Christianity, still hold their
meetings at Dodworth's rooms The split has
created quite sensation in spiritual circles
TERRIsLE EFrEcrs OF TnE LATE EAnruou.xp
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