Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-04
NEWS I1EMs.

to induce our government to adopt measures to
increase the legal traffic between Africa and
America.
WV. S. ROGERS, wealthy citizen of Bourbon
county, KY, was poisoned by negro woman a
few days since The strychnine was admins
tered in a cup of coffee, but fortunately he did
not take enough to kill him. He is now out OF
danger.
NINETY persons have united with the Meth
odist Church in Covinston, KY, since the first
of the month.
JAMES TAYLOR, of ElizaviIle, Kentucky, com
mitted suicide in Sharpsburgh, Kentucky, by
cutting his throat. Liquor and insanity the
cause.
F1r1Y-srvrN persons died of delerium tire
mems in the Charity Hospital, New Orleans, du-
ring the past year.
IT is said that SO, 900 of the new counterfeit
notes of the Mercantile Bank of Hartford, is
new in circulation in jackson county, Indiana.
THERE were so deaths from scarlet fever in
Philadelphia last week.
NATHANIEL HAwrHoRN, an old citizen ofSiarl-
eta, Ga, was frozen to death in that place one
night last week.
TUE rolling mills at spartansburg, S. c., were
destroyed by fire few nights since. Loss
500, 900.
JAMES T,pPEss, a soldier of the Revolution,
died in Petersburg, Va, on Monday.
JOHN MORTALITY, sentenced in Washington to
two years imprisonment, for killing his child,
has been pardoned by the President
The Governor of Texas has determined to
nF 10 m
putting down the Indians in Ker and Canal
counties.
The Mayor of Paducah, Ky, has issued a
proclamation ordering all the free negroes to
leave that place instantly. a general migration
has taken place.
A KENTucxY paper says it is getting to be
very fashionable in that quarter, to enclose
dollar with marriage notices, when sending them
to the printer. So good custom ought to pre-
vail everywhere.
THE largest vessel ever built since Noah's
tine, is to be launched in England, about the
middle of next April. Her first trip will be to
Portland, Maine, where wharves for her accom-
mediation are now being built. vessel Of 80
600 tons is n novelty in the maritime world.
Two courts in New York have decided that
when railroad trains accidentally run over chill
,lren, who are so young that it is negligence to
permit them in the streets, without somebody to
look after them, that the company is not liable,
and the parents have no remedy.
TnE fire which, a few days since, destroyed
Browns wheel factory, at Brentwood, N. H.,
broke out just one hour before the insurance for
$4,000 expired.
The Alexandria Gazette tells of a cOlored
child that can talk quite plainly, though only
three months old. 1t was born with two teeth,
and has six perfect teeth already.
BIsnop Delaney, of the western New York
diocese, refuses to consecrate church edifice
till it is paid for, and the consequence is, that
the churches in his diocese are not hampered
with debts.
JONI T. SANFORD, for fifty years reputable
citizen of Florence, Oneida County, N Y, was
sent to Auburn Prison for ten years, forrobbing
the mails which passed through the office, he
being Post Master. Mr.. S. was sixty years of
age.
The Havana papers mention the extraordinary
occurrence in those regions of fall of snow,
near Villa Clara. The people in the fields are
said to have taken it for salt, and to have been
very much surprised on seeing it melt away in
their hands.