Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-23
NEws I1EMS.

| An ambitious youngster IN Detroit, having
seen the family physician cut an infants gums
with his lancet, to aid the forthcoming teeth, re
solved to operate on a still younger brother
When found, he was seated on the wretched lit
tie fellow, with jacll-knife in hand, the blade
of which he had inserted in the mouth of the
other, and was industriously slashing away,
without paying any regard to the screams of the
! little victim.
JonN A. Stow, swindler of the mcanest
stamp, was recently arrested in Boston, for pro.
curing money under pretense of being clergy
man in i'll health. He had enlisted the deep
sympathy of several of the brethren.
4 SCHOOL of white perch was discovered a
few days ago frozen in the ice near Swan Point,
in the Chesapeake Bay, and nearly forty bushels
were cut out.
THOSE who are loudly crying out for taking
off the duty ON sugar, think it monstrous that
there should be an idea of taking the duty from
protected articles in which they are interested.
We are not in favor of high 'tariffs-but the
American System of Henry Clay, which requi-
red fair and adequate protection for American
industry, in all its branches, commercial, agri-
cultural, mechanical, and manufacturing, is the
best for the country.
TnE affairs of Kansas seem to be again Drift
ing into confusion and strife. a letter from
Lecompton, makes it apparent that Governor
Geary is quite certain to be involved in open
hostilties with the Territorial Legislature, mere
" because he is unwilling to aid their renewed
attempts to impose Slavery forcibly upon the
people of the Territory.
Form nice yong men in Philadelphia, the other
evening, stopped an old Indy toinquire the place
of residence of John Smith, Esq. The old lady
was anxious to oblige, and after doing her best
passed on, when she found that her pocket had
been picked of S15 or $20-all she had.
TUE Irish american says that Coroner Con-
merry was betrayed into one or two thought
less expressions by a confident familiarity with
persons whom he mistook for gentlemen" But
the persons toward whom the Coroner NANTES.
ted the most confident familiarity were Mary,
the chambcrmaid, and Hannah, the cook He
could hardly mistaken them for gentlemen.
A DoGin Pawtucket was noticed, the other
night, to be making frequent trips back and
forth between a certain barn and some other
part of the village. A closer watch showed
that he was stealing hens-catching them in his
mouth by the neck, and carrying them to where
his master was in waiting. He had evidently
been trained to it.
The San Francisco Ne,cs letter says that an
annual loss of$1OO, 900 is sustained on cargoes
which arrive at that port after passing round the
Horn, by the sweating" induced in passing
from the north through the tropics. The hea-
ted and damp vapor condenses into drops on
the underside of the decks, and, falling inces-
sanity upon the cargo, damage reported ensues.
ANoxG the beggars in Boston who have funds
in the bank, is Margaret Sutton, with $l,Too at
interest, who has this winter received her coal
from the poor fund
A Mrs PAnSELL has recovered from the Rich
mond and Petersburg R. r. Co., $4,15s DANA
ges, for injuries sustained by hersefon the road;
$2,4sO for injuries to her son, and 5000 for the
loss of a servant, who was killed.