Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-01-27
NEWS ITEMS.

PRINTERS 4aSH LIN AAHS = yFSo.Nf
vertiser, published by L. johnson & Co., Phila-
delphia, suggests the establishment OF an asy-
lum for snperannuated or disabled printers, Be-
sides starting the project, the Aessrs. johnson
have. in the tandsomest manner, headed sub
scription list for this noble object with contri-
button of one thousand dollars. Another gen
tlenian residing in Philadelphia, has offered to
give two. acres of ground as site for the asy-
lum.
THE great snow storm prevented the meeting
of the New Jersey Legislature, on the day APP
pointed, last Tuesday. Only two members APP
peared in the Senate, and three in the House.
Thick IcE-The Cumberland Telegraph says
the ice on Wills creek and the Potomac is now
twenty-five inches in thickness ten inches
thicker than It was at any time during last vim
ter
TnE East River at New York city. was frozen
ore. solid last Saturday week, so that some two
thousand persons passed between Brooklyn and
New York on foot. About four o'clock in the
sfeeEnoo1 OF that day, the ice broke and drifted
slorly dovrn the river. Some five hundred per-
sons we're on it at the time. but they were all
picked up by steam tugs and small boats.
TIE Hog Cholera has broken out in the Vi
cinity Of Boston, where about seventy-five hogs
have died of it Death ensues soon after the
first attack.
GovEnxoR KING, of New York, has offered
$500 reward for the apprehension of the MUIR
derer of Carman, the Jamaica a. L. farmer.
.w4rERTowx, N. Y, carries off the palm for
cold weather 1t was forty degrees 6slO'0 zero
mp there on Monday.
JACOB LITTLE, of New York, the famous stock
jobber, has made application to be re-admitted
TO the board of brokers. a committee has been
appointed to examine into the circumstances of
his failure and report
TINS Tabernacle Methodist Church, PhiIadel-
phia, was destroyed by fire on the 18th inst.
a TERRIBLE state of affairs is reportedin the
Massachusetts, State Prison. Threats are free
" thrown out by the prisoners; and the kec-
.pers havereceiyed orders in case any prisoner
attempt to approach them, and refuse to go to
work, to shoot him down at once.
A PORTION of the church choir in the Pres.
byterian church of Greenbush, Long Island,
recently objected to the congregation taking part
in the singing, as they got out 'of time" The
church has decided that the congregation may
sing.
sMoxIvG.-.Tt is said that in proportion to tho
population, that there is more smoking done in
New Orleans than any other cityin the world.
ISpIAN TROUBLES IN FLoRIDA.-Accounts from
South Florida show the prevalence of great alarm
among the frontier settlers on account of the In
dams Several companians of volunteers, in
addition to those already in the service of the
United States, were being organized FOR the
purpose Of afording protection to the inhabit-
ants.
pyGLuApLY D1scoyERy-A beautiful descrip-
ton Of granite, in inexhaustble quantities. it is
said, has recently been discovered on the banks
of the Potomac at occoquan, Va. tits of a
gray color, containing quartz to excess, and
bears pressure of 1880 pounds to the cubic
inch. ,lss
osE hundred and fifty thousand gallons of
winesand considerable quantity of brandy, has
been manufactured in Los Angeles and vicinity,
Southern California, the past season.
IXPoRrANT, IF TRuE-An exchange says:-
Mr.. Gowan has deposited IN the State Depart
ment the necessary bonds and authenticated do
cuments that he has discovered guano island,
called Somburo, containing over 300 600 tons,
within eight days sail of New York. The Sc
cretary informed him that government would
protect him in its occupation.
:. REV. PETER P. SANDFoRp, D. D., one of the
oldest ministers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in this country, died at his residence in
Tarrytown, n. Y, on Wednesday.
ISFRINGEMENT OF PArENT.-A verdict of $780,
900 damages have been rendered against the city
of New York for infringement of Ransom &
wenman's patent fire engines. This is amin
portant matter, as all engine makers embody the
invention oFtheir machines, and are, therefore,
liable to action or damages
Flrrr-rneRR American vessels are reported
lost during the last month; value 81 ,544, 400.
= oEE hundred and twenty-five hogs were fro
zen TO death at one of the railroad depots at
Dayton, on Sunday night
TnERE is a fodder famine in the vicinity of
Peoria, III. Hay and oats at a premium.
DEATH oPsA MRRcaANT-Mr. Arson Gray, a
merchant of Philadelphia, who was formerly
largely interested in the coal trade, and more
recently inlthe Flour and Grain trade, died at
his residence, on Ninth street, below Lombard,
at an early hour on Thursday last
yEssE1s FRozES IL AT GmcAGo.-Two hum
slred and forty-five vessels are now frozen mat
Chicago, and awia not probably, be again lib
Grated this winter. They are mostly owned
there.
LorlsyIIIs Hoos-Hog killing is over at
Louisville. About 245, 900 head have been
kiIied;t there and in the vicinity this season.
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FIsnEk,Es's Luck.-The Yarmouth (Mass)