Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-04-08
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TnERE are now in Washing ton twenty great
them weighs less than 200 pounds and tho big
gesti is up to 255: The ACREAGE ofsthe twenty
is 2241-2lbs Sosays the Eoenitg Star.
TnE faro from Cincinnati to New York. via the
Baltimore and Ohio, Now York and Eric, and
/ New. York Central, has been reduced to $3.50.
The fare by the Pennsylvania Centralis $40
RBcoED Of the important fires throughout
the United States during the month Of March,
shows a total of thirty three, the loss cntailcd
by which is estimated at over one and three
quarter millions Of dullars. For the first
quarter Of the year the aggregate losses #sus-
tanned bythc, large fires foot up nearly five mill
lions
TnE Danyille (Pa.) Democrat states that one
day last week there was manufactured at the
AIontour rolling MILL in that place, the enor.
nous quantity of upwards Of 11G tons Of rail
road iron-thc largest amount ever manufactll-
red in one day atany establishment of the kind
in the United States.
INmining for lead q few days0go, in the vi
cinity of Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, Mr.. Carpcn-
ter opened a somewhat remarkable cavern at the
i depth of go or 20 feet in the solid rock Tic
cave was fillcdwith bones of a kind not recog-
nizc[ by the naturalistso of that vicinity, among
which were number of teeth from two to two
and a half inches square, with prongs more
than an inch long.
TIE editor of the NYoonsockct Patriot makes
merry over the mistake Of an old Shanghai hen
of his, that has been Setting" for five weeks
upon too round stones and a piece Of brick -
'.IIer anxiety, quoth he, sis no greater than
ours, to know what she will hatch. fit proves
a brick yard, that hen is not for sale.''
ACCORDING to the N. Y Mirror, there is
4 young, healthy, handsome widow in New York
city, who has an income of 5000 year, and
who wants to marry a man who has not the
i slightest objection to the union. But her late
husband, whose jealousy, it seems, did not end
with his life, lefta wicked will giving all his
propertyto collateral relative, if his widow
should wed second husband. The Mirror
understands the victim Of this outrage has offer
cd $4,000 n year out Of her income of $4,000
to have the cruel condition cancelled, but the
i party to whom the property would revert is in
cxorabe.
THE Pennsylvania bank cashier who abscond-
edwith all the specie of the institution he be
rope, has been suffered togo free on refunding
the money. Ofcourse. Had he stolen one dol
lar instead of fifty thousand, the State wonld
have been put to five hundred dollars expense
to send him to Jail for his dishonesty. This is
the modern mode of teaching the public lessons
OF probity.
Tnr Pittsburgh Gasettcof Friday, comments
with Just severity on the manner i'll which the
associated press, paying an enormous aggregate
sum for telcsraphic dispatches, is made the vc-
I hicc of the impertinent and false ccctionccring
dispatches sent over the wires by political par
tisan reporters. The news is collatcd so stupid
", very often, as to prevent the scnsc-very
important matters are neglected entirely-stale
extracts from newspapers are given in place of
the actual news of each day-and these partisan
clcctioncering opinions take precedence Of facts
and incidents of real interest, We pay for be.
ing trifcd with and made to give currency to
what we know to be untrue.
/. tbs general assembly of the Presbyterian
Churchof the United States meets in Licking
ton, KY, on the third Thursday in May.
a STOCK company has been formed of persons
residing in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, who
have constructed steam wagon to be run on
common roads. It was tested few nights
SINCE and travelled to the entire satisfaction Of
those who got it up.
:. REV. DANIEL WALDO, the venerable chaplain
of the House of Representatives, now ninety
four years old, has revisited his home iii Con-
nectcut Last week, he preached two sermons
in Sharon, walkedhalf mile from the parson-
age TO the Westinghouse, and went through the
f I,,r, o. aIr~y