Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-01
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ITEMS.
Bill. JOHNSON, q desperate, waslately lynched.
by the citizens of Waco, Texas and the coro-
ner's jury reported that lie cameto his dealt
"by means OF aFope and agnn5in the hands
persons unknown.
Tue wife Of a citizen of Petersburg, Va, has
recently given birthto nchild withtwo tongues.
Pray heaven lis not q female!
WOMEN are called "sofler sex, I" because they
are so easily humbngged Out of one hundred
girls ninety-lfye would prefer ostentation to hap
piness; dandy husband to q mechanic.
An enormous quantity of maple sugar has
been made this season in Northern Indiana, and
the Jolly woolsmenn are stillat work making
more.
CuARLoTTE STElDE, olesof Tho Mormon emf
grants from Marlborough, NNorceste rshire, Eng
land, died on the wharf ut Boston, Friday, soon
after landing from the ship.
A YOUTH named Brady has been arrested at
Stanton, Va, on the charge of robbing the
mail
Ex-PREsIDENT PIEgcE.1It is stated that ex-
President Pierce has purchased GO acres Of. land
in the northern part of Concord, N. IL, whereol
he intends to erect splendid mansion.
An ASSIGNMENT. The directors of the Lam
caster (Pa.) Savings Institution appeared in
court on Saturday and made an assignment of
its selects. I. 1. Roberts is the assignee. 1t is
thought the institution will pay about fifty
cents on the dollar when its affairs IRE cosedup.
1t is stated that the Greensborough On. c.
Messenger, q religious paper, is edited and pub
lishcd by Mrs. FrancesM N. Bumnard, and printed
wholly by females, even to the press work,
which is done by a negro woman.
TIM official report of railway casualties in
England, for the last year, states the number to
be 2sl killed, 894 injured The calculation is,
that one passenger in every 163 millions carried
was killed, the other accidents having occurred
to persons either the servants of the companies
or neither passengers nor servants
RE-OPENBp-The Trustees of the Insane
Asylum, at indianapolis have resolved to reopen
the Asylum on condition the counties pay sixty
dollars for each patentper month.
DAMAGEs-Dr L. F. w. Andrews, editor of
the Georgia Citizen, has been sued for libel to
the tune of 100000, for publishing the name OF
a subscriber who had moved off without paying
his subscription dues. s{
TIE Detroit Atlcertissr learns that a young
lady of that city, Protestant, has become
Jewess, and is about to marry n jew, who is
well known there, aud is quite wealthy. 81
MEN and women consume too much food and
too little pure air; they take too much medicine
and too little exercises
THE Cincinnati press are very severe upon
Fowlers lectures. They unanimously vote
them humbuggery of the first water.
The planning mill of MeSsrs. Auld& Miller,
Mt. Vernon, (O9 was destroyed by fire, on Fri
day night last. Loss, $4,000.
The fruit and corn crop of Alabama and Mis-
sissippi have been entirely ruined by the frost
1t will be necessary to replant the corn.
SIMPSON says the ladies do not set their caps
for the gentlemen any more; they spread their
hoops.
TuE Amount of gold shipped from Australia
this year is nearly 81. 500 600 s4se
Tue mother of Archbishop Purcell, of the
Catholic Church, died in Brown county, o., last
week. She was 90 years old
THE Desert, Utah. Ne,cs ridicules the idea Of
the general government sending officers out
there to rule them.
DEAp.-John Whitehead, Teller of the Yir.
ginia Bank at Lynchburg, Va, and an esteemed,
citizen of that place, died on Saturday morning
last
The Cumberland GiOiELian says that the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal wlInot be ready for
the passage of boats before the 9th or 9th of
May.
TOBACCO CRoP IN MISSOURI correspondent
of the st. Louis Eseniag Ne,es writes as fol-
lows:
Having seen many reports in the publicpr prints
in reference to the effect tho recent cold wca-
Their has had on the tobacco plants, / have made
dilligent inquiry of planters and others from all
the tobacco growing counties in this State,
with reference thereto, and am pleased to learn
from them all, without single exception, that
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